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Archive Boards => Archive => 888poker.com => Topic started by: KarmaDope on March 09, 2011, 22:47:35 PM
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Until the official board comes...
Anyway, thoughts? First glances (for 4 years, last deposit on there was Feb 2007!) was that it wasn"t what I remembered.
Tourneys: No antes in some bigger comps worries me slightly. Plus points for late reg. Plus points for guaranteed tournaments. Looks ok if a bit on the slow side.
STTs: Lots of choice. Good for single table guys. MTTSNGs? Nope. Weak at best.
Cash: Wow. Video tables????? Video tables? That is awesome just weird. Although a 6 max APAT cash game on one of these would be pretty funny.
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look out for some of the regular evening tournies - hugely soft and great value..... particularly the Daily Challenge tournies - if I remember correctly, there is usually some overlay in these.
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Just been on 888 and it says "APAT COVENTRY DIRECT BUYIN" on MARCH 20TH ?
The date is March 26th....and there is no sign of the online events on March 19th ??
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Just been on 888 and it says "APAT COVENTRY DIRECT BUYIN" on MARCH 20TH ?
The date is March 26th....and there is no sign of the online events on March 19th ??
The holding tank closes on the 20th to give 888poker a week to get the money to the casino. Same as last year. Give them a chance to set them up please.
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well just signed up and hit the craaaaaazy loose PLO ring games. $30 pot at 3c/6c !?! :D
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I"m a bit upset that because I signed up with them for one night about 7 years ago they won"t give me my FREE £5 :"(
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As I was setting up my deposite nice friendly bot/person started chatting and negotiated a little more deposit for getting £10 free sign up!
So far so good, regged for Cov bring it on!!
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Some of the SnGs are soft as anything. May move some of my business their way.
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Despite my missing $, I will be depositing on here.
I mean if Shane Warne is their sponsored pro, it must be a soft site!!!
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Thats what i was thinking Rob, theres tons of young english players right now who wont get a look in for sponsorship because fish havent heard of them, so they go for gimmicky Warney.
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Thats what i was thinking Rob, theres tons of young english players right now who wont get a look in for sponsorship because fish havent heard of them, so they go for gimmicky Warney.
I mean, have you seen that advert
"poker, it"s all about your hands"........nh Warney gg.
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just had a look in the STT lobby and they have a very interesting concept called "final table simulation"
players start with 40K. blinds are 1K/2K/200.
top 9 get paid though only top 3 make a profit.
no takers though
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How long should it take for the Free £5 email to arrive?
Minutes or Hours?
(if it"s minutes then something is amiss...)
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How long should it take for the Free £5 email to arrive?
Minutes or Hours?
(if it"s minutes then something is amiss...)
It was seconds for me - have you checked your junk folder ???
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Thats what i was thinking Rob, theres tons of young english players right now who wont get a look in for sponsorship because fish havent heard of them, so they go for gimmicky Warney.
I mean, have you seen that advert
"poker, it"s all about your hands"........nh Warney gg.
Might get a prize of a few minutes / hours with Miss Hurley
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I have indeed checked my junk folder - there were some intesting items in there.
Did you know, for instance, that you can buy pills that make you instantaneously sexually irresitible??
I"ve used the Contact Us area and got the auto-generated reply to say they have my query.
I have plans for that £5 - I"m going to spin it up to pay for Vegas in November. Or not go.
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Is 888 a E or $ site ?
Can you transfer funds ?
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Is 888 a E or $ site ?
$
Can you transfer funds ?
If you mean to other players on the site then yes
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When I deposited I got online support (and they were excellent)
How do I get back to it for other issue?
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When I deposited I got online support (and they were excellent)
How do I get back to it for other issue?
help>online help -- top ring menu in the lobby
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I have indeed checked my junk folder - there were some intesting items in there.
Did you know, for instance, that you can buy pills that make you instantaneously sexually irresitible??
I"ve used the Contact Us area and got the auto-generated reply to say they have my query.
I have plans for that £5 - I"m going to spin it up to pay for Vegas in November. Or not go.
Sorted :-)
and already building the roll...
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When I deposited I got online support (and they were excellent)
How do I get back to it for other issue?
help>online help -- top ring menu in the lobby
This just takes me to a search engine ???
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When I deposited I got online support (and they were excellent)
How do I get back to it for other issue?
help>online help -- top ring menu in the lobby
This just takes me to a search engine ???
Click on the cashier. Live chat option should be on the right hand side
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When I deposited I got online support (and they were excellent)
How do I get back to it for other issue?
help>online help -- top ring menu in the lobby
This just takes me to a search engine ???
