Chris Ferguson issues apology to the poker community

Seven years after the Black Friday Full Tilt Scandal, Chris Ferguson has finally issued a (short) apology for his role in it.

Despite re-emerging for two years in a row at the World Series of Poker and winning Player of the Year last year, former Full Tilt Founder Chris Ferguson has never spoke publically about his part in the Black Friday scandal, until now. 

Last night Ferguson released a 42 second video apologising for what happened in 2011:

It has shades of Howard Lederer's apology in 2016, both of which came just before the World Series of Poker and both of which seem designed to mitigate public antagonism before they started playing in Vegas.  

Naturally his has been met by skepticism by the poker community:

It took all this time for Chris Ferguson to come up with THIS apology?

So heartfelt. Had me in tears. 😂😂😂https://t.co/2fthKNDdqo

My prediction: this doesn’t actually help his cause. Quite the opposite.

— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) May 24, 2018

However, once again, Phil Hellmuth has chosen to be one of the few voices of support for Chris:

Here is a video from Chris Ferguson. It’s a shame that so many of the younger poker players have JUDGED Chris so harshly. I believe that the whole truth about Full Tilt Poker will come out, and I believe the “Haters” will be surprised #IAmALoverNOTAJudge https://t.co/CABB6MXqS6

— phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) May 24, 2018

Either way, it does seem clear we will be seeing Ferguson defending his POY title starting next week in Vegas.

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