On November 20th, we wrote about a Danish web designer who was leading Sunday Million for about 3 hours until he lost his Internet connection and eventually finished in 281th place for $583 (click here to read the full story). Now we have another, even more sick, bad beat story to tell...
The Finnish poker pro Ville Wahlbeck (on the left) posted a blog post (Folding the winner) last [...] Read more » Lost €170k Due To Empty Battery
Joined: Jun '09
Location: United States
Age: 68 (F)
Posts: 11
Not being very tech savvy, I have zero idea if one can use a key to move instead of the dead mouse. What a horror story though. As for all those making fun of him for not having a spare battery for the mouse- give me a break- this could happen to anyone using a wireless. How often have you thought you had extra only to discover you had just not quite enough...of anything. Batteries, eggs, cigarettes,one can easily run out of any thing. Chances are very good that he thought he had more batteries. I don't think I would sit down to play a tourney without spare batteries right next to me, but some times people forget the most important things. I really feel for you dude. I was once playing break the bank at a micro casino. I had been playing with dollars. Kept losing. Got down so low, had to switch to pennies. On the first penny pull I won free spins, which led to me winning 750,000 coins. Had they still been dollars, I would have been ever so happy. Since they were pennies, well, not so much...
Joined: Sep '12
Location: Romania
Age: 33 (M)
Posts: 1052
That's weird... you must know when you start to play some high MTT... when i played MTT i have both notebooks with 1 stick of net... and both baterry full... in case the current goes or the internet... immediatly change the notebook and internet connection... that just for few $ buy-in... when you playing a MTT you must know how much will during and the rest...
Joined: Mar '12
Location: Netherlands
Age: 51 (M)
Posts: 617
i got me a wireless mouse with 2 batteries,,, 1 always charging.. so this won't happen to me..
my biggest problem is ,,,losing internet connection to te pokerclient...has not happened for over 2 month now..but always afraid it will happen again...
Joined: May '12
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 45 (M)
Posts: 1
wow huge pot, if that had happened to me i would have restarted my router to give me more time through disconnection protection, and made SURE i got some batteries in time..but saying that now would i really have thought of that during the situation????
happened to me once as well. Had a spare right beside me. Changed out the bad one and was good to go. After that, have a hard wire mouse ready to plug in.....just in case.
