The Full Tilt Poker scandal on April 15, 2011 — aka "Black Friday" — was costly to thousands of poker players, and it changed the landscape of online poker in the US forever, and not in a good way. With all the scandals that have surrounded the poker world this year, it seems like a perfect opportunity to look back at one of the biggest of them all.
As you’re about to learn, the Full Tilt scandal involved some prominent poker players at the time such as expected future Poker Hall of Famers Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson, two of the most popular pros during the 2000s.