Web Server Problems - WCOOP Freeroll

As you all have noticed, the password was not sent in time for the WCOOP Freeroll. Unfortunately, this was due to problems with our web server making the forum inaccessible for the last 15 minutes.

We apologise wholeheartedly. We will do our best to get this tournament re-arranged as quickly as possible. If this is possible, entries will not be re-opened - those who are currently eligible will remain as the only ones eligible.

Once again, apologies for the inconvenience and please understand this was a matter out of our control.

As much as I am not happy along with e1 else waiting for the tourney

Have to say in the FIRST place TY for the work you do FTR/Pascal

And I guess we all have encountered things out of our control - things DO HAPPEN.

Hope you succeed in having this re-scheduled!

Ok, thanks for your explanation pascal
We hope that u can get the tournament re-arranged quicky!

so could we play tommorow or something? or its over?

Maybe just maybe the server could not cope with all the one post wonders logging on to get the password. The game only needed 19 players to run. Surely FTR could muster up that number of genuine members without encouraging hundreds of guys who have no intention of joining and were only interested in getting the password. I know Pokerstars encourage the passwords being made available but plenty of other forums were able to run their games with sensible numbers.

ok thanks !

It was pretty obvious; since you send password only 5 minutes before the amount of traffic to the forum would be HUGE and server can't handle that volume. Bad strategy FTR...

Fair enough, It can happen np

Better entry with tickets no with pass to this freeroll

Originally Posted by Espinha84

It was pretty obvious; since you send password only 5 minutes before the amount of traffic to the forum would be HUGE and server can't handle that volume. Bad strategy FTR...

We release it any earlier and it'll have 10,000 entries and it'll be awful value for our members. This problem has never happened before and we'll be looking at the cause ASAP. If we had even suspected the server could not handle the traffic, we obviously would have arranged this differently.

pascal i entered but do you have to be member and how do i become member?

gg

Please, tell us when the tournament will be available again? Within a few hours or tomorrow? Thanks a lot

Originally Posted by Pascal

As you all have noticed, the password was not sent in time for the WCOOP Freeroll. Unfortunately, this was due to problems with our web server making the forum inaccessible for the last 15 minutes.

We apologise wholeheartedly. We will do our best to get this tournament re-arranged as quickly as possible. If this is possible, entries will not be re-opened - those who are currently eligible will remain as the only ones eligible.

Once again, apologies for the inconvenience and please understand this was a matter out of our control.

these things can hapen,no worries,thanks for the effort, but if you can re schedule the tourney. pre register all who posted in the thread, if possible, keep up the good work

Originally Posted by Pascal

We release it any earlier and it'll have 10,000 entries and it'll be awful value for our members. This problem has never happened before and we'll be looking at the cause ASAP. If we had even suspected the server could not handle the traffic, we obviously would have arranged this differently.

You should only let people who registered a month before the tourney in. That would be more fair.

Originally Posted by Gold_CobraLB

You should only let people who registered a month before the tourney in. That would be more fair.

You have 5 posts in 3 years you have been a member. I know people who have been registered for 3 days who have contributed more strategy than you've done, and yet you wouldn't let them play? I wonder why

quilified member i ment

Originally Posted by kataluneca

Please, tell us when the tournament will be available again? Within a few hours or tomorrow? Thanks a lot

We will talk to Pokerstars as a matter of urgency and keep everyone informed by Private Message, email and/or forum post

Originally Posted by KAKAbrazil83

pascal i entered but do you have to be member and how do i become member?

You will be eligible if we are able to change the tournament date

Originally Posted by KAKAbrazil83

pascal i entered but do you have to be member and how do i become member?

You will be eligible if we are able to change the tournament date

"The password will be sent to everyone who named an AMA candidate in this thread before the 3:40pm ET cut-off time via private messages sent to their FTR forum accounts about five minutes before the tourney's scheduled start time."

I only received the mail today 19:44PM.how could i registered in that time?please answer me.

