I prefer:

Full Tilt PRO !

I'm ashamed of how much pleasure I get out of seeing bad things happen to the jerkoffs who achieved fame playing poker in the mid-2000s.

to put this sob in his rightfull place`

In the settlement with the DOJ there were a handful of players that were connected to full tilt whose debts were not discharged. This gave Stars the right to go and collect those debts. I can't remember 100%, but I think these were owners of full tilt! such as Ivey, Juanda, Lindgren etc etc.. There could have been a few players who owed larger sums that weren't owners, but I can't remember the list off the top of my head.

All other debts that regular players owed, from such things as payments not collected by their processors, Stars gave up the rights to collect. Those players who owed money through processors got a walk.

my memory is a lil hazy, but didnt Eric win a large FTOPS event he was hosting back in ~2008? Seem to remember him getting in it vs a set on the flop HU and runner running a str or a flush to take it down.

Can't wait to hear DN spin this.

your not going to hear a peep

Yeah PS definitely has a gag the size of an exercise ball shoved down daniels throat on this one

FTOPS 7, Event 9

I looked it up just to confirm. Can't believe it's nearly been 7 years.

Seems likely to happen.

I thought it was impossible to sue someone for loss/theft if the theft occurred as part of an illegal activity by the injured party. For example, can a meth dealer sue a junkie for not paying what he owes him?

what illegal activity....playing poker? lol...

Yes, that is true. A contract must be for a legal object to be enforceable.

But the example given above is not analogous to the Lindgren-FT issue. At the time the loan and the mistaken deposit was Lindgren and FT were contracting for a legal object. That FT was involved in shady dealings does not mean the Lindgren-FT issue was illegal.

Say a bank makes fraudulent mortgages with some customers. They also make legal mortgages with other customers. Are the customers with legal mortgages off the hook for the loan amounts because some of the banks loans were illegal? Of course not.

I assumed the transaction for the funds loaned to Erick would be considered illegal under UIGEA.

I would not assume that. I'd assume attorneys for Lindgren will consider the argument.

I think this an amazing 3rd level move by Amaya

The previous management signed DNegs up on a ridiculous 10 yr 3 mill a year type deal and they obviously dont want to honour this with DN spewing ******ness all over and quite frankly they realise he was never worth that sort of cash in the first place

They also dont want to terminate his contract and subsequently have to pay it out

Baazov, aware that Degengren and DN are bosom buddies, gets the idea to sue in order to "recoup" the 2 milly from Eric

Amaya KNOWS this will make DNs position within the company untenable but they can claim its only business

DN with his high moral "friends can steal its old school" code will be forced to "resign" and Amaya dont have to pay him a cent AND hes out of their hair

haha DN.. out of their "hair"... zing!

But in Daniel's case gag orders mean nothing. He's a man of the people and no amount of money will prevent him from speaking his mind.

Do you have a lot of precedence for that being a successful defense?

What exactly do you google to find the answer: Can I keep money I received illegally?

The DOJ said otherwise in their settlement with Pokerstars.

I doubt he can make that argument at all. The obvious assumption being he cashed it out and was paid twice. So no.

IIRC this was correct. Some of the details might be off here, but i remember hearing an interview with him 8-10 years ago, i think on the podcast that Mike & Adam had before the 2+2 one, where they said they can remember him being one of the biggest winners on one of the early sites (planet poker? He might have been a house player?), and how he was basically always online and playing as many tables as possible (which prob wasnt much back then, this was obv way before Nano etc).

Correction (confirmed by thinking about it): Paradise Poker.

I tried "illegal contract enforceable" and got some useful links, including this one:

Cliffs: In at least one recent decision, a state court has refused to enforce loan agreements between two investors and a retail medical marijuana shop operating in Colorado.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/mar...forceable.html