- Sunday tournament on May 12 has increase guarantee as way of apology.
- Remaining events are now running as scheduled.
bwin.party has blamed technical difficulties for the failure of PartyPoker’s annual PokerFest III tournament series to start as advertised on Sunday.
Events 1, 3, 4 and 5 of the series were abruptly suspended, then cancelled.
Contrary to previous reports, Event 2—a $2.5k guaranteed event with a 20 “PartyPoints” buyin—did run, as did the last event of the day, Event 6.
In a statement issued to pokerfuse, PartyPoker blamed technical problems “which we were unable to resolve at the time.”
The email announces that the $250k guaranteed tournament scheduled for Sunday May 12—a week after the series ends—will have its guarantee increased to $350k “to supplement for the cancellation of event 1.” Event 1 had a $350k guarantee for its $215 entry fee.
The rest of the tournament schedule is expected to run as planned. Yesterday’s four events all ran without technical difficulties.
