I keep messaging them. Still hope to receive my money at my bank account.

Hello XXXXXXX,



We have received your inquiry via website. At this time, we are still working to get your payments reissued. We have also received your updated banking details and will have it updated in our system.



Jeremy Bailey

Epiq | Project Coordinator

Email: jeremy.bailey@epiqglobal.com



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You got this reply this past month? I haven't heard back at all in 4 months or so and didn't message them for many months before that.

I write them once a month and got replys from same agent. He keep telling me same thing on different manner, that payouts gonna be there soon.
Hard to believe.
Can we made some kind of legal action? It is not normal. We getting robbed second time basically and everyone can see that live.

Same here, buddy. I have been ping-pong'ing e-mails for over 2 and a half years. I requested a international wire transfer so that's what probably caused the delay for me. I come to that conclusion because I've noticed that some people made their remission requests later but received the money earlier by cheque from countries like Canada.

Its seems they have huge balance of our money on their balance sheet and they just spend it on salaries, vocations and what ever else. I dont think they work for free. This is clear corruption. We should take legal action against them. Im not from USA, so I didnt know much about that. Is there people who could help us?
I would be happy to pay 50% of what I should received for help. I got about 10k, that they stole from me in 2010 and then second time in 2016.

Some in government would have preferred that poker players "learn our lesson" by losing this money. Fortunately, that was a minority opinion. The DoJ worked with us to refund Full Tilt players and then, without needing to, applying that remaining money for this AP/UB remission. AP/UB didn't fund this remission, so it's quite good there's a remission at all.

What is your point exactly, I dont quite understand.
They have to send players money to players, but they didnt paid everyone, after more than 3 years. Nobody tells that money is over or that they would stop paying fro some reason, they keep answering, that soon they would send money.
Question is where is our money and is it even legal of what they are doing? Would be great tp hear comment from PPA.
I dont ask for charity, this is my money that was stolen from me and it is looks like they doing it the second time.

The point I take from it, one that I already understood, is that there's no reason to believe they ever had enough money to cover everyone's balances. Carrying on about them spending all the money on salaries and vacations, and calling it "clear corruption" is ridiculous, unless you know something the rest of us don't.

Out of curiosity, when did you apply to this program?

I have no idea where your actual money went. The government didn't recover any money from Absolute Poker / Ultimate Bet. The DoJ is using leftover Full Tilt Poker funds for the Absolute Poker / Ultimate Bet remission and they didn't have to. They could have simply kept the leftover FTP funds.

For example, if you lose money playing an unlicensed site today, the DoJ won't do anything to give you any money back, despite them still having FTP funds.

PPA wrapped up operations almost three years ago.

There was always a risk to playing offshore sites. I knew it when I was playing them and so did everyone else. If you didn't apply for the Absolute Poker / Ultimate Bet remission in time, then it's up to DoJ how they wish to proceed.

Especially at Cereus, where people playing there were basically enabling an operation that was widely known to be shady at best.

True. After the scandal, people playing there were taking their chances, hoping for softer games (because many other good players were steering clear).

I'm glad PPA was able to get a remission for UB/AP players. It's kind of rich that someone who probably simply missed the deadline thinks he was deprived of a remission that wasn't even funded with UB/AP money, as if the US government is in the business of guaranteeing funds on offshore poker sites.

US government confiscated UBs assets including players balances. Where do you get this idea that this money is compensated?

Why me as a not US citizen should lose money because of some US laws?

I called these guys 50 times during years and they keep telling same stuff. Money will come blah blah. And it never does.

Theres clearly somethings up with money. It could be gone or something since they know most players forgotten and wouldnt care by now.

You didn't post evidence of this.

Yes, there is. An extremely shady and terribly-run company which you chose to do business with unsurprisingly went bankrupt.

Fortunately for many people, there was $33.5 million left over once FT payments were done, and the DoJ decided to pay that out to Cereus customers. Possibly unfortunately for you, Cereus was said to have over $50 million in debts when they closed their doors.

