Bogus Freeroll at Empire Poker

EmpirePoker.com took their site down to do some maintenance, at lease several players got messages that they were going to go down for maintenance and they would be back up at 5:00 pm eastern time.

Now it looks like the same goofballs who though that up that brilliant move – the one where they are closing accounts of players who only play the bonuses –

They have come up with another one, start scheduling free freeroll games during scheduled down times.

That way they don’t have to pay anything for advertising the game.

I wonder why they didn’t make it a larger freeroll like a 100,000 freeroll, if you’re not going to pay for it why not advertise a bigger game?

Anyway here is the lame email they are sending out if you ask them about the game you got screwed out of.

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From :  <info@empirepoker.com>
Sent :  Sunday, October 9, 2005 6:21 AM
Subject :  Response from EmpirePoker.com

Dear xxxxx,

Thank you for contacting us.

We faced technical difficulties due to which "Saturday $10,000 Special Freeroll
($0/$0) 464348" to be held at 16:00 EST on 08-October-2005 has been cancelled.
Please note that as it is a Freeroll (free entry) hence no refunds in this
regard will be made into your account.

We would like to inform that we are frequently introducing new tournaments and
we assure you that as soon as you are eligible for one of these tournaments, we
will send you an email or you can check the pre or post login pop-up.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Note: Please do not disclose your password to any individual/organization
claiming to represent us. We will never ask you for the password to your
account. If you receive any email or phone call from anyone requesting you to
provide your password please report it to us immediately.

Our Customer Care Department is available 24/7 to assist you via email.

Thank you for choosing us as your online gaming site!

Madhumathi
Poker Customer Care

--Original Message--
From:     xxxxx
Date:     2005-10-09 04:54
To:     info@EmpirePoker.com
Subject:     missed freeroll

I was registered for the $10,000 freeroll today and your system was down, is
this going to be replayed?

thanks,