Click on the cashier. Live chat option should be on the right hand side
You have been placed in a queue.
Please wait, a Chat Representative will be with you shortly.
You are currently number 2 in the queue.
You should be connected to a Representative in about 02:34.
The average amount of time a customer has to wait is 02:43
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Better than average. Good work Stuart. :D
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Any one played any PLO8 cash and had any probs?
The client crashes periodically at showdown.
I didn"t have any probs with the NLH tournaments yesterday.
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Better than average. Good work Stuart. :D
First time for everything ;)
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Cash finally deposited, bonuses gathered, Coventry paid for, first SNG...won. Not a bad start! :)
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jh looks like he"s wearing a superman costume
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I"ve seen the previous hand replayer, but can someone please tell me how to get Hand histories?
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I"ve seen the previous hand replayer, but can someone please tell me how to get Hand histories?
Sir, Sir, Sir, I know this one. ;D
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My Profile > Game History > Tournaments
Select the tourney you want. The hand histories don"t seem to hang around for much more than 24hrs though.
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My Profile > Game History > Tournaments
Select the tourney you want. The hand histories don"t seem to hang around for much more than 24hrs though.
thanks Leigh. Next question - how do you print them off?(or convert them for PHA boards). They only appear to be videos
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My Profile > Game History > Tournaments
Select the tourney you want. The hand histories don"t seem to hang around for much more than 24hrs though.
thanks Leigh. Next question - how do you print them off?(or convert them for PHA boards). They only appear to be videos
Hmmm, good question. Don"t know, but I will ask, unless someone else on here has the solution ?
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I"ve seen the previous hand replayer, but can someone please tell me how to get Hand histories?
I know there"s an option to save them to your PC somewhere in the settings but I don"t know how long they stay. I can"t think of any reason why they would "auto-delete" from there.
EDIT: Setting - Game Settings...but it"s not on by default and you get to select how many days you want to keep them. Set it to 9999 and it"ll probably be enough
RE-EDIT: Are they videos...that seems unnecessarily data intense. I"ll have to turn on the option and check.
RE-RE-EDIT: Nope...Text file.
RE-RE-RE-EDIT. Found this on the 888 forum.
The stages of converting text hand histories
Firstly you need to check you are saving your hand histories, go to lobby and click on settings, then hand history, a window will appear, make sure you have checked the "save my hand histories" box, you will see a folder destination, click open folder and you will go to your hand history folder, now double click on the folder that appears, as long as you have been saving them you will see history files, find the file for the game you want and double click it, when the file opens you will see lines of text, the text is continuous and you will have to read through until you find the hand you want, this gets easier once you get used to it, once you have found the hand left click at the start of the hand and highlight the whole hand, now right click and copy
Now you need a hand converter
I use http://www.handhistoryconverter.com/ (http://www.handhistoryconverter.com/)
When you open the site you will see a box on the left side to convert the hand, right click in this box and select paste, now scroll down and click "convert hand" after a short while the page will refresh and the converted hand will appear, highlight the hand then right click and copy, you are done
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888 is hard to play on a laptop, need a mouse lol, done a few miss clicks. This has probably been answered before, but is there no time bank??
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888 is hard to play on a laptop, need a mouse lol, done a few miss clicks. This has probably been answered before, but is there no time bank??
Apparently not. Sucks donkey balls. Especially as timer is short anyway.
Also had major issues with typing in amounts where it"s decided 220 out of 1780 equals all-in. Need to be very careful especially when multi-tabling.
Most annoying thing though is the 6 max tables pay 3 players. Makes them pointless!
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Nice to know i can run like Stephen Hawking on both Stars and this site now though. Kings into Aces, Queens into Kings, Jacks into Tens and he binks a ten. Bye bye $80. Awesome start.
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888 is hard to play on a laptop, need a mouse lol, done a few miss clicks. This has probably been answered before, but is there no time bank??
Apparently not. Sucks donkey balls. Especially as timer is short anyway.
there is a time bank. i"ve used it in ring games for sure.
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How do you use it? Can"t see it anywhere, timer goes down, Fold.
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Within table settings, There is an option to set timebank to kick in Auto or manually. Click radio button for auto.
GL :)
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Thanks, ill look into this time bank settings. Wouldnt wanna play more than 2 tables if you cant have a time bank.
And i agree with you andy about the betting. The slider moved up in ratios of the BB for me which is normal pre flop i guess (maybe you can fix this somewhere), but i found it so hard to caculate open raises of 2.5x and for 3 bets also. Typing it in the box was a pain especially as the clock ran down so quickly.
