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  1. treetopallin treetopallin is offline

    Astoria, NY
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    Jul 5th, 2007 (7/5/2007 10:01pm)

    I have never played there and was thinking about it. IF you any one can tell me some good things and some bad things about the site it would be great. Thank you.
  2. jackaaron jackaaron is offline

    Mansfield, OH
    United States

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    Jul 5th, 2007 (7/5/2007 10:10pm) in reply to treetopallin

    Bad:
    Table software/graphics.
    Support.

    Good:
    Soft players in rebuys with double add ons (lots of chips) with low entrants. Highly winnable.
    Soft players in freezeout MTTs.

    Don't know:
    Haven't played their cash games, sry.
  3. heavykiddy heavykiddy is offline

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    Jul 5th, 2007 (7/5/2007 10:10pm) in reply to treetopallin

    bad... the table images are bad, but you get used to them, not the biggest prizepools or guarantees.

    the good... very easy to get money onto, very soft games, a few super stack tourneys with a decent structure, i haven't had any server crashed (knock on wood), overlays.
  4. resilient resilient is offline

    Vanuatu

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    Jul 5th, 2007 (7/5/2007 10:26pm) in reply to heavykiddy

    i rarely play there, but went to deposit a few minutes ago before the $30 rebuy at 10 PM, and got a fraud alert, can't deposit... can't get through on phone, no response email from security... gg AP.
     
  5. dealace1 dealace1 is offline @ UFC 115 via UB

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    Jul 5th, 2007 (7/5/2007 10:54pm) in reply to treetopallin

    The Good: Many good players don't like the graphics/software so they stay away. Smaller fields for MTT's with fairly broad payout structure. Their major (150K) is on saturday. They accept US players. Rakeback deals available.

    The Bad: They take their 9% from the rebuy and addon $ in their rebuy tournys. Software takes a bit to get use to but it very very seldom crashes.

    The Ugly: Did I mention the software? However they apparently have a major release on it's way adding resizable tables and other features often requested... Their support (VIP and normal) are far from acceptable. Just hope you don't need them.

    I think they are getting better, as evidenced with their amazing P5 deal earlier this month. Now that their tournaments count towards the P5 rankings there are more and more ranked players at the final tables of their big tournies. (Imper1um, thayer, sn8wman, belowabove, ytiu, etc)
  6. Vagitarian Vagitarian is offline

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    Jul 5th, 2007 (7/5/2007 11:15pm) in reply to dealace1

    I agree with the support thing. I emailed them to simply inquire why the prize pool of the 150K tourney jumped to $500 yet there was no increase in the prize pool and then stated they would lose half their entries and why there were no ARP satellites to it. Obv computer support, wish i would have saved the email which stated that they did not understand my question. lol

    found the email, guess my misspelling of the word "also" messed up the computer response.
    Original message below:

    Dear Mr. Himburg,

    Thank you for contacting us.

    We are sorry but your email is a bit unclear. Please be more specific regarding
    the problem that you are having at this moment.

    We will be waiting for your reply.

    Thanks for playing at Absolute Poker! If there is anything else we can help you
    with, please let us know. We are here for you!

    Regards,

    Stuart
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    --Original Message--
    From: thevagitarian@hotmail.com
    Date: 06/25/07
    To: support@absolutepoker.net
    Subject: 150K Weekly[#6856172]

    Just wondering why the entry fee more than doubled and the prize pool still
    listed as the same. I aslo notice you're not running the stage ARP
    satellites either for this one.
  7. resilient resilient is offline

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    Jul 5th, 2007 (7/5/2007 11:19pm) in reply to dealace1

    God their graphics are painful... I have to force myself to play there....
     
  8. jackaaron jackaaron is offline

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    Jul 6th, 2007 (7/6/2007 9:35am) in reply to resilient

    I don't know if it would matter, but they have a lot of table skins on their site you can put on to tone things down. One particular one I like is the "black table."
  9. ymiafish ymiafish is offline

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    Jul 6th, 2007 (7/6/2007 10:01am) in reply to jackaaron

    It would be wayyy better if they took that retarded Las Vegas logo off of it and just made it plain black
  10. hygrometer hygrometer is offline

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    Jul 6th, 2007 (7/6/2007 10:31am) in reply to treetopallin

    if u right click on the table, go to Get more skins, then go to that web page. from there go to the THEMED TABLES and then go to page 9. on page nine there is like 4 or 5 very plain skins, try the yellow rail one its nice. i like it there after being on stars for a long time...but stars still has the upper hand by far in terms of variation of tourneys
  11. People_Mover People_Mover is offline

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    Jul 6th, 2007 (7/6/2007 11:03am) in reply to hygrometer

    Good: Tourneys filled with weak players. Cash games: lots of bonus whorers so they are somewhat rockish at 1/2NL and up Software - bad Customer service - worst on the internet
     
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