I'll make AdamBanks aware of this next time I see him at a table.

It's a shame how far Merge cash games have fallen. They had the best software for US facing sites since Black Friday. They had healthy games with healthy traffic. There was a time I could fire up 9 tables of $100 or $200 full ring no limit holdem tables. Every year they'd do something to make it worse and now you're lucky to get 3 tables from $50, $100, or $200 full ring no limit.

I hate Ignition (Bovado) but that's where I have to play now.

$150 Mystery Freeroll doesn't start for 10 mins and is already shutdown. That makes at least $425 of $25,000 in freerolls shutdown already from what I've seen. Also not sure if points are accumulating properly, been playing 2 hours and can't even reg the 1pt freebie.

Another freeroll just popped and I waited a min until registration opened. As soon as it did I tried to reg and got a message saying it wasn't accepting registrations. The tourney then immediately went to shut down right after the 10 min window opened. Had 1 player pop in it like the rest of them getting shut down.

Weird stuff going on in 200NL 6max game just now.

Several players leave and gets to HU between me and one guy carpediem77. So the first hand I am the SB, but apparently out of position (?) Then the second I am BB. So oop twice in a row. This happens again when people join and then leave and we resume HU.

Also this bumhunter DANBOLTS is sitting out at the table, but every once in a while he sits in for a few seconds, but then sits out right before the BB. Each time he does this, I've raised, carpediem77 3bets, I call, and then somehow I am OOP!! Only happened twice. I think these two players are colluding to take advantage of this Merge glitch. They both appear to be regulars and this happened more than once.

Yeah man that sucks. I've had this happen to me a few times. I wasn't really thinking collusion, more trolling than anything. Regardless, it's a long time glitch that needs to be fixed.

Carpdiem77 one of the better regulars, don't really view Danbolts as a regular, so was probably just mere coincidence.

Also, 1 is US and 1 is Italy, think you just got unlucky with the glitch.

Thank you, I agree probably coincidence.

To elaborate on what other's have said, Carpe is a 200NL and possibly below reg while DANBOLTS bumhunts 200NL and 500NL. I've played plenty with DANBOLTS without Carpe ever being at the table and highly doubt they were colluding against you.

With that being said, DANBOLTS is probably not an idiot and realizes his constant sitting in/out while you play someone else HU is triggering a glitched button whcih in and of itself is pretty scummy and unethical.

I would recommend reporting this via clicking the "Comments and Suggestions" button in the lobby the next time someone constantly does this to you and make sure to include a few hand numbers as they'll ask for them.

Site down for anybody else? Get 503 error on browser and just a generic unable to log in message when using the client.

Site is down for me too

yea its down

down indeed.

I can't log in either. I keep getting an "error" message.

Glad to see it's not just me.

I tried both the poker client and through the browser.

I had the poker client open earlier but hadn't been playing yet.

I was about to register a few tournaments and got a "register failed" message and then the poker client kicked me out.

Gonna venture some kinda update.

Back up for me.

In the meantime, an observation. 8krunron7 has been using that 'skip the 3 hr. 48 min. late registration' and register for the Sunday $162 big boy at the last minute with 4BB. I've seen him cash a few times with this method, with yesterday's resulting in a final table appearance. Not bad. Some others use this method also being so close to bubble. Seems he cashes close to half the time. So with an occasional deep run, I guess this is +ev for him. I was thinking of taking a stab at this yesterday, but just too much luck involved for my liking.

In.

In, but software is glitching for me

i noticed points weren't accumulating for the "challenges" last night. now today, looks like they killed them for good.

this has been appended to their "challenges" rules page: The last day of this promotion will be January 1st , 2017 with prizes being paid out on January 2nd, 2017.

damn no cash game challenges? that was the last incentive for grinding carbon games aside from table winrate

there is a random $150 freeroll every few hours. Anyone seen any amounts other than $150?