Excited for the new MET 6x Sunday Million!

All these guys are very tricky.

Whats next, Apple buys Stars and Google buys Apple?

WTF is going on?

This can't be real. I'm having withdrawal symptoms or something.

Going to smoke and then if this thread is still here then I will now it is for real.

WHAT!@#

LET THIS BE TRUE!

This is potentially some of the best news for poker or the BIGGEST Troll ever

Hookers and blow for everyone!

maybe he was banned and started a new account to announce this awesome news

My brain hurts, I need to go outside for awhile.

God I hope they kept my FTP points I always dreamed of having a custom avatar...

if this isn't true then its all over

Sick plot twist.

Hopefully everyone will have their money back before the ME.

It just doesnt add up for me tho, i mean surely PS must have been in on it with Tapie?
I mean why would Tapie start recruiting if it wasnt a done deal?

it's chilling

I just wanted to post in here for HISTORY.

This is happening

yes but how does GBT fit into all this? What about all the news surrounding setting up that new company and hiring ?

Lol

Everything seems possible, minus the Stars back into the US part. Ceasar's/MGM/Tribal Lobbying Groups paid politicans LOTS of money to get them out of the country. I'm sure PartyPoker would back that truck up as well (ironically). They'll want to have at LEAST 3-5 years of online poker market exclusivity before the worldwide leader in poker software comes back into the US.

Not to say, that PokerStars can ALSO pay off some NV pols and setup in that state, however......the DOJ would look petty if Stars were just allowed to go back into business, even though this would be an impressive display of charity. If this happens, you can pretty much erase all my critizism on how they handled the FPP scenario.

BTW #monopoly and #patenttrolling #FTW

thread has potential .. oh, wait

one time baby!!!

Heres to hoping for 100% of our balances and USA reentry into the market. ***Fingers, toes, legs, and everything esle crossed***

exactly this^^

Just heard this elsewhere from a separate and very reliable source (who heard rumor of it from inside industry)
... dare we believe??

My......

this makes a ton of sense now that i think about it. the $750mm includes a settlement with the DOJ and making players whole, dik**** paid $300mm to settle with them, i could easily see this as stars saying "look, we will make all players whole from FT and pay XXX if we can settle the charges against us." while the DOJ cant guarantee them access to US markets, they can make the settlement favorable enough so that it greatly increases the chances of them entering, and PS looking like the savior makes the chances even more likely.

PS isnt paying all this money because they think FT is worth it, they are paying to settle the case so that they can eventually enter the US market. and not having a competitor [re]launch is worth a lot of money as well