In a move that was not funny at the time but is certainly funny right now, Full Tilt Poker released an update for their software that hit successfully on all of the major changes except for one, but that one major change turned out to be the one that had everyone screaming their heads off over the course of the last week. It is being referred to as “Deep Gate” right now by the people that were able to get it changed, but that is only because Full Tilt Poker fixed the problem. Had they not done so, they likely would have lost the majority of their low and middle limit regular cash game players.

What was so bad that it would warrant such a reaction in reply? To put it simply, it was the blunder of the decade for Full Tilt Poker. They have two different types of cash games on the site, the second of which forces people to buy into games with at least 40 big blinds and therefore play a reasonable game of no limit poker as opposed to the crazy short stack players that buy in and then go all in with the hopes of quickly doubling up. Many regular players enjoyed the deep stack games with the 40 big blind minimum because it allowed for some normalcy to the online poker world. Within the context of that backdrop, what Full Tilt Poker did was they released an update that segregated all deep stack games to an area of the lobby that people do not normally look at, killing the player numbers for those games in the process.

When people found this out, the reaction was immediately negative, with forums and discussion groups running rampant with insults to the intelligence of the Full Tilt Poker community. In fact, the situation got so bad at one point that many of the online poker players decided that they were going to switch over to Poker Stars, an en masse move that would have absolutely decimated the player numbers of Full Tilt Poker. Fortunately, the site heard about the problem and fixed it on Friday morning, resolving Deep Gate and moving things back to normal.