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The Poker Grapevine – John Juanda Opens Up on Full Tilt
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2012-08-21 05:21
Most of Full Tilt Poker’s in-house pros and elite online poker players have kept mum on the whole issue of locked player funds through the months since Black Friday. The reason why most of these people had nothing to say on the matter was a simple one: they didn’t know much about it either. Those who were involved in the inner workings of the company were few and far between. The vast majority of the site’s generous selection of professional players (among them John Juanda) knew nothing about the player funds nor about the negotiations which eventually culminated in the taking over of the company by its one time arch-rival, PokerStars. In the wake of the good news, John Juanda spoke up, firstly stating how glad he was that things had turned out all right for players after all.
He also said that he used to have people coming up to him and asking him about their Full Tilt monies. While he had no information on the said funds, Juanda said he felt extremely bad for those players.
While Juanda himself hasn’t really been in the spotlight following the Black Friday indictments, he was involved in an incident with James Bord during the 2011
WSOP, a shouting match which was apparently sparked by Juanda’s Full Tilt pro status.
In other news:
PokerStars have reached their 85 billionth hand dealt, a major milestone which was celebrated the usual way: through the awarding of some pretty generous prizes for those who happened to be lucky enough to find themselves dealt into the said hand. The hand came about at a $0.02/$0.5 NL table, known as ‘Josephina’. 6 players were sitting there, and it took them a good few seconds to realize that they had indeed been chosen. Everyone shoved all-in before the flop and watched the 7d,3c,Kh,Jd,8h board give the win to Russia’s som6873, who had Kc, 4c in the pocket. The main pot was $36.3. The winner picked up $26.3k, while the other players shared a $66.7k prize-pool.
