Poker News – On Monday and Tuesday, the Garden City Group, Inc. (GCG), the company tasked with redistributing seized Full Tilt Poker funds, sent email notices to “all potentially eligible petitioners GCG identified utilizing data supplied by Full Tilt Poker.” The GCG will attempt to re-send any emails that “bounced back,” and if customers expect to receive an email but haven’t yet, then they are asked to, “please allow 2-3 additional days, as GCG attempts to resend emails, and then you may file a new Petition for Remission.” Those that received an email are asked to log on to the…

Caesars Interactive will soon enter the online gambling ring with its World Series of Poker site at WSOP.com. It’s the second fully-legal, pay-to-play online poker platform in Nevada. The site goes live at 9:19 a.m. today, a play off its release date. The buzz leading up to the launch is undeniable: more than 12,000 players already have signed up. This is all coming together a mere four months after Station Casinos rolled out their Ultimate Poker, which was the first real money, regulated site in the state. After four years of development, Caesars‘ all-star team of programmers and online specialists…

Card Player – The old invisible ink cheat. According to reporting from The Day, a New Jersey gambler was busted early Sunday for allegedly cheating at the Mohegan Sun. His method according to the police: marking the cards with a ink-like substance that could only be seen with special contact lenses. Fifty-nine-year-old Bruce Koloshi, who hails from Summit, New Jersey, also allegedly used the tactic in a game of stud at a casino in Louisiana in August. Koloshi has been caught cheating before in Las Vegas, Reno and in the state of Iowa. The Day reported that after his most…

Vegas Inc – Caesars Entertainment’s online poker website, using the World Series of Poker brand, will launch Thursday morning, company officials said today. Caesars Interactive will capitalize on the brand with online tournaments feeding into the company’s annual competition at the Rio that runs from late May to mid-July. The site, WSOP.com, will launch with a variety of poker games, including stud and Omaha hi-lo as well as Texas hold ‘em. And unlike its lone competitor — Station Casinos’ Ultimate Poker — it will offer Mac-friendly computer compatibility. Only residents or visitors to Nevada will be eligible to play, but…

Card Player – On September 16, the Garden City Group is set to start the claims process for American players who have money stuck on Full Tilt Poker. Some players have even begun to receive emails detailing the payout process. As the date rapidly approaches, players are starting to wonder what impact claiming that money will have on their own personal taxes. Russell Fox, an Enrolled Agent at Clayton Financial and Tax in Las Vegas, is an expert in the field of taxes for gamblers. He has many clients who gamble professionally and has been practicing in the field for…

Las Vegas Review-Journal – A long-anticipated pay-to-play poker website based on the World Series of Poker will launch Thursday morning for customers located in the Nevada. Officials from Caesars Interactive Entertainment, a subsidiary of Caesars Entertainment Corp., said Monday they received final approval from Nevada gaming regulators to begin accepting wagers on WSOP.com. Gibraltar-based 888 Holdings is providing the technology platform for the website. WSOP.com will join Ultimate Poker, which is majority-owned by Station Casinos, as the only two regulated, real money gaming websites currently operating in the U.S. Several other poker websites are also expected to launch in Nevada…