The Full Tilt freeze

One of the main problems with playing on Full Tilt is that when the site gets busy things start to slooooooow down. Even though they only have halve the players that Pokerstars have (with no slowdown issues ever) once the player count on Full Tilt starts approaching the 50,000 mark, all actions on a table start slowing down. It is something that normally I've got use to and don't worry too much about, but last night it went to a new level. The site crashed on at least 2 occasions shutting down all the tables on Full Tilt.

I wouldn't have minded so much but on the second crash was in a hand that went like this. I was in early position with AA I just called hoping to get a raise that I could then re-raise. The player on the button obliged and he called my reraise. On the flop came A44 giving me the nut full house. I checked hoping he would think that I had pocket kings, but he check behind me. Next card out was a 9 I bet and he called, final card out was a king, I bet and he re-raise all in for $140 and just as I was about to call with the nut full house the site crashed.

I contacted Full Tilt who to their credit send me a fast response, but it looks like at this stage any hand not complete when the crash occurred will have the money returned to each player. I sent them another email with the hand history and explained that their site crashing just cost me $140. I await their response, will keep you posted.

Played on Pokerstars since Full tilt was down, and for anyone looking for a soft game of poker the NL50 tables after 2am EST on Pokerstars are about as soft as it gets. Made an easy $100 with very few cards in about an hour.

On the sites to avoid list "Golden Riviera "would have to be near the top of the list. Deposited some money on their site ages ago. Went to cash out and they asked me to fax my ID to them, which I did. Two weeks later I emailed them since I had no response, they said they hadn't received my fax, sent another copy and emailed it to them as well. My cashout still hadn't happened after another 2 weeks so called them and they said that the cashout was canceled until they received my ID, and now that they had received it I needed to log on and cashout again. I went to logon and it said my password was invalid? Called support who said I had the correct password and to try again. Try again same thing, called support who reset my password to 1234. Tried again still invalid password. Called again they said that was the correct account name and password so there was nothing else they could do. I asked them to just return my money to me and close my account. They said the only way I could do this was by logging on!!!! After 3 more emails to them they now just ignore my emails. 6 months later still no further. Oh well I guess you win some and lose some.

Have a good weekend all, catch you Monday.