Online Poker Forum - Making The Top 1000 And No Sattelite Entry

cannonwillow · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:53 am Post subject:

the tourney will probably be about the same length, maybe slightly shorter in time, but not much. I figure it to go at least 4 hours, Scousie Neutral

Oh, and good luck

born2bafish · Flush Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 139

first break in and only 100 people gone. 233 left and 90 make the money. looks like not too many no shows this time around. still plugging away Mr. Green

born2bafish · Flush Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 139

third break. wussed my way to the bubble and hit some rag hands to make it inside next pay break. should be out soon but still plugging away

33rd place... taken out when my ace/queen ran into the powerful queen/jack of the chip donkey

had fun Very Happy

Fimbu · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject:

Scousie · Pair Joined: 01 Aug 2009 Posts: 24

Thanks, you could of told me the seconds!

Scousie · Pair Joined: 01 Aug 2009 Posts: 24

Oh well, better get answering questions in the sit & learns and re-register Wink

Vozier · High Card Joined: 10 May 2009 Posts: 20

Well

Tourney gone, tightest ever...

i sure hope they will reset this thing and resketual the whole sit n learn scenario for next moth. Otherwise it will be pretty dead money for full tilt, just figure out how many angry players they will get for a few newbies that will be happy... not really worth it.

I keep saying they should reset the whole thing to 0, let people decide how many saturday freerolls they want to take each month, and after a year or so it would be how they want it with old players blocked form this benefit.
I speak as a "5 month old only" player on this site.

After all they offer the promotion, i see no point in blocking participants so violently after only a few months of starting.
The biggest problem they should be fixing is the saturday freerolls registration, wich is really hard to find and cumbersome.

regards

Vozier

PS: non of my support mails have been answered so far on the matter----

Deadite · High Card Joined: 01 May 2006 Posts: 1

I never was able to register this last tourney when I clicked on the link or when I tried manually. Crying or Very sad

I hope it doesn't happen again next month.

JRH140 · High Card Joined: 08 Aug 2009 Posts: 13

Well since THIS is the weekend I made sure to clear of work and social obligations to play in the most recent round of Sit-N-Learns, I figured I would make some attempt to fully express why I am so outraged by the recent going ons on the part of Full Tilt.

A) Announce for more than a month in several dozen places (including EACH and EVERY Sit-N-Learn & Leaderboard) that an event with a prospective player base of 10 to 20 thousand people is going to take place on one date (8/15 & 8/16), and without notice or notification run it a full week prior to schedule.
B) Recurring inability for what should be simple and important aspects of the software to work properly. There was no single instance (this month or in ANY month previous) where I was able to do the most basic and important function, REGISTER, without problem. EACH and EVERY time required an email to support to manually register me for atleast one of the SnL Tournaments.
C) Given points A&B, you still mange to leave the respective MTTs on the board but unregisterable (regardless of eventual qualification status) until fewer than 18 hours before the week early MTT starts, leaving everyone to wonder WHICH dozen pieces of conflicting information were correct and whether we needed to seek out help (yet again) from support, or if the MTTs were simply put on the board early and would soon be moved to their proper and advertised date which made much more sense.
D) A new set of rules implemented secretly and incompletely at the last possible minute that completely changed the way this and all future SnL MTTs would be run and bar all the people that had been partaking in the Full Tilt Academy since the begining, without notice explaination or any clarification what so ever, forcing people to fumble around and try and figure things out on thier own in the dark.
E) The COMPLETE and TOTAL absence of ANY support during this ENTIRE process. Despite numerous polite and pointed e-mail (with a growing sense of urgency) to all branches of Full Tilt support attempting to make some sense out of the conflicts and chaos they had created, neither I nor anyone I know of (including nearly 100 people I've spoken to across multiple forums) have received even a single reply of ANY kind from Full Tilt even to this date.

I wouldnt accept these kind of systemic, deliberate, and mounting failures from ANY company or institution, let alone one billing itself as the biggest (and "best") poker site in the world that is supposed to be responsible for the competent handling of millions of dollars of people's money.

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I liked Full Tilt and was one of the main driving forces in getting our local poker organization to attempt to try and make the move from real tables to online play, and to choose Full Tilt as our venue or it's competitors.
Thankfully people were slow to convert because within a week or so of our decision one of FT's updates created "dancing tables" where any time you were moved tables in an MTT a new table (in a new window) would pop up at a random location on your desktop leaving the old one running behind. This made it difficult to run even 2 table at the same time, or to try and use your computer for anything else while playing poker. FT eventually corrected this problem (months later); but is still unable to make a single smooth table transition without needing multiple windows that leaving windows and other artifacts behind, something that EVERY other poker site I am aware of has been able to do from its inception, and something Full Tilt seemed oddly PROUD of given their recent comments in the thread discussing their new features.
Dancing tables gone, we attempted to get the online conversion moving again. Then came the chaos and confusion that was Full Tilt's "grand" 5 year anniversary celebration, makeover, and software "update". I wont attempt to rehash the problems (both cosmetic and actual) that came along with this forced, hasty, over complicated, and largely unnecessary overhaul; that effected the look, feel, function, and stability of many of the core aspects of the way the software and site runs. Being a programer myself I was willing to give them a little time to button things down, but needless to say this left an incredibly bad taste in the mouths of the people we were trying to get to move to Full Tilt, and stopped ANY efforts attempting to do so for a large time to come.

