You remember - you of this a few months ago, Bernard Tapie had made public debt to Full Tilt Poker, some pros? Among these debts, Barry Greenstein, the Robin Hood of poker, owed $ 400,000 to FTP. In an interview, when questioned on this debt, he had promised to repay the borrowed $ 400,000 when the situation would be clear with FTP. There is little time, Barry posted a message on Twoplustwo to reiterate the promise he had made, namely that it would now repay FTP because the situation is clearer than before.
Recall that counsel for the Group Bernard Tapie, Behnam Dayanim, Barry Greenstein as well as several pros have debts to FTP with more than 18 million U.S. dollars.
Questioned on her loan, Barry had mentioned that ready money without interest, it could be very handy on occasion. He also mentions that person has pressed it to make repayment, which explains that the loan was a long time.
Barry had then advised his sponsor PokerStars to the thing, which, obviously, was not very happy of this new.
When Barry had been contacted by the GBT, he made it clear that he did not want to repay the debt at this time because the situation with FTP was unstable, but anyway, he gave his word that he would do if the situation were to stabilize. In an interview, he said: "after all, it wasn't to Bernard Tapie that I had borrowed this money".
Is in this thread that Barry confirms that it will now repay its debt, now that he knows who pay.
Now that we know that Barry will repay its debt, what other debts? Is that all players who had debts to FTP will be as responsible and honest as Barry?
It should be noted that according to the GBT, Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow (Mike denies this assertion) and Erick Lindgren have all debts to the former number 2 world of online poker.
In his message, Barry questioned: "is that I will be contacted only to repay my debt"? At that time, he had found pretty weird to be one of the only contacted to recover its debt while he knew very well that other Full Tilt Poker pros had also borrowed money from FTP.
The full text of the July 31 agreement between the DOJ and Pokerstars confirms the existence of a list of "debts of professional poker players for repayment of earlier loans", in the form of an Excel file entitled "Loans (revised) pros -" July 19 with comments from Ray.
This document was presented by Ray Bitar to Pokerstars.
According to the latest information, the repayment of these debts is not necessary for reimbursement of the players. Is that measures will be put in place to recover this money? For $ 18 million, we can bet that officials of this record shall take necessary measures once FTP players will have been repaid.
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