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Full Tilt Poker is once again a step closer to the restart, with the parties involved coming to an agreement regarding the details of the forfeiture of the company’s assets.

According to Subject: Poker, Chris Ferguson has distributed close to $60 million from Full Tilt Poker’s accounts to ones held by Pocket Kings for him.

An incredible high stakes session was played earlier this week on PokerStars. Eventually, ’patpatman’ was the one to finish the day with the highest profit.

Electronic payment processor executive Ira Rubin has signed a plea deal with the authorities investigating the cases related to the actions of 15 April, 2011. The judgement will be announced on 17 May, 2012; Rubin is facing 18 to 24 months in prison.

Zynga Poker's spokesperson told the site AllThingsD that Zynga is indeed looking for partners in order to launch their real money poker solution.

Eight high stakes poker players have filed suit against former UB owner Excapsa Software. According to them, the company running the online poker room at the time has cheated around $20 million out of its players.

Bjorn ‘Bjoerni89’ Schneider earned 3,058,660 VPPs in 2011 at PokerStars, breaking Kevin ‘WizardOfAhhs’ Thurman’s record from 2010.

It seems that PokerStars is about to follow major poker providers like PartyPoker and iPoker, and change their rake calculation method from dealt rake to weighted contributed rake method. The news is unofficial yet.

In January 2012, PokerStars is starting a new series of online events. The first Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) will contain 50 events.

A Canadian player, 'First-Eagle' took down the biggest PokerStars Sunday Million ever, winning an amazing $1,146,574 in the deal. The original first prize would be $2 million.

As we have mentioned a few days ago, Isildur1 has returned to online poker. He won a massive $1.5 million in less than two days, becoming the centre of attention at the high stakes tables this past weekend.

Aces Hangout is the latest poker application developed by Hettema & Bergsten for Google+. The game utilizes the Google+ Hangouts video chat to bring the experience of live poker closer to the online community.

Facebook would launch real money poker in the United Kingdom in the first quarter of 2012. Negotiations are now proceeding with several online gaming providers.

Spain legalized online poker. From 2012 on, Spanish players will be able to play in a separate market, cash game up to NL1000, tournaments up to €250 buy-in.

’Koenigskebap’ won the 70 billionth hand at PokerStars for $73,000 as part of the room’s “Road to 100 Billion” promotion. His success, however, is disputed on the basis of the hand history of the table leading up to the milestone hand.