Partypoker Chat Banned For Six Months

[Java 0]

Slow play by StephanRain hurt everyones chance of getting into the moneyin a 10k Gauranteed Cadillac tourney on wednesday night.PartyPOker never really addressed the slow play issue but did ban his chat for 6 months.I am probably glad they didnt look at my chat too close as I had some choice words for 'StephanRain'.*** PartyPoker's Response ****Dear Jay,Thank you for contacting us.We would like to thank you for bringing to our notice the inappropriateconversation in the tournament $10k Gtd Cadillac Satellite. for theplayer 'StephanRain'.This is definitely not acceptable, and the chat feature is provided forplayers as a 'add on' feature to better experience the action at ourtables and also because we know that poker is a social game, however,any misuse of this feature is not permitted. We discourage such activities on our site and hence have asked him toexplain this to us. Given the evidence shown by our game and chatrecords we have proceeded to block the players chat for a period of 6months.We thank you for the report; we appreciate it, as keeping the gameshonest is our highest priority.Contact us anytime, we are available around the clock to assist you withyour account related questions and suggestions.Sincerely, Avinash Investigations Team **** My Original note to PartyPOker. ****From: jbn117@hotmail.comDate: 2006-04-19 22:37To: info@partypoker.comSubject: Delay by StephanRain Hand History[#5021848]Slow play by StephanRain hurt everyones chance of getting into the moneyin this tourney.Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (Tournament 22362034) - Wed Apr19 19:13:37 EDT 2006>Table $10k Gtd Cadillac Satellite(657307)****************************************************>StephanRain: please start to play slowly to get in 250th****************************************************>StephanRain did not respond in time.>StephanRain folds.***********************************************>StephanRain: i will play slow as possible*****************************************************************************>StephanRain: get slow******************************>StephanRain did not respond in time.>StephanRain folds.***********************************>StephanRain: 298>StephanRain: hehe>Java117: how about we all give a dollar to rain so he can play tomorrow>StephanRain: 48 more>fishallnight: f dat>Shelley1963: lol>StephanRain: play slowly guys*******************************************************************************>StephanRain: andrew , play slowly to get in 250th>fishallnight: he is recruiting lol*************************************************************************************>StephanRain: stalling to win>StephanRain: come on>Java117: yes so you get the bigblind after break>Hard_Six6 folds.>fishallnight: yup>StephanRain: 287>fishallnight: and then all in and out>StephanRain: 37 more **************************************************************************>StephanRain: play slowly guys*********************************READ ALL:>***** Hand History for Game 4030405897 *****HE HAS DONE THIS BEFORE .....**********************************************>StephanRain: yesterday , i won 26$ on a 6$ tourney>StephanRain: only win stalling>fishallnight: did they hire you to say this stuff>Shelley1963: big bucks>fishallnight: lol>Hard_Six6: i will garuntee you get 258>StephanRain: 6$ to 26$ is 4.5 x>Shelley1963: seeing more hands is the way to win, not stalling>Shelley1963: and letting the blinds go up>Hard_Six6: and will be sure to check when your gone>fishallnight: yup>fishallnight: your a winner>StephanRain: slowly please low chipper******************************************Delays went on for at least 1/2 hourSIGNED:Java117Jay

[doublemeup 0]

What a jerkoff

[Mcseals 0]

Yea that sucks man

[Swift_Psycho 1]

Goodness that's annoying. What'd you say to him?

[rkard 0]

This happens all the time online Usually people aren't such morons to talk about it like that. Everytime a tournament gets near the bubble there's shortstacks all over the place who start stalling because they can't get through the blinds without moving in.I believe there should be better service by floormanagers to stomp this out.

[oldirtyharry 0]

When it's hand for hand I can't really see the purpose. If you're that worried about cashing, don't play any hand for hand hands and you'll be fine. People are retarded, they should ban this peice of ****.

[krup24 0]

what a d-bag.

[Java 0]

Followup:Yep the guy was total azz. The Party 10k Guaranteed Cadillac Satellites ($11) were starting with about 500 - 600 players, almost 2 to 1 overlay. Top 250 qualified for the Sunday evening 150k Escalade Tourney, top 50 in the 10k paid off $40 - $2000(?). The Sunday evening 150k Escalade Tourney (1800 players or so) paid off top 51-2 with $456 - $22000 with Escalade to winner.Anyway, slow playing punk StephanRain got a little below average with I guess about 350 players left (not exactly on bubble). He stayed slow for at least 1/2 - to 1 hour and went out at 266 left and failed to qualify. We were at table 3 and stuck with him, only 1 player from our table with very large stack went on to cash.The real bummer is Rain boy qualified in a later satellite because the d-bag finished in the Sunday night tourney 8 places better than I did. I got home from work a little late and ole dad had played for me some, not an excuse for extremly poor performance from short stack, but its all I have.I am a bit surprised that PartyPOker only banned his chat for 6 months and has not taken further action as far as I know.From now on I will have Party on speed dial if this crap ever happens again.

[blueodum 0]

They should give everyone 15 seconds to act and a two minute time bank. Every hour they can reset your time bank to 2 minutes if it has dropped. After you use up your time bank, you should have only 5 seconds on each decision.This would limit the damage stallers can do, while still giving the legitimate players time to make difficult decisions.

[aadams_22 3]

This douchebaggery is way common, and it's nothing but bullshit