"To conceal this financial shortfall, Bitar directed Full Tilt Poker employees to misrepresent how much cash the company had on hand." Raymond Bitar, CEO of online poker site Full Tilt, was arrested Monday in connection with a $430 million Ponzi scheme. The U.S. government says the popular poker site defrauded players out of hundreds of millions On August 1, 2014, Amaya Gaming Group completed the purchase of Rational Group, the owner of PokerStars and Full Tilt, for $4.9 billion. Both poker sites continued to operate as separate entities until May 17, 2016. On that date, the user base of Full Tilt gained access to the global player pool at PokerStars, 3 card poker free download and the old Full Tilt platform was retired. Hacker Breaks into GGPoker Software Client “My life has drastically changed since last April,” Bitar tells PokerStrategy. “As a manager of Tiltware, I have been cooperating fully with the DOJ so they can complete their investigation. Beyond that, I spend a good deal of my time making sure that FTP survives and that the players get repaid. I know that these events have hurt a lot of innocent people and it’s my main job to make things right. I continue to work on these issues, day and night until we resolve them.”