Full Tilt Poker And Mansion Face Off

Published: Thursday, June 15, 2006 Online-Casinos.com

FULL TILT POKER AND MANSION ONLINE GAMBLING GROUP FACE OFF

Star players in the middle as poker companies square off over Superstar Challenge

Mansion Poker's recent announcement that popular poker star Phil Ivey is to play in the Mansion Poker Superstar Challenge (see previous Online-Casinos.com & InfoPowa reports) was challenged by Full Tilt Poker this week, signalling a possible confrontation between the two companies.

In a publicly posted open letter, Full Tilt management attacked the Mansion announcement, saying:

"On June 9, 2006, Mansion Poker issued an inaccurate press release regarding their upcoming Mansion Superstar Challenge. The release stated that Team Full Tilt member, Phil Ivey is confirmed to participate in a series of elimination tournaments. This is untrue.

"The improper release also stated that Team Full Tilt members Howard Lederer and Mike Matusow had been "…hand selected to fill the all-important shoes of poker "wingman." Again, this is untrue.

"Not only did Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer and Mike Matusow never agree to participate in this event in any way, they were not even contacted by Mansion Poker about participating.

"A fourth member of Team Full Tilt, Jennifer Harman was in discussions to participate in the event, however, due to Mansion Poker's obvious disregard for the truth and egregious actions, she will no longer participate."

"Team Full Tilt," is a select group of the world's finest professional poker players, including Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Jennifer Harman, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Andy Bloch, Phil Gordon, Clonie Gowen, John Juanda, and Mike Matusow. Full Tilt Poker offers players the unique opportunity to Learn, Chat and Play poker with the best poker pros in the game.

As we went to press Mansion Onling Gambling Group had not responded to the Full Tilt challenge.