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Originally Posted by vvolf69
@DF: By Sam Al-Amiri you mean the former head of derivates trading middle east/asia of UBS and Rabobank? You wanna say that Alpen Partners was the potential investor behind Ivey? - This is a very interesting point you have there. I´m curios to read about that, however i´m fairly skeptical about that point. May your sources are misleading or misleaded.
That's what I am saying.
I can guarantee, no sources misled me into saying this.
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Originally Posted by vvolf69
what´s your understanding of widely accepted wisdom? - i remember so much rumors, even stars was named as iveys backup. DF presents this as a fact and i have doubt in that fact because it´s more than unlikely to be true. Alpen Partners is one of the biggest private equity funds in the world and Al Amiri is their CEO. Their usual deals are 100 or even 1000 times bigger than a $30kk cash injection that it makes no sence in any way to make their CEO show up in person (even if it was about buying 40% of the company like the binion deal). second thing which makes me curios is that they are specialized in middle east and asia. their usual biz (they are managing institutional multi billion petro dollar funds) is that far from degenerated vegas gamblers that i don´t see how this connection should have begun.
that´s no widely accepted wisdom but true facts. as said i highly doubt in that part of the story. looks to me the source of this made usage of some nvg rumors. however if this is true i would be interested in the story behind that. if it´s wrong, what is morelikely i would like to know the source and what is more important which other parts of the story are related to this source.
It doesn't matter if you think it's unlikely to be true, it
IS true. This is not a new revelation to me or others, and yes it was mentioned in the FTP thread many many months ago, although I don't think Sam's real name, or that of Alpen was used at the time. I verified this to be true almost a year ago.
Like most things in my articles, I am not single sourced on this. I have more than one source, more than two, more than three.The story was not based on NVG rumors as you suggest, nor has anything else been that I have written. I have vetted the information many times over, and it's been proven to me. It's totally true.
You are absolutely correct to conclude that this type of deal, an online poker site, who was keeping their millions of customers from more than $ 300 million that was rightfully theirs, is not at all the type of "investment" that Sam's company would have typically had on their radar. Makes it all the more interesting, don't you think?