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Unfortunately people never learn. Lock is currently brazenly operating under the same business paradigm that FullTilt did. They don't segregate their funds. They spent a lot when they acquired the Cake Network, they are spending a lot of money developing new software and they have given some players unbelievable rakeback deals in order to entice them from other poker sites. In some cases the players are paying no rake. I think that there is little question that they are using player funds for operational costs. Yet players flock to Lock for the good deals. It isn't going to take much of a wind

I'm not sure what effect Carbon being on the Sportsbook cashier will have on Carbon's ability to have p2p transfers in the future. But I don't think that that was the reason the p2p transfers ceased. BCP was circumventing the Merge cashier by using the manual transfers to send money directly to some of their players. If Merge had simply stopped the ability to use manual transfers BCP could have used the p2p transfers to do the same thing. They used these quick cashouts to help poach players from other skins. I don't think that it was any coincidence that it was BCP that made the announcements

You can deposit with Western Union on Carbon. You can either go to the grocery store and get a WU or you can do it online. You just open the poker client to make a cash deposit. You'll get a name and address to make out the WU. You buy the WU. Then you go back to the client and enter the WU transaction code you receive. After I entered the transaction code, it took about 10 minutes for the money to appear in my account. +1 Anonymous tables and bots.

Yep, it's so BCP can hang on to their limit players when they move there. I think that BCP's departure might mean that Merge may reinstate their p2p transfers.

I'm just not sure where you see that difference. Lindgren stole $2 million of players' money from FullTilt about 2 weeks before Blackfriday. That he ever had any intent of returning it at all is probably an overly generous assumption. My assertion that he wanted to increase that amount to pay people back was me giving him the benefit of the doubt. Two months after Blackfriday Lindgren certainly knew that it was players' funds that he had stolen. And it was two months after Blackfriday when Lindgren got married inviting many of the top name pokers players who presumably wined and dined on s

Isn't taking the money with the intention of increasing it and paying it back exactly what they did at FullTilt? The DOJ referred to it as akin to a ponzi scheme. To make such a vast difference in your reaction on the basis of how each spent their money is a little nit picky. Yeah, Lederer bought houses and cars. Well, Lindgren spent his money on an expensive wedding immediately after Blackfriday and immediately after he took the $2 million in players' money from FullTilt. He didn't exactly elope. It's really just a difference in the ways they like to spend their money. Also Lindgren h

I'm not fond of Lederer, so I'm not trying to defend him here. Some of the things that Elie is saying about Lederer though just doesn't ring true for me. I have to wonder if maybe he is using Lederer as a way of drawing interest to his own story. Elie twittered, "But seriously Howard, you never met with a processor?". That quote got a lot of play in the poker world. The New Years Eve meeting was actually a party with 600 people attending. Elie says that he spoke to Howard at the dinner table for several hours. He also said that Howard rambled on about himself for hours. Which is it? Wa

It takes time but ultimately everyone does get their checks and they do cash.

CarbonRyan just stated that the p2p transfer thing is just temporary. A guy named Kahn has also stated that he has also independantly been told that the situation is only temporary. Kahn owns an affiliate and is pretty reliable. The reps have told me in the past that Kahn knows what he is talking about when it comes to inside info.

This is kind of disconcerting. Here is a link discribing what seems to be known at the moment: http://www.4flush.co...transfers/10570 Another possibility is that the DOJ is giving them trouble because they consider these transfers to be money laundering. Carbon changing to Carbon Sports will probably make cashouts easier and quicker for that skin but associating themselves overtly with sportsbook is risky. I guess all we can do is see how this plays out. If I try to think of all the possibilities, my head is going to explode.

Yep, but pure entertainment.

Vegas Knights, I must say that I do empathize with you on one point. Apparently one of the mods over at 2+2 seems to really have it out for you because you complained to Mason Malmuth about bullying. That mod noted that you didn't want your real name used so threatened to say your name if you ever posted there again. Then for some reason in a later post started repeating your name, apparently just for the sport of it. I empathize because I've had to contact Mason in the past to stop moderator abuse also, although in my case it was with positive results.

Puck, there's a difference between an opinion and a flame.

I'd say don't play with him since it might make other players who consider themselves friends to both of you uncomfortable. If you do decide to play though, bring a baseball bat and quietly set it on the floor. That should be enough to keep him from trying to bluff you.

Or it's because of the multiple personality thing.

A state needs to opt-in for poker to become legal in that state. The default is that the state is opted-out whether it officially opts-out or not. It's impossible for some type of limbo to exist. Remember that once a state opts-in it can still opt-out at a later time. The clause that you show simply proscribes the procedure for opting-out in that particular situation. They are simply allowing a state to reverse its decision. As far as the earlier Reid Bill goes. Believe me, I spent some serious time debating the opt-in issue with the PPA. That bill did in fact automatically opt-in the stat

So this must be what it feels like to spend the night at the Bates Motel.

This bill requires every state to opt-in if they wish to participate otherwise they are opted-out. The federal government can't force them to make a decision other than to create some sort of deadline which I don't think is in this bill. This is far more severe than the Reid Bill of 2 years ago which at least automatically opted-in the states where poker was considered legal. This bill opts-in no one, so if the bill is passed, it will start as nothing but an empty shell with conceivably only Nevada initially opting-in. With the current bill there is almost no chance that even California wi

I agree. First of all, it also demolishes progress we've made through recent court rulings (the Wire Act, the IGBA and probably the UIGEA). A year ago we would have never dreamt that the legal front would have turned so much in our favor. We give up that without getting any kind of concessions whatsoever for ourselves, like a Players' Bill of Rights as suggested by Paul Hoppe (aka GiantBuddha) last year. Secondly, the federal bill also taxes poker sites at more than twice the rate that Nevada will be taxing the sites which might create the need for the federally allowed sites to charge

SlimJim, you stated that, "I am sure many of us have screenplays tht have won some awards which we would like to see made into bigtime films." I'm curious about what awards you have won.

It's true that Lederer and friends are douchebags but I think that DN needs to recognize that Erick Lindgren is every bit the douchebag that they are. I can be sympathetic to Lindgren's gambling problem but only to a point. What Lindgren did just a week before Blackfriday by taking that $2 million dollars went far beyond a run of the mill gambling problem. That wasn't money that was lent to him. That was money that he flat out stole. There is no way in my mind that Lindgren didn't know soon after he took that money that that was players' money. He took advantage of the chaos of Blackfriday

DiamondDixie: I don't see how you can say that Carbon has the worst customer service of the skins. Chris and Ryan are incredible at resolving players problems. And they both work 7 days a week (they both work on their days off). I consider Carbon as having the best customer support despite their large player base. Also Carbon is considered the flagship of the Merge network so it has more pull on how the Merge network is run. I've made suggestions that have been put into practice. I don't think that would have happened if I had made them on another skin.

After reading "Every Hand Revealed", I'd have to say that Gus Hansen is actually 50/50.

Sorry but I don't think that the FTPinsider interview was all that great. Everything that he said was simply taken as gospel without any indication that what he was saying wasn't simply hearsay or his own assumptions. No specific examples were given, no quotes from Howard Lederer were cited as evidence and there was nothing to indicate that any of the things that he was saying were things that he knew first hand or had seen in writing. The very few times he was asked to be specific he simply fumbled for a few seconds and said that he didn't know. For example, when he claimed that large aff

Himself. QED