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Originally Posted by LetsGambool
That said, the argument that we have to get back balances because the DOJ would have to pay more out by doing something else is incorrect.
I'm not interested in dissecting the nuance of every argument. The main reason we bring
this reason up is to show how utterly ******ed it is to think this would be an option. The real reason people won't get original deposits is because that's not how a poker site works. On a poker site, you deposit money and you either win more or lose it. You get back what you made of it and if you lost it all, you lost it all. End of story.
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Originally Posted by LetsGambool
Similarly, the argument that what the DOJ does with our money is tied to what happened with ROW players is not compelling.
I disagree. Everyone played on Full Tilt poker together. ROW played against US players. There has been precedent set for the case with Stars and Full Tilt. Stars, with permission from DOJ, gave both US and ROW players full, current balances, not original deposits. Stars, with permission from DOJ, can give ROW Full Tilt players full, current balances. That's 3 cases - Stars ROW, Stars US, and Full Tilt ROW. We're only now waiting for the last, final case: Full Tilt US players. While it is true, we don't know how it's going to be handled yet, anyone with common sense and a brain should see the right, fair, common sense way to handle it (and the way it's been handled already 3 times) is that all US players get their full balances.
Believe what you want to believe. Use whatever reasons or logic you want or don't want. That's what I'm going with.