I enter a $215 satellite to the $1055 MTT. Minimum players for the tournament to run is 4. We start with 4. The prize pool is listed as the top three get the ticket. On the first hand, a player busts ... and the satellite immediately ends with me and the other 2 players getting a $1055 MTT ticket.

It's the little kinks on these unregulated poker sites that make internet gambling more enjoyable...

I'm currently stuck at 99% watching two balls spin around while I try not to lose my mind. But your story made me happy. Way to go.

Reg tables stuck at 99% wont load in

Cant load into zone

zzz fml

same =/

Same here. Bodog/ignition side problem (as usual)

It won't let me select PLO stakes below 1/2

I'm getting this error message. Are all the tables down?

https://gyazo.com/7202dbb9dd116216e80a44c7b8907011

Got the 99% orbiting balls for a while; last time I tried it started letting me onto a table and then instantly popping up a message that says "This table no longer exists."

Sign of improvement?

Same problem here, can't open any new tables.

its opening cash tables for me but they're all empty and close immediately. and random buyins. sometimes only 5plo and 100plo, sometimes only 50nl and 1000nl etc

site is down for me

I get the following message when I try to open Zone tables:

"We're not able to process your request at this time. Please try again."

The lobby makes it look like people are playing (50+!), but I think the lobby numbers are just frozen for now.

I hope this resolves soon. My Zone addiction is real.

Sometimes life presents us with a moment of clarity....

Strikes and gutters, ups and downs.

I have been playing Zone for about 10 minutes now with no issues! It seems fast and smooth.

Lol nice score.

$1000 bi: why do dudes in the last 25 call an all in with QJo when i have AJo and they win? thats hundreds of dollars, if not thousands. also, why did my internet go out 2x during tourney? why ask why?
edit: sick brag i cash at least.

AJ is my bane in tourneys, it always loses. Have to remember just to fold that hand.

Would someone be kind enough to double check my math?

$14 per hour + 200 hands per hour = 7bb/100 at $50nl Zone?

Wait, what? I'm so confused.

ScoopThaPoop or is it ScoopThaPot? Is it bb/100, BB/100 or PTbb/100? Is $50NL blinds of .25/.50? Should I divide $14 won by the blinds of $.50 to get 28bb? And should I divide 200 by 2 to get 100? And then should I divide 28bb/2 to get 14bb/100? And who the **** is winning 14bb/100 or even 7bb/100 at fast poker? I'm confused, but impressed. And if winning that much at $50NL Zone, even without a $100NL Zone, this person needs to get to $200NL Zone.

If it's $14/hr and 200 hands/hr, then it is $14/(2 * 100) = $7/100. At 50NL, $7 is 14bb, so this works out to 14bb/100.

Since I moved up to 50NL (conventional 6max) in June, I have been killing it for ~20bb/100. This is only over about 8K hands, though. I've got 42 BI for 50NL, or 21BI for 100NL, in my Ignition account right now

Should I:
(a) Stick to 50NL for another 50K hands or so to be sure;
(b) Move up to 100NL and see how it goes; or
(c) Take a shot by four-tabling 500NL?

El Duderino, you are killing it. When winning a lot, a little patience doesn't require a lot of patience. I'd use a 50 buy-in rule to move up. You said you have 42 BI for 50NL, so you almost have that locked up with a bit more above that needed to take a shot at 100NL. I've seen people willing to aggressively go 50 BI + 1 BI shot. And I've seen other people where only a 1 BI shot frustrates them when they lose it and would rather wait until they have 50 BI + 10 BI shot so they can hang in there at the higher limit for awhile and hope it sticks. Good luck.

Thanks Dude!

To your question below you should keep crushing where you’re at. It’ll help your live game and you’ll have the benefit of continued improvement without the variance of better players at stakes that are 4x or 10x per bb greater; basically the risk/reward isn’t there.

Why lose 1k in a bad session if you’re not already confident you can beat that stake for a higher hourly than you’re currently at? Keep grinding my Dude and you’ll get there =)

Lol ship the poop is only yelled in home games xD

My game is not repeatable in a HUD environment. These games are special and I’m trying to learn a more solid strategy on the fly.

Started a PG&C thread to catalog my progress.

I don't want to derail the I-can't-load-any-tables or hey-what-happened-to-my-tournament-buyin discussions, but I do want to point out when I say that my balance currently on Ignition is 42 50NL buyins, that says very little about the size of my overall poker bankroll.

Even if I was crazy enough to put it all into a single session of 4-tabling 500NL, this would only take two buyins for the live cash game in which I play for my bread and butter.