Party Poker Cancels Several Tournaments in Pokerfest III Event
This was published 25-04-2013Party Poker, one of the biggest online poker rooms in the world, is currently holding a Pokerfest III online tournament. The event commenced at 00.00 CET on Sunday 21st April, 2013 and will run until 23.59 on Sunday, 5th May, 2013. Qualifiers for the event started on 25th March, 2013.
The festivities were to include six tournaments on Sunday, 21st April, which were to launch in the span of an hour and a half. However, the festivities were marred when the first event, which was a $215 buy-in, $350,000 guaranteed prize pool No-Limit Hold’em tournament was eventually cancelled after a long delay. Five more events were cancelled thereafter.
Players at the tournament reported that the support staff at the event blamed technical issues for the delays and subsequent cancellations..
A total of $482,500 in prizes was guaranteed across the five events. Buy-ins was refunded to those players who had registered for the tournaments.
Party Poker apologized for the last minute cancellation and undertook to run two free roll tournaments with a combined $15k value given away in tournament ticket prizes.
The 6th and final event of the day was suspended for 15 minutes but eventually did run. This event was the largest buy in of $530 and $250k guaranteed tournament. The guarantee was just covered with a total of 501 players registering for the event. The victor was awarded the first prize of $50k in the early hours of the morning of Monday, 22nd April, 2013.
An official representative of Party Poker posted the following apology – “We would like to sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused to players involved in Pokerfest events #1, #3, #4 and #5. The tournaments faced technical difficulties which we were unable to resolve at the time.
We will run a $350,000 guaranteed event on Sunday May 12th which will replace the regular $250,000 guaranteed event to supplement for the cancellation of event 1”.
Event No. 2 was not mentioned by the representative as the buy-in was for PartyPoints and not real money.
