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As you may be aware, The Rational Group, which operates PokerStars, obtained certain assets of Full Tilt Poker as part of a settlement reached with the US Department of Justice Southern District of New York.
Under the settlement agreement with the Department of Justice, The Rational Group committed to make available for withdrawal the online poker account balances of all non-U.S. players of Full Tilt Poker. FullTiltPoker.com will launch on November 6, and from this date forward non-U.S. players will be able to withdraw their balances, which relate to previous player activity on the site. These funds will be made available for withdrawal out of the Rational Group’s own resources through funds which will be transferred by the Rational Group into segregated bank accounts.
Other than the non-US player balances, The Rational Group did not assume any liabilities of the previous Full Tilt Poker companies and therefore previous contractual agreements that Full Tilt Poker may have had with affiliates were excluded. As such, The Rational Group is not liable and will not pay for any affiliate earnings which may have been due to you under your agreement with any former Full Tilt Poker company.
For those accounts where player funds are commingled with funds derived from affiliate earnings, The Rational Group will only be making the portion of the funds relating to your previous player activity available for withdrawal.
Separately, as we are working around the clock to get the new FullTiltPoker.com site up-and-running by November 6, we are unable to offer an affiliate program for Full Tilt Poker at this time. We do intend to launch a new affiliate program in the first quarter of 2013, under the Rational Group, which will be a joint program with PokerStars. This future program will give you the opportunity to promote and earn from both brands. We look forward to engaging with you on a new partnership going forward.
Sincerely,
Full Tilt PokerWe getting FCUK 3 ways .
1) Losing our past commisions
2) Losing our past players
3) Losing any sign ups from grand opening to when new affiliate program is launched 1st quarter 2013 !ROGUE../ all over the net ROGUE them.
Unfortunately part of the problem is PokerStars is so big, everyone’s got accounts there, etc. that they simply don’t NEED affiliates to be successful anymore. Even “rouge-ing” them won’t really have too negative of an effect on them anymore. The poker affiliate business done been changed… time to diversify, eh?
Here’s a little write-up on what’s going down… Bottom line, not cool!
Oh, enough negative press will make a difference when there are shareholders involved..
Agreed – ROGUE!!!
On a related note, ESPN and other channels don’t seem to push / air Poker as much as they have in the past – is that all a result only of Black Friday or is poker actually on the decline?
