It was 4am and my gf's asleep and I was just laying there awake next to her, so I get up. While I browse the dead ftr I decide "meh, mine as well play." After I say that I decide I am going to try and break my record for most sngs played at once, I think it was about 12. Sounds fun, right? Well while I had a bunch loaded up I snapped a screen shot, which is below (click to enlarge).
I don't know the exact count as some of the items on the taskbar are tournament lobbies, but according to PT I played for exactly 60 mins and finished with 21 sngs. So I guess my new records stands at 21. It's funny because I had about 2/3 of my total roll in play.
This was INSANE. I never once timed out, but I don't think I'll try it again.
Now there's a story to tell and you can shed a tear if you want for me. This was the WORST TIME EVER to try and break my old record.
While I am playing, and the blinds are ranging from 100/200 - 200/400, I notice the cards stop being dealt. I'm like WTF (I had about 15 tournaments still running). I GET FUCKING DISCONNECTED. So I'm like GG CABLE MODEM I HATE YOU. Well, I hit network status and what do I see:
My connection was ONLY cut off at Pokerstars. Aim, and every other website worked peachy keen. I was literally sick. Now I know the amount of money inplay at the time (somewhere around $55) is pretty insignificant to most people. However, the amount doesn't matter as I am trying to grind up. That is about half of my total roll. I was devistated.... Well about 5 mins later I get reconnected and I am sitting out at all of my tables. I probably did not even get to hit "I'm Back" on all of them, and was already eliminated out of a few. Keep in mind the blinds were 200/400+ by now and the ones I did get back to I had only a bb or two left. You can't really put a price on how much money I lost, but it's fair to say I lost a lot more than I would have. Because of this, out of these 24 tournaments I only placed itm in 5, 1st 1, 2nd 1, 3rd 3. Blah.
It just sucks because I never had a disconnect problem while playing on pokerstars without it being on my side. When I reconnected no one else was sitting out that I noticed, so I was like WTF?!?! I sent them an e-mail asking them to explain what happened because obviously I did not lose my connection to anything else but Stars. I don't really except much besides a "blah blah blah" response, but meh. It actually makes me nervous to play more donkaments or just playing in general. I don't plan on ever trying to play 20+ again anytime soon, but even if it happened while I play my standard 10 it would suck.
Oh well I guess I'll stop complaining now and play more. If I can get in the green for today I will be a very very happy man.
Originally Posted by givememyleg
It was 4am and my gf's asleep and I was just laying there awake next to her, so I get up. While I browse the dead ftr I decide "meh, mine as well play." After I say that I decide I am going to try and break my record for most sngs played at once, I think it was about 12. Sounds fun, right? Well while I had a bunch loaded up I snapped a screen shot, which is below (click to enlarge).
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