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Thanks to the standard overreacting of people, one of you pricks managed to get me banned.

So apparently they are serious about fixing the problem. Unfortunately, I have never knowingly abused this bug and I think its complete [censored] that they would ban me when its obvious from my play that if I even unknowingly took a free blind it certainly wasn't any sort of premeditated move on my part. I've played over 6000 hands this week and time out all the time becasue of software lag, and its inevitable that some of those times I will be about to take the BB.

Feel free to continue your witch hunt for cheaters, but next time try and determine if the person is delibrately cheating or if maybe if was just dumb luck.

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Ouch. Do you have your HH's saved so that you can present some sort of defense? It would seem someone who plays alot at WPEX could easily accidently activate the bug at least a few times a week (probably without even realizing it).

It makes me wonder how well they investigated this before they dropped the hammer...disappointing (unless you are a hardcore abuser/cheater but I doubt that...alot).

Keep us posted on what happens.

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I called them and was reactivated without too much problem but was told that I would be watched closely and if they saw it again, I would be banned permanently. I'll admit that I've certainly noticed that sometimes I don't have to post after missing hands, but most of the time I think its becasue I missed my button or timed out in the SB or something. The fact is this probably happened 10-15 times total over the 20K+ hands I've played on the site, so I was certainly not doing it as a deliberate attempt to avoid paying the blinds. I've posted nearly 30K in blinds during that time, but obviously if you happen to skip on $30 worth of blinds while some tinfoil hat wearing McCarthyist from this thread happens to be at the table then BAM thats it.

I was actually in the middle of multiple hands when I was just cut off from the server (had a flush and 2-pair dunno how they turned out) and greeted with a pop-up saying that the server would not accept my connection and to contact support. Ironicaly enough of my 3 tables, one was HU and another was 4-handed at the time which doesn't exactly seem like the place a blind skipper would be hanging out.

Edit: They claimed that after I was reported they watched my play and saw it happen, but I don't know if they just looked at reported HHs or did anythign more thorough.