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GOOD NEWS?????
Just received an e-mail from FT Poker announcing the new site will be up and running on 06.11 and all old accounts will be fully accesible using existing log in details.Following re-launch, you will have complete access to your account - including your full balance - and you can once again play on the innovative online poker platform that made Full Tilt Poker home to serious online poker players.
I dont have a balance but this should be good news to a lot of players on here. YOU CAN WITHDRAW YOUR FUNDS FROM THERE AND USE THOSE FUNDS TO PLAY ON A SECURE SITE.
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The weird thing about that e-mail is there was not even a hint of an apology to players who have been denied their rightful access to their money for over 18 months.
I'd love to see what players would say on THEIR Forum, but they don't have one. There's a thing.
They must have THE world's greatest PR agency, it beggars belief that they got away with that & players seem to accept it.
If I had worked for them, I would have died of shame. Fortunately, they resisted my mad skillz.
it will be safe from now on, same servers/accounts as Stars.
It's still trading using their company name so an apology would have been nice.
everyone knows that the people that originally ran it are to blame and should be the ones apologising. if anything Stars should be getting thanked for giving them their money back, they would never have gotten it otherwise
Stars have done an announcement basically saying 'the goons that ran it are no more, we're bringing you back the site you loved but now it's safe, and so are your funds' i don't see why they'd apoogise because SOMEONE ELSE ripped them off
However I really don't know why PS are launching the FT Brand. Buy company, strip mine the software, client list, servers etc yes perfectly understand. Pay back the FT players? Again, great brand loyalty builder, personally I'd have PS branding all over that email telling you you've got your money back. But run FT as FT? I can only assume they are getting some real added value from doing this from someone. Maybe added value from the DOJ? It has to be a possibility.
for stars it a win win, the loyal fulltilt player will stay for the best software. and if they don't then they set up a link between stars and full tilt so u can tranfere money over to stars.
plus the bonus of having a major chung of the online market share of poker.
lets face it ft was poker main competitor sorry sky but it WAS between the two of them with poker star now owning ft they don't have that pressure any more.
but i guess they hope money put in to the poker world will help fuel another poker boom.
as most people including myself had moeny on there.
but yeh i hope the refund all my 100's of step 1's 2's and 3's tickets.
and also your point is a bit weird. if they just didn't reinstate full tilt and instead decided to incorporate it into Stars, there would be no competition from FT anyway, so them using the brand to dominate the market doesn't make sense
imo they'd be better off transferring the usernames to Stars and allowing them to access their money there, obv allowing for duplicates and whatever. then some are likely to stay while some may just withdraw
Sigh