Leaked Tapie Email and PokerStrategy.com Response

An email from Laurent Tapie to several employees of Full Tilt Poker has been leaked at Diamond Flush Poker. Find out the details and view an official PokerStrategy.com response to the situation.

Today, Diamond Flush Poker leaked an email sent from Laurent Tapie of Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) to 16 upper-level employees of Full Tilt Poker.

The email contains plans for GBT to form a new poker site with the help of those FTP employees, and it defends the Tapie group's previous strategy for player repayment.

Within the email, Tapie states “I am also negotiating with PokerStrategy to resurrect an affiliate arrangement similar to that which I was negotiating with FTP.”

PokerStrategy.com Statement

Due to the recent publication of an allegedly leaked email from Laurent Tapie to key Pocket Kings stakeholders and employees, PokerStrategy.com can confirm that representatives of our company previously visited with GBT and the Full Tilt Poker staff in Dublin to discuss potential partnership, consulting, and liquidity building initiatives for a re-launched Full Tilt Poker brand.

Prior to its closure in June 2011, Full Tilt Poker had been a major business partner of PokerStrategy.com, with over 30% of Full Tilt Poker’s active players having originated from our website. As such, a large number of our community members are currently unable to access the bankrolls they held with Full Tilt Poker. Although we were only at the preliminary stages of our discussions, we hoped to be instrumental in ensuring that a re-launched Full Tilt Poker would allow for swift repayment of previous player balances, incorporation of an open and transparent approach to the segregation of player funds, and the elimination of possible future cash flow issues.

We at PokerStrategy.com frequently review partnership opportunities from a wide variety of poker rooms with the ultimate goal of adding value for our users. Since the news that their deal fell through, our conversations with GBT have been limited and we are unaware of their actual plans for establishing a standalone site.