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No it didn't. I feel bad for everyone who had money held for years on there. But she and others made some poor choices to put significant wealth on a site which was operating in a grey area. I'm not saying Fulltilt were not to blame, but the players have to accept some of the risks. If they had been operating in a regulated market, this would not have happened.
I agree with RecreationalPlayer here to some degree. Also it seems that Danielle's biggest issue after black Friday was that she basically lost her job because online poker disappeared and there was no way to play any live poker in Minnesota. Of course this sucks, but to be fair, this was not really the fault of Lederer or any of the Full Tilt guys (or only because they decided to operate in this grey market, but without this decision, there would not have been any online poker at all). If FT had operated with segregated player funds etc, the outcome would have been pretty much the same (see Pokerstars).
Her story about her first Main Event was absolutely hilarious! The guy tanking with 88 against a blind shove (although: against random cards you have an equity of 70%, if one is a very good player at a great table, maybe that is not enough to risk tournament life on first day of the ME?), 88 guy being knocked out, woman misreading her top pair hand against set, being upset that she is ahead, big relief after being told that she was behind! Her husband should have sent her for 1/10 of the buyin to the spa or whatever for the day and everybody would have been happy (maybe not the guy with the set of 5s).
Regarding the invitation-only one-drop: the pros really had it coming, I completely understand the move. I think one of the major points might be all the swapping and piecing out that is going on. I believe these highrollers have become an operation to extract money out of whales by the pros. I wouldn't be surprised if Guy et al. would not mind the odd pro sitting down with them with 1 Mio of their own money, but having syndicates that basically pool their money to run it as a business enterprise cannot really be sustainable.
And: go Terrence, go! Was just checking the little-one for one drop and he is 12/144