Many of the denied accounts are believed to be sizable, as denied claims were mainly sponsored professionals and large affiliates, along with claims with informational errors. “GCG will continue to work with the Department of Justice to evaluate appeals, and any previously denied Petitions that are determined to be payable will be included in an upcoming distribution,” the GCG Full Tilt remission website states. There is still a possibility that GCG and DOJ could approve more of the roughly 1,600 remission claims that have been denied by GCG.
This latest update would have likely gone unnoticed if not for Haley Hintze over at Flushdraw.Īccording to an announcement on the GCG website: These most recent payments total approximately $2.7 million.Īs the remission process dragged on, and fewer and fewer people waited for their refunds, the poker community’s attention waned. In October, the Garden City Group (GCG) - selected by the DOJ to handle the remission process way back in 2013 - announced the ninth and likely final wave of refunds to affected players. Black Friday in 2011 caught American online poker players completely unaware and cut off from their online poker accounts at Full Tilt Poker.įor 97 percent of complainants, the fight to reclaim that money is now over, including another 1,000 people who received the good news that their remission claims had been approved just six weeks ago.
It’s been more than five years since the US Department of Justice shut down the major online poker sites operating in the US.