So I sign up for Full Tilt with the screenname "Racist88"...

[WhoIam]

Note: I am NOT racist. Please don't flame me.

For a while I've been thinking about signing up for a poker site with a screenname designed to offend people. I was curious to see if I would get more action when people went out of their way to bust me. The name would have to offend the easily offendable without blatantly violating the terms of the site. I decided to implement my plan at Full Tilt because I heard that players there were extremely tight.

The name I chose was "Racist88" (88 is neo-nazi shorthand for "Heil Hitler") because I didn't think I could get away with "Wh1te P0wer." I planned to be very civil in my chats but if someone mentioned my SN, I would say something like "why yes, I am a racist." I would be very careful to actually say anything racist or hateful, just acknowledge that I'm a despicable racist.

In practice the idea didn't work. At all. No one mentioned my name, asked if I was racist, told me to go to hell, etc. I did get a couple "good hand racist"-type comments. No one played any differently against me. My experiment was a failure.

Anyway, I suffer some horrible beats and end up losing $200 in the process of clearing the first $20 of the bonus. I say "screw this" and decide to cash out and maybe tackle the bonus later. Several hours later I get the following email:

"It has been brought to our attention that your playerID may be seen as offensive or inappropriate to other players.

At this time, we request that you change your playerID to another name... In the interim, we have paused your account, and voided your recent withdrawal request."

WTF? Changing my name is understandable, but that's no reason I shouldn't be able to withdraw my funds. This just pisses me off because I could be putting the money to better use elesewhere.

[HotPants]

meh

whatareyougonnado.....

[Moneyline]

It sucks that they aren't letting you cash out, but if you just do what they ask I'm sure you can get your money out. FWIW, I wouldn't expect a screenname to effect your action much. I thought it was pretty cool when I used the screen name "Anilingus" at one site, and it didn't seem to affect my action at all.

[Freudian]

Many of the stupidest events in history has been preceded by a guy thinking 'what if...'

[WhoIam]

Just for the record, the point of this post was to share the results of my experiment and not to bitch about FT not letting me cash out.

[Overdrive]

There is a guy called "Turkishpride" who plays on Pokerstars. If he can call himself "Turkishpride" you should be able to call yourself "Whitepride" or whatever. Of course this is Pokerstars, not FT so ymmv.

[Mike Moon]

Great idea...I have a new one, come up with a screenname to offend the dealer, how will he react? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[guitarizt]

If you get easily offended online then you'd best not be online. Doesn't surprise me that it didn't work.

[Reef]

why don't you change it to something like FullTiltSux - see if that goes through.

[Dids]

I've sent this post to somebody I know working at FTP. I think this is totally not ok. Offensive screen name should have NOTHING to do with your cash out.