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04-18-2011 , 10:54 AM

#5826

tiltnonstop

old hand

Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,385

mails from today

party:

Quote:

Keep your VIP status

If a player is an existing VIP at another site, then he can just email a proof to vip@palladiumlounge.com and earn 1,000 points within a 15 days period. We will manually upgrade them to Palladium.

winnerpoker (ipoker?)

Quote:

VIP upgrade: If as a Full Tilt player, you made more than 6,700 points per month or as a PokerStars player, you were VIP Platinum/Super Nova / Super Nova Elite then we’ll upgrade you accordingly*.

04-18-2011 , 10:58 AM

#5827

Shelldonahue

old hand

Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,877

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShipItMehr

Damnit I am in class. Can you guys summarize what he is saying? Thanks.

He said what was already repeated nothing new....

Cliffs:
Poker is not gambling.
I cannot comment because I do not know the specifics.
More information should be released this week.

04-18-2011 , 10:58 AM

#5828

Solid up arrow

banned

Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,134

Quote:

Originally Posted by PLO_Micro_Donkey

Great advice! Sign up for basically the only loan in America that isn't dischargable in a bankruptcy.

What could go wrong?

did you get that info from one of your personal finance tv shows?

$5000 at 6% interest is bargain. plus its the only loan you can get if you dont have any income. plus you have ten years to pay it off. even working minimum wage for the rest of your life you will have no trouble making payments. plus if you dont continue college you will have 9montths before you have to start making payments. student loans are only a bad idea if you get $100k of them for a liberal arts degree. they are a bit of a scam but when you lost your job it is an easy and smart way to survive.

04-18-2011 , 10:58 AM

#5829

RangeyMcTriplmerge

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 1,467

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mitchdubai1

Reminds me of that story about the guy who died and his dog lay next to his dead body for days, pining.

lol that's hilarious and heart-wrenching at the same time...

Some guy started a thread yesterday asking if they were still allowed to go on play money tables at least. I actually nearly cried when I saw that.

04-18-2011 , 11:00 AM

#5830

WestSideVB

centurion

Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 115

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShipItMehr

Damnit I am in class. Can you guys summarize what he is saying? Thanks.

PPA John Pappas did a great job representing us poker players. The Bloomberg interviewer kept attacking from a money laundering perspective but John did well in his replies without over reaching(for instance he stated he was not a lawyer). John made the points that our money is in limbo right now, the sites would like to get our money back to us, and it is the government standing in the way of that. John also conveyed well that we do not believe online poker to be illegal gambling.

Well done Mr. Pappas

04-18-2011 , 11:04 AM

#5831

Limit Soldier

centurion

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 170

I'm sorry but I find it extremely unnerving and an overall horrible way to handle a significant situation by FTP.

72 ****ing hours and not a single email, I personally have paid several hundred k in rake in my life on this site. How in the world does that not justify them giving me a phone call or a personal email. Even if these shadeball's are planning on stealing my **** I would prefer a phone call or email in the meantime giving me some ****ing piece of mind.

04-18-2011 , 11:05 AM

#5832

NLplayer

adept

Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 992

Quote:

Originally Posted by tiltnonstop

mails from today

party:

winnerpoker (ipoker?)

hey, are you asking another site to upgrade your VIP status or you wont move their?

I'm nearly tier 3 on merge, which has taken 7 months to achieve, if I were to move to somewhere like iPoker, would they upgrade me?

04-18-2011 , 11:06 AM

#5833

WinningTough

journeyman

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 237

pretty rude when he was talking about the bank bailouts, she said it was out of his "purview", overall he did a good job of getting the main points across but that was pretty insulting of her.

04-18-2011 , 11:12 AM

#5834

aszmel

enthusiast

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 72

Just want to say that I'm really sorry for you players from USA, hope it ends somewhat good for you, poker is your national game imo, and those idiots fight with it like it was some kind of desease, while others gambling are freely available where skill is less important in it like betting sports in bookmakers for exampe, this is sh*t! At least hope they let you get your money back!

04-18-2011 , 11:16 AM

#5835

Omapa

journeyman

Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 235

Quote:

Originally Posted by aszmel

Just want to say that I'm really sorry for you players from USA, hope it ends somewhat good for you, poker is your national game imo, and those idiots fight with it like it was some kind of desease, while others gambling are freely available where skill is less important in it like betting sports in bookmakers for exampe, this is sh*t! At least hope they let you get your money back!

As in government sanctioned lottery. Where they rip off the public in the name of doing good.

