FTP Discussion Thread (Everything but big new news goes here. Cliffs in OP)

[smbruin22]

are there going to be any customer funds on the site when it recommences? i.e. i wonder if they'll give some option to leave your recovered funds on the site (obv. non-US players). cause it's gonna be slow getting a whole bunch of customers up and going

i'll be very surprised if this happens, but hopefully i'm very surprised

[TheDarkElf]

Originally Posted by bbfg

You do realise this is a stupid post, right?

What a company has netted lifetime of course is correlated with the company value, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a high correlation and will have a very wide variation.

A company that has netted $10M lifetime can easily be worth a couple of billion, or a company that is running at a loss can be worth 1.65 billion $, like that one site, Youtube.

So first you call my post stupid, and then you agree with me.

Forgive me, I didn't bother reading the rest of what you wrote.

[bbfg]

I think you don't understand correlation.

[Mondogarage]

Originally Posted by Braindead2000

It's not all speculation. Ever heard of Six degrees of separation. Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth (wikipedia). With so many pokerplayers there are a lot of friends, or friends of friends, of people who are involved in the negotiations. It ain't much but still you can draw a picture of what is going on.

If you want to take as gospel, anything that goes through six degrees of the old schoolroom game of "telephone", go ahead.

A 4th or 5th hand "source" isn't even a source, it's just someone passing something they heard (or read), from someone else who only got that information from something they heard (or read), and so forth.

There's a reason hearsay ain't admitted in court, and while this certainly ain't court, the very reason hearsay isn't admissible applies here. It is not possible to test the veracity of the hearsay -- gotta go to the direct first party source.

[squeebo]

My French source says the deal will be announced by 7pm GMT Wednesday. I trust him. If you can't trust the French, who can you trust? I mean my god man he's speaking God's language.

Here is what he says:

je ne sais pas quoi que ce soit, mais je tiens à Tapie constituent des réponses à Tapie sentir comme une abatteuse à puce
Pierre
viva la France

[markksman]

Originally Posted by Torgil

It's not a real photo of Tapie in Dublin, but a photo of Dublin with Tapie added in to support the news that he's there. It's not too unusual to edit photos like this for news. Doesn't have any impact on the news itself.

Wat?

[Go Get It]

Originally Posted by squeebo

My French source says the deal will be announced by 7pm GMT Wednesday. I trust him. If you can't trust the French, who can you trust? I mean my god man he's speaking God's language.

Here is what he says:

plz stop with this.

[SwedishAggroMonkey]

Pierre translates into stone on google translate.

The more you know.

[DJRiccoLaw]

^^+1 not real funny

[IamPro]

He might have been able to sell it if he had more posts and didn't end the last part with viva la France, inb4 prophet lol

[SwedishAggroMonkey]

Just thinking out of the box. The zoom drop was pretty much a bomb for us players. But why would they drop it now?

I take Zoom as a good sign of FTP coming back. If anyone knows whats going on, Its Pokerstars.

[Tamaman514]

Originally Posted by squeebo

My French source says the deal will be announced by 7pm GMT Wednesday. I trust him. If you can't trust the French, who can you trust? I mean my god man he's speaking God's language.

Here is what he says:

Ta gueule pédale

[RikaKazak]

I just had a really ****ty day in real estate today (2 evictions, 2 repairs gone horribly wrong/costing 5x what they usually do)...then I thought about how much money I lost on tilt, and realize I could evict 50 people with my tilt money.

**** you tilt...and **** you howard, bitar, ivey, and chris.

Black Friday was my b-day, and you scum burgers made it one ****ty ass birthday I'll never forget.

(on a side note: Thank you stars. I had a lot of money on your site too, and I'm sad I can't play there anymore, but I do appreciate you holding my funds in segregated accounts and paying me back in a prompt manner. I wish you the best)

(this post was 100% rant...but I had a ****ty day....like a -$10K ****ty day)

[Huskermoney00]

Originally Posted by Tamaman514

Ta gueule pédale

Hope you're right.... I'm rooting for ya! I just want this debacle over, just like everyone else. I just want my money so I can carry on like a regular person and not have to worry about when I will get this fat payday!

[joeyrulesall]

Originally Posted by bbfg

<optimism mode>
It is possible that a source said to that person "**** will be done in 2 days max" but that said source meant 2 business days, and that the person turned it into "48 hours"
</optimism mode>

Wow you people make excuses for everything. You just want to believe so bad. It's been a year.