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Originally Posted by kapetain
Do you plan on implementing an option to limp in at cash tables before the regular BB comes ? I'm pretty sure recreationals would love such an option...
We made it this way (also no auto top up) because we think it's a good way to identify new players. If the option is there and someone isn't using it, they're probably new. We want to avoid that kind of situation.
I'm open to being persuaded, but right now I'm pretty happy with it as it is.
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Originally Posted by kapetain
Also, I beg you, please add pot and TOTAL pot amounts, it would help alot to evaluate bets.... You know, the thing where you can see both how big pot was before, and how big is after a bet... ?
I think this is more likely to happen just because it can be quite hard to see what the chips are that someone's put in.
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Originally Posted by huitdepique
Don't you fear that the "no-tracker-rule" will cause you to lose some of your credibility? As you know, some cheating methods (bots, super-users on UB) were spotted through the use of trackers. Furthermore, some players could argue that your RNG is not so random and that the tracker ban prevents them from confirming it...
I agree that this is a downside. But I don't think that players can spot anything that a motivated site can't spot better by itself. The problem is that most sites don't actually bother to check.
In the case of UB, the case was basically cracked because someone in support there "accidentally" mailed a complainant a list of hand histories with all the holecards revealed, including the IP of the super-user. That's the kind of info that the site has on all of its players.
It's much easier for the site to catch colluders than it is for players sitting on the tables, hand histories or no - particularly when players can change alias whenever they like. There are statistical analyses that collluders can't really avoid. You also can't choose to play with your partner on our site, at least in cash games, as you can't table select.
Things like RNG or superusers are basically down to whether you trust the site. It makes no sense for Unibet to do anything untoward because poker makes up about 5% of our total revenues. If we cheated to make that 6%, we are risking the other 95%. If we tried to cheat people in poker and we get caught, we will lose a LOT more in sportsbook etc. Not to mention it'd break stock market & probably regional laws (we're publicly traded on the Nordic OMX). Also, if I find anything like that I'm not going to keep quiet about it.
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Originally Posted by huitdepique
Could you please update us about the traffic on the site. Did it match your expectations? Your promotions attracted a lot of people, but I imagine that you will have to slow down in a near future... Btw, as a PLO player, I am kind of disappointed with your August missions
I found your football slot promotion awesome, offering this type of game is most probably good for the satisfaction of the recreational players.
Well, we're in the middle of low season - the global market is down about 30% from its peak. This was our worst week last year and it'll probably be our worst week this year too. The technical problems of earlier in the month don't help (lots of people are still using 1.6, which is basically broken).
But when we migrated, we almost immediately raked more in the NLHE games that we had on both sites. We have more actives than we did before. We rake more from PLO than we did before (which I wasn't expecting). Unibet poker has lost in the region of 20% of its revenue every year for the past few years, but this year I think we'll have a bigger Q4 than we did last year.
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Originally Posted by huitdepique
Finally, I don't know if I am the only one, but I am frustrated everytime I am all in in a hand before the river: the last card comes on the board at the same time as the chips go to the winning hand and I don't have time to realize if I like the river card or not. Any chance that we can delay with 1 second the moving of the chips?
I think this is partially a latency problem. I agree it's bad and I definitely want to do something about it. The more complaints we get, the easier it is for me to prioritise things, so I'll be passing your comment on.
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Originally Posted by MarcusM
Hi Andrew,
Can u please exchange my MTT and SNG tickets into 6 x 25 NL tickets.
Thank you.
I'm not in the office today but will have a look tomorrow. Could you post your alias or PM me your login please?
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Originally Posted by ArjenRobben
How can you enter the Friday Fun freeroll?
It's the London office staff tourney, so unless you work for Unibet, you can't I'm afraid. This is a good opportunity to brag: the rule for the poker team is that we have to play every hand preflop (unless it's for > 33% effective stacks), to make it fairer for the rest of the company. I've won twice with these rules, but the first time I accidentally folded preflop once while my boss was distracting me, so he claims it doesn't count...
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Originally Posted by ArjenRobben
Maybe introduce something like a monhtly league with daily small buy in tours and a leaderboard.
Yeh, one of the guys here really wants to run something like that. I think it's just a matter of time.
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Originally Posted by ArjenRobben
Furthermore very happy with this new software an dthe promotions you are running TY
Cool, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it, good luck!
Last edited by UnibetAndrew; 07-30-2014 at 05:15 AM.