durrrr - gosh! whatta guy!

From the durrrr answers thread:


Post #22

durrrr: i think there was just one big mistake in late 2010 (crediting player accounts when people deposited), and then a slew of other mistakes not owning up to the 1st. I really dont believe anyone involved intended to be a criminal, but thats not to justify their ridiculously criminal actions

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Oh dear. Oh, durrrr.

This is a very intelligent young man. He is also, simply because of age, I suppose, but also as a result of living in a poker-themed ivory tower for what actually comprises all of his adult life, naive. It would be laughable, if it weren't so serious a situation.  Unless, of course, he's just a simple guy with his own best interests at heart....

Yes, Tom, they actually are, and always were, criminals. ("I really dont believe anyone involved intended to be a criminal.") FTP was not a legitimate poker site with poor management.  FTP was a scam, from before it hit cyberpsace, it was conceived and implemented not as an online poker room that would make profit from rake, but as a huge con game with you and I as victims. Well, not you, I guess.  I noticed in this TV interview, you said "I busted my account about a week before..."  Soooooo - when this all went down you had essentially nothing in your account?

Let's see: you were reported to be on a USO tour in Kuwait with Lederer, Duke, Seed and Hellmuth, right?  That was....  April .... About the 10th to the 17th?  Only it took a while to get there, and back, so in the week surrounding Black Friday, April 15th, you and Lederer were on the other side of the world.  Huh.  Interesting.  And during that time, moving from camp to camp and flying all over the desert, you played online and lost your whole roll?  

That's some variance:

2010 data from 

http://www.highstakesdb.com/profiles/statistics/2010/durrrr.aspx

2011 data from  

http://www.highstakesdb.com/profiles/statistics/this-year/durrrr.aspx
Doesn't matter, of course.  In a few days they will announce a sale of FTP,  some sort of restitution will be made to players and no one will care what actually happened. No one will care about years and years of micros-mid level players getting screwed out of the millions by FTP bots and "seized" accounts and policies of having to have ten times as much in your account to withdraw than you were allowed to deposit with.

Congress will shove through some sort of online poker bill through at the end of the year and we'll all be playing online again by next tax day, Lederer et al will pay big fines and walk away with the millions they stole all through the years FTP operated and no one listened.

Guess Galfond won't have to sell his slide, after all.