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 Worst Beat of All Time, mroban, 16. Sep 2003 19:28 | ||
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| So there I am in an Aruba Satellite with the chip lead, $33 satellite with 4 players left. Just waiting for someone to bust out and win my tourney chip. Suddenly, my computer is frozen and I get the UB "internet delay". I go to my modem and the whole line is dead. Turns out, my cable service went out in my area for 10 minutes. By the time I reconnected through dial up service, the tourney was over (of course, when I went out, the three remaining players all won). Any chance UB will reimburse me for that? Obviously it isn't their fault, but this is a brutal beat. Trying to calculate the odds on this happening. Any guesses? | ||
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| Re: Worst Beat of All Time, Eihli, 16. Sep 2003 19:38 | ||
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| Don't feel special, it's happened to me twice. I quit playing sit and goes because my isp is so unreliable. | ||
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| Re: Worst Beat of All Time, mroban, 16. Sep 2003 20:00 | ||
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| mine isn't unreliable at all. Its a cable modem and it never has happened before. Brutal. | ||
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| Re: Worst Beat of All Time, rdale, 17. Sep 2003 00:47 | ||
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| that does suck, but it happens, worse is when it is the server's err and not the line. | ||
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| Re: Worst Beat of All Time, ADAM THE EXPERT, 17. Sep 2003 03:45 | ||
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| I DON'T KNOW, BUT CASINOS SEEM TO HAVE THE ATTITUDE THAT MISTAKES HAVE THE EQUAL CHANCE OF BEING IN YOUR FAVOR. THIS IS WHY THE HOPELESS, REDICULOUS, STEALING RULE, THAT ANY CARD THAT COMES OUT BEFORE THE ACTION IS COMPLETE, CAN'T STAY, NO MATTER HOW OBVIOUS IT WAS THAT THE PERSON WAS, OR WAS NOT GOING TO CALL. "WELL, SOMETIMES YOU WIN BY THAT, SOMETIMES YOU LOSE" I HAVE JUST STARTED PLAYING ON U.B., SO I DON'T KNOW IF THEY, UNLIKE OTHERS HAVE ANY CONCERN FOR THE INTEGRITY OF THEIR GAMES. I LOST BETWEEN FOUR AND TEN BILLS, BECAUSE OF A SOFTWARE ON PARTY POKER, THAT SOMETIMES DOES NOT ALLOW A PLAYER TO RAISE , EVEN WHEN A RAISE IS OPEN, AND THE PREVIOUS RAISE WAS OF SUFFICIENT AMOUNT TO REOPEN THE BETTING. I MADE IT 45 WITH JJ, A PLAYER WENT ALL IN FOR 125, THE BLIND CALLED. NOW, I WANTED TO GO ALL IN, AND BASED ON THEIR STYLE OF PLAY, THE BLIND, WITH POCKET FIVES, VERY LIKELY WOULD HAVE CALLED. THE FLOP WAS Q 8 8, AND I GOT CHECK RAISED BLUFFED OUT OF THE POT, PLUS ANOTHER 250 IN CHIPS. NOW, I'M NO DUMMY, AND IF I HAVE OVER TWO THOUSAND IN THE SINGLE TABLE EVENTS, I'M GOING TO PLACE IN THE EVENT, NO QUESTION. OH, I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT A JACK HIT THE TURN, BUT I OF COURSE WAS OUT. SO, BECAUSE OF PARTY'S ERROR, I AM OUT BETWEEN $400, AND $1000, DO YOU THINK THEY WOULD EVEN GIVE ME MY BUY IN BACK? NO WAY. AND THIS IS THEIR MISTAKE, NOT A SERVER. YOU MUST NOT HAVE BEEN AROUND LONG, IF YOU THINK THIS IS A BAD BEAT. I HAVE BEEN CHEATED OUT OF OVER SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF JACKPOTS, BY PLAYERS WHO DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO PROCEED IN A JACKPOT GAME. | ||
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| Re: Worst Beat of All Time, chasepoker, 17. Sep 2003 05:42 | ||
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| Similar thing happened to me when at the final table of a NL Mutli a few weeks ago except it wasnt my cable service as i could access other web sites. It turned out it had happend to half the table and where as before i was a comfortable 2nd with 9 left i came back to be 4th with 5 left ! After writing an email to UB they refunded my buy in ( i didnt ask them to i was asking them when i would be able to access the site ). I take stuff like that to be part of playing on line and i think that everyone has the same risk and if people are not willing to take that risk they should not play online. As for your case Mr O i would drop them a note saying what happened i am sure it will fall on sympathetic ears ! Good Luck next time, you will get to Aruba yet ! CP on 16. Sep 2003 19:28 mroban wrote: > So there I am in an Aruba Satellite with the chip lead, $33 satellite with 4 > players left. Just waiting for someone to bust out and win my tourney chip. > Suddenly, my computer is frozen and I get the UB "internet delay". I go to my > modem and the whole line is dead. > > Turns out, my cable service went out in my area for 10 minutes. By the time I > reconnected through dial up service, the tourney was over (of course, when I > went out, the three remaining players all won). > > Any chance UB will reimburse me for that? Obviously it isn't their fault, but > this is a brutal beat. Trying to calculate the odds on this happening. > > Any guesses? Chasepoker | ||
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| Re: Worst Beat of All Time, Risky Business, 17. Sep 2003 07:58 | ||
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| My non-cable hook up goes out all the time. I just wait until it gets back. If I would have heard the line click off, I would have logged back in frantically. The entire ISP was down?.......not much you can do except find a better ISP. | ||
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| Re: Worst Beat of All Time, tron, 17. Sep 2003 16:02 | ||
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| Well, First off, i dont think they will refund ur money since not ur their fault. It happened to me on party poker, i just busted the third guy and playing for first and i got disconnected. Now i wrote to party and here's the lame excuse they gave me "somewhere in ur internet connection a server was down so we won't compensate. its not the server in my town but somewhere in the U.s. I started with dial up but loss a first place for 500 dollars and switched to broadband, it works better. | ||
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