It has certainly been a busy end to the week for the poker community. In Atlantic City, authorities arrested poker player Christian Lusardiin connection with funneling fake 5,000-demoniation chips into the opening event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open. Around the same time, players across the US learned that undisputed Full Tilt Poker claims are likely only a few weeks away from being paid out.

Undisputed Full Tilt remission petitions, according to the Claims Administrator in the case, the Garden City Group, will likely be paid out by the end of February. That’s according to a statement posted on the Group’s Claims website, FullTiltPokerClaims.com: “GCG is currently working with the bank selected by the DOJ to set up the payment process. GCG expects to issue payments via ACH before the end of February 2014 and will post further updates on the payment process in 2-3 weeks.”

A total of 30,000 petitions were “submitted by petitioners with timely, complete petitions who confirmed their FTP account balances.” The 30,000 players filed claims totaling $82 million, an average of $2,700 each. Estimates put the amount of money owed by the old Full Tilt to US players at around $150 million. The fates of those with disputed claims as well as Red Pros have not yet been determined.

Speaking on disputed and unresolved claims, Poker Players Alliance Executive Director John Pappas told PocketFives earlier this week, “There is still not a timeline for disputed claims that were filed by the deadline. They are still working on those and hope more information will be available once the undisputed funds are released. Full Tilt Poker players who for some reason have still not filed a claim can still do it and those claims will be considered.”

US Full Tilt players have been separated from their funds since Black Friday, the third anniversary of which is coming up in less than three months.

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