Party Cruise November 3 Semifinals (limit)

[jba]

so they closed the tables?

(i had to restart can you believe that)

[MicroBob]

not sure if they closed SOME tables....but I'm still playing on mine.


I'm going to log-off and get back on though since that is evidently what you are supposed to do I suspect....even though party isn't pausing this tourney OR telling us what the hell is going on......errors happen and I understand that...but would this kind of confusion EVER happen on Stars to this degree?? no freaking way.

[fnurt]

Well, basically, there are advantages to playing on Party, and this is one of the compensating disadvantages!

[jba]

micro --

I restarted and the semis are now showing up as paused in the lobby starting at 2200 est.

that said, safest bet is almost certainly to stay on the table.



hey fellas to digress a bit:

anybody know what avg starting chip count usually is in these things? i want to try to guesstimate my ev of buying in for the NL tourneys because of all these extra chips.... assuming they ever get off

[MicroBob]

i logged-off and am in your situation. it says it will start in a few minutes.

i've been in 'ghost-tourney' situations kind of similar to this before (where you have to log-off and log back on to find the real tourney).


The disadvantage to staying on the current tourney is that you might not be taken to the 'real' tourney when that actually starts.

This could be a HUGE advantage for some of us who were fortunate enough to learn that it is NOT the real deal...because some of our opponents might not make it.

Hell....a couple of people might get knocked-out in the ghost-tourney and then never return (thinking that they really DID get knocked out).



I think the average stack to start is somewhere around 2200-2400 or so (at least it was around that level in the Sept semi's).
Most players either have 3k or 1k (meaning they either knew about the extra chips or they didn't) but there were a few who had 1900 or something like that.

[jba]

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I think the average stack to start is somewhere around 2200-2400 or so (at least it was around that level in the Sept semi's).

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well i guess I ain't that bad at NL [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[fnurt]

I logged out and back in but I can't see the new tourney at all.

[simpsp31]

Hi,

I logged out and back in, i can see the new tournament but am not seated yet, are you actually at the table yet ?

Paul

[MicroBob]

that's weird. it is now no longer showing up in the main-lobby.

before it was listed as 'paused' and then I clicked on it.

I still have the tourney lobby open and it says that the tourney starts in 2 minutes.


My hunch is that it really won't start in 2 minutes though (or perhaps might start again, with all messed-up chip-counts, etc).



If the delay goes much longer they will have to strongly consider cancelling tonight's thing.

If this happens then I am going to demand to get a refund that is more than just the $270 cost of entry.
I also worked at their tables to max-out my extra starting-chips (and had higher EV because of my maxed-out starting stack) not to mention the general inconvenience of running home to play in a tourney that they never had.


They've had foul-ups with their tourneys for the last 3 nights I think (maybe more) and I find it to be pretty damn inexcuseable that they can't at least find a way to handle these 'glitches' a bit better.
(an e-mail about the situation would be a decent start, for example).

[Xhad]

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I logged out and back in, i can see the new tournament but am not seated yet, are you actually at the table yet?

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