More than a dozen high-profile Hollywood stars are being sued because of a mega-millions illegal poker games. Spider-Man Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are involved the high-stakes illegal poker games.

Toby Maguire was playing against Brad Ruderman, a Beverly Hills hedge fund manager who wanted to pay off his monster debt. Maguire won more than $300,000.

Full Tilt Poker, closed about 6 months ago, owing nearly $ 300 million to its customers. The problems started on Black Friday.
Despite the fact that the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) has recently withdrawn the online poker gaming license, some promising news has arisen.
French investment company, Groupe Bernard Tapie has signed an exclusive contract with Full Tilt to acquire the poker room.

Investors claim that repayment of customers was a priority for them.

Ladbrokes Poker is celebrating as two of its players, Timewalk, from Sweden and PsychoRajko from Denmark came in first and second on Microgaming’s two day  €500,000 guaranteed tournament and won €120,000 and €68,500.
 
The competition was intense where 244 of total 859 participants were Ladbrokes players. Finally, 24 Ladbrokes players won a total of €237,300.
 

Paid fees, Canadian license renewed, staff fired

It is still not known wether the Full Tilt brand is going to stay alive or not however, this is the first good news in the last four months.

The bad news first: rumours say that online poker room Full Tilt has dismissed their staff in the US. Multiple sources confirmed however that fired employees received full wages from April till now.