i think this has been adressed before, but it's come to my attention again:

the challenge where you have to 'act preflop' after 2 people have put in the same amount seems to almost certainly be bugged to me, making it take longer than intended. it seems to be that for a squeeze 3bet to count towards this challenge, neither of the first 2 players can be in the blinds. is this correct? imo if it is, which leaves squeezes vs CO and earlier positions and raises vs 2 limps, which is quite rare in my games, then the challenge takes extremely long for a minor challenge.

and the challenge rewards both a) worse play and b) simply being on a softer table:
ad. a): squeezing isn't as good as people thought it was in ~2009, just like cold 4betting isn't as good as people thought it was in ~2012
and ad. b): in softer games, there will much more often be 2 limps. i think i saw that zero times when i played for 2 hours just now.

Andrew, why aren't there more 2 euro and 10 euro sats for UO? They never seem to have overlay, and now if I want to grind them it gets very annoying since I can only play so many a day. Also, more low sats --> more people in higher sats.

Raked 10bb games are pretty far from zero-sum games.

The long term win-rate at 10bb games is not high. Add to that the max tables limit (2 if I remember correctly) and you see what I mean.

If this is what people want then by all means let them play it. I just questioned if this really is the direction Unibet wants to take regarding poker.

As I wrote earlier I like Unibet and will probably start playing there again. Banzai is probably the only negative thing I can think of right now. Naturally it's not a dealbreaker for me as long as the limits I play at have plenty of normal tables running.

what I meant was that it will definitely going to have the most viewers in this Unibet Twitch streaming promo thing. So it will break a record!

I don't experience a lot of drain from Banzai personally because I play 99% PLO cash. As long as there's no NLO Banzai...

Seems like the 'Isildur effect' is already bringing new faces to unibet, just from the announcement. I can only wonder how many new players he'll bring when he streams, looking forward to some good action

I even played with a guy named Isildur22. Undoubtedly it was not him, but the reason of that name is obvious - the ad

Nah there have been multiple Isildurs for as long as I know.

I've seen a few people whose usernames were inspired by Blom. A few weeks ago, this guy kept going all in with trash until he went busto, so maybe it was the real one!

More Blom fans please!

I also got 4 1eu Sng tickets expired, 1st things first, studies. all i`m asking give these tickets time (also cash 6.34 4.02 2.97 4.69) and if it`s possible change these cash tickets to SnG

Ah yes, good point. The FB and Twitter pages both only started working yesterday. I think this thread is great and it'd be good to have something available to more players. We hired someone to look after our social media at the start of this month so now we have the manhours in the poker team to do it properly.

https://www.facebook.com/UnibetPoker
https://twitter.com/unibet_poker
http://www.twitch.tv/unibetpoker

I think the FB page may only work in UK, DK and BE though. (Maybe also in EE? NL?)

Jinx

Probably, what's your alias?

On an individual basis, yes. But I'm worried about the whole player base, and on average it'll look bad to them.

There're a lot of players who deposit and withdraw small amounts regularly - they may not know if they're up or down, or at least not by a lot. We can tell them if they ask, but if they don't then I think it's best to not remind them.

Actually, using the opposite idea of that, we were thinking of having a "hall of fame" section in the profile. We'd list their biggest ever cash hand win, their best tournament result, etc. I think it'd be quite good reinforcement to play, but it's probably too much hassle to build it for too little outcome.

New players don't become depositors without realising that they like the game. The problem is that new players lose a lot faster than they did a few years ago, because established players are better. That means the new player doesn't get any enjoyment from the game and doesn't see the skill in it, so they don't come back.

I should note that we do more than most sites in rewarding losing players, it's just that some of it is behind the scenes. One obvious thing that we do is Double Trouble - it's an explicit bonus to players who are down that week.

I don't see how we're letting good depositors getting butchered given that we do more to defend weak players than any other site around.

I disagree. We spend more on the top end than we did while we were on MPN. We spend a LOT more on the bottom end. And we spend less on the middle.

You're contradicting yourself here too - you say that we should go after big depositors who may not play many hands. Well, we're rewarding them a lot better than anyone else is.

That's a pretty huge bias.

We have more low stake and low volume players because we try to keep them alive. This makes the games softer for everyone else. This is the way that we attract those players in the middle - not by having big loyalty scheme payouts there.

Again, you're cherry picking one exact set of players that is a small proportion of any site ecology. You're picking it because you're one of them, but my job is to look at the bigger picture, not just your rewards.

Even for you, this works out very well because your games are softer than they are anywhere else.

Essentially every other player segment is getting a great deal.

Ah - it'll award Glasgow packages until next week. You can move the second package to Cannes, or you can receive it in tickets.

None of that part is automatic though, the player lists are done by hand by the events team as far as I know.

I can exchange the tickets back to a Cannes package if you like.

Yes, but over all of them it'll average out. Lots of people are going to actually be on -20bb/100 over 10k hands.

I think the problem was that he saw the alias but you didn't say in which format you'd like the tickets. What format would you like the tickets in?

Yup, no huds, no trackers, no table selection, modern graphics, and lots of smaller things that're about keeping new players alive for longer.

We rake it much lower than other sites you may have seen this on (1% to €3), but I do take the general point. We have two aims really - we want to keep new players alive for longer, and we want to make poker fun again. I agree that Banzai doesn't do much to help the former, but it's pretty good for the latter.

We're going to remove Banzai 60 when we make the next release (26th I think), and add Banzai 1.

