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Better Fred
Sep. 11th, 2008 09:44 amBetfred was on truly bottom form yesterday.
First it sent me an e-mail saying that I had qualified for the "weekly" $1000-added freeroll tournament, which would be starting at 8.30pm on Wednesday 10th.
Which was fine, except I had played in the weekly $1000-added tourney on the Tuesday. Had some donk just installed a tourney on the wrong date, or sent out an inaccurate e-mail?
I checked online, and the tourney was there, except that it started at 9.30pm, not 8.30pm.
So I registered and went away to play some proper poker.
Then when I tried to get back onto Betfred at 9.20, it was no-go. The "24-hour helpline" kept me on hold for 10 minutes before I gave up and went back to playing on Pacific -- leaving the Betfred lobby open for occasional checking.
After an hour, Betfred comes back up. As I suspected, everyone had been offline, but the tournament had been started on schedule (marvellous!). This led to the (for me), unusual situation of a tournament with 61 players (six prizes), and 30 no-shows. For the 30 people who had been keeping their eyes open for the potential overlay, we were in a tournament with 2000 in starting chips and blind levels beginning at 150-300 (10 minute levels).
I think I went out 44th after push-botting for about half an hour -- the 30 no-shows were still being blinded down. Even when up to 6,000 (my peak), I still only had an M of 10 (blinds now 200-400 and about to rise to 300-600) and I was fourth in chips.
I got knocked back to 3,000 and, with blinds now 400-800, I pushed with KJo, called by AT and Q8s. Flop of JTxx looked good until the river of a 10 (decimal rather than binary) and IGHN.
Good fun, but it was nice to get back to some cash games. I still can't take it seriously, although there is no validity to claiming that "it's not proper poker". It's just different.
First it sent me an e-mail saying that I had qualified for the "weekly" $1000-added freeroll tournament, which would be starting at 8.30pm on Wednesday 10th.
Which was fine, except I had played in the weekly $1000-added tourney on the Tuesday. Had some donk just installed a tourney on the wrong date, or sent out an inaccurate e-mail?
I checked online, and the tourney was there, except that it started at 9.30pm, not 8.30pm.
So I registered and went away to play some proper poker.
Then when I tried to get back onto Betfred at 9.20, it was no-go. The "24-hour helpline" kept me on hold for 10 minutes before I gave up and went back to playing on Pacific -- leaving the Betfred lobby open for occasional checking.
After an hour, Betfred comes back up. As I suspected, everyone had been offline, but the tournament had been started on schedule (marvellous!). This led to the (for me), unusual situation of a tournament with 61 players (six prizes), and 30 no-shows. For the 30 people who had been keeping their eyes open for the potential overlay, we were in a tournament with 2000 in starting chips and blind levels beginning at 150-300 (10 minute levels).
I think I went out 44th after push-botting for about half an hour -- the 30 no-shows were still being blinded down. Even when up to 6,000 (my peak), I still only had an M of 10 (blinds now 200-400 and about to rise to 300-600) and I was fourth in chips.
I got knocked back to 3,000 and, with blinds now 400-800, I pushed with KJo, called by AT and Q8s. Flop of JTxx looked good until the river of a 10 (decimal rather than binary) and IGHN.
Good fun, but it was nice to get back to some cash games. I still can't take it seriously, although there is no validity to claiming that "it's not proper poker". It's just different.
