Full Tilt "starts crediting affiliates"
Money from April appears in affiliate accounts, but still cannot be withdrawn.
Full Tilt has begun crediting funds to affiliate accounts, nearly two months after Black Friday, eGaming Review has learned.
However, the site is still yet to pay out to its American players, despite revealing the Bank of Ireland had unfrozen one of its corporate accounts.
Riley G Matthews, a US-based affiliate who claims to have worked with Full Tilt “since [it] first opened up for business years ago,” contacted eGaming Review with details of confirmation emails sent to him by the site, indicating that his affiliate funds for April had been approved. Matthews would not reveal how much he is owed.
The first email message from Full Tilt, timed at 08:02 on Friday morning, carried details of Matthews’ affiliate username and the message: “Your affiliate payment is now available in your affiliate account.”
Full Tilt last issued an official update to its players on 30 May, detailing that the company had no specific timeframe for repaying players, however Matthews has informed this publication that there has been no contact from the indicted poker site beyond official releases, with the exception of today’s correspondence.
The failure to repay American players up until now saw Team Full Tilt pro Phil Ivey electronically file a lawsuit against the company last week, with Full Tilt since condemning Ivey’s accompanying statement as “sanctimonious” and his lawsuit as “meritless.”