It is in times of trouble that you truly learn the nature of people (or organizations). Since Black Friday I think we’ve seen the character of a lot of organizations. Stars stepped up to the plate and made a very timely refund of player monies (all things considered). Tilt has disappeared into a black hole …
A full month after Black Friday Full Tilt representative FTPDoug (actually, the real FTPDoug left the company a long time ago and they just use the name since he had some credibility on 2+2) announced: NOTICE (UPDATE): The comment I made about FTPDoug was made in error. Someone I used to work with at FTP …
There seems to be some confusion about what player account segregation means and how this all plays out in the recent DOJ action seizing bank accounts and poker sites being unable to pay back players. Please consider the diagram below. It’s a very simple version of how payment processing works (or did work up until …
I want to preface this article by saying that as one of the first people to join the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) when the group was founded back in 2005, I feel they have done a terrific job on a number of fronts for the poker community, perhaps the most important of which was the …
First off, I want to say that as far as I know I’ve only met Joe Sebok once a few years back at the WPBT event at Imperial Palace. He came with Barry Greenstein who was speaking before the tournament and we said “Hi, nice to meet you” or some other rather impersonal exchange. I …