Lost Power

jmupolo15 · #1 07-02-2005, 06:10 PM

Hi, I'm a newbie so excuse me if the post has been done before.

I was just playing a multi table $20 table holdem tournament on Party, and at the final table I'm sitting in 3rd place when my power goes out. By the time it comes back on, I am out of chips. Anyone have any similar tales of technological woe?

Barry_G · #2 07-02-2005, 06:58 PM

Buy a UPS(uninterrupted Power Supply)/Surge protector. It supplies your computer with a regulated stream of electricity and will improve the life of your system. Charges while u play and its will save you if you have a surge/ short outage while in a big pot or tournament.

KingMarc · #3 07-02-2005, 07:18 PM

Time for my cool story.

About a year ago I was playing a $10 2 table sit and go at Party. I got off to a good start, getting 300 or so chips when my internet connection goes out. About 20 minute later, I manage to get back on. There were about 9 people left, and I had been blinded down to 25 chips, with my big blind of 100 about to come. I win the hand, triple up. Small blind comes, I win the hand, quadruple up. I then proceed to increase my stack of 25 to 2000 with 9 all ins over the course of the next 30 hands. I eventually ended up with third place.

Blackjack · #4 07-02-2005, 07:25 PM

That almost brought a tear to my eye.

Nick-Zack · #5 07-02-2005, 11:04 PM

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Buy a UPS(uninterrupted Power Supply)/Surge protector. It supplies your computer with a regulated stream of electricity and will improve the life of your system. Charges while u play and its will save you if you have a surge/ short outage while in a big pot or tournament.

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This works fine as long as your cable still has power. I just was blinded out of 2 - $20SNG's when the power and cable went out.

Keith Fellmy · #6 07-03-2005, 12:02 AM

Here in Ft. Myers the comcast cable connection is still bad and it has been almost a year since the hurricane came through. Mine goes out from time to time. Not as bad as it was though. I was at the final table of the first Crypto Downtime Tourney and third in chips. By the time I got back on...I was out. Still made the cash but I could have finished higher.

KingMarc · #7 07-03-2005, 12:04 AM

One more addition to my cool story...

This was right after the WSOP event where Jesus had one chip and kept winning all ins. So I started calling myself Jesus for a month [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

smartalecc5 · #8 07-03-2005, 12:09 AM

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That almost brought a tear to my eye.

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Almost being the key word. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]