Suggestion: Add UP the to interactive sports book terminals. Add the terminal to every seat in every Station Casino sports book.

A freeroll also would have been nice as a way of thanking the players who have gone through considerable trouble and in some cases expense to get their accounts set up.

Not sure how many of you realize this was a "beta" launch. I am sure many of you can appreciate exactly what that means.

I have to agree with the whole email thing. I have been waiting 2 days now for a response to a yes or no ? about my address and ID. But, atleast I got my location verified after 2 days of trying.
But props to UP looks like they will exceed there first GTD tourney. fingers crossed though that it will not turn out to be a disaster. Freeroll first would have been the safe bet.

Beta launch and soft openings are usually advertised as that and offered to select groups of people for testing and working out kinks. They just said We are Open come sign up and play 1st ever site, etc. trying to sign up everyone possible before they can even handle it or worked out the big issues.

tournament satellite announcements cover the middle 3 community cards. that's obviously terrible

This tough guy act of yours is super annoying. Stick to zynga or please for all that is holy call the gaming control board and ask them all these ridiculous questions.

If you can't figure out who owns the station casinos then you should give up. You seem to be hardcore trolling. And why are you asking dax these quesrions after he told you he does not know the companies history.

For ten plus years dumb two plus twoers risked their money in the most ridiculous , unsafe and insecure ways on online poker sites.

Now a legitimate site with legitimate owners and the strongest regulating body in the world and you want to be billy bad ass with your stupid questions. Just stop.

Pray tell how you come to know this site and owners (whoever they are) are 'legit'.

Why do my simple questions seem to frighten you all so much?

I've done nothing but ask questions that I believe everyone should ask (and answer) before trusting another Pokersite with your money, bank, and/or credit card info. I've not asked, or even suggested, that anyone not play on UP. If I can clarify who actually owns UP and if all involved pass my 'smell test' I might play there myself. But not until then.

I gotta say, your extreme reactions and pleas to have me banned only make sense to me as coming from people with something to hide. As a reasonable person, I would simply ignore anyone I consider a nuisance and allow others to decide for themselves what to read and think about.

And is name calling really necessary? Do you do understand that name calling only erodes your credibility amongst thinking people? Sure, it tends to allay morons with your bully tactics but is that really who you want in your corner?

I don't think "frighten" is the word that applies in this situation.

Maybe you could share with us what you do think instead of what you don't think.

I'm pretty sure everyone but you knows what I think.

I know it's got to be frustrating to those of you that can't get onto U.P. yet after waiting for a couple of years already for a legal site to finally open up. Sure they got some hiccups thus far, but they're open for business. That's awesome! If you have to wait another month before you can log on...that's not so bad after waiting for 2 years right? It'll probably be another 6 months or longer before a 2nd site starts up, so let's try to help Ultimate Poker build rather than tear it down for it's problems thus far. It's still not even a week old yet. It's way better than still having nothing. They know they have improvements to make and have assured everyone that it's being worked on. And your money is safe. It's like we're biting the hand that feeds us. (feeding us legal poker finally) Sure, we should be able to voice our concerns and suggestions....but the overall tone of most posters is more than that. It feels more like a mob mentality that has a torch ready to burn down this new stranger that has arrived in town bearing gifts, rather than welcome them.

Are you joking!? 99% of the posters here can't sign up fast enough! UP would seem to have overwhelming (literally)support. I read the whole thread and can only recall three posters that had any concerns. But that doesn't mean all is well!

It's good to know you speak for everyone here. That'll make it easier for me.

This is no different than if a new restaurant opened near you, where there were none before. You're still going to complain if your food is cold or you feel like you didn't get your money's worth.

Ultimate Poker is regulated in the same way that casinos in Nevada are regulated.
It isn't an offshore company illegally processing player deposits.

I will agree with you that I think it's total bull**** that Greg Pearson (CEO of Iovation) stands to benefit from this financially, but it is what it is. With this amount of oversight there is no way that he will have any input on day-to-day functions of the site, and he would have to be a complete moron to try to pull an Ultimate Bet style scam now, since it would 100% end up with him going to prison, but even then I'm confident we'd all get our money, since uh, you know, all of that legal stuff, and the fact that the owners of the site are billionaires and could cover losses.

I do have concerns in terms of personal relationships he may have with the people running the site though.

You would still be able to eat even if there were no restaurants around you, whereas there's no online poker opportunity in this case.

Be lucky Nevadians; I'd eat my own foot for a taste at UP.

*Greg Pierson*

This is far from my only, or biggest, concern.

Blast, I remember thinking "I should check the spelling on his name" before I posted.

can't be incriminating an innocent dude

Someone just told me that if I live to close to the border that I wont be able to get verified. Some type of a 1.5 mile buffer written into the law. I have not been able to get verified as yet. I hope this is just something they need to work out since I am less than a mile from Arizona.

btw does anyone know if the disconnect protection issue has been addressed? It didn't seem to be when I was railing last night.

I'm still getting "Malicious Web Site Blocked" from Norton
http://ultimatepoker.com

this site is showing how frustrating it is dealing with regulators...

i for one will be waiting at least a few months before signing up/playing...

too much hassle just to play 3-6 NL online...

im happy UP got off the ground...but issues are a plenty...

its frustrating just reading thru the thread...geez

Figures you would use Norton and not understand how AV works...

Dax, table just closed down on me for no reason in $12 9 handed Sunday Satellite after I folded first hand of play, not sure whats going on. I don't see the sng in the lobby and my account did not auto-credit the buyin. Logged out and logged back in and the table did not repopulate. What happens now?...also will email support.