Steel-O: SSD performance deteriorates A LOT once they get more than 70-80% full. They're not built to run full. Get your free space up to 25-30GB and see how your machine is (just buy an external drive or something for data and move it across).

This may not stop Party crashing but won't hurt, and should speed up your machine generally.

Those current prices definitely have nothing new about them .

They do however speak of a new reward system on the page ....

Can we get a comment about if/when WPT is changing their reward system ?
Like ... Will it be better , with more value, with all kinds of pleasant surprises ??

Hi

I am working on this - please bear with me

Thanks

Colette

It would only get worse. Why provoke it... Wpt should have better rewards seeing as how there are zero promos there...

Nope. Yes SSDs are much faster but they are not more reliable. I had to remove both of the SSDs from my PC and laptop because they were causing so many problems. As soon as I removed them the problems stopped. Don't tell me the problem wasn't my SSD...it certainly was!

So because your problems went away when you switched out your SSD, that means SSDs are worse/slower than HDDs?

Nice logic there sir

http://ocz.com/consumer/ssd-guide/ssd-vs-hdd

No, I didn't say they were slower. They are much much faster, that's why I installed them in both my laptop and PC...but I had so many crashes, freezes blue screen of death that I had to remove them. As soon as I put the old HDs back in ALL the crashes and problems stopped.

Maybe you had faulty ones?

My first SSD had an interesting bug. After you had used it for 311040 minutes exactly, it would become unresponsive after 1 hour of starting your computer.

Simple firmware update fixed that one but I can only imagine how they managed to get a bug like that in them. Sounds like a Party bug

Yeah, believe me, I didn't want to take the SSDs drives out. I had 2 very high end systems with a Windows Experience Index of 7.9 and they were smoking fast(An Alienware laptop and a home built PC). The thing is I was having the same problems with both and they each had different models of SSD drives. I run my PCs 24 hours a day and I run many programs at once...I think maybe SSDs just aren't reliable when mutitasking read/write at that level. I'm not exactly sure why they were causing problems but as soon as they were removed ALL of the problems stopped.

Yeah, for me SSDs have been like asian girls. You just don't go back.

Hope you find a working model and try to switch over again

On the other news (or maybe it's not even news for MTT players?)

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...poker-1525370/

Just had my first crash at Party in 2 weeks...weird...was it because I was posting about crashes?

Everyday tables show up in search that don't show up in the lobby. I don't want to keep bringing up the topic but it is seriously reason for concern. I have been tracking it for a few months now. When a regular leaves tables I search there name and they never show up anywhere. But when some recreational players that bounce tables leave, and are gone from the lobby they show up in search on tables. And if I continue to monitor them the waitlists on the tables changes slowly. Right now if you search (i removed the name cause he's gone anyways now) it will show table apia that doesn't exist, for me at least. Can anyone see if they have access? And I don't think its a case of the lobby not updating given the waitlist changes overtime.

edited. well now he's gone.

I'm very happy with my SSD

I have no way to be sure of this, but because the lobby refreshes really bad, couldn't that be the same case with the player search? It would explain it without the segregation ghost coming into place, I'd say.

That's what I was hoping, but usually with tables updating slowly in lobby, at least those tables exist! And further, here is the strange thing. It seems to happen always during a recreational player switching tables, so lets say they play an hour session and are constantly on tables for an hour, but switching once they double or get stacked. While the player is not showing up in the lobby he is in search on some mysterious table. And once search shows him no longer on, he pops up on a visible table a few minutes after. I see it all the time. It's like an continuous flow of moving from table to table which only adds to the evidence that he likely is playing somewhere, where that search is saying he is.

And here is the real kicker, when you search a players name, it shows the table they are on, how many players at the table and the current waitlist. Now, if I search his name 10 minutes apart and they are still on the same table I notice the waitlist number slowly going up. Which leads me to believe it is not just a display issue. It could be that we have skin specific tables, but no one seems to be able to confirm this!

That all said, i don't want to be proven right, i'd rather be proven wrong. I am just saying the facts that I've found and am hoping an explanation can be rendered. Like maybe it is a software glitch they didnt realize or lobby refresh or skin specific tables. I really hope its not a bug that some players have found to exploit again.

Colette, I haven't got a MFC failure in weeks, but today I have gotten a few already. Whatever they did to fix it seems to have made it worse considering I was never really all that affected and now I am lol.

Colette, only one of the PLO mtt met guaranteed by $19 today, not even the rebuy made it.

I know it is my first post on these forums. Been an avid reader and never had a reason to post until now.

Just want to let you Party Poker players know that you should be cautious when playing qualifiers / freerolls as apparently they do not honor certain wins.

During their recent pokerfest events they had a freeroll running for entry into the main event #72. A seat worth $200.

I was fortunate enough to win this freeroll on two occasions. On my 2nd win I contacted Party Poker and asked what will happen with my 2nd ticket. I was informed by not one but two agents that the 2nd unused ticket will be converted into tournament dollars once the event is over. They also directed me to a link on their website that states if you win more then one entry to a tournament that the amount will be converted to tournament dollars.

Excited and happy that I not only get to play in event 72 but will also be receiving $200 in tournament dollars afterwords I could not wait to play the event.

My excitement quickly turned into disappointment as after the event finished my 2nd token disappeared and a zero tournament dollar balance. Contacting them I was informed they made a decision that freeroll qualifiers no longer qualify for tournament dollars only extra wins via cash qualifiers apply. This is what the agent on chat told me.

This is not fair and is bad business practice by Party Poker. I won those two entries fair and square and had it been another player that won then Party would have paid the $200 for them to play in the main event so there really is no difference then crediting me with the $200 in tourney dollars.

After 2 days of correspondences, multiple chats, emails and their departments looking into it they basically said again to bad we will not honor it. One agent tried to offer me $10 lol - like that would really make up for $200

I was a daily player at Party but due to this situation they will no longer have my business. Some of you readers might have been lucky to make a few bucks off me haha as I took the remaining balance in my account and basically gave it away at a higher stakes table so I could bring my balance to zero.

To me it's not about money it's about good business practices. I won the tournament and I should be credited with the win. Simple as that! - Stars will have my business now moving forward.

Be careful fellow grinders!

Speaking of SSD. My SSD is almost 80% full. Half of the SSD is loaded with all my played hands in a separate database. I dont know why I still have it. I look at the alltimegraph when I have a huge downswing.

I can imagine it is at least 7 million hands and 60 gig. And if an almost full SSD causing troubles maybe I will delete it.

Do you guys have an alltime database and what for?

@GotUBeat. Auch. GL

I imported 45 million plo hands once. Although the database it still worked fine on the SSD there was some new lag. I had about 10 to 15% free space left.
Booting from a HDD with a DB like this will take 30 minutes at least

FAO SS-TP

I have tried to reply to your PM regarding ongoing issues, but apparently you need to clear some space to accept a new message.
I didn't want you to think I was ignoring you.


Thanks

COlette

I feel like you must have thought of this, but could they be jumping onto Casual Cash Game tables? I think you can have CCG's filtered in the lobby, which would explain a lot of your issues.

They aren't on CCGs

I play similar limits to YSS and I see the same things he does.

I go to open certain active tables, but am unable to sit down or join the wait list ...
It's been occurring for a couple months at least $