Big boo boo, PokerRoom in doo doo

[Wardonkey]

I was considering moving to PokerRoom when Tribeca shuts down.

Now I'm not so sure.

http://www.pokerroom.com/pokah/forum/messageBody.php?categoryID=0&threadNumber=187790&messageNumber=1&pageNumber=1

[snoopy1239]

This post made me chuckle...

as far as i can see the worst thing is taking the money back. fine it wasnt meant to be 19k guarteed. too bad, thats what you paid out. you can't just then go into someone's account and take the money back. i didnt mean to call all my chips on that gutshot, doesnt mean i can go into the guys account and take back what i lost!!

what if they had cashed out their winnings and was enjoying a nice hooker or two. Is a PR rep gonna kock on the door and say "actually, we made a mistake. we want our money back. unfortunately since you bought that girl with our money, we're taking her too"

its all B.S.

[barhell]

It would put me off

[snoopy1239]

Genegod summed it up for me on this page.

http://www.pokerroom.com/pokah/forum/messageBody.php?categoryID=0&threadNumber=187790&messageNumber=1&pageNumber=21

Direct and to the point.

[barhell]

Genegod summed it up for me on this page.

http://www.pokerroom.com/pokah/forum/messageBody.php?categoryID=0&threadNumber=187790&messageNumber=1&pageNumber=21

Direct and to the point.

I gave up about page 10, it would of been worth trawling on just for that one post, absolute classic

[snoopy1239]

I am considering making this into a news item on the main site.

Does anybody know what I can and can't say in my article?

[Wardonkey]

I am considering making this into a news item on the main site.

Does anybody know what I can and can't say in my article?

I would steer clear of genegod's vocabulary...

[Graham C]

That's pretty bad.  If you do sign up, keep your account balance small

Just put something about an "ongoing issue" at Poker Room.

[Rooky9]

I haven't had time to read the article but I saw the title and my blood started to boil!!!

PokerRoom are completely incompetent - they took 6 weeks to credit a deposit I made (by switch as I recall) to my poker account. It also put me off South Africans.

[Karabiner]

About a year ago I met a fairly well known Irish player at Walsall who offered me a decent(35%) rakeback deal on Pokapoker which is a skin of Pokerroom. As I had not yet tried this network I decided to set up an account so I registered my details but did not deposit.

A few weeks later I decided to open an account on Full Contact Poker via Daniel Negreanu's site because they were offering some massive freerolls to founder members or some such thing. FCP is another skin of Pokerroom. I registered my details with FCP and I deposited $50 into the brand new account. Now here's the weird bit..

Five minutes later I get a phone call on my mobile from Pokapoker welcoming me to their site and confirming my deposit. I had deposited into FCP and the money went into Pokapoker where I did not have a real money account !!!

I've always been a bit dubious about that network ever since, and they never were able to come up with any kind of explanation.

[Wardonkey]

Is that skin (Pokapoker) still going? I opened an account in very similar circumstances about a year ago. I successfully logged a couple of months ago but failed when I tried last week. I sent an e-mail to support but it got bounced back, I assumed it had folded, I had no money in there so i didn't bother investigating further.

Anyone seen James Browning recently?

[Rozza1]

I used to play alot on pokerroom but the tournaments went crap after they banned american players. I switched to pokerstars and it's given my game a hell of a boost being up against a better standard of player. I never had any problems with the software or cashing in and out of there but the tournament schedule did get kind of stripped down when they banned the yanks.

[boldie]

I play on Hollywood poker quite a bit and, although I have never had a problem with them, I hear a lot about pokerroom customers having problems. strange really as everything seems to go welle nough for me even though it's on the same skin.

the only issue I have with them is that they aren't too good for notifying when tickets for big freerolls or special (pokerlistings) tourneys have been added to the account and a lot of the freerolls (shitty little 50$ ones) seem to be cancelled when they only have 29 runners. I would assume that 50$ isn't going to bankrupt a pokersite and as they only have 2 of them a day and players need to exchange pokerpoints for it they would always go ahead.

I don't play those games but it would piss me off severely.

I only had this problem once and that tourney was cancelled due to pokerlistings saying there weren't enough players (admittedly only 9 players tried to play a 20k WPT bahamas freeroll...+ 2500 added prizemoney)

[Rooky9]

Is that skin (Pokapoker) still going? I opened an account in very similar circumstances about a year ago. I successfully logged a couple of months ago but failed when I tried last week. I sent an e-mail to support but it got bounced back, I assumed it had folded, I had no money in there so i didn't bother investigating further.

Anyone seen James Browning recently?

I got a phone call from someone at Pokerapoka about 4 or 5 weeks ago. They said they had seen I had register but not played in a while (I actually never did) and seeing whether there was anything they could do to encourage me to play! I said I was at work and couldnt talk and they could call me back on an evening I would talk with them... havent heard anything since.

[Nem]

Hasn't PokaPoker left On-game?