Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, who became just the third person—the others are Phil Ivey & Patrik Antonius—to surpass $10 million in winnings on FTP. @pokernews.com

FTP's The Professionals, Viktor Blom and Tom Dwan, battled throughout the week, but both ended up winners. The former won $526,996 and the latter $446,953. @pokernews.com

The two celebrated online players finally reconvened on Full Tilt Poker last night. Last month Cates publically criticized Dwan on Twitter for not resuming the challenge earlier. @pokerlistings.com

Phil “Polarizing” Ivey is up $736,844 in 1,126 hands spread across 16 sessions in the last 48 hours over on Full Tilt Poker. @pokernews.com

€4.1m in FullTiltPoker.FR deposits has been reclaimed, representing approximately 90% of all French cash balances, regulator ARJEL announced Tuesday. @pokernews.com

Dedicated website promises that the claim process will begin "shortly." The US Department of Justice announced on Wednesday the appointment of Garden City Group (GCG) as the claims administrator that will oversee the return of US player deposits from the defunct Full Tilt Poker. @pokernews.com

In a new client updated released Tuesday morning, Full Tilt is now spreading two new poker variants, and will soon debut a new tourney format, “Escalator” tournaments. @pokernews.com

Viktor "Isildur1" Blom won more than $1 million at Full TIlt Poker on Sunday. More than $700,000 came from Ben "Bttech86" Tollerene at $400/800 PLO. @pokernews.com

Prior to the last couple days Blom was in the midst of a large downswing (which came up in an interview we did with him last Friday). Blom actually started the year with an astounding heater than saw him win nearly $5 million but he eventually donated about $4 million back. @pokerlistings.com

Galfond fired off 2,514 hands on the site last night and beat almost every table he played, according to highstakesdb.com. The games weren’t exactly soft with Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius, Phil “Polarizing” Ivey, Scott “mastrblastr” Seiver and trex313 among the willing combatants. @pokerlistings.com

$2.35m plus an unspecified amount to be forfeited, but Chris "Jesus" Ferguson admits to no wrongdoing. Chris Ferguson, a founding partner and board member of the controlling entity behind Full Tilt Poker, and the largest individual shareholder of Full Tilt interests, has announced a tentative settlement with the Department of Justice in the civil case regarding Ferguson’s involvement with FTP and its former online poker services to US-based players. @pokernews.com

A look at the week's top poker news stories including the intense high-stakes action at Full Tilt Poker, promising news for online poker players in New Jersey, and more. @pokernews.com

Players from Sweden, Finland and other EU countries should benefit from tax-free winnings following the launch of FTP under Malta license. An alternative Full Tilt Poker site, hosted in Malta with a license from the LGA, is expected to go live in the next few weeks, a Full Tilt representative has announced. @pokernews.com

Alexander “PostflopAction” Kostritsyn was far and away the week's biggest winner after profiting $1,258,234. Gus Hansen lost $376,064 playing on FTP. @pokernews.com

In 2011 Antonius told PokerListings he could potentially lose $5 million thanks to Full Tilt Poker’s problems. Antonius’ problems were multiplied by the fact he had money indirectly frozen on the Full Tilt and was owed millions by fellow players who made their living on the site. @pokerlistings.com

A look at the day's top poker news stories including Alex Kostritsyn's incredible run at the high-stakes cash tables, Iowa's interest in legalizing online poker, and more. @pokernews.com

There were a number of highlights (as well as a few lowlights) in the poker world this past year, but let’s face it, events like Greg Merson’s WSOP win, the emergence of poker in Asia, the hacking and subsequent lengthy hiatus for the 2+2 poker forum, or Greg.. @pokernewsboy.com

He just keeps losing. Another poor week at the tables has poker professional Gus Hansen down $2.6 million on Full Tilt Poker this year, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB. @cardplayer.com

Howard Lederer has agreed with the United States government on a settlement of the civil case against him, putting to rest one of the last remaining loose ends of the 2011 Black Friday debacle. @pokernewsdaily.com

Despite getting crushed on Thursday at $300-$600 no-limit hold’em, Swedish poker player Viktor “Isildur1” Blom still managed to win about $950,000 over the past seven days on Full Tilt Poker,.. @cardplayer.com

While the week’s biggest winner, “1Il|1Il|1il|” (+$453,595 in 223 sessions/14,828 hands), actually came from PokerStars, the next five biggest winners came from FTP. @pokernews.com

Rafe Furst is waving goodbye to his Swiss bank account containing shady Full Tilt money. Furst, accused in September 2011 of helping orchestrate the biggest fraud in online poker history,.. @cardplayer.com

While Maimone was busy cleaning up on Full Tilt, PokerStars was running the Main Event of another successful MicroMillions. An astounding 60,072 players paid $22 to play the last event of MicroMillions III to create a prizepool of over $1 million. @pokerlistings.com

In what should not come as a surprise to anyone, Full Tilt Poker has informed former FTP “Red Pros” that they will not be retained as sponsored players now that Full Tilt has been re-launched. @pokernewsdaily.com

According to the news release, the DOJ is currently evaluating applicants for an independent Claims Administer, who will handle petitions for FTP balances. @pokerlistings.com

The black box let a ray of light in today. The Department of Justice has just announced that early next year the wheels will begin turning for Americans to be.. @cardplayer.com

Blom, and fellow member of The Professionals, Gus Hansen, were among the first players on Full Tilt Poker after the site re-launched on Tuesday. It didn’t take long for former FTP regulars Rui Cao, Alex “IReadYrSoul” Miller, Alex Luneau and Ronny “ronny37617” Kaiser to join in the action. @pokerlistings.com