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Message: [QUOTE="David G, post: 1770133, member: 75960"] Hey guys, Revisiting this thread after all the developments since black friday and I can't help but wonder if there was something wrong with my account/and or something wrong with Full Tilt. Once this started about 11 months before they closed down, it never ceased for me. I don't believe it's a sample size issue as I played almost every day and 1,000's of hands each session. I can say both another network I tried after BF and live have been nothing like what happened on FTP for my last 11 months there. I'm happy to say I somehow survived this but it wasn't without much tribulation. Words can't explain how frustrating and trying this bad run was on FTP for that final year. It spread into much more than just poker playing, it affected my confidence, game, everything. There's never been any proof shown that FTP marked accounts or manipulated results, and I've never been one to think that, but there have been signs that they had many questionable business practices and combined with the unlikelihood of what happened to me, it does at least make me wonder and was enough to seek help auditing and analyzing my run there. . Although an audit of my hands from this 11 months prove I ran magnitudes under expectation, it was 3 standard deviations from the mean so a statistical possibility (bottom 97%). However, because I was playing tournaments during this time there's a possibility that things could be skewed while lying within statistical probability. Meaning, the hands you win and lose could have completely different meanings to outcome. I grabbed at this a little in an earlier post when I was trying to express how a person could be statistically winning and losing hands within possibility, but that some hands carry much more importance for end results and making money in tournaments. For example, I could have aces hold up 4 times against a smaller pocket pair early in a tournament or with someone all in for only a blind, and then lose holding aces against a pair in 10th place for the chip lead size pot in a tournament that pays thousands of dollars for each spot you move up. Obviously the aces held up 4/5 times like they should, but had they won in a different order, like losing one of the small meaningless pots and winning the one in 10th, it can have a grave affect on results. So, I know that I ran really bad, but again it's within possibility. However, it was still so unlikely that it's hard to accept (maybe the why me type of thing) and again with all that's come out from the closing of FTP and taking consideration of previous sites that have shown to manipulate results of their players, I can't help but wonder if FTP "flagged" my account to affect my results while keeping within 3 standard deviations of the mean. Like, picking and choosing which hands I win and when. Either way I'm only putting any thought into this right this second. The rest of the time, and in the future, I'm happy to say I've moved on from this whole episode and although it's something that had a profound affect on me at the time, it does not have an affect on me now. However, I do look forward to a more tightly regulated and monitored market. While I wish we didn't have to have a Gov entity get involved to assure us of that, it seems to be the only way to really get there, so I'm looking forward to that day. In the mean time I've put online play on the back burner and although there's little choices these days for Americans anyway, I do have some choice but for now I've chosen not play online in its current form and am sticking to live. Hope everyone else is running close to the mean and health and other stuff outside of poker is well. Best in all things, David [/QUOTE]

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