Why?

He has no hand in FTP anymore, and does anyone really want this idiots opinion on anything?

anyone know when part 2 will be releashed?

God, HL says there were members who wanted to remove Ray... And the interviewer just nods and says mmmm hmmm... ****ing ask who they were JFC.

And +1 to Juanda looking not so bad, so far.

edited the gaps out ldo

took me till 1:31 to be tilted.

You can't give distributions to some and not others.

Don't misquote him...he might've been named Alan...Howie's not good with names or other peoples money for that matter!!! LOL

Well, HL admits that Ray was not qualified to run the company... that's why HL was in business with him for years... WTF am I watching?

Agree with above, he kept saying OTHERS wanted Ray removed and had long reservations etc etc etc...

YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TO THEM.

I am sorry but ignorance when people are literally telling you to your face there are problems is not ignorance, it is incompetence and a huge failure in character and you will get literally zero forgiveness for that.

I'm sure there are plenty of good reasons, but I think it is bs that they are airing it this way.

Max value for them, and more manipulation for us. Feels dirty, like everything else in this debacle.

Link for Part 2?

$70M, and he was very careful to hide it from the DOJ. He did leave ~$15M in the company after BF, though.

@25:30 Howard on there never being any segregation of player funds :

I don' think our regulator was demanding that and there wasn't pressure from, the poker community wasn't demanding that from the company.

The interviewer should have then asked if Howard was aware that some players were asking if player funds were segregated and that Full Tilt had crafted an e-mail and forum response indicating that they were.

True, but I hope u see HL and his play there to put CF in a better light...

If you feel so strongly about it, why don't you arrange to meet HL for a 7 hour interview and take film crew to vegas and film it at your own expense?

Seriously, why bother even watching it if you feel you are being exploited?

Noah, I assume you are going to watch the whole series... Will you post anything you feel HL lies about?

I might not even watch the whole series. Certainly not promising to do a full commentary. I'm sure DF will watch it, though.

This part of the interview is covering the beginnings of FTP in 2004-2006. the interviewer asked about the intital deposits and financial structure in the beginning. Asking about a 2+2 post made five years later wouldn't have been relevent.

From the DOJ complaint (not even the one that came out after the interview!):

The Ferguson files would have been better

Q: How did Tilt handle the first player deposits? Was there a procedure..

Howard: Nope, nope. Nope, nope, nope...

lol

Finished with part one, eager to see the rest of this.

I mean.. it's pretty obvious that he's going to portray himself as someone who knew nothing about the financials at all because he's not just going to agree to do an interview in which he admits to perpetrating a nine-figure fraud.

He's already framed that in a bunch of different ways--saying that he didn't really help run the company at all except as a sort of consultant, saying that after Ireland he didn't really help run the company at all except as a sort of consultant, saying that in Ireland he was so incredibly involved with helping to run some aspects of the company that he didn't have any time to consider player funds. Then there's the part where he talks about how player funds were kept. So, that's all a little hard to put together in a coherent way.

But, regardless, we're probably not going to learn anything interesting about how player funds were kept from a guy who probably will go to jail if his role in that comes out. I just want to hear what he claims he did with his own $40M+ and his excuse for not returning it when he "learned" that it was stolen after BF.

When will Part 2 be released?

"Was Ray QUALIFIED to run the company?" Obviously Tony G's contribution to the interview.