From Card Player – The Poker Players Alliance is asking those with Full Tilt Poker money still locked up, which is every former customer in the United States, to fill out a brief survey to help with efforts to put pressure on those with enough political clout to speed up the remission process. Card Player was told recently that repayment would take at least another year. Former U.S. customers have been without access to their funds since April of 2011, when the site’s then owner Ray Bitar was indicted by the federal government. FULL STORY

From Card Player It’s been nearly a year since PokerStars swooped in to purchase Full Tilt Poker, cleaned house and then repaid the players. All of the players except for U.S. customers, that is. In their purchasing agreement, PokerStars set aside approximately $184 million in a segregated bank account for the U.S. Department of Justice to distribute to upwards of 1.3 million players. The DOJ then took eight months to hire Garden City Group to act as a claims administrator. During that stretch, the site reopened to non-U.S. players, the former site owners settled with the government and Full Tilt…