OMFG FTP DOOMSWITCH [censored]

[Dan BRIGHT]

Try emailing them.

[lambchop_FT]

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Try emailing them.

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I wonder if the Full Tilt Doomswitch works like the Pokerstars Doomswitch.....

....hmmmmm.......

From: ******** *********** [*******@*******.net]
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 22:47
To: 'PokerStars Support'
Subject: Questions for Lee Jones

(Support Please Forward This to Mr. Lee Jones)

Lee,

I am an avid Pokerstars player and I have a few questions for you.

1.. Why do you hate me so much? I don’t remember offending you at any point in time. If I have though, please let me know so I can correct this misunderstanding.
2.. If you don’t really hate me, why all the horrible bad beats? I understand that AK can’t always win against AT….but…..10% of the time really isn’t working out.
3.. On that note, why do always set me up? Every time that I’m short-stacked and have to push Ax….someone always has AK in the big blind. Why is this? And why is it that their AK always holds??
4.. Why do open-ended-straight-flush-with-two-over-cards-draws never hit??
5.. Is the DoomSwitch real???
6.. Why the River???? It’s always the damn river.
7.. One of my good friends informed me that you have a special keyboard that you use. He said you randomly pull up tables and when there is a pre-flop all-in you hit the F keys to dictate how bad someone gets sucked out on…such as F3 for 3-outer, F2 for 2-outer, etc. Is this true??
8.. Can I please win all of my coinflips for just one week? Just one! I promise I’ll never ask again.

Please address these questions for me. I would really appreciate it.

Thank you,

****** **********

lambchopdc


From: PokerStars Support [support@pokerstars.com]
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 01:29
To: *********@*****.net
Subject: Results for PokerStars Tournament 21540953

PokerStars Tournament #21540953, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $200.00/$15.00
5243 players
Total Prize Pool: $1048600.00
Tournament started - 2006/04/02 - 16:30:00 (ET)

Dear lambchopdc,

You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $88,606.70 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 1690.42 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

[dp13368]

As stated, try an email and post it here.

[NoMeansYes_]

Too bad you were staked and only got 50% and then the guy who staked you won the same tournament and you got nothing because he paid for his own entry even through you could pretty much afford it.

[lambchop_FT]

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Too bad you were staked and only got 50% and then the guy who staked you won the same tournament and you got nothing because he paid for his own entry even through you could pretty much afford it.

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If you're gonna post about someone's private financial business at least try and have a clue what you are talking about.

[Chump Change]

SO MUCH DRAMA IN THE LBC...

What's this all about? He/you made a nice cash, what's the problem?

[midas06]

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Too bad you were staked and only got 50% and then the guy who staked you won the same tournament and you got nothing because he paid for his own entry even through you could pretty much afford it.

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thx jfisnh

ceomto onto irc and talk somtime holla?

[thac]

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Too bad you were staked and only got 50% and then the guy who staked you won the same tournament and you got nothing because he paid for his own entry even through you could pretty much afford it.

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thx jfisnh

ceomto onto irc and talk somtime holla?

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holla

[MatthewRyan]

I took the advice and emailed them to see what couldbe done:

Hello Matthew,

Thank you for your e-mail.

As an avid poker player, I certainly understand your frustrations with
bad beats and general negative variance. I have myself been through
prolonged streaks of both good and bad luck.

Please be assured that our shuffle is random.

Please consider that as well as being technically close to impossible,
there is no motivation for a poker site to "rig" the deck in favor or
against a specific player. From a business standpoint, it makes sense
to
keep players happy, and the best way to keep players happy is to
provide
a legit, fair, and friendly game. This is why site integrity is of
paramount importance to us.

I have the feeling that you misunderstand how our business operates.
Unlike casino sites, poker sites do not earn revenue when a player
loses
money. Our income is derived solely from the rake, a small percentage
of
the pot that is taken from the winner of the hand. Understand that in a
very real sense, we have no interest in the outcome of individual
hands.
Manipulating the dealing of cards does nothing to increase our revenue
and everything to minimize it--it would be financial suicide as a
business decision to engage in such unethical activity, ruining our
reputation. Understand that your losses are not translated into our
gains; the player who has won the money from you has gained to be sure,
but this is completely unrelated to how our revenue is derived.

Unfortunately in the short-run, variance is such a large factor in
poker, and many players will receive more than their expected average
of
premium hands in terms of card distribution and consequently at times,
less than their expected average of premium hands. The same can be said
in terms of hitting flops and completing draws or having hands hold up.
It is only when dealing with very large numbers that a player's average
statistics will approach its expected average. This is where the
expression, "professionals play by the month, not by the day" is
derived.

Understand that there is no "doom switch" but there certainly is
statistical variance. It is only when speaking of tens of thousands of
hands that personal statistics begin to approach its theoretical
expectation. For players that play this game for a living, it is
imperative that they keep a very large bankroll to endure such
fluctuation. It is well known that an excellent player that may win
from
1 to 2 big bets an hour playing limit can lose 300-500 big bets, and a
winning no-limit player can endure a run of 20 or more buy-in losses,
again due to variance. In sit and gos, 20 to 30 session droughts in
which a player does not cash is not uncommon. These are taken into
account, and professionals are very conscientious of when to move down
limits to lower their risk of ruination to a reasonable level.
Knowledge
of these statistics will not make these players immune to bad
beats--nobody is--however, they will react better when these inevitable
bad runs do occur. Also, these same players are very honest with
themselves, analyzing when they are running bad, and when they are
playing bad. It is often the level of honesty that separates an
excellent player from someone who is merely above average.

I strongly suggest that you visit the poker forums in the link below;
it
is the largest poker forum that is visited by many poker enthusiasts
such as yourself, and is an unbiased third party to our site (and any
other poker sites in business). I believe that the voice of the general
poker community will be more persuasive in dissuading you of your
belief
that online poker is rigged.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/ubbthreads.php

On behalf of Full Tilt Poker, I wish you the best of luck at the
tables.
Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to
contact us.

Regards,

Shujiro
Full Tilt Poker Support

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Original Message Follows:
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Dear Full Tilt Poker (aka Fully Rigged Rivers),

Last night (actualy very early morning today) I was playing no limit on
your site. I proceeded to drop about 8 buy ins in 1 hour. Yes, I know,
this is amazing... Whats really amazing is that I lost to runner runner
quads 2 times and lost every single time I put my money all in while
ahead (crushing) the other players hand. Is your site rigged or what? I
want to know why the hell the doomswitch has been thrown on me??????
Please reverse it and allow me to win some god damn money or I'm going
to Poker Stars.

In need of BOOMSWITCH
- Matt

[The Velour Fog]

thats actually a very nice answer to your e-mail right there. props to FT