How many times have we heard this ? You really think this deal is done in a week? Wanna put money on it? I'll give you 2-1

They have clearly just been buying time since the licences were revoked. The more time that passes the less angry people get and the less likely they are to face serious legal consequences for what they have done. It seems to me the legal and pr teams number 1 job has been to keep everyone happily waiting.

Bingo

When they see people start waking up to this then the whole thing will fall apart.

rofl

everything will be much clearer in 1-2 days obviously, and i dont get why u are crying out so bad, maybe u sold ur ftp money or u were a loser player or whatever but we just got info from a site that we know is legit and in the past has never got out of line with their news and its stating that the deal is done and not in the progress of getting it done.. it wouldnt hurt to waiting a couple of days then u can start whinning again

I agree with you a 100%. It's a common defense tactic to put as much time as possible between the supposed crime and the trial.

Do you work for the site ? Wow are you gonna be butt hurt when this ends. And as far as me being a "loser player". I'll also put 2-1 that I have more money stuck on ftp then you do.

for what you're saying to be possible that would mean GBT is in on the "let's stall so bitar & co dont go to jail" which makes absolutely no sense

Yeah guys, pretty much this. When DN said what he said he for sure hadn't read the EGR article yet, and I think he feels pretty stupid about the comment now. I know yall love conspiracy theories but really tell me what the angle is here? I am really curious.

It all depends how much Daniel knows, doesn't it. I like Daniel but I also know him as the type of guy that has a big mouth and words things way more strongly than he means them. This leads me to believe he probably doesn't know all that much, and is just jiberjabbing.

Any rational person would conclude: we don't know enough, we can't make a certain judgement on the situation.

I'm sorry but the way you view things is just stupid. Maybe you think that you live in some super important space where everything that you feel is super accurate and important, but it simply isn't. Do you REALLY think that Tapie was like sitting around in his office, and someone called him "yo, DN just said the deal is dead on Pokerstrategy bro", and Tapie was like "OK **** COMMUNITY CANT THINK THAT LETS CALL EGR SOME POSITIVE NEWS SO WE CAN GO ON..................." doing what exactly? Tell me please.

This is by far not the darkest it has looked, even without today's article. You're just in an emotional state or some ****.

They are a site that basicly tries to be "the news source" for people professionally involved in the gaming industry. So they are pretty ****ing leggit and would not post unlikely rumours, IMO.

Blablabla bias blablabla

Make it 20 days and I'll bet . I'll even lower the odds to 1.5-1 .

Yeah, that is how the legal system works, stall stall stall and wait until everyone has forgotten you stole 300 million? Give me one example where just the stalling has made any impact on a case. Stop posting bull**** imo.

I think GBT was pushed to FTP by that company they hired just before GBT expressed an interest (FTP hired a company that specialised in finding investors for distressed businesses). GBT very likely wanted the publicity and players and software for his ISPT thing. However FTP have spun the whole thing out over months and never revealed to him the true state of what he was buying, letting him uncover it himself through due dilligence. I dont think he ever had any serious intentions of putting up the hundreds of millions due to players, even excluding USA repayment. His interest was due to the ISPT imo and FTP have spun it out ever since.

Dead on.

Again, this. GBT might look like some non-important man to some of you, but he's ****ing leggit and would not waste time to shoot some super weird angle to get something done that is of no significance to him. Unless there is some super secret like Bitar is Tapie's son, this is simply a ridiculously stupid tin-foil-hat-scenario that has 0% chance of being the truth.

Can anyone that is a premium subscriber give cliffs to this article as well?
Full Tilt and Tapie set to complete deal this week http://www.gamingintelligence.com/ma...deal-this-week

hahaha

oh wow

So GBT has an idea to organise big poker tournaments, so to get his name out there he gives hope to thousands of poker players for months and then basicly says "**** you but please come play at ISPT"?

Yeah, that's a really good way to get the poker worlds trust... Associate yourself with the biggest scam ever in poker right before asking the poker world to trust you and come play in your tournaments...

Deadline was extended to March 16th, everyone is confident this deadline will be met. Posted today.

Right because people with lots of money never make super shady deals. I'm starting to wonder how many shill accounts are associated with this scam. Hate to admit it but Harry was right all along.

I am an Aug 2009 account that started playing on Pokerstars (and am playing there now) if you manage to find my oldest posts, why the **** would you accuse me of being a FTP shill? It makes 0 sense. Anyway, I offered you a bet. You ignored.

Nothing is done until it's done but JFC some these comments/speculations are stupefyingly absurd.

The idea that the master PR manipulators of Full Tilt Poker (7 words that are a joke to themselves) decided to counter leak against Daniel Negreanu's talk-of-his-ass rant is laughable.

..............

im probably gonna go into a depression if this is bs

I'll make a small wager. Do you have an account on BCP?

Go into? Join the party, I've been there for months....

After failure to repay players Full tilt was never even close to being worth what tapie was going to have to pay. People just won't deposit as much money and as a result they won't be playing as much. They would have lost all their american players and only a fraction of row players would have returned from pokerstars, and that would be just to try and reclaim their old balances. If he did buy full tilt he would have been stupid. It's not even worth 30 million for the software.