diamond flush how could you be one of the most looked to for news on this situation and still not bring out ANY ARTICLES almost 2 months after the rumors?

It still bothers me that this thread, this wonderful piece of history, has a poll that shows that 56% wants the AGCC to regulate FTP. Man, am I glad those f#ckups are out of the picture. They wouldn't even know how to regulate a game of marbles.

This. It could be just a standard move to another firm. It happens in every industry. If its only one of them, then it's most likely just this.

If subject poker was around Noah would have put put an article weeks ago

I agree, it should really be 50%/50%... people either want the AGCC to regulate FTP or they don't.

Theres a ton of rumour mills you can check out to get your fix of unsubstantiated bull****.

May have been easier to get 500 than 8.5k.

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This is absolutely true btw, (for a limited number, not all), but the claim, made over and over for the last month, of high level PS employees being in Dublin training people 100 gazillion percent was, and is, blatantly false.

If there was news he would have and so would I. When I worked for Noah, we weren't in the business of publishing rumors either. If you are interested in rumors, you have plenty of places to read those.

Yes, people do think that, because their (legitimate) anger clouds their judgment when thinking of this issue.

This.

Aldernitty Gamey Commission .

They couldn't regulate a morning bowel movement without messing it up.

Just to expand further, the contractors will not be working with PK employees until a deal is made. This was merely a way for PS to retain some skills that else might had been lost.

They are picking on "the black guy" because he is a lot more well-known and outspoken and more of an ambassador for poker than Allen Cunningham is. Not because he is black. No one outside of hardcore poker degenerates knows who Allen Cunningham is, but very casual poker players and even non-poker players know Phil Ivey.

This is a scummy quote by Negreanu.

I just want to be able to play on FTP and PS again. Miss the software. **** get a deal done already

You could see how someone would buy it as true though. Sounds like the kind of thing that would be required if you had zero understanding of what they do in Dublin and how good they are at it.

I don't think anyone would ever call Phil Ivey outspoken. I would agree that he gets more crap than Cunningham because he was the face of Full Tilt poker, not Cunningham, and because he is the Tiger Woods of poker. Though, the same could be said of Patrick Antonius (the David Beckham of poker) who just signed with a new site and had a decent (3%ish I think) ownership stake, yet is not getting much grief at all.

For some people, maybe race is a factor subconsciously. For others, I'm sure they have more respectable reasons.

Also, the quote was also missing the last part about how "he is the only one who came out and said anything and stood up for the players." or something along those lines. (I assume referring to the lawsuit, which others have said prevented a deal, but none of us can make a conclusion on that given our limited information).

Or it could just be because Allen Cunningham isn't an owner.

So, just to confirm, there's no major sticking point for which both sides are haggling over, but there's just a laundry list of procedural stuff to get done?

Good point.

But what about Antonius, a more appropriate comparison and wildly different treatment by this 2p2 crowd?

For it to be fair, I guess we'd have to ask, if Antonius had made 5 final tables this WSOP, would he be getting burned by some like Ivey is? I think not. Antonius is also playing the $1 million buy-in one drop and not getting any crap for it.

Just an observation.

True, but as we have seen in this ridiculous thread, not many people can distinguish who had what role in Full Tilt even though the information is freely available, so that's probably not a prerequisite for where people direct their anger.

Phil Ivey is much more known than any of the other owners, and currently isn't shy about showing up in public to throw money around. Basically, Ivey was the commercial face of FTP. His face has been flashed on ESPN so much that non-poker players know who he is. Is Seidel an owner? If he is, then I agree he should be catching more flak. Nobody seems to be talking about him.

Ivey gets a one year pass while is the deal is being work on imo. He means too much to the community to just have him sit out for that long.

With that being said if FTP does not pay out, the fact that he received SO MUCH MONEY could not be ignored.

I dont think Antonius was even an owner, he wasnt even an original Team FT member.

@ Diamond

Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions.

I see I am not the only one who doesn't know every owner and what percentage they have. Some, though, think this information has been published. Would you be so kind to give me a link then?