{"id":10378,"date":"2021-02-26T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/?p=10378"},"modified":"2021-02-26T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T09:05:01","slug":"full-tilt-drops-off-the-poker-scene-as-pokerstars-pulls-the-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/full-tilt-drops-off-the-poker-scene-as-pokerstars-pulls-the-plug\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Tilt Drops Off the Poker Scene as PokerStars Pulls the Plug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Following 16 years in business, Full Tilt Poker was finally retired by PokerStars on February 25, relocating consumers to its flagship product instead.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Full Tilt’s<\/strong> final day has come. After 16 years in business, PokerStars <\/strong>finally pulled the plug on the pioneering online card room, shifting its database to the PokerStars platform<\/strong> instead. The website’s story goes back to poker’s Black Friday, the day when UIEGA suspended all online gaming platforms in the United States, with a particular focus on poker, setting progress back years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet, The Stars Group<\/strong>, which merged with Flutter Entertainment<\/strong> last year, saw potential, and the company purchased Full Tilt Poker, despite threats of litigation in certain states that haunted the platform to its final hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While Full Tilt has been a perpetual source of inspiration, The Stars Group has decided to move everything under the same roof, shifting players from the card room to its PokerStars Network<\/strong>, which is arguably the largest network worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Full Tilt Poker goes back to 2004 <\/strong>when players first started joining the platform. TiltWare <\/strong>was the website’s owner at the time. Many big names started by playing at Full Tilt, giving those players the means to compete and the raw training sessions they needed to consolidate their understanding of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gus Hansen<\/strong>, John Juanda<\/strong>, Phil Ivey<\/strong>, Jennifer Harman<\/strong>, Phil Gordon<\/strong>, and Erick Lindgren<\/strong> are just some of the game’s most prominent names that graced Full Tilt with their presence. \u00a0Interest in the platform surged not just because of its reputation as a hotbed for professional players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rather, Full Tilt was one of the few places to play online. However, the US Department of Justice<\/strong>, which stepped in on April 15<\/strong>, 2011,<\/strong> obliterated online poker in the country and hit PokerStars, Absolute Poker, Full Tilt Poker, and others in rapid succession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Caught in a corner, PokerStars knew that its only way out is to start working with the government, a process that took many years. For example, the company’s founder, Isai Scheinberg,<\/strong> only settled the case against him as founder last September<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The rest, though, decided to just wing it and admit defeat. Full Tilt was the one to catch PokerStars’ eye. Recognizing its potential and notwithstanding the platform’s mild semblance to a Ponzi scheme, PokerStars decided to buy it out and did in 2016, offering the company a proper road to redemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPokerStars Bids Full Tilt Poker Farewell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Over 16 Years in Business, Minus the Roadblocks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
PokerStars’ Flutter Deal Changes Everything <\/h2>\n\n\n\n