We apologise greatly for the confusion here, and can confirm this is now fixed. However if you ever experience such situation again please do get in touch.
To help improve the online experience we have made a number of updates in this patch including the ability for F2P gamers to join all available matches in the pool hall* - this should provide much more variety and a better experience all-round. *For a limited time only
Also in the patch are the following updates:
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*The create match ability stays as was for lite users, you cannot create a match using locked content, this should provide 'full gamer' users more match opportunities and a better online experience all round
Thank you again for your feedback and support and for helping us get to the bottom of this 'Practice Only' bug.
*Additions to the game in our updates do not have to be a permanent decision, if you as a communiy feel an addition/update doesn't work to provide a better online experience for all we will look at changing/amending it based on community feedback