Thank you Pascal

looks like you will get two entries. To be a qaulified member you have to post strategy posts regularly and not wishy washy "me too" type posts.

Originally Posted by bruno parreira

"The password will be sent to everyone who named an AMA candidate in this thread before the 3:40pm ET cut-off time via private messages sent to their FTR forum accounts about five minutes before the tourney's scheduled start time."

I only received the mail today 19:44PM.how could i registered in that time?please answer me.

19:44pm in Portugal is an hour and 15 minutes before the tournament starts, so you would have nearly an hour to post in the thread?

Originally Posted by Pascal

You have 5 posts in 3 years you have been a member. I know people who have been registered for 3 days who have contributed more strategy than you've done, and yet you wouldn't let them play? I wonder why

opps !! Well said pascal ! saludos en español

Hi Pascal

so who can play this turny, everybody talking too much and i dont understand anything right now .

Cheers

Originally Posted by tamme666

Hi Pascal

so who can play this turny, everybody talking too much and i dont understand anything right now .

Cheers

Forum crash -> password not released to all -> tournament cancelled -> we try and re-arrange

Yes..it is logical because too much player logged to FlopTurnRiver 5 minutes before tournament beggining.

To solve this problem I suggest sending password 5.minutes before tournament but DIRECT to EMAIL ADDRESS.

Solving ANOTHER problem...how ONLY FTR players play this tournement it is not easy, but I thing the way is
telling to PokerStars not alove LATE REGISTRATION .

King regards.

Originally Posted by Pascal

You have 5 posts in 3 years you have been a member. I know people who have been registered for 3 days who have contributed more strategy than you've done, and yet you wouldn't let them play? I wonder why

First of all you are the one who doesn't want 10k people in his tourney, but sends 5 mails just to make sure he gets a ton of new members with the ticket give away and a lot of publicity for the site/forum. We all now that this is the purpose, so people would register to pokerstars with your site so you could make money.
But on the other hand you are the one stating to give the password only 5 minutes before the tournament start because you would otherwise get the 1 timers just wanting the password. You see, that does not count up.


That I don't post doesn't mean I don't read things here. First of all I registered with your site on Pokerstars so you are making money out of me. If you organised this ticket give away FOR your MEMBERS than you should make the terms of participating different. So pls don't give me bullsh*t.

CAN YOU PLEASE CHECK IF I AM GOOD TO THIS TURNEY, I DONT REMEMBER WHAT TIME IS POSTED?
THANKS

Originally Posted by Gold_CobraLB

First of all you are the one who doesn't want 10k people in his tourney, sends 5 mails just to make sure he gets a ton of new members with the ticket give away and a lot of publicity for the site/forum. We all now that this is the purpose, so people would register to pokerstars with your site so you could make money.
But on the other hand you are the one stating to give the password only 5 minutes before the tournament start because you would otherwise get the 1 timers just wanting the password. You see, that does not count up.


That I don't post doesn't mean I don't read things here. First of all I registered with your site on Pokerstars so you are making money out of me. If you organised this ticket give away FOR your MEMBERS than you should make the terms of participating different. So pls don't give me bullsh*t.

No bullshit involved. It's very simple. Pokerstars offer us this tournament because they want to promote WCOOP. We want to attract new members with a great freeroll which has $2,900 added. So we allow new posters to post, so that hopefully they post and they keep posting. We want new posters to come to the forum and like it here. Therefore, annoying people by crashing the site on purpose wouldn't make sense.

10,000 players getting the password from a Russian freeroll site v 400 players who only had to post in a forum to get an entry worth nearly $10 each. I know which one I'd prefer, a forum post hardly takes long. The password was guessed at 1pm today and the tournament filled in an hour. If we released the password an hour before the tournament, it would be full before our members even had a chance to register.

It's just a case of something going wrong which we really didn't expect. As you can see, I'm working as hard as I can to correct this and I've apologised at least 3 times.

np next time better pascal

and i did post more then a hour before the tournament starts

why can go sleep today ?

I hope you get things sorted out, Pascal, TY for all the work u do.

