A pair of World Series of Poker international facing online events were postponed Sunday after host site GGPoker discovered a “critical bug” that was causing the software to malfunction.
The $1,111 “Every 1 for Covid Relief” no-limit hold’em and the $100 “The Opener” were both paused. They will both resume next Sunday, July 26 with remaining players keeping their current stacks.
The $1,111 no-limit hold’em charity event will resume July 26 at 3 p.m. ET, while the $100 no-limit hold’em event will resume a half-hour earlier on the same day.
There were 1,418 players remaining from the 1,598-player field in the charity event with “jack chan” from the Philippines leading the pack. “The Opener” was heading into its final day as the tournament held multiple starting flights. The field played two levels before the site paused the event.
Over the multiple starting flights, the tournament drew a massive 29,306-entry field. Of those entries, 4,594 players secured a spot in Day 2. By the time the tournament was paused, only 3,690 players remained. Argentina’s “Tata1407” is pacing the field and will have the chip lead when play resumes in less than a week.
The charity event raised $177,378 for COVID-19 relief. In exchange for the inconvenience caused by the bug, GGPoker will double the amount donated. The remaining players in “The Opener” will be compensated $100 in tournament dollars that can be used for future GGPoker tournaments.
According to the company’s Twitter account, the bug stemmed from “an overwhelming number of players joining The Opener and other side events” which caused the tournament servers to malfunction and making the events unable to resume.
The bug was caused by an overwhelming number of players joining The Opener and other side events. The tournament servers were unable to resume due to high loads. We will increase more capacity (we just doubled it) to make sure future events run smoothly
— GGPoker – HOME OF WSOP 2020 ONLINE BRACELET SERIES (@GGPokerOfficial) July 19, 2020
Despite the pair of gestures from the company, many poker players were unhappy with the proposed resolution. Some wanted an option to have their buy-in refunded and others believed that waiting a full week before resuming isn’t as good as an immediate Monday restart.
Two-time WSOP Circuit winner and British high-stakes pro Adam Owen was critical of the site’s decision since many are traveling to different countries to play and already have itineraries based on the announced schedule.
How could next Sunday possibly be better than tomorrow? FT was supposed to be tomorrow anyway, players were prepared to play then. People have plans and travel to different countries etc
— Adam Owen (@adamyid) July 19, 2020
Bracelet winner and fellow British pro Max Silver is also still in the hunt for one of those bracelets. He was one of the players who believed that having the option to have their buy-in refunded was a necessary course of action.
Don't think this is a fair solution, I have prior commitments next Sunday, need an option to get $ back
— Max Silver (@max_silver) July 19, 2020
and by prior commitments I mean putting my young children to bed before I play poker, if you can arrange childcare we'll call it quits
— Max Silver (@max_silver) July 19, 2020
One of the three bracelet events running on GGPoker Sunday was played without interruption. Shoma Ishikawa won the $525 super turbo bounty no-limit hold’em six-max event for $117,650.
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