Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Full Tilt Suspended in UK

So for just about the last month, on 'Full Tilt' UK players joined Americans with being suspended, due to the site money laundering, I have a few points to say:

1) This was the biggest poker site online, now for shady things to be going on here then I can't see me trusting any poker site again, I feel for the players because a lot would have lost money out of this, luckily I withdrew my money a few months ago. I know Daniel Negreanu is very outspoken about these kind of things and I'm going to see his view on it.

2) This point really annoys me, for players to stick by a site after things like that happen is really sad. I know some guys are full time and have a family but it's morally wrong, even if you do really need the money I am sure their are more legit ways to make it than being a sponsor of a corrupt poker site

3) My last point is the reason these guys have got away with stuff like this for so long is the lack of live games going on, apart from the likes of Las Vegas and LA, most other places only have limited tournaments and cash games running, so for most it's a lot easier just to stay at home and play so I feel they need to start making live bigger and better.

So I guess for me to play now I will need to travel, I didn't play online loads anyway so it doesn't really affect me and I have always enjoyed live better, it feels more like poker and it's more healthier.