Which Team Full Tilt Members and Red Pros will be offered new deals - Page 6 - Poker News

MadDogFerg · 08-01-2012, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Zomboid!

If the marketing juggernaut that is Alan Boston doesn't get a deal, there is no justice in the world.

this

Spoiler:

Don't make him phone home

whosnext · 08-01-2012, 05:07 PM

I cannot believe there will be many deals. Maybe local country deals at a small level to attract local players, but that's about it.

Chinamaniac · 08-01-2012, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Toocoolforschool

what about Poker Stars signed players that prefer to play on Full tilt like Isildur1 will they now be able to play on Full Tilt and visa versa Full tilt players allowed to play on PS like durrrr Holdem_NL

isildurr gets his ass kicked on both sites so shouldn't matter

Mark275 · 08-01-2012, 05:19 PM

guy laliberte, 1 time

Genetikfreak · 08-01-2012, 05:38 PM

they should stiff most of the red pros for their balances to be fair....

28renton · 08-01-2012, 05:42 PM

...all the cards are falling into place for Jeff Madsen to make an epic comeback

gregdon8 · 08-01-2012, 05:42 PM

Stars/FTP will have close to a monopoly on ROW as soon as they relaunch, however once US regulates ipoker they will have competition from the Ceasar's of the world. I personally look forward to the days when we can play FTOPS, WCOOP, SCOOP, and OWSOP....

come on already...

DeepFryer · 08-01-2012, 05:56 PM

"My guess of the Team Full Tilt Pros
is that Durrrr and Gus would be most likely of the Team Full Tilt to be offered a deal. Juanda because of his marketing potential in Asia would be my 3rd choice."

+1

Beyond them, I think they will go for young players... someone like Erik Seidel doesn't have much appeal IMO.

And I don't think there's any chance that they'll sign Ivey, or anyone else who had an ownership stake in FTP. It's just not worth it.

RimmerOdds · 08-01-2012, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by kikadell

Paying 75% of the players on that list was FTP burning money

Make it 90 odd and I agree

itseasy3 · 08-01-2012, 06:03 PM

Weisner is also a lock pro already

chzbrglr · 08-01-2012, 06:10 PM

Did the pros with ownership on FTP (Ivey, Juanda, Lindgren, etc), get anything from the pokerstars buyout or retain any kind of ownership?

tre_river · 08-01-2012, 06:55 PM

Why wouldn't Pokerstars try and keep as many players associated with Full Tilt as possible? I mean Tilt already spent a lot of money putting Hansen, Dwan, Antonious all over their brand. Would seem like a waste because they need to rebuild the Full Tilt brand.

andyg2001 · 08-01-2012, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by travis5018

But Ivey will get signed without question, how could the biggest site in the world not have the most popular player? They already have one of the most charismatic players in the world (DN) why not have the other most universally popular?

Ivey may be the best player, but I don't think his the most popular player. I still think there's a good chance he get a deal.

**Mike Johnson** · 08-01-2012, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by chzbrglr

Did the pros with ownership on FTP (Ivey, Juanda, Lindgren, etc), get anything from the pokerstars buyout or retain any kind of ownership?

Nope, in fact 2 of the names you listed I believe now owe money to Poker Stars that they used to owe to FTP.

The pros with ownership all made millions(in some cases tens of millions) between 2004-2011 until the company went sideways. Of course some of them blasted through it just as fast at the poker table, craps table and sports book.

Every one of the original Team Full Tilt members should be set for life even with their money trees being cut down last year. I would guess that about half of them actually are.

jhn_lundgren · 08-01-2012, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike Johnson

As part of the settlement Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and Rafe Furst are inegible to work for Full Tilt Poker in any capacity.

Of the remaining Team Full Tilt members and the plethora of red pros which players do you think will be part of the marketing relaunch in November, if any? Several but not even close to all Full Tilt Pros listed below

Team Full Tilt
Tom Dwan
Patrick Antonius (has signed with ipoker)
Gus Hansen
Erik Seidel
Phil Ivey
Erick Lindgren
Mike Matusow
John Juanda
Jennifer Harman
Andy Bloch
Phil Gordon
Allen Cunningham

Some Notable FTP Red Pros
Andy Black
Eli Elezra
Huck Seed
David Oppenheim
Roland De Wolfe
Vitaly Lunkin
Layne Flack
David Benyamine
Hendon Mob Guys
Team Cardrunners Guys
Brandon Adams
Shaun Buchanan
James Akenhead
Josh Arieh
Amanda Baker
Praz Bansi
Alan Boston
Steve Brecher
Richard Brodie
Erik Cajelais
John Cernuto
David Chiu
Scott Clements
John D'Agostino
Melanie Weisner
Mark Vos
Matt Hawrilenko
Eric Froelich
Scott Fischman
Greg Mueller
Annette Obrestad (now with Lockpoker)
David Grey
Peter Feldman
Nick Schulman
Vivek Rajkumar
Jon Turner
Steve Zolotow
Rob Hollink
Perry Friedman
Julian Gardner
Andrew Lichtenberger
Eddie Scharf
David Pham
John Phan
Chip and Karina Jett
Soren Kongsgaard
Nikki Jedlicka
Svetlana Gromenkova
Carlos Mortenson
Justin Smith
Gavin Smith
Jared Hamby
Hal Lubarsky
Biil and Kristy Gazes
MonsterDong
Scott Montgomery
David Singer
Keith, Matt and Paul Sexton
Lee Watkinson
Marco Traniello
Andrew Feldman (retired apparently)
Erica Schoenberg

My guess of the Team Full Tilt Pros
is that Durrrr and Gus would be most likely of the Team Full Tilt to be offered a deal. Juanda because of his marketing potential in Asia would be my 3rd choice.

Of the red pros, it would be exclusively international players
Canadians like Greg Mueller, Gavin Smith, Erik Cajelais, Shaun Buchanan etc..
Internatinal players that play a ton online like Soren Kongsgaard, Peter Feldman, Nikki Jedlicka, MonsterDong could be offered deals
Female international players like Svetlana Gromenkova
Marketable Brits like DeWolfe, Praz, Hendon Mob boys, Akenhead
Well known Asian players such as David Chiu, David Pham etc..

Be interesting to hear people's thoughts on who Full Tilt Poker will market come November.

PS needs to make NO deals nor waste any $$$ on these people. They have almost all the business now and will have no trouble keeping it. There are no viable competitors and not likely to be any as long as PS rake and rakeback deals are competitive.