Live from the Two Plus Two Studios, September 26th 2012 - Howard Lederer - The feature guest this week on the Two Plus Two PokerCast is Full Tilt Poker co-founder Howard Lederer. Howard spends over three hours taking questions from Mike and Adam about his involvement with the former online poker giant. He speaks openly about the formation of Full Tilt Poker, his involvement in the growth of the company and the eventual relocation to Dublin, Ireland. Howard discusses the role of Full Tilt Poker CEO Ray Bitar and defends his decision not to terminate Ray after his gross mis-management had been uncovered. Mike and Adam also wrap-up the 2012 World Championship of Online Poker and of course give away the password for the September 30th Poker Stars VIP Club Invitational for PokerCast listeners.



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YES FINALLY

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On the podium, this should be an interesting episode. Great title: Howard Lederer. enough said

sick

thanks for all your hard work guys

# of "I don't knows" > # of "fer sures"

can't wait for tonight

great catch.

YES

download link http://pokercast.s3.amazonaws.com/twoplustwo_239.mp3

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Am excite

finally! Great work!

Oh boy, guess I won't finish 238 right now so I can get started on this beast.

I already heard it.

I set the line at jawdropping lines from Howard at about 5.5

Could someone please make a transcript?

They scrubbed the 90 minute Isildur1 retrospective, so there may not be anything you're interested in.

Congrats on the interview and thank you for all of the hard work guys!

I would nominate that_pope, except everytime Howard references Ray's company Pocket Kings, pope would feel the urge to shove them into Trup QQ and all hell would break loose.

pitchforks & bottle rockets itt

half hour in and jaw drops well over 6 already

Listened to as much as I could on my lunch break. I know this isn't a popular opinion but as a previous Full Tilt customer who didn't even play at Pokerstars whatsoever I still do not hold any strong dislike for Howard.

That being said, two things I wish he did was 1) Open his remarks in either Pokernews interview or this one with some sort of apology to the players. He may feel it goes without saying but it would go a long way. and 2) Saying that firing a CFO who gives fraudulent reports would put the company into a tailspin that they couldn't recover from cannot be justified. All he has to say is that they made a mistake and should have fired the guy immediately.

Howard deserves some credit for putting himself out there, taking the initiative on this interview, and speaking out as soon as the deal was done. Unfortunately I don't think he'll ever be a position where he can attend events like WSOP and not be hassled.

Finally, I don't believe that he should be paying back all his distributions or anything like that. I honestly believe him when he discusses all the obstacles involved in him preventing this from happening in the first place (NOT his reaction after it was done) being: the move from CA to Ireland leaving him far away from the company, his involvement in the software/poker aspects and not the financial, the board's apathy, his inexperience in the business world, and dealing with Bitar's personality.

22st

Holla!

Amazing intro!!!

I sure hope you asked him why they didn't give back their distibutions.

Mincash.

I was hoping for more details about the looming worldwide bacon shotage but Howard had to mess things up.