Hi guys,
I am Robin and have a passion for poker tournaments. I have been busy with changing the tournament schedule. Therefore I would love to hear your feedback and thoughts. In this way we together can build the best tournament experience possible within the Unibet features and philosophy.
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Originally Posted by Soepgroente
Well, stars has 2% on hypers and they have 3min levels, the tournies I was speaking of here have 1 minute blinds. I know they're only small buyins, but unibets "keep the small guy alive" theory conflicts with raking these heavily.
I think we all agree that this needs improvement. While creating different tournaments we were used to use the same fee % just for simplicity. We will reduce all the 1 minute format games to 3% fee for now.
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Originally Posted by OldBurf
Ahh ok, well these tourneys with 1 min blinds do have 10k stack aswell but I see where your coming from. I guess it ends up about the same, im just saying I don't mind the extra % to support the site (imo would still be extremely +EV tourney). I do really like that 'deep crazy' format probably one that I would play the most which is why I suggested above to change that 20:00 '10 bounty' to a 'deep crazy bounty'.
We can’t compare our 10k 1min blind tournaments too much with another site, where the nature of the game, the field and the players are different - even though both games will end up in the same kind of way. However we agree we need to reduce the fee % and add might add more of these events during off-peak when they are very popular.
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Originally Posted by Soepgroente
I haven't played any yet but I can only imagine they'll be a ton of fun. But they'll be a lot faster than a 3 minute structure, the 10k starting stack only delays this by about 5 minutes. To give you an idea, the 3min 3k stack gets itm at about 1k/2k blinds (42mins in) and the 1min levels will be at 200k/400k after 42 mins.
We can’t compare our 10k 1min blind tournaments too much with another site, where the nature of the game, the field and the players are different - even though both games will end up in the same kind of way. However we agree we need to reduce the fee % and add might add more of these events during off-peak when they are very popular.
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Originally Posted by OldBurf
Hey,
Just a couple points for now.
- Should try to build an offpeak traffic by offering more speedy games. (i.e. Deep Crazies, Speeds)
- The filter system needs flipping or changing in some way atleast. The current way is that you have everything shown by default, then you click a type and only that "Type" pops up. IMO it should be made so that default has all the "Types" are turned on, then if you click one it will remove that type from the list.
For example if I want to exclude UO stuff I just select UO off the filters. You could then extend the filter system to have some saved presets once more games are introduced in the future.
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- Thanks for the suggestion, we will consider this.
- We're going to change the filter system a bit by having it remember if you want to see closed reg tournaments or not. We don't plan any other changes after that yet, but mostly just because I want people to get used to what we have for a couple of weeks first.
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Originally Posted by Sect7G
What's the motivation behind having a 90eu price point? Do like the guarantee on it though.
I get that it forces people to sat into it... but if someone has 90eu and wants to spend it... shouldn't he be able to?
The idea is to offer a buy-in which is not seen as too low and too high for the kind of tournament player playing on our site. At the same time, we would like to give as many players the opportunity to qualify, which is more likely with a buy-in of this amount. For the same reason we made this event a qualifier only event to give lower stake players a better opportunity playing an event like this. While we are growing we will look into higher buy-in events you can buy-in directly for.
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Originally Posted by FarseerFinland
More tournaments, I'd say. Still waiting for rebuys, they'd be great way to make medium-sized guaranteeds with little risk (like daily 10+r for 3k€ is a no-brainer easy). Rake is too high as well as it's still at same rate and in some tournaments even higher than in French sites which actually pay more license fees and additional taxes.
Many sites which are in par with Unibet has about five times larger guaranteeds daily (like MPN which has devolved otherwise thrives with MTTs). With those around, they would also bring people to play other tournaments. Rebuy satellites would be easy way to get some recs to 25€-250€ tournaments you already have.
Thanks for the feedback and we are very aware of the points you made. One thing you have to bear in mind is that we are not a network like MPN. We are a fresh standalone client and work on growing in a healthy fashion
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Originally Posted by OldBurf
Since you updated the spreadsheet.
Referring to the 23:15 speed holdem.
Referring to the 20:00 early 4 bounty name being switched with four bounty at 16:00.
Referring to the Ten Bounty at 20:00.
Yes, we think a game with a 50k starting stack possibility might be fun and because the blinds are very quick in them, it won’t take ages to finish.
Good point, but because we were creating the MTT leagues 3 promotion at the same time I had to keep the name as used for the promotion. I will change this name in the next month.
We will add “Deep Crazy Regular Bounty” with €10 buy-in at 20:15 from tomorrow on. We would like to keep the game at 20:00 as well, because there are players who like to play a non-turbo event around this time too.
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Originally Posted by rsfb
It's not just the unibet open qualifiers then. I really don't understand why ante's come in to play that late on unibet. I've never heard anyone say that they enjoy playing tournament poker without ante's. It makes everyone play really really tight wich makes for a less enjoyable playing experience. You don't have to change the structures just add ante's to the early levels. Big ante's and ante's from level 2 like the live unibet open events is a lot more fun.
This might be perception and the games you are used to play. When there are more requests for big antes and early antes we will definitely look into this at some point, but as Andrew mentioned we like to keep things simple to digest for the players who are not so much structure and ante aware
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Originally Posted by FarseerFinland
Otherwise sweet, but I hate tournaments that are deepstack. I want action, not meditation
Might play some of the others anyways. Hard to get decent prizes by just playing turbo / bounty ones
The lower MTT league has a lot of faster tournaments and I think the €325 GTD Deepstack Turbo is fast enough as well. A turbo league is something we might come up with in the future.
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Originally Posted by Soepgroente
I think you should strongly consider lowering rake at the 1min tournament structures. Your sngs have a very reasonable 5% rake, any structure in mtts that's faster (in this case, a LOT faster) should have 5% or less imo. Just slapping 11% rake on every mtt is not going to do you any favors. The current rake for deepstacks, just under 10% for normal structures, somewhere between 6-7.5% for turbo's and about 2% for hypers would be a lot healthier.
Promo looks fun though, may splash around a bit
We will change the % fee of the 1 minute tournament to 3% and definitely splash around!
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Originally Posted by Sect7G
I have to agree with this and I think the set rake regardless of structure is holding MTT's back.
In particular I don't like the rake on the tourneys that a player is required to satellite in to play.
The 90 euro mtt that a player must sat into is 81+9. The concept of having to sat into it to play is a method to protect current players on the site is an argument I can go along with. But when it's combined with sats being 22.50+2.50 (1 in 4 win a seat) results in rake being collected by Unibet as 81+9. This number seems that Unibet is taking care of itself.
Could we either see a rake reduction in the satellites or in the target MTT. The same thing applies to the 25 euro sat in to play weekly.
We just removed the fee for the Sunday Entitled €90. Although you might have the feeling that we take care of ourselves, we are overlaying in a lot of qualifiers and games still, but we agree with your suggestion of taking the fee away in the major event.
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Originally Posted by OldBurf
I agree on this too, I think the play should be to lower the rake of the faster structure and add more tourneys of that fast structure to the lobby to rebalance the sites intake. 2% probably gets a bit low though but the point is that you pay for your average length play right?
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Any chance that we can get some 25euro sats to the Saturday Stack? Even if its just onetime prior to the tourney on a saturday, that 10euro sat just doesn't entice me.
Thanks for your suggestion about running €25 qualifiers, I will have a look into that. Last chance qualifiers on the Saturday could be a good one