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With the online season approaching, wouldn"t it be nice if the tournament breaks were synchronised...
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Got to say as a smoker the syncronized breaks are always well recieved ( and before anyone asks, my house is a smoke free zone) in practice for the fresh air in all casinos...............liar, the wife doesnt like it
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APAT tournaments should have sync breaks.
Sync breaks are not quite active yet on all tours as we are waiting for most players to have latest version where all this was supported. We"ll turn it on for everything in a week or two.
Also the next version, (May), will have a heap of cool never-seen-before features, and also will have better hand history.
Btw, if you have VERY old 888 or pacific client, it may not have upgraded when you launched it. Can download latest version direct from www.888poker.com
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I was playing a cash game, on one of the webcam tables earlier, a guy left his wife playing a hand, i had pocket jacks, an ace came out on the flop, i raised to see what was about, he came back and i heard her telling him he had kq, he called, the turn and river came down with nothing for him, he went all in after the river, i called and walked away with a nice pot. makes the game a lot easier! Looking for a way to disable the mic on my laptop now!
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The push or fold tables are incred, did all my $ in like but good fun.
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I was playing a cash game, on one of the webcam tables earlier, a guy left his wife playing a hand, i had pocket jacks, an ace came out on the flop, i raised to see what was about, he came back and i heard her telling him he had kq, he called, the turn and river came down with nothing for him, he went all in after the river, i called and walked away with a nice pot. makes the game a lot easier! Looking for a way to disable the mic on my laptop now!
LOL beer all over the table now ....
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Found te cash games (10NL) soft so far. Also just played a sat into $25K gtd also very soft, The software itself aint as bad as I remember either.
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I was playing a cash game, on one of the webcam tables earlier, a guy left his wife playing a hand, i had pocket jacks, an ace came out on the flop, i raised to see what was about, he came back and i heard her telling him he had kq, he called, the turn and river came down with nothing for him, he went all in after the river, i called and walked away with a nice pot. makes the game a lot easier! Looking for a way to disable the mic on my laptop now!
LOL beer all over the table now ....
i did chuckle......
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I was playing a cash game, on one of the webcam tables earlier, a guy left his wife playing a hand, i had pocket jacks, an ace came out on the flop, i raised to see what was about, he came back and i heard her telling him he had kq, he called, the turn and river came down with nothing for him, he went all in after the river, i called and walked away with a nice pot. makes the game a lot easier! Looking for a way to disable the mic on my laptop now!
LOL. Epic fail on his wifes part. :D
Wish poker was always so simple!
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Within table settings, There is an option to set timebank to kick in Auto or manually. Click radio button for auto.
GL :)
Just had a look and mine is set to automatic and yet i"ve yet to see a timebank. Was particularly annoying in last nights APAT and i know others had the same problem. Hope it gets sorted for the next one.
I get a minute timebank playing a $10 Stars tourney (with extra time added at the breaks) so surely in an APAT main event we get one?
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I was playing a cash game, on one of the webcam tables earlier, a guy left his wife playing a hand, i had pocket jacks, an ace came out on the flop, i raised to see what was about, he came back and i heard her telling him he had kq, he called, the turn and river came down with nothing for him, he went all in after the river, i called and walked away with a nice pot. makes the game a lot easier! Looking for a way to disable the mic on my laptop now!
love that,,,quality lolol
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I was playing a cash game, on one of the webcam tables earlier, a guy left his wife playing a hand, i had pocket jacks, an ace came out on the flop, i raised to see what was about, he came back and i heard her telling him he had kq, he called, the turn and river came down with nothing for him, he went all in after the river, i called and walked away with a nice pot. makes the game a lot easier! Looking for a way to disable the mic on my laptop now!
That is hilarious :D the mind boggles as to what else will happen with webcam Poker !!!
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I was playing a cash game, on one of the webcam tables earlier, a guy left his wife playing a hand, i had pocket jacks, an ace came out on the flop, i raised to see what was about, he came back and i heard her telling him he had kq, he called, the turn and river came down with nothing for him, he went all in after the river, i called and walked away with a nice pot. makes the game a lot easier! Looking for a way to disable the mic on my laptop now!
That is hilarious :D the mind boggles as to what else will happen with webcam Poker !!!
Spent most of the last MTT comparing piercings
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I"m HU at the end of a 3euro rebuy and just as 3rd is eliminated we"re on a break - shouldn"t there be a button to say we don"t need it?
Obv brag - bought in once, no rebuys, took the add-on. 343.80 up top :)
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I"m HU at the end of a 3euro rebuy and just as 3rd is eliminated we"re on a break - shouldn"t there be a button to say we don"t need it?
