If I am reading the other posts correctly the concern is whether or not the DOJ will return the balance a player had on BF rather than the amount deposited by the player. I had the same concern when I read the Forbes article. One thing that gives me hope that we will get our balances back and not just the amount deposited is the wording of the press release by the U.S. Attorney's office. The important part I saw said:
" Full Tilt Poker further defrauded players by misrepresenting that player funds on deposit in online gambling accounts were safe, secure, and available for withdrawal at any time. In reality, the company did not maintain funds sufficient to repay all players, and instead, utilized players’ funds to distribute more than $400 million to Full Tilt’s owners."
To me this section says that the deposit that players will get back is the balance of the funds "on deposit" with FTP, not just the deposits made. It seems the DOJ will look at our balance like they were deposits made at a bank, which essentially they were, with numerous transactions adding and subtracting from them. At least, that's what I am hoping.
I still think we need to keep pressure on the DOJ to make sure they rule that way (the arguments of conformity with both the PS repayment and the ROW repayment under this agreement and that US players shouldn't be screwed over because the DOJ is taking charge of our repayment need to be emphasized).
The other concern I have is that I read somewhere, not sure where, that the DOJ will be repaying US players over the next 3 years. They are only getting part of the total $500+ million from PS now so they could take their time in repaying the US players. That would be a big pain too so hopefully whatever steps are taken to push the DOJ into returning our entire balances will also include something that gets us the money sooner rather than later.