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Originally Posted by Dsl25
Yea. It's been going on steadily since the beginning of December. It's not just American sites, either. Even Pokerstars has reported DDOS attacks.
So, I wouldn't worry too much about playing this weekend on WPN. As this seems to be the standard issue nowadays and this weekend is as good as any other. All of these poker sites are very good about refunding buy ins to tournaments if an issue pops up during one and it mostly seems to effect the tournaments only. The cash games seem to run pretty smooth most of the time during these attacks from what I've seen, but they can have issues, too.
Worst case scenario you play some tournaments and it crashes and they refund you, or lose some blinds and bets during a disconnect in cash games. Hopefully, the hackers will just leave the poker sites alone.
Well, that's sort of true. But if you're talking about a big promotion like the Winning Millions, it's a disaster for both the site(s) and the players if things fall apaprt. Go back a few pages and read the posts from players who completely changed their schedules to play the Winning Millions.
They took time off from work. They played satellites to win a seat, investing money and time in the satellites. They used vacation time for this. When the tournament was called off, one player who posted said that he had a very big stack, had played for hours, and when it was canceled he was just out of the money.
The Winning Millions isn't just any tournament. I agree that you pretty much play at your own risk. I'm a full-time poker player. I have moved most of my play to live tournaments, but I still play a few every month on ACR. But there is no way that I'm going to invest a lot of time and money in the Winning Millions, a leaderboard contest, or anything else that requirs a series commitment of time and/or money.
A site is asking for trouble any time that it runs a major promotion when there are problems with the site.
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