Doyle Brunson gelooft in de onschuld van Lederer
22-feb-2012 - 16:48 -
Mark Roovers
De Godfather van het poker; Doyle Brunson heeft voor ophef gezorgd in de pokercommunity. In zijn laatste blog neemt hij het op voor Howard Lederer en Chris Ferguson, die het zwaar te voortduren hebben nadat bleek dat Full Tilt Poker haar zaken financieel niet op orde had. Doyle Brunson gelooft dat Lederer en Ferguson niet van de financiële problemen afwisten.
Eens in de twee weken haalt opa Brunson papier en pen tevoorschijn om enkele wijsheden met zijn fans te delen. De webmaster van Doylebrunson.com typt vervolgens de kladjes keurig over en zo verschijnen Doyle's teksten op het digitale web. De blog die Brunson deze week schreef over de situatie bij Full Tilt Poker, leidde tot veel reacties op de internationale pokerfora.
In zijn blog van maandag 20 februari neemt Doyle het op voor Chris Ferguson en Howard Lederer. Na aanleiding van een gesprek met Lederer schrijft Brunson: "When someone I've known for years, trusted and respected looks me dead
in the eye and says he didn't know about the financial problems, call me
a big old Texas sucker because I will believe them. I have not talked
to Ferguson but I understand he says what Lederer told me, that they
didn't know. There are at least 4 stockholders that own more of FT than
Lederer. Where were they? The guilt should be shared IF its true Lederer
and Ferguson didn't know of the financial mess."
T
och is de pokerlegende wel degelijk kritisch over het beleid van Full Tilt Poker. "Was FT guilty of gross negligence and terrible mismanagement? Yes of course". Brunson vraagt zich bovendien af hoe het zo verkeerd heeft kunnen gaan: "The main question I've had through all of this is where was the Chief
Financial Officer? Even though I had nothing to do with the management
when I was the spokesperson for the online poker site Doylesroom, I
know there was a strict CFO in place who made sure there was 110% of the
players money in a separate account from the operating account. So when
Doylesroom closed there was immediate cash available to pay the
players. Why didn't FT board of directors and stockholders realize THERE
wasn't any financial responsibility in the company?
Another unanswered question is where was the Aldernay Gaming
Commission? They issued FT a license and for sure they had the
responsibility to see that the players finds were secure. Before
Doylesroom closed they were trying to get a license from Malta and in
order to get approved by them, funds had to be in place to cover the
players accounts."
De wijsheid die Brunson ons mee wil geven naar aanleiding van dit blog vat hij samen met een spreuk: "When you are up your friends know who you are, when you are down you know who your friends are".