ouch.

Does anyone know where HL or CF are? Has anyone actually seen them and or know their location. my line of thought is whether they skipped the country or not.

Alphamike was referring to the gbt deal a few weeks ago. As Tony Bruno would say, get some facts and come back and see me.

oops?!

Hoping this thing works out for everyone very very soon.

But there is a deal right?

So the email from Ray to employees states twice the words Poker Stars.

Hmmm.. PokerStars paying FTP employee's? Why on earth would they do that if no deal is even close?

It's quite obvious that the deal will soon be done.

Weeee. can't wait. peace

BTW-> PokerStars Management confirm that email from Bitar yet??

Until I see a new post from PS<3FTP, im just gonna wait for the announcement and continue on with everyday life, as should the rest of you people sitting in the thread all day asking DF the same question.

I can't imagine how epic the celebration thread is gonna be if a deal is announced

There is no need to ask anymore, because the DEAL IS DONE 100%!

Just use logic and common sense

How epic PokerStars is gonna be after this you mean?

Even tho when it all boils down to it all in the end, it's still gonna be 'all of us' players that end up paying each other back, PokerStars won't lose that's 4sure.

Well I'm back and I've got plenty of facts.

You may very well be correct that he was referring to the GBT deal dying. However, when you consider how huge the news was that that deal died in APRIL and the unconfirmed rumor about PS was announced virtually simultaneously, and his post I linked to was in JUNE, either he has no source or he and his source win the Slow Pony award of the century.

Am I the only one that thinks PS<3FTP is Ray Bitar?

It's harder than you think, and I've already stated I have no formal NDA's in this regard.

yes

Well Howard hosted a party yesterday for ~ 100 ppl, so no, he hasn't skipped.
Haven't seen/heard about Chris F lately, but I don't think that's unusual either.

I'm pretty sure when it's announced, it will be everywhere, retweeted a thousand times as well, and certainly here in 2+2 in short time. My guess is that all three parties will make separate announcements at the appropriate time.

It's not.

Can't wait for this deal to be done. Not only to have my $14k but also to never have to read this thread again.

I'm not asking you to name PS<3FTP, but you you know who they are?

any timeframe???

DF. Just my read. If it was a poker game, I'd probably go with it though.

LOL QF muthafukin TRUTH

My thoughts exactly

When it speaks of "bets" it means bets. A deposit is not a bet. That bets were $30B as a fact alone goes nowhere towards proving that deposits were greater than $1B.

Oh, I believe you finished several years beyond kindergarten.

Clearly? Not to some of us. Perhaps you should spell it out for those of us who lack your economic background, rather than asking questions.

Which number? The $30B in bets? They were bets, not deposits, made by Americans on online poker sites. The $1B being sought by the DoJ? IDK, the DoJ might be able to tell you what they had in mind. I don't think they make it clear in the indictments.

I think that is a great idea. Why don't you abandon your attempts to use the socratic approach and just bash us over the head with expository argumentation. Explain, rather than hope to lead us to reason through our own investigation of the questions you pose. Eliminate the rhetorical question from your repetoir for the duration of this thread.

Forget the eggs. Forget subtlety. Just make assertions and show a logical argument to back them up. I won't be offended when you prove me wrong.

I'd bet hard money that CF, Bitar, HL, and others have read and even posted in this thread already. LOL