FULL TILT POKER SCANDAL HOWARD FULL

Lederer even admits that he had focused a lot of his energy in the months following the demise of Full Tilt in refuting the allegations against him and played the role of the victim, missing the bigger picture.Īn apology is not enough, but it is what I am able to offer to the poker community in the wake of a travesty that I should not have allowed to happen. In the rest of the letter, the Full Tilt founder admits that players had put their trust in him and that he had violated that trust by not taking all necessary steps to ensure the safety of player’s funds. I should have provided better oversight or made sure that responsible others provided that oversight. The shortfall in player deposits should never have happened. I am writing to apologize to everyone in the poker community, especially to all the players who had money on Full Tilt Poker on April 15, 2011… …I take full responsibility for Full Tilt’s failure to protect player deposits leading up to Black Friday. That’s at least what we could conclude from his letter to the public. Now, five years later, it seems that Howard has finally come to terms with everything that has happened and is ready to make amends. Back in 2012, PokerNews did a series of interviews with ‘The Professor,’ and while they touched upon many topics regarding Full Tilt, Lederer was firm in his stance that he has done nothing wrong Not surprisingly, this did not come across well in the community, and Lederer has pretty much become a persona non grata in poker circles. However, during that entire interview, not once did ‘The Professor’ admit to any wrongdoings or tried to apologize for what came to pass. In 2012, PokerNews made an extensive interview with Lederer, called “ The Lederer Files,” which covered numerous topics and tried to answer many questions players had at the time. This is not the first time that Howard Lederer came out publically after the Full Tilt fiasco. The first proper apology by ‘The Professor’

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