Obv brag - bought in once, no rebuys, took the add-on. 343.80 up top :)
Unfortunately, most sites do not have this feature.
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I"m HU at the end of a 3euro rebuy and just as 3rd is eliminated we"re on a break - shouldn"t there be a button to say we don"t need it?
Obv brag - bought in once, no rebuys, took the add-on. 343.80 up top :)
Can you not take the rebuy immediately ?
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I"m HU at the end of a 3euro rebuy and just as 3rd is eliminated we"re on a break - shouldn"t there be a button to say we don"t need it?
Obv brag - bought in once, no rebuys, took the add-on. 343.80 up top :)
Can you not take the rebuy immediately ?
I don"t know - I didn"t try. Took the add-on at double value, but didn"t drop below starting stack after the first few hands
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I"m HU at the end of a 3euro rebuy and just as 3rd is eliminated we"re on a break - shouldn"t there be a button to say we don"t need it?
Obv brag - bought in once, no rebuys, took the add-on. 343.80 up top :)
Can you not take the rebuy immediately ?
yes you can. what you can"t do however is my favourite rebuy tactic which is ship stack below rebuy threshold (strong hand obv) and immediately rebuy. do this on sites like stars or betfair and if you win the hand, your rebuy is added to your stack. on 888 it states you can"t add the rebuy as you have too many chips.
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Given all the tournies coming up I had to top up (cos I am shyte at poker) and the cashier deposit on line - it no work. So I ring em - 20 seconds later money on..
Ger likes that
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Given all the tournies coming up I had to top up (cos I am shyte at poker) and the cashier deposit on line - it no work. So I ring em - 20 seconds later money on..
Ger likes that
trying to deposit cause i am also shyte(and keep blowing any winnings on casino), and the submit button not working
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Given all the tournies coming up I had to top up (cos I am shyte at poker) and the cashier deposit on line - it no work. So I ring em - 20 seconds later money on..
Ger likes that
trying to deposit cause i am also shyte(and keep blowing any winnings on casino), and the submit button not working
Cashouts are working OK.
::)
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I have noticed a few things.
The freezeouts are quite easy even for a player of my ability.
There are a large amount of aggressive playing Spaniards who appear to raise on the first round of betting but fold a lot if they are re-raised.
If you play the MTT in the morning there are a lot of Australians who think that every bluff they try that gets called and beaten has to have been done by a "fish" and any bluff that I do that wins makes me a "donk".
The amount of good hands that are well played and make you think it was done correctly are nearly always met with abuse from the losing player. Very rarely do you get a "wp" or "nh" from the loser, only normally from the chip leader or the one near to the bottom of the prize money.
I love the "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" when I am playing my hand.
Finally, playing the APAT tourneys and League games is certainly a lot harder than playing against regular 888 players.
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I have noticed a few things.
The freezeouts are quite easy even for a player of my ability.
There are a large amount of aggressive playing Spaniards who appear to raise on the first round of betting but fold a lot if they are re-raised.
If you play the MTT in the morning there are a lot of Australians who think that every bluff they try that gets called and beaten has to have been done by a "fish" and any bluff that I do that wins makes me a "donk".
The amount of good hands that are well played and make you think it was done correctly are nearly always met with abuse from the losing player. Very rarely do you get a "wp" or "nh" from the loser, only normally from the chip leader or the one near to the bottom of the prize money.
I love the "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" when I am playing my hand.
Finally, playing the APAT tourneys and League games is certainly a lot harder than playing against regular 888 players.
lol - nice observations.
The last bit is so definitely true - the general standard is incredibly low. I love it.
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I have noticed a few things.
The freezeouts are quite easy even for a player of my ability.
There are a large amount of aggressive playing Spaniards who appear to raise on the first round of betting but fold a lot if they are re-raised.
If you play the MTT in the morning there are a lot of Australians who think that every bluff they try that gets called and beaten has to have been done by a "fish" and any bluff that I do that wins makes me a "donk".
The amount of good hands that are well played and make you think it was done correctly are nearly always met with abuse from the losing player. Very rarely do you get a "wp" or "nh" from the loser, only normally from the chip leader or the one near to the bottom of the prize money.
I love the "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" when I am playing my hand.
Finally, playing the APAT tourneys and League games is certainly a lot harder than playing against regular 888 players.
lol - nice observations.
The last bit is so definitely true - the general standard is incredibly low. I love it.
+1
I type "nh wp" when I lose to an absolute suckout
[X] happens a lot
- the sarcasm is rarely picked up by the aussies
I also type wp when it"s truly appropriate.
