According to online media and forum reports Full Flush Poker, once the flagship of the Equity Poker Network, has resurfaced with as yet unidentified new owners who claim they bought the domain on auction at an undisclosed cost.
InfoPowa readers will recall that Costa Rica-based Full Flush and the EPN both suddenly went dark around the same time, with the former allegedly owing considerable sums of money to its players.
The new owners have started out by firmly disassociating themselves from the previous and curiously unidentified Full Flush owners (although there has been some speculation on the forums).
Similarly, the new owners are hardly transparent and do not identify themselves either.
The Full Flush website (access it here www.fullflushpoker.com) carries a notice advising aggrieved players that the new owners do not have their money, are not liable for the debts of the previous owners, and are not associated with them.
Going even further, the mysterious new owners advise players that it is likely that the old owners have fled, leaving players, employees and affiliates unpaid to the tune of $2 million.
The new owners appear to know who the old owners are, because they claim that they are not returning calls.
Curiously, the new owner notification warns aggrieved players availing themselves of the Game Protect initiative to launch litigation against the previous owners that the individuals behind the project are not known, implying that it may be a scam, and that a better route may be through them and (yet another) unidentified group of “concerned affiliates” and poker sites that have apparently gathered to help stiffed Full Flush players.
Game Protect is a consumer protection outfit whose website is seeking contributions from stiffed players to cover litigation costs aimed at recovering almost a quarter million dollars in specified Full Flush obligations allegedly left unpaid by Full Flush when it closed.
The word “unidentified” certainly seems to appear repeatedly in this matter, opening it up to any amount of speculation regarding who is who and how credible some of the statements may be.