So are Tchan and Antonio playing in the tourney today?

why would you limit the tournament to 200 people lol?

yea whats up with that your first 10k sunday tournament and you cap it at 200.

like jack Nicholson in one flew over the cuckoos nest.
jack tells his dr. something and the doc says him I didn't know that..
Nichols replies HEY DOC. I guess that makes me smarter than you.....
classic

i'm not sure what's more baffling, that your first tourney is 4 days into your launch and it's capped at 200 people or that you have 9 people being paid out exactly $100. why even bother on that?

This is their trial run of MTT, that's why they capped it low.

History in the making!

scotty says next week will be up to 400

why even cap it at all? Can their servers not handle a large tournament?

Hey Dax,
What about those of us on the fringes of Nevada near the border? Is this going to be an ongoing problem with the "Unable to verify Nevada location" I have AT&T and my phone and email have been verified but I am less than a mile from Arizona.

Bacardi,

So in all seriousness. If you have concerns about the site, ownership, affiliations, etc. Why dont you put your facts all together and go to the Nevada GCB and present your case?

The whole point of regulation is to assure everything is above board and fair.

Utilize the system. If you have facts that can prove there is a problem with UP, then go make a case.

You seem to want to take on every poster here that has responded to you. Why dont you put your facts where your mouth is and do something.

You can respond to this in one of two ways. 1) Man up and put your concerns and issues in front of the board. 2) respond to me the way you respond to everyone else here. In which case you will just reconfirm the troll label.

Yea capping the tourny with no late reg? You guys should hire an mtt reg as a consultant. This is inexcusable imo.

You guys lit a lot of money on fire today. Pro tip, if your cap for a guarantee tournament is 2x the amount of people to meet the gtd, you are doin it wrong holmes. Really tragic, i know its the first week. But you guys are tryin to make money amirite? Adding late reg can't really be that difficult can it?

This. Wow just saw the payout structure. 3x in $$ jump from 10th to 9th? I'm glad that online is finally regulated somewhere, but UP really should hire an mtt consultant.

They without a doubt know these things. Terrence has been around the block as well as others on the team. The reasoning for this is most likely technical and they are trying to keep everything as simple as possible for the time being.

I asked a few questions of Dax and a gang starts attacking me.

I don't know if there are concerns just yet because I don't have answers to basic questions, like who exactly owns and benefits from UP in the end. With that info in hand, I can do my own checks on all the people involved. However, it seems they've layered ownership with a number of companies and management companies. I have my suspicions about why they did that.

Pretty bizarre that no one else here seems to care about the same questions given all that online poker has been through in recent year.

I mean not really buying that. It can't be that difficult to not have a cap and late reg, even week 1.

Well late reg is much more complicated then you think and with it being their first mtt they dont want a ton of moving parts that could get messed up. Lets just relax on the technical issues for the time being. Put in your contributions and hopefully they will take note/implement them in future updates.

Well, the alternative option is that they don't like money.

So I'm going to assume it was done for technical reasons.

Heh.

I think I can probably answer for Dax on this.

First of all, this is the first tournament 4 days in b/c they wanted their marquis Sunday tournament to be the first one run on the site.

Secondly, I'm guessing it's capped at 200 because they would rather have a smaller turnout and leave a few dollars on the table in their first tournament than have their first tournament crash and be a disaster.

Finally, they've mentioned in the thread that there will be some weird payout situations because of the odd rules for reporting gambling winnings to the IRS.

UP is continually showing foresight in how they handle these tricky situations like what games they offer and tournament payout and structure but for some reason you guys are giving them a bunch of crap about it.

Perhaps you don't remember, but PokerStars didn't always have 200/400nl, 6 max fast cash games, progressive time banks, and a tournament that paid out 250k to first every week. Give UP a chance to develop into the company it's going to be.

They should have never came on with this low budget software platform...UP will be gone in a wink once 888 and Caesars turn on the switch shortly

Will give them benefit of doubt trying hard though but seriously the site is a complete joke

Tourney announcements coming across flopped cards, can't see cards as timing out.

looking at the flop is weak tight

You work for Caesars or 888? Are you playing on UP? If neither, then what is your problem?

Just askin'.

that's all well and i agree it's too early to harp on them for a number of things but there are more than a few problems with this mentality

wsop.com started public beta a couple days before UP went live iirc. i have a very hard time believing that barring the software being faulty in every conceivable manner that the WSOP will start and that site won't be live for real money at that point. UP has a grace period undoubtedly but it's a relatively small window if other options are going to be popping up

Well, if 888 has their software approved, and I can't think of any reason why not, then they will be fine right out of the gate. Played on their software when WSOP was doing play money.