wow. there have been months of rumors about a European investment group that was in negotiations to buy full tilt poker and eventually re-open the online poker site. and out of nowhere, negotiations stopped, and POKERSTARS stepped in, and acquired Full Tilt poker's assets. for $750M. wow wow wow.
couple links:
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2012/04/groupe-bernard-tapie-ends-negotiations-with-doj-pokerstars-12516.htm
http://wickedchopspoker.com/groupe-bernard-tapie-out-of-full-tilt-poker-acquisition-pokerstars-new-buyer/
most important, ALL U.S. player balances will get refunded. unbelievable. people were selling their accounts for less than 50cents on the dollar. unbelievable. the next few weeks should be interesting. here's the deal. i have 2 full tilt poker accounts. one under my name and one i made under a friend's name. i should get the money in my account no problem. but i have most of my money in another account, under a friend's name (who i have spoken to twice in the past 2 years via text). hopefully he doesn't secretly hate me. i'm also not quite sure how they are going to distribute the funds. bank wire or check? not sure what kind of identification they are going to require. wowww. ok i'm done
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maybe xfer the money over if you still can.
ReplyDeleteyou gonna start playing again?
transferring would be ideal, but when pokerstars paid the players, you couldn't transfer.
ReplyDeletei would def play again. i can't wait.