
Michele of Schererville , IN on Nov. 26, 2010
I play Zynga poker through Facebook and have had many problems with them. A couple of months ago, I purchased some chips from them and was up to $5 million chips. I played 1 day and took a break for a couple of hours, went back on and almost all my chips were gone. When some of my buddies asked and I told them what happened, they said it is a known thing for Zynga to take chips especially if you purchase them (they want you to buy more).
On November 24th early a.m. for the 1st time I played a table which is a Sit n Go and you can win a lot of chips. So I started with $6,941,065 and won the 1st game which was $2 M chips. So now I was up to $8,941,065, lost another game then won 1 which was a lower table so it paid out $62,500. After collecting the chips and posting it to my wall, I went to my Facebook home page for a break. Five minutes later, go back into poker and now only have $335,000 chips. I called Zynga but was told to go to live chat, it may take a while to get a rep but keep refreshing the screen.
Finally got a rep (Marco O) and he had me go thru some steps, clear cache files, and change passwords for both FB and yahoo email account, uninstall Zynga poker, then re-install. After doing this he restored my chips to $7,531,520. I asked why it isn't the total I should have, he said that's all he can restore which I don't have a clue how he figured the amount. He said he will send it for further investigation and it will be done accordingly.
Later that day, I chatted w/ Monique and asked if I can play poker or wait because of them investigating the missing chips. She looked into it and told me that many accounts are affected by this and they're working hard to fix it. Because she said assured me they knew what was going on and they fix the problem (thinking like Marco some of it while chatting) I decided to go on a table and play.
I made screen shots as I played in case I won I'd have the screen shot of the chips and message of how much winnings it is. While playing the 4th game I looked at my chip level and was not happy. I now had $2.7 M and these tables aren't supposed to take chips only if you win you get them added. I didn't want to leave the table because you can't get back on that same game when you leave. I keep looking at my chip total while playing on that Sit n Go table and then I see ZERO chips.
Now I'm really mad, so someone went all in and I did too but lost. I wanted off the table to get online and chat w/ a rep to tell them it happened again while I was playing. Also, looking at the print screens while waiting for an online rep, I noticed that my chip level went down $ M in between game 3 and 4, which if I lost went to another table immediately. So now I know its Zynga taking the chips or whatever they claim they're having a problem with it.
Got Monique online and she can't do anything about it, said there is a ticket and email them the problem, which I did. I sent them an email for this and also told them since this is a common problem as I've found out with others and them telling me today, they should take the Sit n Go's down or warn people they may lose all their chips until they get it fixed. I haven't played all day today because of this and having found out it happens to so many people because they want you to buy chips is unbelievable. I don't know how a big company as them can get away with this and something should be done about it.