Weird Goings On

Before I tell you what happened to me on BF Poker last night, let me just explain that I am an experienced online player who has played bf since the Crypto days. I stuck with bf through the "difficult" transition to the Poker Champs software, I have won dozens of mtts and possibly thousands of sng's, and, when more committed to the game than of late, have finshed 3rd on a sng monthly leaderboard.

But I am NEVER playing bf again.

I have been running strangely bad in my sng of choice of late, the d2n game, including an unprecedented run of 9 losses (my previous worst was 3). Just a bad run, I thought, but last night I began to suspect that something fishy was going on with my games. It began in a heads up match. Holding K8 o/s, the flop came up K88. I checked, my opponent bet 160. Suspecting he might be tempted to call an all-in, I shoved - BUT UNBELIEVABLY my buttons had stopped working. Nothing happened. The hand timed out, my cards were automatically folded, BUT strangely my buttons began working again from the next hand onwards. The "malfunction" never repeated itself during that game.

Then, in a $12.10 d2n, I was dealt KK under the gun. I raised 3x the bb and 4 players called. The flop came rag rag rag rainbow and I put in a bet of about 200. Again, my buttons failed and nothing happened. I was timed out and watched as someone won a big pot ace high.

AGAIN, MY INTERFACE WORKED AGAIN IN TIME FOR THE NEXT HAND!

A couple of hands later I called a raise with AQ diamonds. I flopped a rainbow straight. There were 2 players in the hand. One bet big. I shoved all in - again, you've guessed it, nothing happened and I was timed out. Again, everything worked ok once the hand had finished.

At this point, I gave up. Three times struck by lightning when only holding winning hands?

I cannot think why this should be. Why only these 3 primo hands? Can a software failure be so specific as to only happen when you have a very high probability of winning the hand? I don't think so.

After the 3rd disaster, I began to think I may have been hacked in some way. I then began thinking about the superuser scandal at UB / Absolute a couple of years back. Whether a bf superuser has the ability to actually interfere with a player's hand is unlikely, but being a computer programmer myself, I know that of course it is possible, and after Absolute we all know that online poker rooms have superusers.

This is in no way sour grapes. I keep a record of all my games on bf and am thousands ahead. But after this experience my confidence in the security, reliability and stability of the software has been rapidly eroded. I have accounts with around 30 poker rooms from the big (Stars) to the small (Biker), and have seen some strange things over the course of time. But I have never experienced anything so weirdly selective as this.

I won't be coming back, and I advise you all to watch your game and report any suspicious goings on to this board.

Cue abuse.