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Nutcracker69
Visionary
Silver Level
Greetings! Today please enjoy your monthly reminder that these two independent sites (owned jointly) had certified RNGs, celebrity spokespeople and 99% of the poker public defending them until the day they became undefensible.
This stuff isn't "conspiracy" it's proven FACT.
Sorry for using wikipedia as the link but I felt like being lazy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereus_Poker_Network
And then the highlights here when playing knowing hole cards seems like too much work compared to outright theft:
"On September 20, 2011, the U.S. Justice Department accused certain Full Tilt principals of defrauding poker players out of more than $300 million. The U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York filed a motion to amend an earlier civil complaint to allege that company directors Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Rafe Furst, and Ray Bitar operated what the Justice Department claims was a Ponzi scheme that allowed the company to pay out $444 million to themselves and other owners, which included other famous poker players.[28][29] A lawyer for Ferguson has denied the allegations, suggesting that the issues may have been the result of mismanagement rather than malice.[30][31] Bitar surrendered to authorities on July 2, 2012, to deal with the civil and criminal case that is pending against him in New York .[32] On April 15, 2013, Bitar reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilt to criminal charges, and was sentenced to time served and ordered to surrender his assets, rumored to include various homes and $40 million in cash.[33]"
This stuff isn't "conspiracy" it's proven FACT.
Sorry for using wikipedia as the link but I felt like being lazy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereus_Poker_Network
And then the highlights here when playing knowing hole cards seems like too much work compared to outright theft:
"On September 20, 2011, the U.S. Justice Department accused certain Full Tilt principals of defrauding poker players out of more than $300 million. The U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York filed a motion to amend an earlier civil complaint to allege that company directors Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Rafe Furst, and Ray Bitar operated what the Justice Department claims was a Ponzi scheme that allowed the company to pay out $444 million to themselves and other owners, which included other famous poker players.[28][29] A lawyer for Ferguson has denied the allegations, suggesting that the issues may have been the result of mismanagement rather than malice.[30][31] Bitar surrendered to authorities on July 2, 2012, to deal with the civil and criminal case that is pending against him in New York .[32] On April 15, 2013, Bitar reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilt to criminal charges, and was sentenced to time served and ordered to surrender his assets, rumored to include various homes and $40 million in cash.[33]"