PokerStars achète Full Tilt : Un nouveau bluff ?

• 24 avril 2012
• shaggykiwi
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Aux dernières nouvelles, des rumeurs tourneraient sur 2+2 autour du rachat de Full Tilt Poker par Pokerstars et non du groupe Bernard Tapie comme anticipé.

Rumeur 2+2 non modérée

Un nouveau membre de 2+2 au nom de PS<3FTP aurait posté son premier sujet, premier post sur le forum en annonçant que Pokerstars rachèterait FTP.

En revanche, contrairement à toutes les fausses rumeurs généralement modérées, celle-ci a été laissée puisqu’un des modérateurs NoahSD a édité à la fin du message

Mod note, NoahSD: "I don't know if this is actually true, but a number of inside sources contacted me to tell me to undelete this thread. So, this thread is staying open for now."

Un sujet qui fait donc polémique puisque le groupe Bernard Tapie était censé racheter Pokerstars.

D’après PS<3FTP

Pokerstars aurait trouvé un accord avec le département de justice des Etats-Unis afin de racheter FTP. D’après lui, tous les joueurs seraient remboursés et les deux sites seraient de retour en ligne.

Des nouvelles news devraient arriver aujourd’hui selon lui. Difficile de croire à un tel rebondissement et en même temps si c'était vrai... ?

Alexandre Dreyfus confirmerai sur son twitter avec quelques précisions le rachat de Full Tilt Poker par Pokerstars:

Confirmation avec le communiqué officiel du Groupe Bernard Tapie

Groupe Bernard Tapie regrets to announce that, after seven months of intensive work, our efforts to obtain final approval of the United States Department of Justice of the agreement to acquire the assets of Full Tilt Poker have ended without success.

Ultimately, the deal failed due to two major issues.

The parties could not agree on a plan for repayment of ROW players.

GBT proposed a plan that would have resulted in immediate reinstatement of all ROW player balances, with a right to withdraw those funds over time, based on the size of the player balance and the extent of the player’s playing activity on the re-launched site. All players would have been permitted complete withdrawal of their balances, regardless of whether they played on the site, by a date certain, and 94.9% of ROW players would have been fully repaid on day 1. DOJ ultimately insisted on full repayment with right of withdrawal within 90 days for all players– a surprise demand made in the 11th hour, after months of good-faith negotiations by GBT.

The legal complications surrounding the deal – specifically, questions surrounding the legality of the forfeiture under non-US laws – also proved unresolvable.

All of the key assets of the FTP companies reside outside of the United States. A non-US court well might regard the purported forfeiture as a “fraudulent transaction” and declare it invalid or deem the acquirer of the assets responsible for all of those creditor obligations.

Given the $80 million purchase price, and the substantial amount of cash needed to relaunch FTP, those issues ultimately proved too substantial to overcome.

GBT is very conscious of the hopes it has created – among FTP employees that they will retain their jobs, among FTP players that they will recover their balances, and among the entire poker community that the world’s finest poker platform will be relaunched and bring a needed added element of competition to a world market that today is fully dominated by a single operator.

GBT cannot accept the end of those hopes.

For that reason, unless a concrete and legally viable solution is found in the very coming days to save the employees and repay the players of FTP, we will move to our own plan of action.

We understand from press reports that the DOJ may have entered into an agreement with PokerStars pursuant to which PokerStars will acquire the FTP assets.
If accurate, we can only assume that PokerStars determined that it was willing to accept these legal and financial risks in order to resolve its own legal situation with DOJ.

If a PokerStars acquisition of FTP means that all FTP players will be fully repaid immediately, we are very happy for the players, as their final and full repayment has always been our priority.

We only regret that such a deal would signal further consolidation of a poker market already dominated by a single player – an outcome that may raise antitrust concerns and that, in the long run, is probably not good for players and for the whole online poker industry.”