I played a $30 re buy tournament on monday 1st april at pkr, it was part of a promo series they'd been running called springfest. So I stack up to 35k from my 3k starting stack and was near the money bubble when all of a sudden the tournament disappears and it's no longer to be seen in the lobby either. I get an email stating that due to technical issues they had to cancel it and that i'd be payed according to their stack to prizepool ratio policy. At this point i'm ofcourse fuming as i'd spent the best part of 4 hours getting to that point. It turned out that the tech problem was that the rebuy period never ended and people were still rebuying for like 1.5bb near the money so thats when they hit the panic button and cancelled.
And so they say it will all be resolved by wednesday but it wasn't until today, thursday 4th, that they have issued out payments. And it turns out they have taken an unprecedented step as they haven't used their policy on this case, instead they've made up a new one. They say that they've refunded the players who rebought after the rebuy period was supposed to end (even the ones who left and weren't still in), and paid everyone who was still in according to what their stack was when the tournament was supposed to be cancelled (at the end of level 6 when rebuys were supposed to stop). So i've ended up getting paid according to my 9k stack instead of my 35k stack. And another thing, they still raked it.
http://www.pkr.com/forum_thread.aspx...re-entry-68653
^ that is the thread where the players and pkr staff have been corresponding, but they've been deleting my posts now because i've mentioned this site and twoplustwo.
Any thoughts on this mess going on at pkr right now?