I think we may have been driven a bit too much by the desire to not have an empty game type, which is what we had with Fast. I think Banzai is fun though, and if it doesn't cause higher churn rates then I'm fine with it.

I think the last time this came up I asked for a hand history number where it occurs - could you note one down next time please? Then we can search for a bug. We think it should trigger in the situation you describe.

But it'll award the right number of points because the system that calculates how many points to award is the same system as the one that decides if you've completed a step.

That system does it over the whole site hand database though, so it may well be that it's incorrect for NL400.

I agree with both of those points. I'm going to make some minor Q3 challenges changes today, I'll remove this one.

We increased a lot of guarantees on existing ones last week, but I think you're right that we could add more. I don't even mind if they overlay a bit - it's much better that the lower end ones overlay than the higher end ones.

The guy who looks after the tourney schedule isn't in until Tuesday, but I'll send him a mail for then to see if he can find a slot for more.

We made it a 2 table limit because we don't want a couple of people who play the game really well breaking everyone else. We also don't want to migrate people entirely from NL50 to Banzai5 etc.

Ah yes, good point. We'll probably award something similar in that stream though...

Yup, what's your alias? I can't exchange cash tickets that've completed any playthrough into other tickets though.

UnibetAndrew, can you please exchange my 2UO 50 tickets to 5x 10e and 25x 2e. Thank you.

alias: johaug1337

Great thanks, can I have a 4 euro sng ticket please thanks!

Damn, totally forgot that I still had the PLO ticket and it must have expired by now. Any chance to do anything about it? Also, I have a 10€ UO ticket that expires in 10 days but am off for more than a week as of Sunday and won't have time until then to use it.

Nick: Spasiba

Hi Andrew,

Unfortunately wasn't able to play much last couple of days, and just saw that i still have a €10 UO ticket that is about to expire. Would it be possible to extend this ticket for some time?

Would be appreciated.

Alias: HighRise

Why are their so many gimmicky weird ass tournaments? Ante Up(they aren't even real ante up, blinds are too big) multibuy blabla nonsense. Those tournaments should come like once or twice a day. More standard reg/turbo freezeouts please.

I've been messing around with some player number estimates and reward stats and have come to the conclusion that maybe I was a little hard on Unibets rake structure model.

Plugging in different player distributions for rake paid against how much the sites pay back show that stars rewards maybe more, but not by as significant amount as I thought before.

Saying that I would love to see Unibet to be the first site to make ALL the correct decisions and charge a reasonable amount for online poker

Is anyone else experiencing crashes on the android client?I can log in and move around the lobby but if I try to open a table the client freezes and then stops working.

I'm off work tomorrow (cricket) and it's a bank holiday here on Monday so I may not be around much until next week. There's a release on Tuesday:

Release Notes for 26th May:

• June Mission added
• Summer Bootcamp promotion implemented
• 5-Max SNG rake reduced to 5% from May 26th to end of June
• SNG info added to the tables
• Gameplay info bubbles added to the tables
• Banzai NL1 replacing NL60 starting from June 1st

• Added the missing Internet connection warning when trying to open a table while being offline
• Any open layouts in the lobby now close when accessing Hand History from the table
• Removed notification links for used and expired tickets
• Tournament break notification was centred
• Low ticket balance notification now breaks into two rows correctly
• Notification hit zone was decreased so it matches the notification link area
• Fixed an issue causing the MTT info tab not to show correct information on the table when you don't have specific tournament lobby open on the background
• Fixed an issue causing the MTT info tab not to show correct next blind values
• Fixed an issue causing the tournament lobbies not to update properly sometimes when playing and logging out and back in
• Fixed an issue causing the Mission step counter not to update when playing more than one SNG in a row
• Fixed an issue causing the max buy-in setting to be turned off automatically after buying in with a ticket
• Fixed an issue causing the wrong cash game type shown in Banzai buy-in dialogue
• Added one extra second worth of time to act after the graphical bar has run out
• Added back arrow for the password reset dialogue so you could go back to the login dialogue (iPad, Android)
• Wrong table message was shown after opening and closing the notification tray (iPad, Android)
• Added the missing Internet connection warning when trying to open a table while being offline (iPad, Android)
• Removed auto-suggest for password field (Android)

Sure, done.

Sure, done.

I extended the UO ticket. I can't reinstate tickets per se, but I can credit similar ones. I did 3x €4 PLO4 tickets to replace the €12.88 you had on your existing one, but they are back to needing the full playthrough - that's the closest I can get.

Sure, done.

Because people asked for variety and that's pretty much all we can do. I'm not sure where the space would be for adding more regular freezeouts, but we'll look into changing the schedule pretty heavily after the summer.

Well, I've seen the figures for both companies and we pay out more.

I'm sorry that one of our decisions isn't amazing for you specifically, but we can't simply give away everything we rake, we have expenses.

Does it go to a black screen? There's a problem with Galaxy Tabs in Adobe Air, the application we use to run the client. It's fixed in the current Adobe beta and once they release it we can fix it.

That's perfectly fine. Can you please extend those tickets as well though? Because otherwise they will possibly expire also due to the location I am heading to.

Sure, done.

No the problem was mine,I put my tablet to sleep most nights instead of shutting it off completely and after a while it slows down until I reboot it.Unibet was just the first app that problems showed up on but it's going fine again after a quick reboot.It just took me longer than I care to admit to remember how to sort it.

Near the end of a long week, I know the feeling.

It could be worse. You could be required to take the first train on a Sunday morning and take on a 24h trip for work ...

That does not sound like fun