Card Player – Another round of Full Tilt Poker repayments is scheduled for mid-June, the Garden City Group announced on its website on Wednesday. “GCG has been informed that the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section has approved a new round of payments,” the notice said. “This distribution will include approximately 3,500 payments totaling $15 million to petitioners who submitted complete, timely or late petitions confirming their FTP account balance. Also included in this round of payments are affiliates who submitted petitions confirming their FTP account balances.” Once the new payments go through, around $96 million will…

iGaming Business – Online poker brand Full Tilt has announced the full launch of its new Rush Poker free application for users of iOS and Android mobile devices. The Full Tilt Rush Poker app will allow players to access No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha games whilst on the move. Fast-fold play also allows users to ditch hands they do not want and move to another table in time for the next hand. The app is powered by Full Tilt’s Rush Poker software, which the firm said has been designed to ensure that players are active as quickly and…

From Poker Fuse At midday on Thursday, November 6, Full Tilt Poker was successfully relaunched under new management. As part of Rational Group’s settlement with the US Department of Justice, $186 million, the sum of all non-US player deposits prior to Full Tilt’s closure, was returned to poker players. It could be immediately withdrawn, transferred to PokerStars or—as the new FTP management hoped—left online and used to play on the relaunched site. To encourage players to stay, FTP was launched to much fanfare: “relaunch week” included freerolls, happy hours, and big cash bonuses for all. “The Professionals” graced the high…

From Poker Fuse Former United States customers of Full Tilt Poker are likely to face a continued wait for their refunds from the site, according to unofficial reports emerging on poker forums. TwoPlusTwo forum poster “Schlucky1” commented Sunday on the results of frequent contact attempts to claims administration firm Garden City Group, selected by the US government to administer the FTP remission process. The poster reported speaking to GCG representative Lorrie Stall, who offered general information suggesting that between one and two more years could elapse before former American Full Tilters have their refunds in hand. Pokerfuse subsequently contacted Ms….