Details of the acquisition of Full Tilt
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How much does the Tapie group, which wants Laurent Tapie and who’s behind the “Poker Tour International stage”?
While Laurent Tapie is now intensively deals with the media and the American judicial authorities, Father Bernard and a company lawyer show more cautious.
After the interview, the Laurent Tapie in France last week with iGaming and now led by a reporter from the New York Times, a picture forms itself slowly out over the future of the company Full Tilt Poker.
Bernard Tapies reaction in the analysis
The advent of the poker community enthusiasm waned quickly again after the weekend Tapie father had spoken to the Agence France Presse.
Tapie then confirmed though that there would be a written agreement with FTP, and this was also signed. However, this is far from a complete takeover.
According to Bernard Tapie’s son Laurent has been entrusted with the task of examining the feasibility of a takeover. He now has to check through December period, the legal and technical requirements and coordinate with the judicial authorities.
Tapie further explained that his group would hold only about 5-10% in the new company. As a representative would probably serve the International stage Poker Tour (ISPT), to which the Tapie group, with 30% holding.
The ISPT was founded in 2010 by Prosper Masquellier Tapie, a former employee of Partouche Interactive, a French branch of the Partouche Poker Tour.
There are not too much information about the ISPT. On the Website stands for a few days ago a video that modesty announcing the biggest tournament of all time, with an alleged $ 30 million prize pool, in London’s Wembley Stadium.
As the date was until yesterday the 10th-12th May stated, for no other event was announced, now stands on the site but “September 2012″. Otherwise, neither the site nor the video information can be found in concrete.
Tapie, however, confirmed that all agreements contingent upon the consent of the American judiciary.
All other media inquiries should be directed immediately to his son Laurent.
Laurent Tapie: “Full Tilt is groggy, but not dead”
Tapie, Jr. currently holds in the United States in order to discuss with the judicial authorities. In a Interview with Matt Richtel of the New York Times He explained his plans to revive the brand, Full Tilt Poker.
“Full Tilt is groggy, but not dead,” Tapie said.
He confirmed that FTP owes its players about $ 300 million, but adds that the players are the most important capital enjoys, the company.
“We must use every means to pacify the players. They are the key to the whole, “said Tapie.
He continued that different conditions existed for the project to continue full tilt: other investors, new management and the approval of the American judicial authority.
The staff at Full Tilt could probably keep their jobs unless they are convicted of a crime.
One such Tapie was sure will continue to play. “It is human nature to play.”
The lawyer – the company’s shares for players
In a Interview with the Wall Street Journal Behnam Dayanim confirmed, a lawyer of the group that the family Tapie was interested to take over a significant part of the FTP.
Maybe you will “to players who are the largest debtor to offer, shares in the company.”
The Tapies, a father-son team of dubious nature
Since many years, decades in the case of the father, Tapie’s name appears in the headlines of the French media, and there are rarely good news.
In the international poker community, especially the North American, the name was relatively unknown until recently.