No worries Pascal. It happens and is not your fault !

Thanks you for your effort and for keeping this forum up !

When the tournament will be available again? Are we go to sleep?

LOL. hope this is not a joke, and the tourney will re conitnued, better share password via email in 5 minute before tournament begins. and remove the late registriation!

thanks for all Pascal

I think we all understand that problems may occur.

I was pleased to have discovered this forum who do not really know.

I hope you can and can join a new tournament.

Thank you.

Muito obrigado.

Originally Posted by Gold_CobraLB

First of all you are the one who doesn't want 10k people in his tourney, but sends 5 mails just to make sure he gets a ton of new members with the ticket give away and a lot of publicity for the site/forum. We all now that this is the purpose, so people would register to pokerstars with your site so you could make money.
But on the other hand you are the one stating to give the password only 5 minutes before the tournament start because you would otherwise get the 1 timers just wanting the password. You see, that does not count up.


That I don't post doesn't mean I don't read things here. First of all I registered with your site on Pokerstars so you are making money out of me. If you organised this ticket give away FOR your MEMBERS than you should make the terms of participating different. So pls don't give me bullsh*t.

yeah , give him his due Pascal he's made 5 posts in 2 days ...all about this tournament and the other post he made was about the stars freeroll back in 2010. Cobra, If you are so concerned about the Qualification to participate would you think that only people who have made at least 20 posts before this month can play the tournament would be a better way to reward the forum's regular members and encourage new members to stay and post regularly so that they can take part in future giveaway tournaments like this rather than one hit wonders who just post to get the password and are never heard from again.

Diaspora scores)))

Did the server problem also be the cause why I didn't get the password in an E-mail?

lol at the ppl getting on ftr back, they could of did what pocketfives or pokernews did and just let majority of the10,000 being non members succeed in entering the freeroll giving us 1 in 556 chance but no they did the right thing earlier today regarding the pw hack and they are doing the right thing now in trying to organise it for a different date.
I know im a new poster but i like this site and think their idea regarding the pw's is the right idea so cut them a bit of slack.

Nothing terrible,we hope that the tournament will)) Thanks, Pascal

no need to apologise Pascal - FTR tried to give out the password in a way that minimised the chance of 10k runners (like P5s and PN had)
Shit happens - thanks for trying to keep the numbers small

Originally Posted by Keith

yeah , give him his due Pascal he's made 5 posts in 2 days ...all about this tournament and the other post he made was about the stars freeroll back in 2010. Cobra, If you are so concerned about the Qualification to participate would you think that only people who have made at least 20 posts before this month can play the tournament would be a better way to reward the forum's regular members and encourage new members to stay and post regularly so that they can take part in future giveaway tournaments like this rather than one hit wonders who just post to get the password and are never heard from again.

They would never do that, because it is marketing for the site. They don't want to keep the numbers small. They want people on their site and people registering so they can make money from them, just like me.
Do you think they send 5 e-mails to keep the numbers small? Pls, don't be a hypocrite.

And I have no problem with that, but don't act all "oh they do this especially for us" kind of bullsh*t.

So ofcourse i have a reason to ask questions about freerolls, because that is my advantage for registering with this site.

Hey there I am glad to have found these forums as well and Pascal any luck on rescheduling the WCOOP freeroll?

44CHAPPY

Pascal, is it possibe to make a buy-in tournament? Thank You.

Originally Posted by PokerKing

Did the server problem also be the cause why I didn't get the password in an E-mail?

Sorry I see that it was supposed to be send by PM, but did the text not original say by E-mail?

Pascal, cancel the tournament it was the right decisionand. as someone wrote password was on sites for 6 hours to this, because it was poorly made PokerStars "ftr"+ "wcoopfun"-like other free that day

Originally Posted by Sergey

Pascal, cancel the tournament it was the right decisionand. as someone wrote password was on sites for 6 hours to this, because it was poorly made PokerStars "ftr"+ "wcoopfun"-like other free that day

WHat???? didn't realize this happened , but didn't anyone at stars /FTR learn the lessons from the SCOOP freeroll where the same thing happened and FTR members had to go looking for the password on other sites just to get into the tournament as it would be full before the official password release time.

