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Oh of course not, and I'll likely be treated to an audit to boot. People were selling their FTP balances for extremely low amounts (.20 on the dollar at one poi

by whbk 13y ago

Oh of course not, and I'll likely be treated to an audit to boot. People were selling their FTP balances for extremely low amounts (.20 on the dollar at one point?) though, so while ridiculous I'm still on cloud nine. Someone stole thousands of dollars from me and I got it back..not everyday that happens :)

at-fates-hands 13y ago
Did you forget about it and then when the check showed up it was like finding a FIN ($20) in your jeans? Or did you feel like you were always going to get it, it was just a matter of time? Just curious, that's all.
- whbk 13y ago
  I'd kept tabs on it by checking in on 2p2 (the StackOverflow/HN of poker) every few months -- there were long threads with people who had much more invested paying much more attention. I was lucky in that this occurred in the spring of my senior year of college, so I was able to move on without significant real-life impact other than a loss of secondary income stream. There were people with hundreds of thousands locked up, people who had been doing this for a living for several years who lost their homes after they were no longer able to pay their mortgage, etc. Early on I was iffy on whether or not I'd ever see my money back, but once PokerStars stepped in it became clear it was probably just a matter of (way too much) time. It was funny to see how the whole shut down unfolded -- it happened on a Friday morning and PokerStars had their ducks in a row software-wise, and were immediately able to boot American players from tables. Full Tilt, on the other hand, had their software written such that players could continue playing until they logged out or disconnected from the network. Myself and some other enterprising Americans set their computers to not go to sleep ever, so I was able to keep playing through Sunday. I was the last American playing in the last big FTP tournament that Sunday and ended up finishing in the 50s out of 7000+ players iirc, and was leading at several points with less than 100 players remaining. Had I won or come closer, I'd have had ~100k-250k locked up, but ended up with a much smaller amount locked up. I almost suffered much more heartache wondering if I'd ever see my (potentially much larger) sum of locked up money.
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function_seven 13y ago
FYI, for some reason your reply to at-fates-hands (sibling comment to this one) is hellbanned. I have no idea why.
- whbk 13y ago
  Huh, weird. Thanks for the heads up, though I also have no clue what the reasoning behind that is.

by whbk 13y ago

at-fates-hands 13y ago

Did you forget about it and then when the check showed up it was like finding a FIN ($20) in your jeans? Or did you feel like you were always going to get it, it was just a matter of time? Just curious, that's all.

whbk 13y ago
I'd kept tabs on it by checking in on 2p2 (the StackOverflow/HN of poker) every few months -- there were long threads with people who had much more invested paying much more attention. I was lucky in that this occurred in the spring of my senior year of college, so I was able to move on without significant real-life impact other than a loss of secondary income stream. There were people with hundreds of thousands locked up, people who had been doing this for a living for several years who lost their homes after they were no longer able to pay their mortgage, etc. Early on I was iffy on whether or not I'd ever see my money back, but once PokerStars stepped in it became clear it was probably just a matter of (way too much) time. It was funny to see how the whole shut down unfolded -- it happened on a Friday morning and PokerStars had their ducks in a row software-wise, and were immediately able to boot American players from tables. Full Tilt, on the other hand, had their software written such that players could continue playing until they logged out or disconnected from the network. Myself and some other enterprising Americans set their computers to not go to sleep ever, so I was able to keep playing through Sunday. I was the last American playing in the last big FTP tournament that Sunday and ended up finishing in the 50s out of 7000+ players iirc, and was leading at several points with less than 100 players remaining. Had I won or come closer, I'd have had ~100k-250k locked up, but ended up with a much smaller amount locked up. I almost suffered much more heartache wondering if I'd ever see my (potentially much larger) sum of locked up money.

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function_seven 13y ago

FYI, for some reason your reply to at-fates-hands (sibling comment to this one) is hellbanned. I have no idea why.

whbk 13y ago
Huh, weird. Thanks for the heads up, though I also have no clue what the reasoning behind that is.