Full Tilt Poker Crashes during big tournament

Full Tilt Poker, one of the world’s largest online poker sites, suffered a server crash during the busy Sunday night period.

The crash occurred at 7:45pm ET and players were dropped from the website and unable to log back in. When attempting to open the Full Tilt client, players received a message saying, “Unable to connect to server.” This went on for 3.5 hours.

The server crash affected everyone playing on the site, including those still alive in Full Tilt’s flagship Sunday tournament, the big $216 buy-in with $750,000 Guaranteed.

Full Tilt Poker cancelled all running tournaments at 9:41pm ET. Then, at approximately 11:15pm, ET, the site’s support staff sent the following e-mail to players who were still playing in tournaments:

When a tournament is cancelled before it reaches the money, according to tournament rule 31.2 :

-All players still in the tournament at the time of the cancellation will be refunded their tournament buy-in and tournament fee. Players will have their initial buy-ins refunded in the tournament prize pool currency.

-In addition, the remaining prize pool will be divided and distributed according to chip count - (Remaining Prize Pool)*(Your Chip Count)/(Total Chips in Play) = Your Share of Remaining Prize Pool.

Full Tilt Poker was back on Monday morning and has been running normally since.

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