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15:11
12 Jun
One apology and the surprise appearance of Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson later, and it was the turn of Howard ‘The Professor’ Lederer to step into the Rio in Las Vegas, yesterday, for the World Series of Poker.
The former Full Tilt poker founder and director took his seat in the $10,000 NL 2-7 single draw championship event – his first WSOP appearance since 2010 – and refused to answer questions about his involvement in the 2011 Full Tilt scandal which saw some $400million of player funds disappear into a black hole.
Kevin Mathers, the WSOP ‘Twitter Czar’, tweeted “Howard Lederer just registered for the $10,000 NL 2-7” and thereby opened a whole new can of worms for the followers and fans of the game, who are still reeling at Ferguson’s ’I’m just here to play poker’ re-appearance last weekend.
Jesse May says there are still too many unanswered questions about Full Tilt Poker. “Obviously he is entitled to attend but I wouldn’t welcome him. Personally, people like him, and especially Howard Lederer, have disgraced themselves and I’m not personally satisfied with the answers they’ve given about what happened at Full Tilt. Former Full Tilt pros and owners, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson and Howard “The Professor” Lederer certainly think so. According to 2+2 poster and FT scandal insider “DiamondFlush,” both Ferguson and Lederer believe that the poker community has forgiven them and that the Black Friday scandal has been forgotten. Howard Lederer, one of the controversial figures in the Full Tilt Poker scandal, ended his self-imposed banishment Saturday night and registered for the World Series of Poker’s $10,000 buy-in 2. Chief among the disapprovers of Ferguson’s prolonged silence regarding any acknowledgment of his role in the Full Tilt Poker scandal has been Daniel Negreanu. PokerNews caught up with ’DNegs’.
Lederer echoed his former colleague’s reluctance to speak publicly about his role in the disastrous post-Black Friday scandal which engulfed Full Tilt, replying only ’No, thanks, I’ve made my statement,’ when asked to comment.
Tropicana casino las vegas. His statement of 3 weeks ago, released to the public by Daniel Negreanu on his website, began: “I am writing to apologize to everyone in the poker community, especially to all the players who had money on Full Tilt Poker on April 15, 2011.” Buy used slot machines.“When Full Tilt Poker closed in 2011, there was a shortfall in funds, a distressed sale to recover those funds, and a long delay in repaying players. Throughout this period, there was little explanation for the delay, and no apology. Players felt lied to. They trusted the site, and they trusted me, and I didn’t live up to that trust.” Full Tilt Poker Play Money
In a move thousands of players had been waiting 5 long years for, Lederer stated: “ I take full responsibility for Full Tilt’s failure to protect player deposits leading up to Black Friday.”
His statement was seen by many as a pre-cursor to his WSOP return this year, but first it was Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson who surprised the poker world by turning up at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino last week – sparking anger with his refusal to comment on his own part in the debacle.
Daniel Negreanu was the first of the big-names to tweet about his appearance: “Chris Ferguson returns to WSOP issuing no apologies, no remorse, as if nothing happened. Feels like a giant slap in the face to players,” he posted on the day that Ferguson cashed for the first time since 2010.
Negreanu followed up his first tweet by calling out the 2000 Main Event champion, who barely spoke to reporters in the Aria Casino. ’I’m just here to play poker’ -Ferguson’s only comment - dismisses the damage he caused the poker community while hiding under the covers,” stated Negreanu – and few of his followers online disagreed.
Full Tilt Poker Scandal Update
Ferguson has since gone deep in 2 further events, and although a player backlash has been called for by many online posters, Ferguson has faced very little in the way of personal abuse so far.
Six-time WSOP bracelet winner Layne ‘Back-to-Back’ Flack, stated of Ferguson’s return: ’People realize they don’t know the whole story and don’t know what to say or what to think,’ he said.
Expressing a viewpoint which the vast majority of poker players are likely to disagree with, 6-times WSOP bracelet winner Flack added, ’ Chris Ferguson has done a lot of great things for poker. He’s a standup guy, and all the decisions made by Full Tilt Poker don’t fall on him.”I firmly believe he didn’t take one dime from anybody. It’s just not in his nature. It’s more in his nature to give everything to everybody, than take anything from anybody, and that’s a fact.’
