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.
