Lets make a list: Who got screwed by Party in the 1M tourney ?

[KampnagelKid]

What was your stack size? Where did they make the cut? 750 left, 450 left, 301 left?

[rwesty]

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What was your stack size? Where did they make the cut? 750 left, 450 left, 301 left?

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Had about 70k? with 750 left. Blinded down to 20k before the table started to work somewhere in the mid 300s.


[BBV Warning]

Pushed with 77 with 4 big blinds and lost to A7.

It looks like they plan on chopping after 301. If I had known they were going to stop at 301 I would have made a couple thousand more by leaving instead of trying to reconnect.

[Frankzan]

I had 26K with 752 left and was down to 5K by the time I got reconnected. Took instantly all my money away and will never ever deposit them back on party.

[CharlieDontSurf]

So wait..when the problems began at 700 or something they are paying you whatever place u were in with the 50%
but they are only giving the other 50% to the 300 players left before the cancelation? but after they were able to steal everyones blinds?

[tl65\]

I just noticed some extra money in my account, then checked my email:

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Dear XXXXXXXXX,
Due to unforeseen circumstances we were forced to cancel tournament "Sunday Million Guaranteed".

At the time of cancellation, players were awarded prize money corresponding to the rank to be awarded to the next eliminated player. Following this 50% of the remaining prize pool has been divided equally and 50% has been divided based on the chip count of each remaining player.

$3,707.46 have been added into your account as per the following statement:

Tournament id: 780579 Name: Sunday Million Guaranteed
Buy-In: $215 (Fee Included) Total Players to start: 5363
Players at the time of cancellation: 252 Level at the time of cancellation: 14
Limit: No Limits Total Chips in play: 26827300

Total Buy-in collected = $1,072,600.00
Prize Monfiltered= $245,196.36
Total prize pool = $1,072,600.00 - $245,196.36 = $827,403.64
Minimum prize pool award = $750.82 * 252 = $189,206.64


Prize pool to be divided equally = ($827,403.64 - $189,206.64) / 2 = $319,098.50
Prize pool to be divided based onfiltered= ($827,403.64 - $189,206.64) / 2 = $319,098.50


When the tournament was called off, you were seated at 'Table 1284113' and you had 140853 tournament chips.

Your share of the minimum prize pool award = $750.82
Your share in monfiltered= $319,098.50/252 = $1,266.26
Your share based onfiltered= $319,098.50 * (140853/26827300) = $1,675.38
Total monfiltered= $3,707.46


We apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused you. Thank you for playing.

Sincerely,

PartyPoker.com Team

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PartyPoker
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I woulda liked to be reimbursed for the 25k in chips i lost when the tables were frozen and people were stealing blinds, but I guess I cant complain after hearing what happenned to a lot of others.

[Rocco]

LOL (at Party Poker)! I feel sorry for all of you who were still in when it crashed. I was "fortunate" to be eliminated at 2000 something. As for now, I really don't know what to do. A part of me wants to stay among the fish (Party is the only site where I've had torney success), the other part wants to leave Party and all its trouble. I guess all programmers have been trying to focus on having the monster jackpot counter work, which they have failed with as it consumes so much CPU usage. What on earth are they doing? Can they focus on getting their software to work properly instead of silly events? For how long will they be able to keep their players?

[KampnagelKid]

yep, got the same.

[AceHiStation]

I had 56k chips with 752 people left and was frozen.

[uclabruinz]

Anything less then chopping the prizepool in accordance with their T&C at 752 and I am going to withdraw, cancel, and pursue this farther with whatever proper avenues I can identify.

I say it again, this is exactly the kind of thing that Congress is going to wrap its arms around.

[SixgunSam]

I had about 60k with 752, which was comfortably above average. I sat there frozen as the nearly 100 people got eliminated with a screen that read "tournament paused." A friend of mine opened my table and told me that some of the people were there, but most were in post/fold mode including me. I relogged and the action went live again. At that point, maybe 5 or 6 people seemed to actually be live and two of the people who were shortstacks before the issues now had over 80k. I finished up the rest of the tournament and was busted by one of the shortstacks who had taken advantage of the dead money created by the techincal difficulties.