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Old 06-01-2008, 01:09 AM   #1
Jim
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Default Poker sites internet outage policies?

If anyones had internet outage while playing tournaments, or happens to know what specific sites policies are regarding this please post them here. I'll do some googling here in a bit too and think I'm going to email a few sites to ask.

The reason I bring this up is today I'm about 3 hours into event 2 of the MSOP at Full Tilt. 5318 players had entered there is now 1700 left making the average chip stack around 9300. I'm doing well am in 73rd place with 23,700 chips when all of a sudden my internet goes out. After a few minutes of becoming really frustrated I feel it will come back up and I don't want to be on edge when I get reconnected. i go make some food come back its still down.

Now i'm really annoyed. Takes me about 15-20 more minutes to get ahold of a friend (seeing as I have most of there phone numbers stored online and not a hard drive; something i'll be changing now). I get him to log in and by this time I'm down to 17000 chips and there are around 950 left.

My internet's still down so I give him the read I have on each player about there avatars etc to refresh my memory. We play the remainder of the tournament on the phone with him describing action to me and me assisting in the decisions.

I doubt it will be a big deal considering the money cashed for was insignificant we ended up busting in the 300's (paid top 558) so got peanuts for payout.

Just wondering what are poker rooms policies on this situation? I'm sure its different for each site.. but I would hate if this ever happens again and I happen to do FT to end up having it come back on me by not knowing.

Anyone have similar situation happen to them? Anyone know particular sites rules here? Lets see if we can get together a good list of the policy for at least the top 15 poker rooms or so.

Last edited by Jim; 06-02-2008 at 04:40 AM. Reason: typo on number of chips when i returned
 
Old 06-02-2008, 02:12 AM   #2
деньги
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Default Re: Poker sites internet outage policies?

Not Legal!
I am mostly confident this is against the rules all sites.
 
Old 06-02-2008, 02:59 AM   #3
Jim
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Default Re: Poker sites internet outage policies?

Thanks деньги (had to copy and paste that)
I googled a bunch too and it seems like its against the rules. Honestly the situation sucks, what is a player supposed to do when the internet goes down? knock random neighbors doors asking to use there computer?
 
Old 06-02-2008, 03:38 AM   #4
Barton
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Default Re: Poker sites internet outage policies?

Quote:
Not Legal!
I am mostly confident this is against the rules all sites.
I agree. I suspect it would be illegal even if you personally ran over to a neighbors house and played it yourself. That being said I doubt you would get busted on a technicallity if you happened to win. I would hope they would do some sort of investigation and find out you wern't just passing off playing to some pro.
 
Old 06-02-2008, 03:52 AM   #5
Aidan
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Default Re: Poker sites internet outage policies?

Well there should definitely be some sort of investigation. I don't think this is a white and black situation. Discretion should be used with these issues.
 
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