i guess news that stars bought tilt shouldnt be published, cose they will need who know how much time to spent in negotiations etc.
so i dont know one - two weeks seem's reasonable time to see some news.

$750m would fill an 80-inch cube and weigh seven and a half tons, so that would have to be some rectum.

Finally the 24/7 these two gentlemen have been working the last year has paid off. Anybody want me to give them a special thanks if I see them?

+1... and i'll go a step further. closing is a big deal, although fact that PS and DOJ seem to have negotiated this makes this quite likely once announced. in other words, given that PS would be paying all of FT players monies owed then there wouldn't be too much potential for ugly surprises i.e. paying back another company's customers is as bad as it gets

omg one of the funniest posts on 2p2 of all time

BTW...........

What happened to that wonderful PokerQ4 website that had that wonderful inside scoop last week?

LOL

pretty good cliffs on the whole situation

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...089824216.html

btw, I've seen that pokerstars atm offers a $250 reload bonus, do they often offer these bonuses, or is it so they can raise the money to purchase ftp?

So you're asking if Pokerstars is buying Full Tilt (with the DOJ's help) through a Ponzi scheme?

Normally one RL a year, but normally not this juicy.

wise investment. this gives marketing some new possibilites:

Full Tilt
Poker Stars
Full Stars
Poker Tilt

Pokerstars never touches deposits since a few months, they always have them on hand, it's on their site somewhere...

I think that if Isai wants to spend 700 million on something it isn't that big of a problem to him, it's obv a lot of money but I don't think he'd have problems coming up with it.

Please read the new sticky, and please stop posting stuff that nobody wants to read.

Also, what I'm hoping for: 2 complete seperate networks, EXCEPT:

-Every Sunday, a cross network $11, $55 and $215 tournament
-One yearly cross network tournament series

-Not sure if it makes sense, but maybe Rush pools shared.

Would we see actual cross netowrk tournamanets? I know I am getting a littel too far ahead of my self but it is going to be intriguing to see what they do in terms of that. or will they just let the two sites operate seperately in terms of players/tables and whatnot.

this post is beyond absurd. prohibition creating criminality can't be "wrong." it's not a theory, it's simple cause and effect; one thing creates the other. prohibiting an activity isn't going to eliminate the activity. instead, it's going to shift control of the activity from businessmen to business-minded criminals. that's a huge part of the reason prohibition is always a terrible idea.

suggesting that FTP was never profitable is laughable. FTP always received good traffic. there's no way that their "spending" (what spending? hosting costs? FTPDoug's salary?) stacked up to their profit. a highly-trafficked online poker site takes in hundreds of millions of dollars per year via rake. as of 2010, it was estimated that pokerstars was raking over a billion dollars a year. a billion dollars! and that's risk-free. FTP was never as big as pokerstars, but lol at the idea that they were struggling to show a profit due to "spending."

under free market conditions, highly-trafficked poker sites such as FTP don't struggle to make money. the opposite is the case: they're about as close as a company can get to printing money.

Here are some cliffs too.

http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/rumor-...t-poker-21604/

Think you need to go back and read the second paragraph.

Nothing a bit of jail time wouldn't sort out.

Oh no! I've been highlighted as an example of what not to write on this forum. I do get what I deserve for letting another poster rile me and not thinking before I reply. And it was especially hypocritical of me to make the inflammatory post that I did since I've complained about similar posts in the past.

My apologies to 2+2 for being an idiot, and I will endeavour to be a better poster in the future.

And sorry for this no-content post, it will be my last, I hope!

Just a few musings:
I'm not too keen on a PS monopoly but the deal is much better than the Tapie one for US & ROW players if it comes off. Also it is a well run company, who have segregated player funds and good customer service - so much better than FTP 1

As long as they keep the software, tournament structure & schedule and promotions then i can live with it. If they start turning it into the main PS site I will remove my money and never play poker again!

The deal makes sense if the DOJ refuse to have PS back in the US as FTP would be their back door route back in.

However, there is some talk by the conspiracy theorists that PS are just screwing the Tapie deal and have no intention of relaunching FTP. Hope this is BS

Dreyfus's Rectum? Is that similar to Occam's Razor?

Why do those of you who prefer Stars and FTP to maintain separate player pools feel that way?

Dang, how did I read over that? I think that was the point the doorbell rang.

Fixed my post. Thanks.

Yes, good question. I'm curious too. Monopoly issues?

Why would the doj trade not prosecuting stars for row players to get their money?