this is such a joke ... why 'everyone' blames barry. it not his fault the company went broke.

i also find it ridiculous that some sources report, that ~130million of 'phantom money' are part of FTPs financial problems. ppl knew that problem, cashed in but weren't charged ... so basically they played on credit too and no one cares.

btw is barry not the only known pro who owns ftp money, but the others just don't say anything about it, after this facts went public.

Now you can pay Pokerstars Barry. Maybe they can take it out of your pay check.

I was always going to have to pay whoever owned Full Tilt. (Not what Tapie Group was trying to do which was own assets but not the debts.) Clearly, PokerStars will own Full Tilt in a few days or a little longer, and finally I will know who to pay. I'm curious if they will try to collect from anyone else.

Poker needs more BarryGs

Yeah, pretty much. Good to see Barry G doing the right thing.

Make sure the people at stars make them all pay what they owe, Barry!

(on that note, it'd be nice if you could get Sebok would give back the money he made shilling for UB and declaring it safe to play on to the players with money stuck on UB, or at least pledged to do so when/if the company is liquidated/officially declared bankruptcy

Wow, nice reply Barry. *Salute

Well I gave Barry some stick in this thread, but if he does as he says, he will come out of this looking good, where many of the FT pros will clearly not.

Stay classy Baz !

He's only paying because he got caught. This still doesn't rectify the fact that he leveraged his situation as friends with owners to get them to use other people's money to transfer it to him with a keystroke. He thwarted the system of making an actual deposit on the site like a 'normal' player. He's paying because that's his only real option, but it still is a nick in his credibility in my book. The 400k should have been transferred to FT before Barry played a hand with it.

Good nickname you chose!

Those guys wanted Barry in the games and they know his word is good.

Do tell Barry who made the EXECUTIVE decision to put 400k phantom money in your account?

From the main sticky:
Barry, I know you will pay regardless, and I also understand your situation is different from a phantom deposit. However, would you agree with this interpretation of the DOJ's quote? If so do you think this applies to you and others in a similar situation?

I sure as hell hope so.......the thought of these scumbags just walking away from this and leaving Stars to clean up the mess is very troubling.

I just saw this in the other thread:

Yup.

Respect to you Barry. You're one of the classiest people in poker.