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During all this, the one thing that kept me personally playing on and enjoying Full Tilt to any real degree was the recent addition of the Full Tilt Academy. I thought it was a great addition to the site, offered a great learning opportunity and powerful tool to FT members, as well as capturing a portion of the growing niche of poker training sites. My prior FTA SnL experiences (I'll leave comments on the rest of the academy to another time as this is already way too long as is) consisted of first only taking the very small number of SnLs whose challenges and game play I was very familiar with and making a couple of leaderboards. As my experience grew I took more challenges and SnLs the next month and the month after, making leader boards with each try. This past month I decided to see what all was out there including the SnLs I hadn't ever had reason to try before.
I watched each video and then took the corresponding challenge. I managed to qualify for most of them, including some I had no real right to for instance PLO. I registered for all the SnL Freerolls I qualified for knowing from the previous month that winning more than one of the satellite MTTs didn't get you anything extra, but wanting to play cards (odd this being a poker site) and make sure I hopefully made it to the next day's main event. I was unable to register for all of the MTTs using FT's software (which had been the case every single time previously as well), so I sent another email to Academy Support asking them to please register me in the rest. I never heard back from FT until well after that months SnLs had come and gone, but I was registers in the rest of the MTTs (some of I had played multiple times previously, some of which were completely new to me). No word from any person or aspect of Full Tilt saying I wasn't eligible to play in any of the ones I had previously played in, nor anything suggesting that perhaps I didn't want to play in all of the SnLs I had qualified for because they were about to make changes to the rule structure which would bar me from playing in any of these SnLs ever again .. for the rest of my life.

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I don't want to get into the details of the myriad of easy ways they could have revised the FTA SnL structure to more effectively to what it appears they are attempting (top 100 or 250 qualify instead of 1,000; players can only register for 3 SnL events max per month; a points system over multiple SnLs that qualifies players for a single freeroll; Players must wait 1 month before being able to play in any SnL event they have just played in; etc.. etc.. ) I would have at the VERY least wiped the slate clean before initiating such a harsh policy without any advanced warning. All I know is the changes THEY implemented managed to alienate almost the entire FTA base that had initially made it grow by barring them from playing in the SnLs that had qualified for ever again, confuse and frustrate anyone who actually tried to play in them (I know atleast a few people that managed to play SnLs that had played in previously despite the "new rules", and make a complete mockery of the system they themselves created considering that simply registering in one of the SnL "satellites" guaranteed you entry into the next day's main event since the awarded 100 seats to the often 50 or less players in each one.
We ALL get the once a month or so promotional spam e-mail from FT telling us what a great site they are. How hard would it have been to have someone somewhere send out a blanket email to all the FTA members apprising of the rules changes (either before the event or atleast as some sort of explanation for those out there still confused). They could have at the VERY LEAST dropped a link in one of their promotional blanket mails to cover themselves. But instead, they decided to secretly swap the rules, last minute, midstream, leave many many people hanging in the wind, and still have not to this date given any explanation or clarification (or even a response) that I am aware of.

Again (and lastly) I say, I know these are only freerolls, but if they cant manage to run THEM correctly then there is NO way I am ever going to put another dollar into FT nor advocate that anyone else do!

Vozier · High Card Joined: 10 May 2009 Posts: 20

JRH:
I could have said it shorter, but couldnt have said it better.... totally agree with your opinion.

i copy here a remark i made about thi topic in anoher trend:

The solution is pretty simple. Reset all historical results and starting September, or whenever they feel like it, apply this once in a lifetime per SNL rule. Publishing this in this forum, as news on the poker software, in the academy, etc, etc. So if someone wants to take 20 SNL in one month its an informed decision.

lets hope they come to their senses...
i got an answer after several mails to support, they apreciate our input and take our remarks into consiferation. It might help if more players post their discontempt about this issue..

regards
Vozier

bug1024 · High Card Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 14

Here we are again. I took the new Micro Stakes quiz and went to register and it was not in the list. I guess this shows that one group is not talking to another. I also looked and nobody is registered for the games. We will see if any body is allowed to play.

Sad

born2bafish · Flush Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 139

this field should be even smaller than last month. i can see 50 people fighting it out for 5k, unfortunately i wont be one of them Crying or Very sad

Wolfsong · Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:47 pm Post subject:

I can't register for any of the three I qualified for Sad

Philbird1 · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject:

Wolfsong, someone just gave me a tip... You have to open up the tournament and register from the box in the center of the page where it says entry to satillite...

Grimmiii · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:27 pm Post subject:

Well....

20 tourneys open for registration....though for those at for example 15:50 which is "Sit and Gos by the Numbers" you end on the page/ranking/enrollment for "PLO Pitfalls&Possibilities".....therefor "Final Table" offered me the Entry for my Sit&Gos by the Numbers.....

Still leaves the big miracle for the "one time only" thing as i have played in all these tourneys before....

Cheers Grimm

EDIT/PS

As Value Betting and Micro Stakes are missing the direct link via the client...

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