I think you sent the password 1-3 mins before freeroll to them email for all members who write I would like to do AMA with some person .

any time made for wcoop freeroll pascal?

Originally Posted by Keith

WHat????

for example free in that day:
PokerNews WCOOP Giveaway - pass pnwcoopfun
P5s WCOOP Geveaway - pass P5swcooptix

Originally Posted by KAKAbrazil83

any time made for wcoop freeroll pascal?

see tournament # 787600127

Pascal, could i be made eligible for the freeroll tonight, ive seen its been rescheduled and tried posting in time yesterday before the cancellation but had problems with the site. You said to pm you but it wont let me, thanks!

Originally Posted by Pascal

As you all have noticed, the password was not sent in time for the WCOOP Freeroll. Unfortunately, this was due to problems with our web server making the forum inaccessible for the last 15 minutes.

We apologise wholeheartedly. We will do our best to get this tournament re-arranged as quickly as possible. If this is possible, entries will not be re-opened - those who are currently eligible will remain as the only ones eligible.

Once again, apologies for the inconvenience and please understand this was a matter out of our control.

Pascal, could i be made eligible for the freeroll tonight, ive seen its been rescheduled and tried posting in time yesterday before the cancellation but had problems with the site. You said to pm you but it wont let me, thanks!

Originally Posted by Sergey

for example free in that day:
PokerNews WCOOP Giveaway - pass pnwcoopfun
P5s WCOOP Geveaway - pass P5swcooptix

yes and they got 10,000runners giving you a 1 in 556 chance, wheres the fun in that.

Originally Posted by Sergey

Pascal, cancel the tournament it was the right decisionand. as someone wrote password was on sites for 6 hours to this, because it was poorly made PokerStars "ftr"+ "wcoopfun"-like other free that day

Yes, we had to cancel it and relaunch it with new password.

Pascal,

Como será passada a senha hoje? A que horas e de que maneira?
787600127 Esse é o torneio, correto?

http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...ll-195886.html

Hi Pascal, do we have to reply again to the other thread or not?! And where about it uk u live bro?

Originally Posted by gumbler888

Hi Pascal, do we have to reply again to the other thread or not?! And where about it uk u live bro?

If you posted in the thread before the deadline you are entered already mate, no need to post again. I live in the South West

Some of the responses here some people seems to totally don't have manners!

TY anyways for setting this all up, ill just ship the next one

Hmmm, i used to live in brighton for 4 years, anywhere close?!

I didn't read all but I want to be sure about one thing: I registered (posted with who I'd like to AMA) yesterday before the tournament was supposed to be started, am I eligible to get in the contest? Do I have to post again?

Hope this kind of problems disappear and now everything its 100% functionable

hi pascal I have not received the freeroll password

Hi Pascal, I have not received the password

Brighton is not in the South West.
GL in the tourney.

Originally Posted by Sergey

Pascal, cancel the tournament it was the right decisionand. as someone wrote password was on sites for 6 hours to this, because it was poorly made PokerStars "ftr"+ "wcoopfun"-like other free that day

There were 8 people who registered... I doubt there was any password on any site . And if i'm wrong, there goes the argument that 10k people would register if the password was released earlier .

You don't half talk rubbish. If you read through pascal's posts you'll see where the password was guessed and spread around the freeroll sites and loads of freetrollers were registereing. Pascal got stars to reset the password and restart registrations. Thats the reason for the late release of the password so that FTR's regular members get a chance to register to play in this tournament before all the "new" members can spread the password around the freetroller forums.
If you are so outraged that FTR have to go to these measures , become a reguilar member , take part , ppost stratgey and then you'll eventually get earlier access to the password.

lets hope everybody gets the passwords in plenty of time and to avoid the nuisance like last night

we told you the problem, thread is closed.