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04-24-2012 , 10:49 AM

#251

zachvac

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 13,775

Quote:

Originally Posted by FDSaussure

Why would he lie about it?

I wasn't saying he was lying or it was false, I was asking a legitimate question.

04-24-2012 , 10:50 AM

#252

IWEARGOGGLES

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Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 7,352

This makes 0 sense to me.

04-24-2012 , 10:50 AM

#253

SneakySteve

old hand

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,681

This **** just got real.

04-24-2012 , 10:50 AM

#254

Whose2know

adept

Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,135

If AP/UB could be bought as well that'd be great. Then everyone would be happy.

04-24-2012 , 10:50 AM

#255

Byrung

too late axe in car

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 4,395

if this is true I will willingly make love with gobbo

04-24-2012 , 10:50 AM

#256

styx2000

adept

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 902

so would this mean the new ftp and stars could not enter the US market?

not sure what to do with my bwin-party stocks...

04-24-2012 , 10:50 AM

#257

holden

enthusiast

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 79

Quote:

Originally Posted by Malta PR

While the DOJ is after Isai Scheinberg and his Son to get them on US soil .

bwin.party and Steve Wynn are intrested to buy 75% of Pokerstars, 25% belongs to several stars workers.

Steve Wynn is more intrested to pay the biggest part with shares from his own casinos.
This would put Isai and his family into a legal and also profitable business and they can maybe get rid of the DOJ .....as far as i have been told.

Lets see who make the race

sources told me this can be done in few months, party will not longer use their software and will use than Stars.

New name could be PartyStars

I can confirm this is true but you forgot the part where Bodog buys Wynn, Party and the Stars employee shares along with MGM, Sands, Caesars, iPoker, Merge, Facebook, Ford and Taco Bell and rebrands it all as Ayre.com and goes public in Singapore.

04-24-2012 , 10:50 AM

#258

LostOstrich

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my early thoughts are this would be fantastic for people with money tied up, and pretty terrible for the long term good of the games.

04-24-2012 , 10:50 AM

#259

SneakySteve

old hand

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,681

Quote:

Originally Posted by skik210

Because pictures are more fun

04-24-2012 , 10:50 AM

#260

braminc

veteran

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,086

Everyone sayin this definitely is or isn't happening is talking out of their ass. Just wait and see what happens.

And while I agree any 1 company monopolizing the online poker industry poses obvious threats to fairness in the market, many people are grossly overassuming worst case scenario (why am i surprised??). The truth is Pokerstars has always acted honorably and in the best interests of their company longterm. This alone gives me confidence they wont aim to rape the poker world and ruin the ecosystem and threaten their own longevity.

Everybody just chill

04-24-2012 , 10:50 AM

#261

wompwompwomp

adept

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 737

Quote:

Originally Posted by styx2000

so would this mean the new ftp and stars could not enter the US market?

not sure what to do with my bwin-party stocks...

panic sell.

04-24-2012 , 10:51 AM

#262

SpecialOne

journeyman

Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 282

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevmath

From ChiliPoker CEO Alexander Dreyfus on Twitter:

sick!

04-24-2012 , 10:51 AM

#263

superkewli

grinder

Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 537

News, Views, and Gossip (2058 Viewing)

04-24-2012 , 10:51 AM

#264

TheBigFD

centurion

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 112

Correct me if I am wrong. But when people were discussing the value of fulltilt, a lot of people went on about how valuable the concept of rush poker was. If rush poker was so valuable, it had to be because the concept was worth money, not the name.

Do you think this has been in the pipeline for a while? And that stars bought the concept rights much earlier, and has since released zoom poker, which is (as far as I can see) the exact same as rush poker. If this concept was worth so much money they either have the rights to it, or the creator will be seeking damages sometime soon.

04-24-2012 , 10:51 AM

#265

HITTHEPANDA

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Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,180

Quote:

Originally Posted by IWEARGOGGLES

This makes 0 sense to me.

WHO CARESSSSSS

04-24-2012 , 10:51 AM

#266

TBadr

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 5,669

I'M STARTING TO FREAK OUT MAN!!

04-24-2012 , 10:51 AM

#267

WalterS

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 1,842

Where is the extra 420m going if ol chilipoker dude's facts are straight?

04-24-2012 , 10:51 AM

#268

lillou

journeyman

Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 362

Quote:

Originally Posted by Byrung

if this is true I will willingly make love with gobbo

So you can't edit it later

04-24-2012 , 10:51 AM

#269

aggo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by LostOstrich

my early thoughts are this would be fantastic for people with money tied up, and pretty terrible for the long term good of the games.

100000% true

04-24-2012 , 10:51 AM

#270

InYourDome

journeyman

Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 239

Assuming this is not a level, could this be blocked in Europe as it would give PS a monopoly? We have pretty strict anti-competitive laws over here.

04-24-2012 , 10:51 AM

#271

NoahSD

Is Right

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 18,843

Quote:

Originally Posted by IWEARGOGGLES

This makes 0 sense to me.

Me too! But, I woke up this morning to a lot messages from former sources of mine being like "Hey.. that thread about Stars/FTP is true and should be undeleted."