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It's 21:40 EST, and we have decided to take the game down. We are experiencing too many disconnects to try and proceed.

If you were in a tournament when the disconnections began, we will look at your chip equity when the disconnections began, your equity right now (as of the void) and give you the higher of the two.

We hope to be up within the next few hours.

Apologies,

Doug

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keep us posted. ty Doug, please turn on BOOM switch too. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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What is the formula for equity?
Is it (#chips/total chips) * (total prize pool) / # players remaining?

Also, when are the payouts expected?

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wow, thanks for the announcement, but this is pitiful for a major site.

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thanks for the update

(was in the $300 tournament)

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wow, awesome deal for you guys who didn't get dc and could steal blinds for half an hour. Thanks for the update doug.

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Thanks for the update doug.

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Thanks for keeping us posted, Doug.

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Do I get my equity as calculated with overlay on the WSOPE qualifier?

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in before rakeback

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What is the formula for equity?
Is it (#chips/total chips) * (total prize pool) / # players remaining?

Also, when are the payouts expected?

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Thanks for the update, Doug. I hope that it will be back up soon, and I hope that we'll get credit for Ironman today because I had JUST started up my session and only got in 15 minutes before it went down. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Yeah seriously I was disconnected for 45 minutes before you decided to pause the tournaments. I lost 500 in chips.

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Yeah seriously I was disconnected for 45 minutes before you decided to pause the tournaments. I lost 500 in chips.

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It sounds like this wont hurt you though, you'll get the equity from whatever time you were dropped.

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So then it hurts the people that gained the chips, because the total number of chips in play is higher, giving less to all the other people?

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So then it hurts the people that gained the chips, because the total number of chips in play is higher, giving less to all the other people?

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Unless I'm reading OP wrong it doesn't sound that way either, it sounds like everyone's getting the best situation here. My guess would be theres 2 different calcs where the total chips in play is the same for both, but you get your higher equity payout depending on when you had more chips. It sounds like FT is paying out an overlay on this. Then again this is all speculation on my part.

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it only hurts you if you were like, final table or higher chip level, or if you were the best player in the field and had an above average chance of increasing your chip stack / making the FT/whatever... heres the math on mine for an example:

i am 15th of 125 in the 25k guarantee

buyins to be distributed according to chip stacks: 281*69=19389

but everyone still left gets their buyin back, even people with 50 chips or some crap. im 15th with 18650 or so. total chips 406*3000=1218000. 18650/12180000=.0015311etc, *19389+69 = $366 total return on a $69 investment... meh i dunno. i dont like it but i guess its more fair than chopping it at where the money would currently be and handing out prizes accordingly.

edit: in 15th place, i am making about $80 more than i would be if they just chopped it and divvyd it up according to the original payout structure, obv the first place person is not taking $7k though, so you're only hurt if you were like, very very high in the tournament standings. otherwise you're probably making out ahead. of course the first place guy is gonna get like, way way less than the 1st place prize, but it evens out quickly

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Our system has a method for paying out automatically as soon as the tournament gets voided. This payout will be based on the chip count when the void occurs.

Then we have to do some work to get the equity before the disconnections started, so those who were negatively affected will get a second payout within the next 24-48 hours to make up any difference.

The system/automatic payout does not take into account freerolls and overlays for some reason, so the additional payout from that would happen with the second batch.

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Doug, what about disconnects during cash games? Thanks.

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How about SnG`s? The same thing there?

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Do we get Ironman credit? I am sitting at 180 pts I think.

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Yeah I'm at 185 and upset.

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I'm on Full Tilt... :$:$:$:$

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Does Full Tilt offer any freerolls or bonus money to be earned via rakeback when a situation like this occurs? I know the Doyle Brunson Network always had a couple or more $1000 freerolls to "make it up" to players...

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you are on >>>????

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i just wanna play some poker and all my funds are on FTP how sad

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p.s. why is it that an official of FTP posts here about what is going on but on the FTP site i can't find a thing?

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I am guessing they didn't pay of the denial of service attack guys.

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status?

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this sucks, but gametap is keeping me busy...sonic the hedgehog and streets of rage FTW!!

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beat: final fantasy VII for ps1 broken.

very off topic.

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i guess there is yahoo pool

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this sucks, but gametap is keeping me busy...sonic the hedgehog and streets of rage FTW!!

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can ppl play against each other on gametap , if so i'll play some street fighter alpha for some monies

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not sure, but im obsessed with SOR3

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Absolute Poker is keeping me busy.

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If it weren't for rakeback and your amazingly good software..

Worst. Time. Ever. for a "scheduled maintenance". Right.

OK I see you've fixed the Status Page which said this was scheduled. At least being honest.

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tilt back up

11:31 pm est

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its back up

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yeahhhh