I freaking hate prima.

** Game ID 443429694 starting - 2005-08-02 01:43:34
** Angels [Hold 'em] (0.25|0.50 No Limit - Cash Game) Real Money

- hodwodwo sitting in seat 1 with $59.25
- _Monks_ sitting in seat 2 with $46.00
- timomaas sitting in seat 3 with $22.54
- JSquared31 sitting in seat 4 with $90.07
- RellikLaires sitting in seat 5 with $20.26
- 13TOOL13 sitting in seat 6 with $21.90
- PRUNE sitting in seat 7 with $12.40
- Emma11 sitting in seat 8 with $44.29 [Dealer]
- Dassin sitting in seat 9 with $27.50
- Otori sitting in seat 10 with $27.30

Dassin posted the small blind - $0.25
Otori posted the big blind - $0.50
** Dealing card to Dassin: 4 of Diamonds, 6 of Diamonds
hodwodwo folded
_Monks_ folded
timomaas called - $0.50
JSquared31 folded
RellikLaires called - $0.50
13TOOL13 folded
PRUNE called - $0.50
Emma11 folded
Dassin called - $0.50
Otori checked

** Dealing the flop: 3 of Clubs, 9 of Diamonds, 5 of Clubs
Dassin checked
Otori checked
timomaas checked
RellikLaires bet - $3.00
PRUNE folded
Dassin called - $3.00
Otori folded
timomaas called - $3.00

** Dealing the turn: 2 of Spades
Dassin bet - $7.00
timomaas called - $7.00
RellikLaires went all-in - $16.76
Dassin folded
timomaas called - $16.76
timomaas shows: 4 of Clubs, 2 of Clubs
RellikLaires shows: 9 of Hearts, 7 of Hearts

** Dealing the river: 10 of Diamonds
RellikLaires wins $49.42 from the main pot

End of game 443429694

Why did I fold? There was a "hiccup" in "my" connection for maybe 12 seconds, which folded my nuts. No disconnect protection, no waiting for me to "reconnect", just me NOT winning a full freaking buyin. Bwtween this, the stupid sized windows with the messages on the right, inconsistant betting (sometimes when I put in "$2", it raises TO $2, sometimes it raises BY $2), and weird layout of the overall software... I can not wait til I clear my bonus and GTFO.

P.S. Here's a fun fact: While typing this, I've been catching crazy cards. Right before this I sent cust support an email about that hand. I just got aces twice, AQ twice, AK once, queens once. Friggin crazy. I did just make up what I lost and more, but I'm sure that's a coincidence. I am 3 tabling Nl50, but still.

I would never play at Prima, thats sites look a bit sketchy in the first place; a friend of mine told me he had problems cashing his money out of there once. After 2 months he finally got it out through some wierd trick.

I'd stick with UltimateBet, PokerStars, and PartyPoker and its skins, those are the safe sites in my opinion. Maybe FullTilt.

Oh, I have no intention of playing at prima (Poker Rewards) again. Believe me :P

Thing is, between the deposit bonus and the bonus I'm getting from PokerSourceOnline (in PSO points), I'm getting about $290 on a $400 bonus, for 2000 raked hands (which goes by pretty fast, just need to be dealt cards).

I just was all in preflop with kings vs someone's queens. I hit my set. He hit the single card straight :P WOOO

Edit: Just got an email back from PR "answering" my question about the hand.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Morons

Hello Jonathan
Thank you for contacting the Poker Room Support team.

We would like to draw to your attention a unique feature in our Poker Room software ? PlayCheck ? ETC. ETC. about their hand history feature

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That's clearly what I wanted to know when my email to them (with the hand history number in the subject) Went a-like this:

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Originally Posted by Dassin, ruler of the free world and all around awesome dude

I just lost a good chunk of money on this hand, I had the nuts, you folded my hand. What's the deal?

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fold the flop since you don't have good enough pot odds to draw and you don't know if anyone else calls
the bet was bigger than the pot, and you have bad position which makes your implied odds worse

other than that, yes I hate it when poker sites are retarded like that
all-in protection is probably the best way to handle it

I had two separate times last night where something similar happened to me. Once with two pair in an already-big pot that I was ahead in.

Another with AA getting play from AK or KQ when a K flopped.

Cost me about 50 bucks I imagine.

Once I was switching windows to the AA hand and apparently clicked "fold to any bet," the other time my time ran out with the 2 pair, but I swear it was only like eight seconds. I don't know.

Sites with very fast timers don't get my buisness for this reason. It's the Internet, hiccups happen, the site needs to be tolerant of that.

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Originally Posted by iopq

fold the flop since you don't have good enough pot odds to draw and you don't know if anyone else calls
the bet was bigger than the pot, and you have bad position which makes your implied odds worse

other than that, yes I hate it when poker sites are retarded like that
all-in protection is probably the best way to handle it

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With the OESD (harder to see with the gap) and backdoor flush, I figured I had more than enough combined pot and implied odds to see the turn. If he was betting so hard on the flop, I could take his stack if I hit, which was correct, but... friggin prima :P

:rilla: :rilla: in defense of the Prima Sites Network/Microgaming software (Ladbrokes also use it), the players on some of the low stakes tables are fairly fishy, they do supply me with my bread and butter...limit STT 7card, and i have found their banking to be excellent. About the disconnect protection i see where you are coming from dude i have been burned by the odd disconnect with big pair PF

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Originally Posted by spino1i

I would never play at Prima, thats sites look a bit sketchy in the first place; a friend of mine told me he had problems cashing his money out of there once. After 2 months he finally got it out through some wierd trick.

I'd stick with UltimateBet, PokerStars, and PartyPoker and its skins, those are the safe sites in my opinion. Maybe FullTilt.

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It took me a month to cash out of prima.