Re: Just received email that my account reopened. No excuse from FTP
I work in the online poker industry, so I can perhaps add something to this discusssion.
Cardroom software is designed to detect and point out suspicious account activity, and is designed to be as zealous as possible in doing so. As a result of this, enormous numbers of innocent accounts are flagged. Accounts can be flagged for many, many reasons, including if that account was accessed from the same computer or IP as an account that has already been flagged.
Its absolutely reasonable that Full Tilt might close your account if it was related to an account that was involved in fraudulent activity (most commonly fraudulent chargeback requests / chip dumping). This is for your protection as well as theirs - and almost every online cardroom would do the same .
What has most likely happened is that your account has been flagged for whatever reason and closed for investigation. That investigation hasn't been properly carried out, and so your account remained closed. Once FT discovered an error had been made they reversed the situation (I would probably have compensated you in some way, but hey, each to his own) and allowed you to play again.
My point is, its such an easy mistake to make. This could have happened to you at any site and the results would have been similar - it was just coincidence that it happened at Full Tilt. You shouldn't hold anything against Full Tilt for trying to protect the integrity of their games.
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