Rusted!

My lack of proper bankroll rusted my chances of iron man this month. The final stats from the Full Tilt website:



At least I made silver this month and will be able to participate in the silver freeroll... I will definitely be adding some more as I participate in this tiered freeroll. I am curious to see how many players there are on each level (bronze, silver, gold and iron) and what the level of competition is.

FullTilt Support

Full Tilt support did get back to me to let me know I'd reached 290 points for the day (phew) so I am still on track. They do have some of the better online poker support.

Iron Man vs The Exploding Full Tilt

Well here's the update. Since yesterday Full Tilt has been having problems and I do not mean little ones... Support over there said the following:

Thank you for contacting Full Tilt Poker Support.

At approximately 8:45 a.m. ET on February 17th, our website was taken down for unscheduled maintenance. We are currently reviewing the situation and expect to have the issue resolved shortly.

Although the website is currently down, the Full Tilt Poker software remains fully accessible. You should have no problem connecting to our servers and accessing all games and tournaments.

Thank you for your patience. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Well the unschedule maintenance continues to this moment and I'm still not exactly sure how many full tilt points I have accrued today. This is what their status screen says:

But that's as of about 8am this morning and I've played for at least an hour since then. I wrote support again early today but have not heard from them yet. I suppose this must be part of the Iron Man Test

I can dodge bullets, baby!

Sometime around about the fifth of the month I got the idea in my turtle brain to try to qualify for Full Tilt's "Iron Man", which involves getting 200+ Full Tilt Points at least 25 days out of the month. Naturally I picked the last possible moment to attempt this trick if I don't miss a single day. Compound that with not really having the bankroll to effectively multitable at a respectable ($3-$6+) limit and you've got the makings for a Saturday Night Live "Bad Idea Jeans" skit... ("Sure I don't have a condom, but when's the next time I'm going to be in Haiti?")

Up until now I've managed to stretch my meager bankroll at Full Tilt and earn the requisite points from the 5th through the 13th (and since the clock has rolled over midnight I am currently sitting at a $2-$4 table listening to hate-chat and grinding through points). They definitely call it iron man for a reason--even though getting 200 points is very easy to do in a single day it is quite the marathon to try to do it every single day of the month without exception.

Why you little @&#*@*&#*^@$^*@$#

With all these time at the Full Tilt tables it is very noticable that some of the players there can be some of the rudest folk at times. Of course that is why there is a mute option but it makes you think about how casually people say things on the internet that they would not try for a second in person and about something as silly as a $20 pot. Some people really do enjoy the humor of the rail hecklers, though, so to each his own. If you do run into someone who is chatting as an observer that you would like to mute you can right click on any chat line they've said and go to player notes for them, and then mute their individual chat. It's a great way to get the rest of the table hating them because you won't be responding (because you cannot hear them) and the railbird flamer will only be irritating everyone else.

I'll post at least one more update on how the Iron Man thing went this month, but in the mean time if you want to come heckle me you know where I'll be playing and what my turtle's name is...