Andrew,

My current Omaha Major Challenge is 'Flop a set and then turn a straight or flush in the same hand.

In hand 116098276 this is exactly what happened (set and straight), but yet it doesn't count.
I hit that set with only 1 of my holecards, but it doesn't say that 2 hole cards are needed.

So my hand is exactly what the challenge says...

Thanks for checking!!

Google that: What's the difference between trips and sets?

Hi Andrew

I have stopped playing online poker regularly because baby is gonna be out soon and sometimes I login to unibet to have some fun but unfortunately I let my ticket expire do you think u could "resuscitate" it

My username is angelofm

There you go... never too old to learn

You find cheaters and colluders on everysite. Implementing HH or HUDS wills only make unibet worse because it will because reg infested like every other pokersite out there

Hi Andrew,

Could you change my tickets to a NL25 ticket?

Alias: PinkWig

Thanks in advance!

What resolution does the monitor use?

Sure, done.

Could you post your alias or PM me your login name please?

I think that fraud is the best argument for having hand histories.

But I'll start this by saying that Ultimate Bet superusers story was broken by someone working there who "accidentally" sent superuser hand histories to someone at 2 + 2, with all the holecards and the IP addresses revealed. 2 + 2 were fairly sure something was amiss, but that was what let them prove it.

I spent quite a lot of time reading those threads and reporting back to some senior PS management (I was EMEA poker operations manager at PS at the time), so am fairly familiar with what happened then.

These situations come down to trust. A site can police it much better than any players can, because the site has complete holecard information and complete IP etc information. When we built the site we made sure that no superuser mode was possible, but that's the kind of thing you'd just have to take our word on.

There's a great reason why we couldn't do it though - poker is maybe 2% of Unibet's total revenue. Unibet are regulated in many markets and are a publicly listed company on the Nordic OMX. To break the law and con players like that would risk literally the whole company. There's no way that the cost is worth the benefit, even leaving aside any moral or practical reasons to not do it. Notice that UB and AP (asides from sharing owners etc) made basically all their money from poker and weren't publicly traded or subject to any real licensing.

Players have been good at catching bots and colluders - lower level cheaters. But I think that's almost entirely down to most sites claiming they investigate this stuff themselves but not actually doing so. I remember someone who used to work for Paradise telling me that if someone reported collusion they investigated but their admin tools could only pull the last 100 hands of a specific player, so if there was nothing in there they didn't do anything. I think that's how almost every site operates (PS aside - I was the second member of the collusion investigation team there so I know how it worked circa 2006).

I doubt we've caught every single colluder or bot (I doubt anyone can do this), but we catch most of them and we strive to catch them all. This is particularly important for us because of the lack of public hand histories and the fact that players can change alias. We have significantly more information on all of our players than anyone externally could access, and we can run automated routines to search it all thoroughly. It's also much harder to collude here than on any other sites, because you can't table select.

I guess one of the reasons that I spend time on this thread is to build trust too. If I find out that Unibet or the developers were committing fraud, I'd tell people. And I should point out here that I'm head of poker, so I have a lot of access, and that I've worked in online poker one way or another for more than 12 years now.

Challenges are quarterly rather than monthly. And they're better than a loyalty scheme/rakeback! If I do say so myself.

I'm afraid that I can't reactivate tickets, but as you were 75% of the way through, we credited you with 75% of the ticket value in cash instead. It should go through shortly after I post this.

Sure, done.

Hi Andrew!

Could you change my 2x4e mtt tickets to 2x4e sng tickets?

My username is Taavetti90.

Thank you!

When will the new mtt schedule be in client?

You missed this Andrew =)

Sure, done.

The daily changes are already in. Weekly changes will not be complete until the end of this week. The changes aren't huge - we added three tournaments, changed a couple into satellites, reduced some guarantees, increased some guarantees, etc.

Once this is live for perhaps a month I'll look at how it's going. In April or May we'll launch a redesigned tourney lobby and hopefully add rebuys and maybe another tourney type. Earlier today we saw the progress so far on the lobbies and it's looking pretty good.

Sorry for missing it. This sounds like it's all CPU lag. The client is pretty CPU intensive and if you open more tables than your computer can handle it'll stop working properly.

hej Andrew
please change my tickets in 10eu and 4eu sngs.

Hi andrew,

Could you make my €22 worth of tickets into a €22 25NL ticket?

If not: could you extend the expiration date because it will be a while before i will recieve more tickets...

Hi Andrew,

Two of my favorite tournaments are gone...are they coming back?

€70 GTD €4 steps
€140 GTD €10 steps

Hello Andrew, any chance my MTT tickets are changed into SNG tickets? thx
screenname now :Takinapotin

can someone tell me if the challenge "reach a flop where the cards add up to 26 or more" is harder than most other challenges?

This one seems to take quit long when i last had this one. this time i am at 0/15 and I'm wondering if i should skip it.

No problem.

I thought it was becourse of my computer.

But if I go down and buy a faster one. Do you have any max restrictions on tables?

And what would you say is needed in the computer to handle UB with no problems with lets say 12-16 tables?

Hi Andrew,
can you change my MTT tickets to 4x4SNG and 2x1SNG.
Screen: -Rudolph-
Thank you!

Could you post your alias or PM me your login name please?

Could you post your alias or PM me your login name please?

I liked them too, but no, probably not. They overlaid €51 and €55 respectively (off small guarantees) and didn't run three times in a month due to too few players. Instead we've made them satellites to the Daily 25 & Daily 50.

Sure, done.

It takes 3,330 hands on average to complete, and the average is 2,501 for NLHE majors. Points are now awarded based on the difficulty (so 3,330 hands) rather than the average (so 2,501 hands).

There's a 20 table cap right now. But if we get to the point that players regularly time out, or if the games get tougher, I'll probably reduce that cap.

I'm not sure what accurate requirements are in the real world - can anyone chime in?

Sure, done.

I have 25 in tickets. Is it allowed to take 25 from my account to get an NL50 ticket?

Sorry, I can't (easily) debit from player accounts. I don't mind if you just let these expire and you ping me when you have another 25 though? Then I can convert those to a 50. If you do this, please remind me of the url of this post.

Could you post your alias or PM me your login name please?

Forgot it, it's: ROYALBLUFF

Thanks, done.

My major challenge completed yesterday 18u42. Weird thing: I didnt play. Balance in my account is the same. Did I miss somethin' in this thread?

From another thread re: lack of hand histories.

First, I should say that I'm not a member of the fraud team so if I say anything inaccurate here, it's my fault and not theirs. I'm head of poker.

Second, if someone has cheated and been found anywhere public, we will probably know about it. The fact that it happened on PS and has been discussed on 2 + 2 means that we have read it and are aware of that kind of cheating.

Third, you say that this kind of cheating can't be detected except by highstakes players, but that doesn't appear to be true to me. Look at the graphs in these posts: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=1802 and http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=1803. They both show outliers and that's exactly the kind of thing that a site can find much more reliably than any players can.

This is very similar to how you mathematically find all other kinds of collusion. To make money from collusion you need to change your behaviour quite a lot. By sharing holecards with 1/5th of your potential opponents on the table, you need to do 1/4th better against the other players on the table. That's going to be a large deviation from normal play, as those kinds of graphs show. We can automatically search for that kind of deviation over our whole database.

We also have an advantage through lack of table selection. It means that if people seek each other out, it's a) harder for them to do, and b) stands out a lot more from our side when they succeed.