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Black Friday Full Tilt Poker

It has been one heck of a year for online poker. Black Friday rocked the poker world and sent players, especially those in the United States, freaking out about the loss of their livelihood. No online poker company had a more drama-filled year than Fill Tilt Poker (FTP) did.

Saying that FTP, along with its former player "faces" as a whole, had a crazy year would be quite the understatement. Our No. 2 story of 2011 is all that encompasses the year FTP had, beginning with the meteor that smashed head on into the poker world — Black Friday.

On Friday, April 15, 2011, the U.S...

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FullTiitPoker has indeed been the news-story of the year ... even a soap opera of epic proportions. Black Friday was the trigger to unmask mismanagement of such astounding levels that it will take a rescuer with a hundred million to keep the cash-cow that is FullTilt alive and kicking. It takes a special kind of mismanagement to deep-six such a profitable business and unfortunately Black Friday caused it all to come to light. 2012 should also prove to be a FullTiltPoker banner year as it re-emerges as a poker force with professional management. Big story and totally deserving of the #2 spot.

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12-31-2011 16:02

flintsword (User Offline) Wrote 486 posts
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Good comment Flint...

If FTP is number 2 then I guess all were left with is Black Friday its self...

12-31-2011 17:14

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