One of the chief reasons for PokerStars’ perch above the online poker world is that they are such a reliable company. Unfortunately, this reliability was put in some serious jeopardy after the software crashed last night.<\/p>\n
The PokerStars software stopped working around 18:30 ET, and the nearly 50,000 players online were puzzled about what to do. At first, people may have thought that it was a mere glitch; but when the PokerStars software was still down a half hour later, people began to grow antsy.<\/p>\n
In fact, many players were scrambling on the internet to find out what was going on. Luckily, PokerStars officials released a statement on their site to explain the problem and it read:<\/p>\n
Administrator: All tournaments have been paused while we attempt to resolve the issue affecting gameplay. Tournaments will resume as soon as possible. When we are ready to resume, we will post a 5-minute warning before doing so.<\/em><\/p>\n Unfortunately, the software crash was not without consequences because many poker tournament players completely lost their position and buy-in. This being said, we’re still awaiting word on when\/if those affected by the software problems will get their money back.<\/p>\n As for the cause of PokerStars software problem, it’s been attributed to an overload of players on the site. Currently, the 2011 WCOOP is going on and there are a ton of people in the WCOOP tournaments. So when you combine this with the 20k-30k cash game players who are usually on PokerStars, you can get a picture on why the software had problems.<\/p>\n If there’s any silver lining to all of this, it’s that PokerStars has been able to retain a huge player base despite dealing with the US Department of Justice earlier in the year, and US players no longer being accepted.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the chief reasons for PokerStars’ perch above the online poker world is that they are such a reliable company. Unfortunately, this reliability was put in some serious jeopardy after the software crashed last night. The PokerStars software stopped working around 18:30 ET, and the nearly 50,000 players online were puzzled about what to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,72],"tags":[568,564,567,301,565,566,326,569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}