Should be interesting to say the least:

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2012/0...oker-13429.htm

if you dont have, or want to create an account on Pokernews, here is part 1:

Howard is such a POS, his main reasoning for everything really comes down to incompetence. "I asked the finance department this, they told me this" blah blah blah. You're still one of the heads of the company, whether or not what they say is true ultimately is your responsibility! "I haven't spoken to them....that's not my department...." He tilts me so much....

Totally agree that Howard is running the interview making it almost pointless to watch. He is just bullshitting and saying he had no clue about anything basically but if he did he asked for stats and it took forever to get them and he kinda understood what the accounting team was telling him which was complete bullshit.

For someone who's a serious owner/contributor to a major multi-million dollar company he doesn't seem to know much.

insert skeptical.gif

This is essentially what I assumed it'd be though.

yea seams obv to me they are all just pinning this on bitar and playing dumb. probably the reason howard got out of mgmt.

the guy doing the interview probably gave Howard's lawyer a list of questions he was going to ask before they started. When Howard shrugs off an answer with...idk, the interviewer doesn't push him for any other info...very passive. Basically Howard looked after marketing and software...everything else going on in the company he was clueless?? Howard may be a pos...but he isn't stupid either to just look at 'general' balance sheets that he received or only remembers the first name of the CFO of the company or anything about the payment processors.

Dissapointed in the interview.

Also, not sure if anyone saw this, but former FBI agent Joe Navarro evaluated the Lederer interview on his Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/navarrotells

Navarro provides weekly "Tells" segments on ESPN's WSOP coverage.

why are they editing camera angles while Lederer is answering questions, its almost as if its staged in between each individual question and there were multiple takes for HL to answer a single question, pokernews intentionally edited any body fidgeting or poor body language HL has during his answers. The camera should be one continuous camera on HL. From 27:55 in part 1 the camera is on the interviewer for a full 27 secs while Howard is answering the question, why?

cliffs of parts 1 & 2: Howard pleads ignorance on every single financial issue, pins everything that went wrong on Ray

The first part - all about what he didnt do and no mention of what he did. Also terrible interview questions, there isnt a single question that angles to a yes or know response - simply a pre-staged "I am a victim" interview filmed prior to his latest DOJ amendments.

 

Originally Posted by ChameleoN89

I counted 219 uhs and ums, sound about right?

jesus man why did you waste your time doing that?

 

Originally Posted by MarkFSU1

why are they editing camera angles while Lederer is answering questions, its almost as if its staged in between each individual question and there were multiple takes for HL to answer a single question, pokernews intentionally edited any body fidgeting or poor body language HL has during his answers. The camera should be one continuous camera on HL. From 27:55 in part 1 the camera is on the interviewer for a full 27 secs while Howard is answering the question, why?

cliffs of parts 1 & 2: Howard pleads ignorance on every single financial issue, pins everything that went wrong on Ray

The camera angle edits are covering up edits/splices in what he said. I work as an editor at a TV network, it's the "oldest trick in the book" so to speak, if you are editing someone's answer you can't keep the video on him or the viewer will see the jump, so you cut to shots of the interviewer to cover the jump/cut in what he's saying.

All I'll say is I know they said it went on for 7 hours or whatever and they trimmed it down, I didn't bother watching all that much of it, but what I watched was dissapointingly edited rather liberally.

I completely agree it's been total fluff so far, and frankly pretty disappointing. I was very impressed that Poker News had this content coming out, and I'm sure it will generate a ton of views. I am still hoping it gets more interesting, but so far I haven't really found out anything I didn't know before and that's kind of a bummer

Part 3:

did chris and u had a conversation w/o ray at that night??
"i dont know if chris and i had a converation that night...i ´just dont remember"

so u get the news that FTP does stuck some amount over 100Milsky and Ray just told chris at that evening and HL doesnt remember if he and chris had a privat conversation that night...
is he kidding me? U clearly gonna remember every detail of that night obv
just lie after lie after lie...