According to an article in The Los Angeles Times, Full Tilt is about to be bought by a group of European investors, which means that U.S. players would be paid the roughly $150,000,000 million owed to them. In the article, which was published yesterday, reporter Nathaniel Popper says:
"Attorneys associated with Full Tilt said the company signed an agreement Thursday with a group of inve[...] Read more » Full Tilt Poker to be sold
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Hmm, sounds like very nice and good news, somewhat to good to be true. But lets wait and see, maybe this will be the solution to their problems and all players will get back their money.
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This was the easy option, lucky for them some people still see value in FT and Im sure they have just made a great deal, from what I understand this is a done deal. The only thing that is left to worry about is the 3 billion that the government want, but if they want it then they wont be slamming doors in the face of FT.
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Just swapped my HD but will try and find what I was reading..the short and curly is they signed but it is pending the outcome of the lawsuit. A link I can post ; http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-online-poker-2011... The other links are from poker sites, but all pretty much say the same thing.
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This is actually the only good news about full tilt poker issued lately, if there will be a new leadership it's the only way to get out of this situation and of course pay their players balance
They can nolonger continue with their current invstors and ceos, something must be chaged, and i tell you what, if the new investors will keep the games, i mean like rush and multi entry tournaments and will invest some money in some promo and special offers i will consider playing again on full tilt
Plus they also must make a deal with moneybookers to be able to deposit/withdraw via moneybookers. And yeah, maybe they make some changes in the software to get less bad beats
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Does anyone really believe that with all this money they would buy FT ? It would be much easier to promote a smaller and cheaper poker house, with big freerolls and promotions with 5% of that value.
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Right... so just the other day they where in deep **** and today some goody gooders from europe will buy whats left of their reputation ( 0%) and pay all the debt to american players out of... good will and this was written in an american newspaper....riiiiiiiiiiiigth
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finally some hope for players to get their money back, might turn out to be a risky investment if their license status is not sorted out but lets see how it turns out for them.
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it will pay them to pay the debt. it will take a few yrs to get as many players on a site like fulltilt. over 70,000players on average. think about it. pay the debt keep site open. alll i can say is that all outomated services like a bandit or online gambling is fixed . always as bin always will be. you only get a real game in a casino or with your mates.
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Well I guess there still has to be a lot of money somewhere within this company. So its not just buying the software and the name without any value. The big problem will be to convince players to play there again and not to withdraw their money.
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Like someone say before... too good to be true... Who will be so stupid to invest so much on that thing, it's the best software but the worst reputation, nobody will stay there... I don't think somebody wants to lose that much amount of money...
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Some of you are right indeed, i mean they need to pay all the money they own to the american poker players, plus some fees that us will force tem to pay after the black friday, and i presume the money of all non us players are still there, at least this is what i think
If you sum that up i think we are talking about some ridicoulous amounts of money, well over 200 millions dollars, and for this kind of money you can basically create a very performant poker platform and invest some millions of in online and tv pub you are making a super poker platform from scratch
We'll see what will be the conclusion of this tensioned situation, my only hope is that i will get back my couple of hundreds of dollars i had in my full tilt poker account, but i would defiantely miss rush poker and multi entry tournamesnt
Well i use to play on full tilt poker and use to enjoy it quite alot, i was even gonna promote it using fliers but im glad i didnt and im very happy that they have been caught out and hope that whoever buys it will make better use of it.
and this was written in an american newspaper....riiiiiiiiiiiigth 
