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Full Tilt Poker Lawsuit Details Released

Full Tilt Poker Lawsuit

The folks from Pokerati.com have obtained the latest lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker in its entirety, all 19 pages of it (as seen here).

The same site that was first to confirm Michael Jackson's death - TMZ.com - also broke the story of this lawsuit on Friday.

Lary Kennedy and Greg Omotoy claim they won $80,000 and that the funds were confiscated.

The company claims that plaintiffs used an automated play functions called "robots" instead of playing the game themselves. Since using robots violates Full Tilt's rules, the site's owners confiscated more than $80,000.

From TMZ.com:

"There are other gripes as well in the lawsuit, filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, including an allegation that fulltilitpoker.com manipulates the game through the use of robots of its own so it becomes more a game of luck than skill which is outlawed in California."

Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey and Mike Matusow all have equity interest in Full Tilt Poker.

From Pokerati:

"Kennedy is the real plaintiff. Greg Omoroy is just a guy who owned another account she used (which is a whole-nother issue altogether). And though they aren't formally seeking class-action status, they do seem to be laying the groundwork for such a possibility - an aggressive legal play for sure.

"Essentially, the allegations are that Full Tilt - with unfettered ability to label a player a bot, confiscate her money, and smear her name by calling her a bot - constitutes organized crime ... being perpetuated by Californians against Californians, in violation of all sorts of California business and gaming laws.

"They also say that "Playing Against the Pros" is tantamount to gambling against the "house" ... there's an added boogeyman with allegations that Full Tilt is running its own bots on the site."

None of this bodes well for Full Tilt Poker, which finds itself named in an investigation currently being conducted by the US Attorney's Office out of the Southern District of New York.

Costigan Media, which owns the Gambling911.com website, filed a Motion to Intervene with a US Circuit Court out of New York in an effort to uncover more information pertaining to seizures of funds from Full Tilt Poker's bank processors.  The Honorable Judge Laura Taylor Swain found in favor of Costigan Media and ordered information related to the seizure warrants unsealed.  And while some names mentioned as part of an ongoing investigation were permitted by Judge Swain to be redacted (remain undisclosed), the US Attorney's Office decided not to redact mention of Full Tilt Poker within the seizure warrants. 

Gambling911.com does not endorse Full Tilt Poker nor will it ever.

Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher

 

Submitted by C Costigan on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 22:19
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FTP

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 20:04 — Guest
Ray Bitar and the boys might not ever come back to the USA now.

full tilt

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 01:53 — Guest
I can understand all the law suit talk as i believe myself that full tilts software is flawed as it favors both the big stack and the bad play which could be because of bots . it is the only sight i have played on that the larger stack wins on the river with worst hand in 80% of the time and that is on the river not the flop or turn you can almost see the card coming

They share private information

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 16:59 — Guest
Full tilt Poker is in bed with the cardrunner owners and website. Proof is not banning Brian townsend for multi accounting and then later breaking Full tilts owns terms of condition by sharing hand histories...Resulting in Brian hastings winning 4 million dollars in one session against isildur1. I had never visited the card runner site and after hearing and reading about Brians townsends cheating ways I have made it a point to call him a cheat numerous times in chat when I see him playing...And since that I cannot seem to open the cardrunners website on my pc...but I am able to open it on any other pc that I dont use to play at full tilt. this is proof enough that Full tilt gave my IP address to the cardrunner site and they banned it so I couldnt enter the site and blast the cardrunning cheats. I will join any lawsuit against this cheating site.

you are so right. I thought

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 03:56 — Guest
you are so right. I thought i was the only one who thought that way. i get very frustrated and i know its comming but full tilt keep telling me it is all genuine. you are left wondering and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. also when tables are about to be condensed and one player is all in dominating but with a smaller stack the bigger stack will hit the mirical or runner runner and it is on the river the majority of the time

Interesting...

Mon, 10/05/2009 - 12:45 — Guest
Not good. This could have a huge impact on Full Tilt. Will be interesting to see how they maintain their position with these types of problems going on.

Poker Stars. Period.

Mon, 10/05/2009 - 08:49 — Guest
Poker Stars. Period.

If you dont see the same

Sat, 11/28/2009 - 13:08 — Guest
If you dont see the same crap at pokerstars please give up online poker

you comment has no sense

Sat, 02/06/2010 - 14:17 — Guest
you comment has no sense logically..