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Hi all

After a week we’d all rather forget things are now getting back in order again. While too late for this week the weekly Sponsors $10,000 FreeD is now up again for registration.

Ad a reminder – this runs at midnight GMT every Tuesday into Wednesday morning and is one of the better kept secrets on NoPay – a good big pot tourney with relatively few players (we’d prefer there were more to be honest!)

To get a ticket all you need to do is earn more than $25 FreeD in the week leading up to it. When you do you will get a ticket in your “Account” that you can use to register for the game.

Getting the $25 FreeD is not hard. Go to your offers page and there are plenty of sponsor offers to check out on the 3 Offerwalls.

And a  BIG thank you all for your patience!

As you all know, last week we had a catastrophe. Basically the server blew up and managed to pass the corruption on to the cloud backup before it could be stopped. This was, to use the phrase, our bad, and we can only apologise endlessly.

We know that we have lost some players forever and that some will never forgive us, but have also been amazed, encouraged and humbled by the support and understanding we have received from so many players by word of mouth, email and on Facebook.To all of you who have given support either pro-actively or just stuck it in there waiting for the return, all we can say is thank-you so so much icon smile Weekly 10k Sponsor Tourney is Back

As we say on the Facebook posts we will be coming back stronger than ever now. Plans are truly moving to replace the cranky games software platform with the sort of system you expect from “real” money sites as well as add extra games like free slots, blackjack and roulette.

As a final note on the subject (for this post anyway) we are so sorry that some players lost FreeD in the screw up. Patience tech problems 300x198 Weekly 10k Sponsor Tourney is Back

The problem is  that as we lost all the data utterly that there is no way to tell who had what at the crash time. Can you just imagine if we simply agreed to replace what people claimed was in their account at crash time?! We’d have everyone this side of Pluto coming to support claiming they’d lost 20k.

So, yes, really truly sorry to those of you who lost but there is simply no way round it unless you can provide ironclad, irrefutable proof of balance at the time of the wipe out – If you can then get in touch with support with your proof. And things like screen shots of balances with PC date stamps are not enough as they are so simple to doctor.

And to address some of the accusations we’ve had of us “stealing” the FreeD back. Not so – Apart from the fact that we would not do such an underhand thing, how could we? We, we don’t know how much there was anyway – it was WIPED! If you compare it to the Great Financial Crisis or the current economic mess in the EU with masses  of virtual money being wiped out then that’s a not bad analogy – Nobody gets it, it just gets wiped out by the computers as if it never was! We know that this and anything else we say will never convince the conspiracy theorists out there but that is the hand on heart truth.

It’s very nearly time for the final freeroll of the NPP Vacation free online poker Freeroll series and the first game of the new year.  Happy new year 2012 300x141 New Year Freeroll Invitation password is holidays

The New Year 2012 Freeroll is on January 1st 2012 starting at 8pm GMT, 3pm EST, 12pm WST.

Registration opens 24 hours before so be sure to book your spot in time and play for the $5000 FreeD that’s up got grabs and maybe for the $50 US bonus for the best overall performance in the Vacation series.

Dear me, how fast they grow when you’re not looking! Yes, it’s a fact, on December 27th NoPayPOKER will celebrate its 5th birthday. 5th birthday 27th December   NoPayPOKER.com 5th Birthday $25,000 FreeD Carnage Freeroll

And to mark the occasion we’d like to invite you to play in our NPP 5th birthday celebration “Carnage” Freeroll where there will be $25,000 FreeD up for grabs.

Why are we calling it the “Carnage” freeroll…well, with 25k on the board and bounties all over the place it’s gonna get brutal out there, so bring your biggest sticks!

PLUS – one of NoPays longest members, indeed, he joined on the first day, Fingers (Happy anniversary to you too Fingers icon smile 27th December   NoPayPOKER.com 5th Birthday $25,000 FreeD Carnage Freeroll is going to put up $2500 FreeD in bounties (other players may add more too!)

Summary

  • Event – NPP 5th Birthday Carnage Freeroll
  • Pot – $25,000 FreeD and $2500 of bounties
  • Date – Tuesday December 27th
  • Time – 5pm EST (10pm GMT)
  • Place – NoPayPOKER.com your fave free online poker site

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Hi all, Once again thanks for all your patience, I know it can be frustrating!

Overall things are not as bad as they were, the sever has been down a lot less recently but there are still gremlins in there somewhere that tech is working to find and fix.

The biggest recent problem was at the “Thanksgiving” on Saturday 3rd where quite a few players were thrown off (not by mods icon surprised Technical Problems Update 3 and TG Freeroll ) for some technical reason that we’ve yet to track down but possibly due to server load.

As a result we think the result can’t be upheld as fair so have decided to exclude the game from the overall holiday freeroll results and count the overall winner as the best from Halloween, Xmas and New year games. I know this won’t please everyone but it’s the fairest way we can figure from the limited available options.

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One thing we have decided to do once things have settled down is to run a bonus extra BIG freeroll sometime midwinter part as an apology and part as a thank you for all your patience and support icon smile Technical Problems Update 3 and TG Freeroll

Details of this to be confirmed later…cos as I write we only decided on this about a minute ago icon smile Technical Problems Update 3 and TG Freeroll

Hi all

A quick and positive update. We’ve located and solved 2 problems. This is probably not the end of the story but it should improve things at least a bit for a lot of you.

Fix 1 
We found that user names with hyphens were confusing game logic and causing some crashes. As some of you may know, a lot of naming conventions for accounts and things in computers don’t like hyphens, underscores good, hyphens not good.

How this came about we’re not sure as hyphens were not originally allowed. So some bug allowed them to start being used and so introduced a very hard to spot problem.

This particular problem is now fixed. Users with hyphen names have had them changes to underscores and have been emailed. The system has been adjusted to refuse usernames with hyphens.

So:
> user-name is not good.
> user_name is fine.

Fix 2
A small number of user names were found that had hard return breaks in them. E.g., 

user
name

They’d appear in a single line though but caused allsorts of problems for the games. They are generally a result of auto registration bots used by multi account spammers so have all been removed and new systems put in place to stop them in future.

So, that’s all for now. Expect more updates soon, we are on the way now

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