We can keep telling him, but I think he'll continue to believe the US Government confiscated millions from Cereus.

I feel everything at time, 2016/2017.
Some of my friends did same thing too and we all receive same messages till this day, that they working on it.
Maybe some one have any real information if they really work on it or no?

I just realized looking back at your prior posts that your situation was much different than I thought (from June 2019):

So they did send your money, but you were for some reason unable to cash it. Have you considered that perhaps your personal banking situation might be playing a role in this? If your bank is unable to accept checks, perhaps it also is a hurdle to receiving transfers.

Are they in the same situation? IE already received checks they couldn't cash?

Unfortunately, I don't think you'll find anyone that does - it's not like they have a rep that posts here. But maybe someone will come along that is in a similar situation or knows something.

I always thought they had, did they not? I just didn't think it was nearly enough to account for the $50 million+ they were reportedly in debt at the end, and thus it's silly for them to insist Garden City/DoJ definitely had their money.

This is not my personal situation, it is not possible to cash check nowhere in Belarus, Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine.
It would be even better if they try to send me money via post pigeon, but they offer option to send me my money by bank transfer and some friends of mine took it from the begin, so they wait since 2016.
There was money, I cant cash out them with check, nobody sat they go somewhere. Where is the money? For me it seems as very reasonable question.

i got my check of ~4k$ in august.

however when i did send it to my bank it was lost in the mail.
every time i call now about my check being reissued they tell me " someone will contact you in this regards". however nobody ever contacts me again. it's been over 20 calls now and it's always the same " we handed it over to the research team and they will contact you soon".

info@absolutepokerclaims.com is also nonresponsive anymore.

not sure what to now?
it seems like i am stuck in some kind of loop

This was a real person who actually responded to me several years ago. I do not know if he still works for the company or can help anyone.
I did receive my money and I do not know if it was because of him or he just kept me updated about when it was coming, etc. I received my money sometime in 2018 after filing after first deadline whenever that was. You can search this thread as to when I applied and when I received my money if it is of interest.
If he is still there please be respectful, he has zero to do with where your money is but may be a source of information or help. He is just a guy working for the company and he actually lives and works less than 20 minutes from where I live, so if you reach out to him just be respectful as he was very nice and helpful to me.





DAVID NAMDAR | SENIOR PROJECT SUPERVISOR, OPERATIONS
1985 Marcus Ave. Lake Success, NY 11042
Phone: +1 631-470-5087 Email: david.namdar@choosegcg.com

Unfortunately they didnt respond lately. Tomorrow Im gonna trying to call them. If you also received messages like that, please write that and lets cooperate. I didnt ask them to write me that.
On 22 September 2020 at 13:25, "Info@AbsolutePokerClaims.com" <Info@AbsolutePokerClaims.com> wrote:
Hello xxxx,
The distribution process is ongoing, and we are working with the DOJ to get payments out as soon as possible. However, we do not know the exact date of the next distribution.
We appreciate your continued patience.
Thanks,
Jeremy Bailey
Epiq | Project Coordinator

Anybody knows anyone that received their money (check) if they missed the deadline to file a petition for remissions? I know some of you got emails about this and I never did. I stopped playing poker after Ubet robbed me for my money. I lost over 8K.
I know that some players were payed just few months ago.
And because they left me out and didn't send any information about remissions it would be fair to pay me too.
I just got this answer:

Unfortunately, the deadline to file a petition for remissions has passed. We are not longer accepting claims.

Jeremy Bailey
Epiq | Project Coordinator

Please any one, share live contacts. My bank details changed! Jeremy need to know this.

You had the check in your hand (a massive success) and then sent is back into the mail system? Yikes. Is mailing a check to ones bank even a thing?

Jeremy didn`t respond to me over 2 months, I trying to message their email info@absolutepokerclaims.com, no response.
I am absolutely sure they have our money, they responded to me like hundred times in different emails, that there would be payouts and they are working on it with DOJ(!). Yet, stop responding.
If any one have any of their contacts please share. Maybe I should contact DOJ?