Door HansytheKing, geplaatst op dinsdag 04 oktober 2011, 11:00. Views: 6.

De echt grote mannen in de pokerwereld hebben nog niet echt hun mening gegeven rond de gebeurtenissen rond Full Tilt Poker, Chris Fergusson en Howerd Lederer. Maar daar is verandering in gekomen. De website PokerListings.com heeft tijdens de EPT van Londen Doyle Brunson en Barry Greenstein naar hun mening gevraagd over Full Tilt Poker.

Doyle Brunson over Lederer:

"I'm extremely surprised because I've known Howard for years and years and I've always held him in very high regard. I always believed he was a very ethical person and I have to believe that he didn't really know what was going on."

Barry Greenstein over de situatie waarin Fergusson en Lederer zich bevinden:

"Let's pick a name, Ray Bitar is usually the name people pick, didn't want to alert anyone to the problems so to keep it on the down-low [dividend payments to owners] had to continue. There's no doubt in my mind that their thought wasn't 'We're going to steal from customers' but when Black Friday hit it came at the absolute worst time for them."

Barry Greenstein over de overige Team Full Tilt pro's:

"Most of these guys on Team Full Tilt are friends of mine and most of them definitely didn't know what was going on. The big issue is when people found out what the problem was."

"I don't think anyone believes that the initial intent was to defraud the customers, it just worked out that way in their method of fixing the problem."

Doyle Brunson over de management kwestie:

"I know they didn't have any checks and balances in place which is understandable to me as a gambler because every business I've ever been in I never made the right decisions.

"Poker players don't make good businessmen."

Barry Greenstein over hoe nu verder?

"I don't think the government should be blamed for Full Tilt's mistakes but it set up a climate in which poker wasn't regulated and the potential for bad things happening was there. Economically there's money in online poker and we shouldn't be shipping that money out to other countries that house online poker rooms that cater predominantly to American customers. The money needs to stay in America and we need to be employing Americans."

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