Mike Sexton followed up both Negreanu’s and Flack’s public statements by saying: “I think Chris should tell the story to be honest.”I think if he told that side of the story, how much he fought for players and how much he tried to get players’ money back and how much he tried to keep the company going even after it was going belly-up, I think they would have a different viewpoint,” he told PokerListings 2 days ago.
A friend of Ferguson for many years, Sexton apparently echoed the thoughts of many old-school players, including Phil Hellmuth according to ‘at-the-table’ chat this week.
’I see both sides of the coin,” continued Sexton. “A lot of old players are fond of Chris and like him as a person but for what he did, it’s difficult for a lot of guys to swallow. Should they let him come back and play? It’s okay with me, but I can see where people would object to it.’
Whether Howard Lederer’s re-appearance will tip the scales and witness a player backlash or not is unclear, but initial reports seem to suggest that the majority of the thousands playing this year’s WSOP are either unwilling to confront the pair publicly, or unaware of the background to the entire sorry saga.
Although many players were re-imbursed years later after PokerStars repaid much of the debt, a condition of their buy-over of the Full Tilt brand, some 5% of players will still receive nothing – and many had their poker careers and dreams shattered or put on hold because of the unholy mess caused by the ‘mis-management’ by Lederer, Ferguson and others, notably Rafe Furst and CEO Ray Bitar.
Nit roll or slow roll? That’s a great debate worth having when it comes to this week’s classic Poker After Dark hand. Let’s examine one of the oddest poker hands in the canon between Andy Bloch and Howard ‘The Professor’ Lederer.A CLASH OF PERSONALITIES
In some Poker After Dark hands, it’s easy to focus on the hand in question because we love both players. With so many heroes at each table of six, it was often a case of viewers preferring one player they liked slightly more than another and not being too disappointed whoever won it, just as long as it was fun to watch. This is no such hand.
In recent years, Howard Lederer has become synonymous with the Full Tilt Poker scandal and subsequent Black Friday closedown of 2011. With the weight of responsibility hanging loosely around his neck (along with Ray Bitar and Chris Ferguson), Lederer has hardly been seen since the events of eight years ago.A RECENT HISTORY OF NITROLLS
When it comes to nitrolls, some of the best (or worst you might say) have happened in very recent history. In 2015, German player Andreas Gann risked the ire of the world by nit-rolling Donacha O’Dea with the nits when he tanked over calling all-in with the nut flush on the flop. O’Dea miracle a full house on the river for what many fans called justice.
A year later, there was an even more appropriate nitroll to this hand, when, at the 2016 Aussie Millions, Mikkel Habb took an eternity to call Sam Abernathy’s all-in. Habb held pocket kings and was in great shape against Abernathy’s sad-looking sixes. But, just like in the O’Dea hand, a six came on the river to reward the player who hadn’t nitrolled.WHATEVER HAPPENED TO YOU?
While much has been made of Chris Ferguson, who was the 2017 WSOP Player of the Year thanks in no small part to the structure of the qualification thresholds that year, less was known about Lederer and Bitar in the years after the FTP scandal. Bitar famously pleaded that he had a heart ailment, allowing him to escape lightly from the ensuing court case in the aftermath of the scandal.Free Tilt Poker
Lederer had disappeared for a long time, having given a bizarre non-apology at the time and having been hounded out of the argument by high profile players such as Daniel Negreanu. But he resurfaced a couple of years ago, playing a WSOP $10,000 buy-in 2-7 Draw Lowball event in 2016. He failed to cash, meaning the last time he did make money from a tournament entry was in 2011, just a year after this hand took place. He may have walked back into Bobby’s Room, but he did so to anger from the poker players he met.Full Tilt Poker Scandal Howard SternBLOCHER BET
Andy Bloch led a more philanthropic life after he took ‘a very long time’ debating over whether to call The Professor’s big slick with his pocket kings. He’d always donated his FTP online winnings to charity but continued that theme in live tournaments too. He still plays poker, but the former MIT student who brought down the house by counting cards also released a blackjack DVD that promised to teach anyone how to beat the system.
While it wasn’t all about charity donations when it came to poker for either of these two very different men, both would look back on Poker After Dark as a watershed moment in their career. For Bloch, the peak of his fame. For Lederer, the last time he sat down at a poker table pretty much universally liked.
You can’t help but like what we have to offer on PokerGO, from exclusive documentaries to the latest Poker After Dark streaming. You can even go back in time and check out some amazing archive footage for the World Series of Poker. Subscribe now and get immediate access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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15:11
12 Jun
One apology and the surprise appearance of Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson later, and it was the turn of Howard ‘The Professor’ Lederer to step into the Rio in Las Vegas, yesterday, for the World Series of Poker.