04-18-2011 , 11:22 AM

#5836

stu+stu

banned

Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 4,486

It's taken me these last few days to really realize just how ****ed up this situation is for all these online US players [and the other players] with frozen funds.

** I just thought about something.. can't you go online (living here in the US) and bet on some site who's gonna win the next Survivor n **** like that? Isn't there SOMETHING that's worse than poker that's legal online?

04-18-2011 , 11:26 AM

#5837

britdevine

grinder

Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 516

Cliffs on any updates this morning?

04-18-2011 , 11:27 AM

#5838

ivvaen

adept

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,068

Quote:

Originally Posted by britdevine

Cliffs on any updates this morning?

no news.

04-18-2011 , 11:31 AM

#5839

tiltnonstop

old hand

Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,385

Quote:

Originally Posted by NLplayer

Nah, those were mails they sent out to their affiliates. They want to sign up (former) Stars/FTP VIP players vulture-style (Euro only obv). Every Euro site does this at the moment. Purple Poker actually offered to BUY the VIP points you have on Stars/FTP (LOL)

http://www.billrini.com/2011/04/18/vultures-circling/

They have hated Stars/FTP for a long, long time and now it´s payback time:

http://www.infiniteedgegaming.com/ra...ts/about-time/

Last edited by tiltnonstop; 04-18-2011 at 11:37 AM.

04-18-2011 , 11:57 AM

#5840

thettruth

grinder

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 438

Quote:

Originally Posted by PLO_Micro_Donkey

It's illegal in Washington State (mentioned in the indictment), and (depending on how you read NY law) illegal in New York as well (mentioned in the indictment)

but.. they stopped takin customers from washington.

how do you read NY law? Doubt its illegal there.

04-18-2011 , 11:58 AM

#5841

LOL_GOLF_BALLS

enthusiast

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 68

Quote:

Originally Posted by WinningTough

pretty rude when he was talking about the bank bailouts, she said it was out of his "purview", overall he did a good job of getting the main points across but that was pretty insulting of her.

LoL, well he started the interview by saying he wasn't a lawyer or anything, pretty much just a guy representing players?

04-18-2011 , 12:02 PM

#5842

One Voice

journeyman

Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 243

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff W

Bank Fraud is unacceptable if you lack proper political connections.

With the right connections they will make you a bank, insure your liabilities and give your creditors billions so they can pay you. Absolutely right Jeff, everyone screaming about the need for Governemnt to regulate this or that just gives them the power to play favorites. FT & PS operated just fine without the need for Government regulation. From what I can see regulation just gives some the right to steal from others.

04-18-2011 , 12:05 PM

#5843

LOL_GOLF_BALLS

enthusiast

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 68

LOL bwin stock is up 30%

04-18-2011 , 12:05 PM

#5844

mavjbw

newbie

Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 31

Anyways.. if your an american and u play poker for a living, its not comin back any time soon.. so...

Last edited by mavjbw; 04-18-2011 at 12:13 PM.

04-18-2011 , 12:07 PM

#5845

thettruth

grinder

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 438

Quote:

Originally Posted by mavjbw

Anyways.. if your an american and u play poker for a living, its not comin back any time soon so you better get out there and get a f job.. I hope you like fast food because it's time to start flippin burgers.

DUUURRRRRRR

04-18-2011 , 12:15 PM

#5846

Gambit90

enthusiast

Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 73

Quote:

Originally Posted by robrob74

Set up through VPN in another country and download the site there.

Why do you feel the need to tell people like the idiot that stated blasting about impossibilities to get around what is going on....the more idiot people that know about doing this, the more likely it is that they either **** themselves by executing it poorly or that the method becomes so overused that VPN loopholes gets locked down somehow, if I were you I'd stop telling anyone that will listen about them, it kind of has lose, lose prospects, i mean look how many people signed up april 11 itt, not to mention that this thread is a central authority to what is going on, god knows who is reading this, please stop posting.

04-18-2011 , 12:15 PM

#5847

viking1

adept

Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 911

I had no problems to cash out from Stars to Neteller. Still waiting for Fulltilt. Im in Europe.

04-18-2011 , 12:22 PM

#5848

Goldrusher

centurion

Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 115

Quote:

Originally Posted by PLO_Micro_Donkey

They get their money, **AND** a tax bill.

Some of those bills, including penalties and interest, are going to be EPIC.

And many people who aren't even lifetime winners are going to owe.

What evidence do you have that any of this is going to happen? Do you think this was part of the DOJ agenda? Is this what happened with neteller? I don't know these answers, but what makes you so certain about this?