Pocket Kings Employees in Danger of Losing Jobs
The Cherrywood Business Park in Dublin is the home of around 550 people who worked to run Full Tilt Poker, one of the largest US online poker sites in the industry. The US attorneys have alleged that Full Tilt Poker was not a legal poker business, but a massive global Ponzi scheme, cheating players of millions of dollars.
Currently, the Full Tilt Poker website is not functioning and half the work base employed by Pocket Kings, which operated the customer service, IT, and marketing for Full Tilt, are in danger of losing their jobs. What’s worse, most of them have to rely on the online poker news portals and message boards to get the latest news about the company that employed them.
A French employee, begging to remain anonymous, said that they do nothing all day, but read poker news and try to figure out what is going on. He also said that they hardly know what the Full Tilt Poker management looks like because of the geographical distance between them.
Raymond Bitar, one of the members on Full Tilt Poker’s Board of Directors, has also been mentioned in the US federal court indictment, but has so far escaped arrest. Since he is a citizen of both Ireland and US, the workers in the Dublin office had seen him several times. However, they had not seen him for a long time after Full Tilt Poker got into trouble with the US government.
Complaining that there is hardly any communication from their employers, another French employee said that they get most of the news online. He is not the only Pocket Kings employee who expects to lose his job soon.
Bitar was not available in the Dublin office when Reuters visited it, and Pocket Kings refused to accept Reuters’ calls seeking information regarding its relationship with the fallen poker giant.
