1. The balance remaining in my account more than exceeds the total amount of money transferred to others
2. I play regularly on FT, 200k hands in the last year, 100k in the last three months, have played tons after the transfers, the money has definitely been in play. There is absolutely no room for confusion as to whether my account is a player's account or there for trading.
3. The player I did the biggest transfers with is completely eligible for withdrawals, actually has a cheque in the mail right now from FT - can't speak for the others, they haven't withdrawn in ages
4. I've actually never withdrawn on FT before.
5. Learn how to spell in your automated messages.

What do I do?? I sent them an email explaining all this, awaiting a response. Right now my account is effectively frozen - free to lose, not free to win. This can't be a question of "oh just play until the transfer balance is cleared." I've played since then, tons. These transfers were all conducted months ago.

At what point can they completely freeze my account and keep the monies? How often does that happen?

Any point. Very rarely.

I'm sure a better suggestion will come along. Mine: I would play more hands than try to do a withdrawal again after a little while. Maybe play a little each day for another week then try to w/drawl.

I have played 50k hands since the last transfer ??

kind of obvious questions - you've played 50k hands at what stakes? how much was transferred to you? why haven't you ever withdrawn before? why did people decide to send you money for you to withdraw when you've never withdrawn before and they haven't "withdraw in ages"?

stakes - 50nl - 400nl, mainly 100-200nl; total amount transferred - I am not sure, I would estimate $1500-2k; withdraw request is $2500; remaining balance is 5k; I haven't ever withdrawn because I didn't have a need for it; not sure why others have not withdrawn. I assume same reasons.

People have been trading in Full Tilt funds for a long time - many of them on this forum. If it was a FT policy to prohibit the withdrawal of ANY transferred funds we would would have heard about it long before this. So there has to be other reasons for their actions or there is probably more to the story.

When was the last transfer to you? How many transfers are we talking about and in what time frame? And the most important thing to do is wait for Full Tilt to respond to your e-mail. That may clarify the issue immensely. When they get back to you, let us know what they say.

You have to play a bit after the transfer. Even if you played a lot this month prior to the transfer, that play might not count.

I suggest you play for 4-5 days and try again.

It definitely doesn't count. Play more. EZ game

have you actually won enough money to clear the amt of the transfer? You keep going on about hand counts and limits, but how much have you actually won?

Did you ever make a deposit? Maybe that's the real reason. Need to make a deposit that clears.

I don't think what he has won or lost matters, as long as he plays enough.

fifty thousand hands played

so I have to be a winning player in order to conduct transfers? if someone transfers 2k to my account, I lose 6k over 50k hands and have 8k remaining in my account, I can't withdraw 2k ??

yes, I have deposited before.

50K hands at those stakes sounds like it should be enough to w/draw. Obv full tilt disagrees but I think they're being a little unreasonable here.

Stars has the same policy.Even if both players have been playing 5 years on their site?50k hands should be plenty.

Ok the results: FT finally got back to me, said they had reviewed the situation again, and lifted the restriction. I was able to complete the withdrawal successfully. They even apologized for causing "distress." It's not really enough. What an awkward moment when I realize that playing on a reputable site gets me less support from the community, not more. :/

Huh? You think you'd get more support if you played on UB? Ha!

That's just embarrassing on FTP's part. My first thought seeing an email that started like that would be "I'm being scammed".

This is all pretty standard, I dont know what kind of support you were looking for. You only provided 1 mail, which they send to everyone who doesnt play enough, and from what I can tell, in the very next one that you received after emailing them, they corrected their error. Nothing to discuss really, gl!

Having to play more than 50K hands at those stakes to "clear" xferred funds is hardly standard iyam.

Indeed, but they corrected their mistake in very next email after he asked them about it. I guess they manually check the accounts when you withdraw money, so false positives are bound to happen occasionally.