Originally Posted by haonhack

that's how ftp and stars used to be.

um, FTP n PS stopped the mTT as soon as you reached the # of people that would get seats, e.g., 10 seats given out, 50 people in satty, 40 bust, rest of the 10 get in, they didn't make you play it out ??

has anyone ever had a tourney go into h4h with like 23 people left or something random, all the way to the fucking final table? What the hell is up with that?

 

Originally Posted by P33J

has anyone ever had a tourney go into h4h with like 23 people left or something random, all the way to the fucking final table? What the hell is up with that?

happened in a rebuy tournament I FT'd not long ago and it drove me fucking crazy.

Frankly, the lack of action on the part of the Merge network in these areas is stunningly alarming and cause for precautionary measures in my opinion. Since i have started playing on the merge network 3 months ago, there have been numerous mtt and gaurantee increases. In the meantime, payouts and support have not improved even after taking months to supposedly upgrade and prepare for the influx of US players.

While I am not suggesting that I am an expert by any means in this area, it seems to me that there would be improvements by now if the vast majority of your players are clamoring for them. The only reasons i can think of to not improve customer service/experience are:

1.The network does not care.
2.Merge is trying to milk the situation.
3.The network is run by complete idiots.

Please do not expect us to buy the idea that you have a full team of programmers working on these software glitches. A team of programmers would not have any problem rectifying these problems.

i agree w/ u ted. i think their milking the situation. hopefully the'll prove me wrong soon.

 

Originally Posted by double_kyan

i'm just wondering if its hard too change things because of all the skins? i don't know ,i seen a $2.20 satty tht said it was for the 50k[100k now] this was today

like right now im in 1500 gtd SH - 12 left but 10 pay

i hope david jung wants in the usa market somehow someway

Its been that way forever, not sure why they havent changed it.

Can we not have 2 lock pros at the same table in the double or nothing sngs thank you merge.

 

Originally Posted by pokerproplaya08

um, FTP n PS stopped the mTT as soon as you reached the # of people that would get seats, e.g., 10 seats given out, 50 people in satty, 40 bust, rest of the 10 get in, they didn't make you play it out ??

i'm 93% sure at least one of them let you play to the end even after all the seats were won. i remember way back telling my buddy that i got the seat but still wanted to try and win it outright (not sure why)

 

Originally Posted by KingTriton

+1

There are so many obvious quirks and fuckups with the tournaments on this site that would be quickly fixed by a site that was halfway competent.

The double rebuy problem is inexcusable. It's such an obvious flaw in their software, but they can't be bothered to fix it. (When is the last time they updated their software anyway? This is the only site I've ever played on that doesn't update their software somewhat regularly. Do they have programmers on staff? I bet they don't. They probably had their software built for them and then just threw it out there with no intention of maintaining or improving it whatsoever.)

The payout structure is a joke. Not that I'm good (not even top 100 on OPR fwiw), but someone who makes as many deep runs as I do shouldn't be busting his account (my current balance is $32 lol) because he ran bad at a couple of final tables.

Because the payout structure is so absurdly skewed toward 1st and 2nd (and the lame ass blind structure makes these tourneys play so shallow late), I often find myself forced to gamble and spew deep in tourneys when I do still have chips. (With this in mind, last week I tried a risky bluff while still six handed with a good stack...whoops...http://www.pocketfives.com/tournament/863126/. I would have never picked this spot against this drooling tard of a player if I thought there was enough play to find a better spot...or if finishing 4th or 5th rather than 6th actually made a damn bit of difference. He ended up finishing 1st obviously...)

Hand for hand is absurd. It drags on and on and on.

I get that hand for hand is supposed to eliminate stalling, but hand for hand on this site is even more annoying than the retard with half a big blind rolling down his entire timebank to try and mincash. (Incidentally, wouldn't it be easier to just revoke the timebank of anyone who has less than 10 big blinds?)

If there were actual competition, this site wouldn't even exist iyam.

^^^^ sfthis. Merge wouldn't make a boil on a good site's ass.

Jung appears to be a stand up guy, same with Rizen, who knows but they're both obv considerably financially invested so that must be taken into consideration with their feedback.. But the same skills that made (some of) us winning players over the long term must be used for deciding where to put our time and effort in. There is usually a lesser of 2 evils.. If they listen lol, if they payout, if they fix the software bugs (or are they bugs, or by design) then we could have our jobs back: I've been paying my bills on bodog primarily & a bit of live & was excited for when merge opened for us players again since I was gun-shy after BF. But I'm glad I waited & didn't waste my time or $. Time to find for you to maybe find a new network mr Jung lol? I feel bad for you, & all the us players who are fighting a very uphill battle under the circumstances..

 

Originally Posted by kevmode

Can we not have 2 lock pros at the same table in the double or nothing sngs thank you merge.

but on the flip side kev,i would like too think two lock pros wouldnt even dare get caught up in any suspicion[i hope so] ,i would trust that way before two regs,that were deep in cahoots .Like i said its the 1 game that is extremely exploitable and i would really like too think they monitor this and cash games.

 

Originally Posted by Golfer_Nick

This site is a joke. I had 300$ confiscated out of my account a month ago, stating that I "spent it playing blackjack", with no other explanation....I had a pending cash out for almost 3 weeks, and it just disappeared. Awful customer service, and a bunch of thieves.

do you have a roommate or any1 with access too your account,giving a quick rant and thats it doesn't bode well imo

I confronted bigdockpocketfives and another lock pro about it and they said they can play any games they want. During the conversation I was very upset and was trying to explain to them that it was unethical to me to have 2 lock pros at the same table in 6max dons because there could be collusion going on. I have been playing a lot of the high stakes 6max dons and have often seen 2and sometimes 3 lock pros at my table. Bigdogpocketfives did have that incident were he chip dumped his account on UB but I guess he didn't have much of a choice on that corrupt site. I really hope Lock puts an end to this very soon because I play the high stakes 6max dons and don't want to worry about collusion and whatever else might be going on. Bigdogpocketfives then called me a muskrat who had no brains and was getting insults in on me when I had a perfectly legit point. He also said if you don't like it then don't play the games. This really pissed me off but I didn't make fun of his weight because he is fat and overweight. Do these Lock Pros have any standards?

 

Originally Posted by bwalz

Lol gtfo! I'm so w u kev here, I've played 6-10 man sngs for my bread & butter 4 years, & having said so, it's unfathomable to me how a site could justify having more than 1 sponsored pro on a table of that type at a time. Unless it's a random accident, but that should be prohibited in the contract! Greedy shady little fucks, unless nobody brought it up until now & they were able to get away with it, but.. If that's permitted that's more of a cause for concern than anything ive seen so far w merge, & that's saying a lot..

ftp n ps also do that, hel, ive seen more than 1 in the 6m hyper turbo sattys.

where are all the lock poka pros.. why dont i see them playin' the 109 or 215 nightly

Really the only solution here is for kevmode to become a lock pro