This guy makes a career of going on companies board of directors to try and influence politicians. I guess it has a nicer ring then being called a lobbyist.

Karma

It is hard to rag on your boss if you want to continue working there.

maybe this is part of his whole plan, plead guilty to the charges, do a closed deal with the justice department to get out of jail time, pay a large fine, tank the amaya stock enough to be able buy it all out with a small group of private investors.

+1

They're all paid PR people and their job is to sing the praises of the company no matter what happens, so the answer is yes. They're just doing their job. What did you expect?

And anyway, one has nothing to do with the other. The SN+ policy change is something you can expect from any company that has decided a portion of its customers isn't profitable or outright undesirable from a profitability standpoint, so it slowly squeezes them for more $$, and if they leave, good riddance.

Should we be concerned and start to cash out big parts of the bankroll ?!

ofcourse, but the reason negano faces more criticism than anyone else is that he pretends that he is the exemplar of integrity and he is always thinking about the player. ofcourse we know thats his job, but when you are telling blatant lies and claim that ur integrity is unbreachable you can't expect not to be called out on it

No, this has really nothing to do with the actual business. They will find a new CEO and continue to operate. The site won't shut down because someone did some shady stuff.

This is true. No need to fret over some Black Wednesday shiz. Players funds are still segregated. I have that on v good authority (not that I needed to but better safe than sorry). That said better safe than sorry may apply anyways.

.... plus he just became a US citizen.

Yes, the alternative is not playing (if you can't play somewhere else).

They're not being charitable are they?

I don't know about playing income but if you are looking for risk of payment site default:

Top tier - sites owned by non-Mediterranean EU governments such as:
svenska spel, tipos.sk etc.

Second tier - sites owned by large publicly quoted companies with strong B&M presence such as:
Ladbrokes, Corals, also Unibet now it owns Stan James

Third tier - sites owned by publicly quoted companies without B&M presence such as:
Party Poker

Fourth Tier - sites operating in grey markets owned by companies whose CEO has been charged with insider trading such as:
Full Tilt, Pokerstars

Fifth Tier - US facing sites with good cash out record such as:
Bovada

Sixth Tier - US facing sites with poor cashout record such as:
Lock

I don't know enough about the other US sites to classify them properly.

can't wait to see how this develops

If your bank had the same history over the past year or so that PokerStars had and then the CEO was facing the same legal issues.... Would you feel safe keeping your money there?

I believe that these sites are categorised as providing "low" protection for players' funds by the UKGC. Amaya is categorised as providing "high" protection.

(fwiw)

^ Ok, what are their reasons for thinking that?

I'm assuming the segregated account for Pokerstars which the Isle of Man regulator insists they keep is a strong point (and it is btw). Baazov's brother ran a telephone lottery that didn't return money to gamblers so that's a big negative:

https://advisor1.dynamic.ca/servlet/...cenic_24950113

Yes, they're "just doing their job" but most people wouldn't do it "no matter what happens" (as you say.)

And we're not talking about a policy change, I'm referring to the SN+ theft (of promised rewards) which most definitely DOES have to do with the integrity of the CEO.

Pretty sure he was calling Pokerstars greedy rather than the players.

"100 million playing members". What the **** is this guy smoking? 1 out of every 75 people on the planet are playing on Stars. Riiiiiiight.

Last time I looked Corals is the only main UK bookie offering High protection (funds in trust) - that's why I use them for my sports bets. I haven't checked for a few months mind.

Incidentally 888 offers UK players low protection - that is seperate accounts for player funds but those accounts controled by the firm so at risk in case of bankruptcy - worse they refuse even this paltry "protection" to non UK players which is essentially admitting they use player funds as working capital so having a fraction of players balances in one accout worse than useless - it just misleads that there is any protection at all.

sure,i already did

Your lucky if you can get anything on, they routinely refuse bets to anyone who isn't a complete drooler and instead use their shops as FOBT casinos or direct everyone online to the mini slot games.

Hilarious haley hints alluded to the fact bazoff was bluffing at the idea of purchasing Amaya and now here he is facing charges this is not good for OLP. I wonder if Sheldon Adelson and his goons will take note of this.