Despite numerous announcements of thousands of players at Full Tilt still waiting to get paid their money. Major shareholders such as Howard Lederer and Phil Ivey, meanwhile, hide and were not even at the prestigious WPT Championship.
Meanwhile, rumors are getting louder that 50% of Full Tilt will be on sale. With the $ 250,000,000 finally to the long advertised payments are realized. The world’s 66 RedPros circumstances prior to the termination of their contracts.
Last year, Full Tilt at the WPT Championship in Las Vegas still present with the full squad of their pro team. But the impact of Black Friday-term. Neither Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson and Andy Bloch have certainly not Howard Lederer could be the most prestigious tournament in the U.S. outside of the WSOP season look.
For the Poker Players Alliance PPA announced today that eliminated the two major shareholders at Full Tilt Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer from the Board of the Association. Rich TheEngineer Muny, also a director of the PPA, said yesterday against PockeFives.com that Ferguson and Lederer had resigned on his own initiative and had given no detailed reasons for its decision.
Full Tilt for the American player, waiting even a month after the black Friday on their money, that is anything but good news. The feelings will calm also published yesterday, not very meaningless message of Full Tilt:
It states, among other things, that Full Tilt since 15 April and especially in the days immediately thereafter confronted with numerous obstacles in its international operations and the orderly repayment of the accounts of American players saw. Since then we have tried to solve these problems, and achieved significant progress in both areas.
Further, the statement following passage: “The international business has already normalized, now we are concentrating on the money of the American players properly reimbursed. We are committed very strongly for the payouts to the U.S. players as soon as possible to carry out. We apologize for the delay, just that we have underestimated the time it takes to solve these problems to complete. Once we have more information we will contact our American players. ”
Also, because such statements are not really to be recovered in the most popular poker forums become the wildest rumors running wild shoot. Service reported the renowned American Poker Radio quad jacks that 50% of Full Tilt is now for sale stood. Several podcast later confirmed, according to the banks of the 2 +2 forum this message. With hawked $ 250,000,000 to the payments to be accelerated, especially the U.S. players and thus avert an even greater reputational damage of the world’s second largest poker site. In the broadcast in quad jacks, it was noted that the world’s 66 Red Pro `s of Full Tilt will face the termination of their contracts.
Good news about Full Tilt Poker Party on the other hand pro Tony G posted in his blog. He had recently actually got his money from Full Tilt and declared the day a short hand for the best since Black Friday.