After 1,050 days, more agonizing to some than others, more than 27,500 American poker players are finally seeing their Full Tilt Poker money in their bank accounts. The Department of Justice made Black Friday a day of infamy in the poker industry, but on this Friday, we’re one step closer to the end of a dark chapter in the history of the game. The Garden City Group, hired by the Department of Justice to manage remission payments to those who had money on FTP, made $76 million in payments early Friday morning. Players who received their money today were those…

Card Player – On Monday, the firm in charge of assisting the government with compensating victims of the old Full Tilt Poker released an update to its website. Garden City Group said that the first round of payments will come tomorrow, Feb. 28, 2014, in the form of ACH deposits. Friday’s payments will be for those who filled out all the paperwork correctly and have undisputed claims. In other words, what they thought they were owed and what GCG said they were owed matched up. Americans have been without access to the funds since April 2011. As for others who…

From Card Player – The Poker Players Alliance is asking those with Full Tilt Poker money still locked up, which is every former customer in the United States, to fill out a brief survey to help with efforts to put pressure on those with enough political clout to speed up the remission process. Card Player was told recently that repayment would take at least another year. Former U.S. customers have been without access to their funds since April of 2011, when the site’s then owner Ray Bitar was indicted by the federal government. FULL STORY