The former Full Tilt poker founder and director took his seat in the $10,000 NL 2-7 single draw championship event – his first WSOP appearance since 2010 – and refused to answer questions about his involvement in the 2011 Full Tilt scandal which saw some $400million of player funds disappear into a black hole.
Kevin Mathers, the WSOP ‘Twitter Czar’, tweeted “Howard Lederer just registered for the $10,000 NL 2-7” and thereby opened a whole new can of worms for the followers and fans of the game, who are still reeling at Ferguson’s ’I’m just here to play poker’ re-appearance last weekend.
Jesse May says there are still too many unanswered questions about Full Tilt Poker. “Obviously he is entitled to attend but I wouldn’t welcome him. Personally, people like him, and especially Howard Lederer, have disgraced themselves and I’m not personally satisfied with the answers they’ve given about what happened at Full Tilt. Former Full Tilt pros and owners, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson and Howard “The Professor” Lederer certainly think so. According to 2+2 poster and FT scandal insider “DiamondFlush,” both Ferguson and Lederer believe that the poker community has forgiven them and that the Black Friday scandal has been forgotten. Howard Lederer, one of the controversial figures in the Full Tilt Poker scandal, ended his self-imposed banishment Saturday night and registered for the World Series of Poker’s $10,000 buy-in 2. Chief among the disapprovers of Ferguson’s prolonged silence regarding any acknowledgment of his role in the Full Tilt Poker scandal has been Daniel Negreanu. PokerNews caught up with ’DNegs’.
Lederer echoed his former colleague’s reluctance to speak publicly about his role in the disastrous post-Black Friday scandal which engulfed Full Tilt, replying only ’No, thanks, I’ve made my statement,’ when asked to comment.
Tropicana casino las vegas. His statement of 3 weeks ago, released to the public by Daniel Negreanu on his website, began: “I am writing to apologize to everyone in the poker community, especially to all the players who had money on Full Tilt Poker on April 15, 2011.” Buy used slot machines.“When Full Tilt Poker closed in 2011, there was a shortfall in funds, a distressed sale to recover those funds, and a long delay in repaying players. Throughout this period, there was little explanation for the delay, and no apology. Players felt lied to. They trusted the site, and they trusted me, and I didn’t live up to that trust.” Full Tilt Poker Play Money
In a move thousands of players had been waiting 5 long years for, Lederer stated: “ I take full responsibility for Full Tilt’s failure to protect player deposits leading up to Black Friday.”
His statement was seen by many as a pre-cursor to his WSOP return this year, but first it was Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson who surprised the poker world by turning up at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino last week – sparking anger with his refusal to comment on his own part in the debacle.
Daniel Negreanu was the first of the big-names to tweet about his appearance: “Chris Ferguson returns to WSOP issuing no apologies, no remorse, as if nothing happened. Feels like a giant slap in the face to players,” he posted on the day that Ferguson cashed for the first time since 2010.
Negreanu followed up his first tweet by calling out the 2000 Main Event champion, who barely spoke to reporters in the Aria Casino. ’I’m just here to play poker’ -Ferguson’s only comment - dismisses the damage he caused the poker community while hiding under the covers,” stated Negreanu – and few of his followers online disagreed.
Full Tilt Poker Scandal Update
Ferguson has since gone deep in 2 further events, and although a player backlash has been called for by many online posters, Ferguson has faced very little in the way of personal abuse so far.
Six-time WSOP bracelet winner Layne ‘Back-to-Back’ Flack, stated of Ferguson’s return: ’People realize they don’t know the whole story and don’t know what to say or what to think,’ he said.
Expressing a viewpoint which the vast majority of poker players are likely to disagree with, 6-times WSOP bracelet winner Flack added, ’ Chris Ferguson has done a lot of great things for poker. He’s a standup guy, and all the decisions made by Full Tilt Poker don’t fall on him.”I firmly believe he didn’t take one dime from anybody. It’s just not in his nature. It’s more in his nature to give everything to everybody, than take anything from anybody, and that’s a fact.’
Mike Sexton followed up both Negreanu’s and Flack’s public statements by saying: “I think Chris should tell the story to be honest.”I think if he told that side of the story, how much he fought for players and how much he tried to get players’ money back and how much he tried to keep the company going even after it was going belly-up, I think they would have a different viewpoint,” he told PokerListings 2 days ago.
