A cross post from LifeFish while I'm in transit.
Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (NoahSD) has published an article on his fast growing Subject Poker (S:P) news site. NoahSD claims to have raw data (albeit with a few gaps), which shows transactions between Full Tilt Poker and both Phil Ivey and David Benyamine. The article basically details that Phil Ivey borrowed around $10million dollars from FTP over the last few years. In addition, it suggests David Benyamine was earning around $500,000 a year to represent the company. The Benyamine revelation seems to be the most concerning. If he was getting paid like that, it is fairly likely all the other Team Full Tilt members were getting paid at least the same. With Full Tilt players still without their money, the fact that so much has been paid to these guys raises serious questions about the ethics of them living off their Full Tilt riches while the players are left in the lurch.
Further Reading
FTP’s Financial Relationship with Two Pros - Noah Stephens-Davidowitz forSubjectPoker.com
S:P: Phil Ivey borrowed more than $10M from FTP - TwoPlusTwo 'News, Views, Gossip' Thread
What They Said On 2+2
ZBTHorton
JoeTall JoeTall
Ivey was a "hero" 2 mon ago...now?
Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (NoahSD) has published an article on his fast growing Subject Poker (S:P) news site. NoahSD claims to have raw data (albeit with a few gaps), which shows transactions between Full Tilt Poker and both Phil Ivey and David Benyamine. The article basically details that Phil Ivey borrowed around $10million dollars from FTP over the last few years. In addition, it suggests David Benyamine was earning around $500,000 a year to represent the company. The Benyamine revelation seems to be the most concerning. If he was getting paid like that, it is fairly likely all the other Team Full Tilt members were getting paid at least the same. With Full Tilt players still without their money, the fact that so much has been paid to these guys raises serious questions about the ethics of them living off their Full Tilt riches while the players are left in the lurch.
Further Reading
FTP’s Financial Relationship with Two Pros - Noah Stephens-Davidowitz forSubjectPoker.com
S:P: Phil Ivey borrowed more than $10M from FTP - TwoPlusTwo 'News, Views, Gossip' Thread
What They Said On 2+2
ZBTHorton
But I think the Benyamine thing is far more troubling than the Ivey thing IMO. If Benyamine was making 500K/year, who the **** knows what some of these other people were making.NoahSD
The Ivey thing has the potential to be absolutely ****ing awful, but it's much harder to deciper exactly what is going on with the loans.
1) We have the raw data. This isn't a rumor.What They Said On Twitter
2) We weren't given this data by someone who was looking to harm somebody. We got this data because I went looking for it
JoeTall JoeTall
Ivey was a "hero" 2 mon ago...now?
bpk616 bpk616
@NoahSD keep fighting the good fight, really appreciate all you and the@SubjectPoker crew do for the community, keep it up!!
@NoahSD keep fighting the good fight, really appreciate all you and the@SubjectPoker crew do for the community, keep it up!!
billrini Bill Rini
Since loans to Ivey and Benyamine aren't what has put FTP in the position it's in . . .what are people most concerned with about this?
Since loans to Ivey and Benyamine aren't what has put FTP in the position it's in . . .what are people most concerned with about this?
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