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A spammer started a thread about a new poker room and the $25,000 freerolls on this forum. I spoke briefly about it in that thread. I took them up on a couple of promotions and was left so disappointed by what I saw I demanded my cashout early and gave them back my 100% bonus.
The bonus was 100% up to $200 for playing 3000 raked hands. I played and played seeing mind boggling plays. Way too many draws hit, I myself hit way too many draws to even it out.
I saw what was blatant collusion. In the hand histories a losing called down hand shows in almost any poker rooms hand history so a player would be able to see if funny betting was warranted or a cause to email support. Not here. I would email support with hand numbers asking what a player had or to look into certain players and they never responded. These hands would go like player x bets, player y raises I call player x reraises player y reraises I fold. River check check. Now of course this could be two pair vs two pair or a missed draw but it happened WAY too often. I play about 10,000 hands a week and in the last week I did not see one hand like this at Party, Poker Stars, Absolute, or zerorake but at Platinum Poker Club this happened around 10 times.
Another player posted in another forum that there were 2 people playing from same IP in a tourney, the tourney locked up when they reached the final table. It was unclear what management did about this but the post appears to imply nothing was done.
I have found 4 other threads not started by me on the net about people saying they witnessed blatant collusion or they did not believe the RNG was legit.
Then even more BS. A player posted recently that he requested a cashout from them. To his surprise he received this email.
Thank you for playing at The Platinum Poker Club. It is a pleasure to have at
our tables.
Your withdrawal request has been declined. The reason for this is that you have
not met the requirements to request funds that have been transferred to your
account by another user.
According to company policies on player to player transfers, if a customer wants
to withdraw funds that have been transferred to him by another player, he must
complete a total of 100 real money raked hands before being able to withdraw
those funds.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or comments
I have NEVER heard of a poker room requiring a bonus type restriction on a player to player transfer. In fact many rooms encourage this, especially smaller one. It creates more action from a player that might otherwise be busted. I searched their website and could not find anything about this policy. It obviously was made up and is not industry norm. After this player posted this several other players began posting "I got that same email" Obviously when poker rooms make up policies as they go along this is bad news.
It seems every time I play at a Dobrosoft poker room bad things happen. Americascardroom, a once well run poker room fell to crap. Popular Poker (under old mgt) screwed me out of a bonus. Choice still owes thosands to unpaid players. Pokerworld was a disaster when it opened although they appear to have gotten their act together too. Now this room. I think it is more the licensees then the software company but maybe they need to be more involved to keep their software from getting a bad reputation.
After seeing what I considered to be an insane amount of drawouts by both me and my opps I had this hand happen. I finally went into the poker room and made a big issue of player who called 3 bets cold at button preflop with 35s flop was AK9 no flush draw he called cap on flop and 2 on turn and made a runner runner wheel. This pot was one of the biggest I ever saw in a 5 handed 2/4 game ($114 I think it was). I had 99 another player had KK.
After that I demanded a host come to the table. I demanded they let me out of my raked hand deal. I offered to give the entire bonus back although I had played 1145 hands of my 3000 and asked only that they give me the remainder back. This was the same offer I had made to them 5 times in last few days.
Another player bought out my bonus and they cashed me out. I was not a loser crybaby here. I had lost $5 of my $200 deposit but there was no way in hell this was a fair place. The suspect hands of collusion which I emailed support about and got ignored, the ridiculous draws like the last hand I played there, and the lack of support made it a place I would not touch.
The bonus was 100% up to $200 for playing 3000 raked hands. I played and played seeing mind boggling plays. Way too many draws hit, I myself hit way too many draws to even it out.
I saw what was blatant collusion. In the hand histories a losing called down hand shows in almost any poker rooms hand history so a player would be able to see if funny betting was warranted or a cause to email support. Not here. I would email support with hand numbers asking what a player had or to look into certain players and they never responded. These hands would go like player x bets, player y raises I call player x reraises player y reraises I fold. River check check. Now of course this could be two pair vs two pair or a missed draw but it happened WAY too often. I play about 10,000 hands a week and in the last week I did not see one hand like this at Party, Poker Stars, Absolute, or zerorake but at Platinum Poker Club this happened around 10 times.
Another player posted in another forum that there were 2 people playing from same IP in a tourney, the tourney locked up when they reached the final table. It was unclear what management did about this but the post appears to imply nothing was done.
I have found 4 other threads not started by me on the net about people saying they witnessed blatant collusion or they did not believe the RNG was legit.
Then even more BS. A player posted recently that he requested a cashout from them. To his surprise he received this email.
Thank you for playing at The Platinum Poker Club. It is a pleasure to have at
our tables.
Your withdrawal request has been declined. The reason for this is that you have
not met the requirements to request funds that have been transferred to your
account by another user.
According to company policies on player to player transfers, if a customer wants
to withdraw funds that have been transferred to him by another player, he must
complete a total of 100 real money raked hands before being able to withdraw
those funds.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or comments
I have NEVER heard of a poker room requiring a bonus type restriction on a player to player transfer. In fact many rooms encourage this, especially smaller one. It creates more action from a player that might otherwise be busted. I searched their website and could not find anything about this policy. It obviously was made up and is not industry norm. After this player posted this several other players began posting "I got that same email" Obviously when poker rooms make up policies as they go along this is bad news.
It seems every time I play at a Dobrosoft poker room bad things happen. Americascardroom, a once well run poker room fell to crap. Popular Poker (under old mgt) screwed me out of a bonus. Choice still owes thosands to unpaid players. Pokerworld was a disaster when it opened although they appear to have gotten their act together too. Now this room. I think it is more the licensees then the software company but maybe they need to be more involved to keep their software from getting a bad reputation.
After seeing what I considered to be an insane amount of drawouts by both me and my opps I had this hand happen. I finally went into the poker room and made a big issue of player who called 3 bets cold at button preflop with 35s flop was AK9 no flush draw he called cap on flop and 2 on turn and made a runner runner wheel. This pot was one of the biggest I ever saw in a 5 handed 2/4 game ($114 I think it was). I had 99 another player had KK.
After that I demanded a host come to the table. I demanded they let me out of my raked hand deal. I offered to give the entire bonus back although I had played 1145 hands of my 3000 and asked only that they give me the remainder back. This was the same offer I had made to them 5 times in last few days.
Another player bought out my bonus and they cashed me out. I was not a loser crybaby here. I had lost $5 of my $200 deposit but there was no way in hell this was a fair place. The suspect hands of collusion which I emailed support about and got ignored, the ridiculous draws like the last hand I played there, and the lack of support made it a place I would not touch.