A friend of Ferguson for many years, Sexton apparently echoed the thoughts of many old-school players, including Phil Hellmuth according to ‘at-the-table’ chat this week.
’I see both sides of the coin,” continued Sexton. “A lot of old players are fond of Chris and like him as a person but for what he did, it’s difficult for a lot of guys to swallow. Should they let him come back and play? It’s okay with me, but I can see where people would object to it.’
Whether Howard Lederer’s re-appearance will tip the scales and witness a player backlash or not is unclear, but initial reports seem to suggest that the majority of the thousands playing this year’s WSOP are either unwilling to confront the pair publicly, or unaware of the background to the entire sorry saga.
Although many players were re-imbursed years later after PokerStars repaid much of the debt, a condition of their buy-over of the Full Tilt brand, some 5% of players will still receive nothing – and many had their poker careers and dreams shattered or put on hold because of the unholy mess caused by the ‘mis-management’ by Lederer, Ferguson and others, notably Rafe Furst and CEO Ray Bitar.
Nit roll or slow roll? That’s a great debate worth having when it comes to this week’s classic Poker After Dark hand. Let’s examine one of the oddest poker hands in the canon between Andy Bloch and Howard ‘The Professor’ Lederer.A CLASH OF PERSONALITIES
In some Poker After Dark hands, it’s easy to focus on the hand in question because we love both players. With so many heroes at each table of six, it was often a case of viewers preferring one player they liked slightly more than another and not being too disappointed whoever won it, just as long as it was fun to watch. This is no such hand.
In recent years, Howard Lederer has become synonymous with the Full Tilt Poker scandal and subsequent Black Friday closedown of 2011. With the weight of responsibility hanging loosely around his neck (along with Ray Bitar and Chris Ferguson), Lederer has hardly been seen since the events of eight years ago.A RECENT HISTORY OF NITROLLS
When it comes to nitrolls, some of the best (or worst you might say) have happened in very recent history. In 2015, German player Andreas Gann risked the ire of the world by nit-rolling Donacha O’Dea with the nits when he tanked over calling all-in with the nut flush on the flop. O’Dea miracle a full house on the river for what many fans called justice.
A year later, there was an even more appropriate nitroll to this hand, when, at the 2016 Aussie Millions, Mikkel Habb took an eternity to call Sam Abernathy’s all-in. Habb held pocket kings and was in great shape against Abernathy’s sad-looking sixes. But, just like in the O’Dea hand, a six came on the river to reward the player who hadn’t nitrolled.WHATEVER HAPPENED TO YOU?
While much has been made of Chris Ferguson, who was the 2017 WSOP Player of the Year thanks in no small part to the structure of the qualification thresholds that year, less was known about Lederer and Bitar in the years after the FTP scandal. Bitar famously pleaded that he had a heart ailment, allowing him to escape lightly from the ensuing court case in the aftermath of the scandal.Free Tilt Poker
Lederer had disappeared for a long time, having given a bizarre non-apology at the time and having been hounded out of the argument by high profile players such as Daniel Negreanu. But he resurfaced a couple of years ago, playing a WSOP $10,000 buy-in 2-7 Draw Lowball event in 2016. He failed to cash, meaning the last time he did make money from a tournament entry was in 2011, just a year after this hand took place. He may have walked back into Bobby’s Room, but he did so to anger from the poker players he met.Full Tilt Poker Scandal Howard SternBLOCHER BET
Andy Bloch led a more philanthropic life after he took ‘a very long time’ debating over whether to call The Professor’s big slick with his pocket kings. He’d always donated his FTP online winnings to charity but continued that theme in live tournaments too. He still plays poker, but the former MIT student who brought down the house by counting cards also released a blackjack DVD that promised to teach anyone how to beat the system.
While it wasn’t all about charity donations when it came to poker for either of these two very different men, both would look back on Poker After Dark as a watershed moment in their career. For Bloch, the peak of his fame. For Lederer, the last time he sat down at a poker table pretty much universally liked.
You can’t help but like what we have to offer on PokerGO, from exclusive documentaries to the latest Poker After Dark streaming. You can even go back in time and check out some amazing archive footage for the World Series of Poker. Subscribe now and get immediate access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Register here: http://gg.gg/w6oo8
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