PurePoker did a hit-and-run?

[Jay]

I have no idea why anyone is making any "deals" yet. I don't think anything has been finalized - I have been assured by FB's CEO that all players will be taken care, and it should be happening early this week.

Players should not be making any deals that aren't 100% satisfactory. You guys need to wait it out a few more days before making any decisions. For those of you that have made some arrangemnt already - you probably just got shafted.

So FB sells the Purepoker site to some guy, tells him to clean things up and give everyone their deposits back and steal their winnings and bonus money (he would only unlock the account if you said okay to his "offer"), and then, after giving the guy a few weeks of leeway to shaft as many people as possible, they finally "make good" on the eight people left (who probably aren't the ones with the $2000+ balances)?

Rogue rogue rogue. By the way, I made up all that stuff about the guy calling me.. or at least, I'm pretty sure he "misunderstood" me when I said fine, unlock my account. What I meant was of course, "Give me my #*$%-ing money, you thief."

[Jay]

(just to clarify, I got a phonecall from someone who said that FB had him cleaning up the problem at purepoker, and the only thing he could give me was my deposit back, or nothing. If FB now intends to offer better deals to those who didn't go for that, that's dishonest in itself, imho... the first call was a scam in that case. I'm holding out hope that FB is going to be honest and fair and correct this even for people who believed the first guy's story, assuming they correct it for anyone)

[Casinomeister]

(just to clarify, I got a phonecall from someone who said that FB had him cleaning up the problem at purepoker, and the only thing he could give me was my deposit back, or nothing. If FB now intends to offer better deals to those who didn't go for that, that's dishonest in itself, imho... the first call was a scam in that case. I'm holding out hope that FB is going to be honest and fair and correct this even for people who believed the first guy's story, assuming they correct it for anyone)

This is the deal. You are owed both your deposit and winnings. Same goes for anyone else. If some dude on the phone is offering you anything different - tell him to forget it. You are owed both your deposit and winnings, anything less is unacceptable. Period.

[Casinomeister]

I've just been contacted by Furturebet stating that this will be resolved. All players will be credited their full amounts.

[Jay]

Glad to have an advocate like you. Thanks. I'll post again if/when it gets resolved.

[freakin]

Wow. Thanks for you help, casinomeister. I hope I get the $1900 those guys owe me. I appreciate your firm stance on the issue.

[TrixSlice]

Tino did call me back the day after I last posted on this thread. He said since I had deposited $4,000 I was on the top of his list as it was more then most. He said my balance was just a bit over my deposit he wanted to pay me but it would take awhile. Quite the talker Tino is, I just said "uh-huh" the whole time. Said he owns ~8 other casinos or something and Futurebet asked him if he'd clean this up. What got me was he said something along the lines of "I'm only willing to do this if it benefits me, I mean if I pay all these players and end up out money or only even it's not worth all my time". That kinda irked me that the only reason me being owed $4,000 is getting any attention is because it's a money making opportunity. He said for now he'd deposited $1,000 into the Poker room for me to mess around with and if I ran out I could email him for more money. He did not say anything about this was the only money I would be getting. Only that it was all he could credit my account with for now. What's scary is the rest of my balance was *cashed* out to nowhere... He said on the phone he's keeping track of who's owed what money and how much he credited to each account - sounded like with pen and paper. I saw a missed call from his area code 613 yesterday. Not sure if I should pick up next time he calls until I hear more about this.

I find it incredible CasinoMeister and JetSet have a ball rolling already with this. Very impressive, let's see if I can get paid!

Oh BTW he said that NETeller funds are secure but people who deposited with credit cards wouldn't be able to have any money for six months because if they charged back he wouldn't know and they'd be paid double (from him and credit card company).

[B00T]

Thanks Casinomeister...

I was one of the few who was stuck in a take it or leave it deal getting $500 of my inital $1000 deposit, and then was told I'd hopefully get my other $500 within a week. That was just my inital deposit, not my $2500 in winning either.

I will keep my fingers crossed for a payment of $3500 into my NT account. Thanks again!

[jetset]

All heart, our Tino isn't he? Really concerned for the players who put money in his pocket.

This sort of guy should really not be in this business at all imo, and if he has 8 other casinos (that sounds like a little grandstanding) he should be in a position to afford to look after PurePoker's screwed players in a timely fashion instead of all this BS and trying to knock the peoples' claims down.

You can bet he's getting a sweet deal from Futurebet to take this lame duck over, but that doesn't stop him trying to squeeze some extra benefits out of the misfortune of others.

IMO none of this relieves Futurebet of their responsibility to stand by the players left stranded by one of their failed licensees, and I am watching with interest to see if they come through with their promise that the players will be looked after.

I'm glad to see that Bryan is still in communication with FB, because over the past 24-36 hours they have dried up on me despite several emails.

Futurebet made some extravagant promises about their future intentions and conduct a couple of years ago, but thus far in this case I don't see too much improvement in the way they handle this sort of situation.

[hogua]

Earlier I posted that I was being forced to play poker to get $1000 for my rough;y $3800 back. Howver, I spoke with Pino (or Tino) again and that is not the case. He says that .$1000 is in my poker account, and poker play is requested but not manditory. Either I misunderstood earlier or things changed.


Great to hear that this may very well be resolved in favor of the players. Thanks for all the help.!!