I apologize for the late response, so it seems that i received all my refunds back, it took a few days and emails. I play on this site for the 1 day withdrawals and am glad to see i was helped out.

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I'm not sure if this is the right thread for this, but I've heard of players getting DDOS'd before, where a user's internet will not work for a time despite the computer itself operating normally.

Last night I was on about 8 SnG tables when my internet crapped out. My computer didn't freeze up, I didn't get a "Blue Screen of Death"; my internet simply stopped working.

Of course, throughout the years of playing online poker I've had the internet go out on occasion, but never like this. I restarted the computer and everything was fine, although of course by the time I got back on the site I had already auto-folded out of a couple of hypers.

Before restarting the computer I tried to attach my phone's internet to my PC, as I've successfully done once or twice before, but nothing happened this time.

I actually ran pretty well while being disconnected, lol. I got 2nd in a 6m hyper and "tied" for 2nd in another. Busted out of another one or two, loldonkaments ...

I'm pretty computer illiterate and genuinely don't know if this is how that works. Google wasn't a great help.

This happens to be right up my wheel house.

So what an attacker of a DDoS attack would need to know is what your IP address is, and what path of internet routers you need to take to get to Global's servers.

The internet is designed, by its very nature, to work even though part of it is broken. The original idea is if part of our country was nuked, we still could communicate with the rest of the country. Lose VA and NY and FL and CA could all still communicate. Because of this requirement, routes are established between routers on the internet that know, "I take path A unless path A is down, and then I take path B, and if it is down, I take path C...." and on and on it goes.

Okay, so how does this apply to you? Well as you get closer to your house, and closer to Global's servers, there are less and less routers than can carry the traffic. Because as you get closer to the destination, its less likely there are multiple routers that get to you. In fact, all of us normally have a single point of failure router. Its your the cable modem you get from your ISP. If it breaks, you don't get internet. Can you break someone's router? Sure. Just unplug it, or give it a good shock. But then you need to be onsite to make that happen.

So how do I break you from remote? By sending so much traffic to your single router, it overwhelms your router. Your router sends and receives traffic constantly, but it is normally pretty low amounts. What I do is send a lot of traffic and so that makes it a Denial of Service (DOS) attack. But because we have seen this problem before we began to fix certain problems with the system. We would ask routers, upstream from you, to block the bad traffic, and you would magically be fixed. So then the bad guys got smarter, and started sending the traffic from LOTS of locations, and then the good guys couldn't block the traffic fast enough, which is what makes it a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS)

I would love to tell you this is super complicated, but it just isn't. Viruses on computers used to break them, and then the bad guys realized they could make money with your computer. They "rent" out your computer to the people who want to make these DDoS attacks happen and cause your internet to help flood out someone else's internet.

Now your question is "Awesome, thanks for the long drawn out history, but what do I do about it?" Glad you asked. So first you need to know is it on just your side or is the attack happening at Global. You will know this because if it is Global's side, EVERYONE will be having problems, not just you. So if you aren't seeing the threads pop up here on 2+2, it is likely just on your side.

If it is on your side, what can you do? Have backup internet. This could be a MiFi kind of device that you get from a cell company, or another provider that you have a separate router for, and if you go down on one, you just switch to the other. I would think the chances are pretty low they would know and be able to take you down on both ways you connect. You can always pickup and go to the library or another internet connection as well if that is feasible.

They will have to know what your IP is though in order to make this happen, but I am aware of people doing this to each other on minecraft to win a game, and there isn't money at stake there. So I believe it is within the realm of possibilities someone was targeting you. I can't say for sure, I would need to see the traffic logs to really understand what happened. But it is also likely something you should keep an eye out for.

Hopefully this helpful, and feel free to ask any questions that you might have.

lol @ poker12 thinking he got ddos'd come on man. Are u off your meds again? You aren't that good or important and if you are getting ddos'd thats a much bigger concern for all of us as a whole then u individually. pfffft

Its entirely possible poker12 is having visions of grandeur, but as I stated above, I am aware of people doing this to each other in order to win a minecraft match. Its much easier than it should be, and poker12 plays for enough money it could be a profitable venture for the right crook.

Did you get your buy-ins back.

I wrote global and gave them all the games i was in whe the crash happened and they refunded the money after verifying that i was in those games and still in at the time of the crash.

1. Yes
2. Hey man, I freely admitted that I didn't know how it worked. I had heard of poker-playing individuals getting DDoS'd before. I had never had the internet go out in that manner in 10+ years of playing online poker.
3. I know I'm not "that good or important", but I do play pretty high stakes and I've heard of people getting scammed in various ways for even less money so I just thought I'd throw this out there.

@splayaa - tyty, very helpful. Now I know they need your IP to do this kind of stuff, that's my main takeaway

what's up spark

yeah, from past experiences it seems like they'll give you the buy-ins back, but not the prizes if you're already ITM or an ICM chop.

lol... I have a hunch you could just take me with skill alone.

I was playing and now i can't get back on for last 10m. Dont' see anyone else complaining maybe its just me but my internet is working fine.

I seem to be okay at this moment, but I wasn't on when you were on, just jumped in real quick to check it out. I am on the east coast, and it also could be a server thing where I am fine but others are not.