Signs Full Tilt Could Be Ramping Up for a Re-Launch or Repayment
While there has been no formal announcement that the long-rumored deal between the French investment firm Groupe Bernard Tapie and the shuttered Full Tilt Poker has been completed, there are indications that Full Tilt could be opening its doors again, potentially within the next few weeks, or paying back players in the near future.
Without mentioning who is applying for the license, the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC), the same organization that revoked Full Tilt Poker’s license last year, issued a simple, one-paragraph statementsaying that Orinic Limited applied for a Category 2 e-Gambling License with the regulatory board on March 23rd.
Orinic Limited is associated with Full Tilt Poker and is the only part of the organization that didn’t have its license revoked last September. No mention of the ownership behind Orinic Limited is stated in the announcement.
The application has a clause built in for anyone who would like to object to Orinic Limited receiving an e-gaming license. The AGCC’s statement says in part, “Any person wishing to raise any objection to this application so that the objection shall be considered by the Commission… should, within 14 days of the date of publication of this notice, deliver, or send to the offices of the Commission a written statement of the objection and the grounds on which it has been raised.” The 14-day period discussed in the AGCC announcement expires on Friday.
On the heels of the application to the AGCC for an operating license, an employment website in Ireland has burst to life with job openings at the offices of Full Tilt Poker in Dublin. On Jobs.ie, PocketKings Limited has a slew of open positions listed inside the company. As with the AGCC application, there is no indicator as to who owns PocketKings Limited at this time.
The website lists 14 potential job openings for PocketKings, with the statement that the positions are “urgently required” to be filled. Each of the listings states that they are “contract” jobs, meaning that they are short-term, but it is noted that the openings could become permanent.
The listings are for customer service representatives with multi-lingual capabilities, including Dutch, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, and Romanian, and there are two listings for Team Leaders and Supervisors. The customer service jobs would pay in the neighborhood of £25,000 to £30,000 per year and the Team Leaders’ and Supervisors’ salaries are listed as “negotiable.”
In each of the job postings, there are descriptions from PocketKings that the company is the “support arm” for Full Tilt Poker and, as such, it sounds as if the former #2 site in the online poker industry is looking to make a return soon, or potentially pay back players. In addition to the statement regarding Full Tilt Poker, one of the skills asked of potential applicants is having “knowledge of poker,” although that is not considered essential.
Groupe Bernard Tapie lawyer Behn Dayanim told PocketFives on Tuesday that he had “no comment” regarding the status of the asset acquisition. An e-mail sent to Full Tilt lawyer Jeff Ifrah was not returned at press time. We’ll keep you posted right here on PocketFives.
