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…

Poker News – The Garden City Group (GCG), the firm responsible for overseeing the repayment of money owed to Full Tilt Poker players in the U.S., has posted a new announcement on its website regarding the remission process. According to a Feb. 13 update, the GCG is in the process of preparing payments for Petitioners who timely confirmed their FTP Account Balance. “Beginning on Feb. 13, such Petitioners may notice a zero-dollar transaction in their bank account statement that relates to the Full Tilt Poker Claims Administration,” the update said. “Please be aware that this is a normal part of…

Card Player – Last week, the Poker Players Alliance announced that it had spoken with the federal government and found out that $82 million worth of repayments had been approved. The feds hired Garden City Group — the claims administrator in the Full Tilt Poker case — to assist in the massive process. The firm was brought on in March 2013. Not long after the PPA announcement, Garden City Group issued a statement on its website, providing more details on a timeline for when the first $1 of money belonging to the U.S. victims of Full Tilt Poker would reach…