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Pacificpoker.com is either rigged or is a poor system. I was just playing, I had $500 of my remaining $611 in the pot, had AJ suited, went all in, a pop-up said "illegal bet", then I couldn't click any of the buttons, ie fold, check, etc, and it timed me out and folded me. I then had $112 left. DON'T PLAY PACIFICPOKER.COM IF YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOUR MONEY.
 
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Have you contacted Support yet?
I don't like Pacific much either but you need to get ahold of someone for an explanation.
 
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yea they have a weird thing goin on:
for some reason they don't let you raise after someone's pushed all-in in front of you or something like that
they call that an illegal bet
for sure contact their support and get that paper back man
 
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ChuckTs said:
yea they have a weird thing goin on:
for some reason they don't let you raise after someone's pushed all-in in front of you or something like that
they call that an illegal bet
for sure contact their support and get that paper back man

You mean they have a huge known flaw in their system like that and they haven't bothered to take the software offline for repairs? What a bunch of douchebags. Thanks for the heads-up, I won't be playing there.
 
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Well, I've been playing at pacific for over a year Now exclusively and I have never seen this problem. I have had tremendous luck with thier E-mail support, (not live chat). Please contact the support. They have given me money back for technical difficulties before, although I've never had this specific problem.
 
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It sounds like how the live cardrooms around here work. NLHE: Min buy-in $40, Max $200. Max bet $40. Designed so beginners don't go broke in one hand. Keeps people at the table longer so the house can get more rake. But to me it's not real No-Limit when you have limits.
 
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thats weird...never heard anything like that, sticker
 
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MrSticker said:
It sounds like how the live cardrooms around here work.

For some reason I have visions of a small, nerdy guy popping up from underneath the table making a "Ping" noise and holding a sign with "Illegal Bet" written on it (and maybe tutting and wagging his finger at you).

Anyway, Pacific is only good for the awful players, pretty much everything else about it is terrible.
 
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MrSticker said:
It sounds like how the live cardrooms around here work. NLHE: Min buy-in $40, Max $200. Max bet $40. Designed so beginners don't go broke in one hand. Keeps people at the table longer so the house can get more rake. But to me it's not real No-Limit when you have limits.
Cool, so that's No Limit with a limit, as opposed to No Limit with no limit (that's a 2 Unlimited song isn't it)? Isn't that limit?

pacific poker is horrible, just a joyless place to play.
 
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DONT PLAY PACIFICPOKER.COM!!!


I dont - it was one of the 1st places i went to and about 14 months later theres been, lets see now, erm.....1 upgrade that ive noticed.

Rob's right "horrible" the whole feel of the place, the look, what it offers.

Like a 1960's block of flats - new and sparkly when first opened, frontline of the future, now old and lacking many modern facets of ordinary life.

Left behind by others, needing a major overhaul.

IanT
 
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MrSticker said:
It sounds like how the live cardrooms around here work. NLHE: Min buy-in $40, Max $200. Max bet $40. Designed so beginners don't go broke in one hand. Keeps people at the table longer so the house can get more rake. But to me it's not real No-Limit when you have limits.

Umm...isn't that by definition not No Limit Hold'em since there's a limit? Why don't they just play pot limit, since that's a legitimate poker game, instead of the weird bastard child they have going. I guess that doesn't have the same cache as "no limit", but at that rate why not just have pot limit and call it no limit?
 
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Hey all,
I myself don't care much for Pacific either. I still have an account there real money and play money(not sure if it has changed but used to have to have 2 seperate accounts there...one for each play and real money) This has been like 2 + years?

I called their support way back when I was playing on there, because of a problem with certain things in their freerolls. During their freerolls on the real money side strange things would happen to the hands such as, all but one person on the table having connection problems and that ONE person would have the worst hand. I had seen an Ace high straight get busted out by trips or a smaller straight. I know it happened to me when I would preflop raise AA or KK or bet the river with something good and then all of sudden lose connection but I could see the hand play out? Or you could go through the tournament till just right at the bubble and the site would go down and IF they restarted it they really restarted it from the very beginning. Some of this stuff doesn't sound believable and I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.
Edit: also wanted to say way back when that when I use their support number all through the above scenario that I would get the same lady(had to be sounded exactly like the same person) she would have different names.


I got a little mouthy with Support and told them I was gonna tell every one of my poker playing friends of the problems they were having and if they were having problems with the Freerolls part of the real money site what makes me think they weren't having problems with the Real money tables and buyin tournies. They banned my REAL MONEY name. :eek: After calling them again and apologizing for my mouth just a bit they reinstated me :D But I haven't played there since and I won't either.
Good luck to those who tread with Pacific!
 
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shwingzilla said:
Umm...isn't that by definition not No Limit Hold'em since there's a limit? Why don't they just play pot limit, since that's a legitimate poker game, instead of the weird bastard child they have going. I guess that doesn't have the same cache as "no limit", but at that rate why not just have pot limit and call it no limit?

I was wrong about the min buy-in. It's $100. But the rest is correct. It is so hard to believe that I found the web page for a cardroom here so y'all can see for yourselves. They call it "No-Limit*":

http://www.lucky-derby.com/Holdem%20Rules.htm
 
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hah what a joke
guess they really don't like the all-inners
 
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I'd call it Capped Limit - not No Limit
 
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I've actually heard of that with like PL omaha games where they have a cap for each betting round
usually they're found in high stakes games
 
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