Probably one of the biggest shockers of the year in online gambling news; was the purchase of PokerStars – only the biggest, and most famous poker product ever established online! This business is a Guinness World Record breaker,and the only online poker business to survive an onslaught from the Department of Justice that brought this form of gaming to a halt in the USA. Black Friday was the day of mourning, when thousands of US online poker pros were no longer able to play this game for a living.
Post-Black Friday, PokerStars continued operate and grow from strength to strength throughout legal, and regulated territories in Europe and the UK. However, FullTilt, Ultimate Bet and othersites went the way of the dinosaur – extinct. FullTilt left a hell of a mess behind them which eventually prompted PokerStars to purchase FullTilt, in the process cleaning-up some of the lost reputation of online poker in the USA.