After uploading the new Full Tilt update this evening I decided to play a little Rush, where I saw a couple of Railbirds on the Apollo Table, I was playing a few bucks ahead and then had a really bad experience ! I was, or at least had been on somewhat of a decent run, this had happened before :

Then later on I got into another hand where I had the nut flush draw after the flop in a raised pot......make the nut flush on the turn, am bet into, and get almost all of my money in good,.... But .... the river changed the nuts...lol... I anticipated it was going to happen as soon as I saw his cards, and the flush showed up on the turn ! ... I can take the beat well enough, this isn't the first time it has happened to me...lol...

That isn't really the reason for this blog , chit happens, even to the best of turds...lol... What pissed me off, and what this blog is really about happend next, after that hand :

Notice this picture is a little different !...... Right after losing that nearly $22 pot I am put in the small blind, dealt pocket Kings with $5.57 left in front of me....before I have a chance to get excited about the prospect of losing the rest of my money,..... the damn screen freezes up !......I can't do anything to play the hand, the last hand device works, I can see the lobby changing banners, I can look at my stats, change lobby screens, etc., but, the only thing I can do with this hand is quit the game, and as soon as I do the little wavey card shuffling reconnect screen comes on ......
Needless to say, I took that last picture with my digital camera, signed out of Full Tilt, and now that I have posted this blog to warn you people.... I am gonna go ahead and sign off Railbirds, and proceed with getting mad !
.....Topcat.....
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This is my first freeze up in a long, long time !...... I run XP Pro thru a really good router, have a constant 100.0 Mbps speed connection, and haven't had any similar problems, hardly ever !
....Tc....
(but, who knows, it may be a sign from above
and especially: couldnt have happend this one round before? - so that you wouldnt have been involved in the runnerrunnerfullhouse hand?!
i cancelled playin at fulltilt because of their permanently technical issues and because their server was almost every day down for maintainance or technical errors. and i am very happy to decided so. at pokerstars where i play today were this month no downtime. (there was only once an announced (!) maintainancetime for their server, but tho all the games -but sitngos- were running quite well as usual.
however, i wish you best of luck so that you can win the bucks back which you`ve lost TC.
best of luck on Your ways!
S77
You were probably better off....
Kings weren't doing so hot yesterday in the ole Rush format, I was dealt them twice and ran into a set once, second time Aces... Still finished +, no thanks to those filthy range bums some call cowboys

TC....I talked about that over the weekend. Twice I had my screen freeze up with pkt aces...and couldn't move left or right...like you said...I could watch the action..move from log in screen...watch everything in motion..but could not participate.
TORTURE!!! I tell ya.................pure TORTURE!
Do ya think that may be what hell is like?
I just know, if there's re-incarnation.....I'm going to be sent back as a fish in an aquarium...in the poker room of the Commerce in California.
That was last night, and now this morning I played for 30 minutes, no freeze up, and profited $60.....
....Tc....
Topcat, dude, brother, friend ... I love you man but that aint chit.
I have been HU at the end of a tourney and had them crushed and lost due to my connection, twice!!
I have had MOST of my money in good when I flopped the nuts with a caller and lost the connection, yep autofolded out to a raise and lost the hand.
I have been holding tough in a tourney, got booted , took almost half hour to reconnect and got back on in time to see me lose , or have 5 BB left etc, etc MANY times.
You know that time a year an a half or so ago when I beat RailJoe HU for the FR monthly, for 500 bones, not a smooth half hour after the game I lost POWER in that town for 2 hours. Anything can happen with dependance on so many systems.
The Ol electric highway can be very convenient BUT it comes with a price, you are at the mercy of routers, servers, wifi , hackers attacking the site etc. Hell where I am now if it is a bad rainstorm my connection gets weak.
Glad things are going better today ol friend.
Peace, BPB
It froze up, sat me out, and gave my stack to a 2 pair.
The Full Tilt Pricks said it was my fault and wuoldn't evan compensate me with a buy-in to another tournment.
I almost hate that site!