Thursday, July 14, 2011

Poker gems, #431

Steve Zolotow, a Full Tilt Poker red pro who is either a lot more clueless or a lot more willing to lie than I had previously had reason to believe, in Card Player magazine column, July 13, 2011 (vol. 24, #14), p. 56. Emphasis in original.



If you haven't been paid by a poker site, blame the U.S. government, not the site.

I keep hearing that sites didn't or don't have adequate reserves, but no amount of reserves is adequate when big chunks of reserves are stolen and seized.... Those sites that have managed to repay some or all of their customers deserve praise, and those that are struggling to do so deserve patience and understanding.

2 comments:

ManInBlack said...

I agree with him here. If the US government really cared about the players, they would pay them itself from the confiscated funds

Grange95 said...

@ManInBlack: It's not the DoJ's job to do the accounting that Full Tilt and Cereus should have been doing the past 5+ years. The problem isn't that the DoJ is sitting on a pile of player funds. The problem is that Tilt and Cereus treated player money as their own operational funds.