No Saturday Night Live quality jokes. Just a discussion of my ‘progress’ (jopke?) playing stud. Before you rush to another blog. A lot applies regardless of the type of low rent seat you occupy.These days I’m playing at FullTilt. I’ve pretty much quit at PokerStars over the all-in changes. I’m seeing the occasional loss of connection and that isn’t going to cost me a nice pot at Tilt but would at Stars. But that is a side issue.
Yesterday, I referred to an article on loose play. It sure happened at Stars and it is even worse
Hello Linda,
Thank you for your e-mail to Full Tilt Poker.
Please be advised that when it is your turn to act, you will be given 25
seconds until your hand is automatically folded. This time limit is
standard for all games.
Unfortunately, we do not provide “all-in” or “disconnect” protection for
connection issues with our customers. This policy was chosen to protect
our users from others who might abuse the feature.
Disconnect protection is a feature which is often abused in online
poker, and has been a main area of complaint for many. When a player
disconnects at a table with disconnect protection, he is no longer
required to call any further bets, and gets to see a show-down without
investing any more chips. Players can abuse this simply by ?pulling the
plug? on their computer to get a free showdown.
While the majority of our players are honest and would not do this, many
try to profit from this unfair advantage. Full Tilt Poker puts forth
considerable effort to make sure that when you sit at a poker game on
our site, you sit at a game that is free of collusion, cheating, and any
type of unfair advantage. In our effort to bring you the fairest games,
we have chosen not to provide disconnection protection.
We thank you for your understanding, and we wish you the best of luck on
the tables. Please don’t hesitate to contact us should you have any
further questions.
Regards,
Nico
Full Tilt Poker Support
I queried full tilt in an email when a high limit player I knew lost a $30K pot because he lost his connection…the above was the answer I got. Are you sure Full tilt has disconnect protection???????