[ ] happens a lot
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Played an MTT for three and a half hours and I"m 2nd CL on the cash bubble, then all of a sudden - disconnected..! By the time I got back in, the tourney had finished and the only guy who hadn"t been disconnected had robbed the lot. The air was blue. ;)
I"ve never had much of a problem with 888 and I"ve grown to like the software, but it won"t take many more situations like this one to put me off.
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OK first time i have seen a problem but since both me and deb had a prob tonight then this 888 site is truly not to be trusted
Firstly Deb got busted on the LAST hand of the APAT Glasgow qual rebuy period.
It asked her if she wanted to rebuy...yes
then she hit the add on button
but only ended up with 3000 chips. rebuy was 1500, add on 3000
so she should have had 4500 chips, not 3000
text file in HH confirms she asked for a rebuy + addon.
not the first time we"ve heard last hand rebuy/addon problems i dont think?
Secondly I finished 7th for $4.80, but didn"t get paid. The money is not the point, but the principle is. There"s around $30 of buyins that should have been paid out to the final table. It"s robbery not to pay it out. The online cashier confirmed nothing was paid to me but cannot do anything about it - it has to be reviewed by a supervisor.
With all the weight of other evidence this 888 crowd really need to sort their software out.
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Also if IIRC it wouldn"t allow Ger to add on and allowed him to get it all in behind on at least 14 occassions
Come on 888 sort it out :-\
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Also if IIRC it wouldn"t allow Ger to add on and allowed him to get it all in behind on at least 14 occassions
Come on 888 sort it out :-\
yep I hit the rebuy button while I had above the number of chips, then hit the addon and it failed both.
as for being behind on 14 occassions thats not quite right close but not quite accurate...............
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OK first time i have seen a problem but since both me and deb had a prob tonight then this 888 site is truly not to be trusted
Firstly Deb got busted on the LAST hand of the APAT Glasgow qual rebuy period.
It asked her if she wanted to rebuy...yes
then she hit the add on button
but only ended up with 3000 chips. rebuy was 1500, add on 3000
so she should have had 4500 chips, not 3000
text file in HH confirms she asked for a rebuy + addon.
not the first time we"ve heard last hand rebuy/addon problems i dont think?
Secondly I finished 7th for $4.80, but didn"t get paid. The money is not the point, but the principle is. There"s around $30 of buyins that should have been paid out to the final table. It"s robbery not to pay it out. The online cashier confirmed nothing was paid to me but cannot do anything about it - it has to be reviewed by a supervisor.
With all the weight of other evidence this 888 crowd really need to sort their software out.
Here"s the bullcrap I received in response to my own gripe of the two:
Dear Andrew,
Thank you for contacting us here at 888poker. My name is Mitchell, of the 888poker support team and I will be assisting you today.
Andrew, this e-mail is in regards to your query, regarding the "APAT Scottish National Live Event Satellite" you played in but have not received the correct pay-out for the said tournament.
Andrew, after a review of your account and your game history it has been noted that you did place 7th in the "APAT Scottish National Live Event Satellite" but there was no pay-out for this particular tournament as this is a Satellite tournament and you can only win a seat into the step up tournament which you did not.
I do sincerely apologise for any inconveniences this may have caused and should you have any more queries or questions please feel free to contact us again.
If you require further assistance in this or any other matter, please feel free to contact us.
Kind regards,
Mitchell J.
Member Support Representative
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and here is my rather reserved reply:
OK Mr Mitchell J. You"ve just made me extremely MAD!!!!!
Please see attached (I figured you might try to pull the wool over my eyes) - don"t steal players funds. Make sure you pay out all the other guys too.
Shame on 888 poker. You are not worthy of the support of our APAT organisation which is built on trust.
(attached was the screenshot of the lobby which I took just in case some moron called Mitchell J. tried to tell me I was wrong)
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Our other satellites all generated minor cash places this week - did those guys get paid out I wonder??
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Hi AJ
I finished 5th and got paid , incidently it was double what the payout table stated ,
wonder if that had to do with you not getting paid , sorry got no screenshots though
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I play 888 nearly every night, usually cash and have had no problems at all other than the recent APAT disasters, but it seems that things are not going well at 888 and they really ought to get their act together. As Andy says APAT deserves better.
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Andrew,
I finished 6th and was paid.
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888 are the greatest !!!
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Could someone remind me of the telephone number for customer services please ? When I try to log on it says that I can"t because I"m already logged on... don"t like the sound of this.
Edit : Found the number. Software glitch apparently :(