Is there a direct email address for reporting suspicious (bot-like) play? There was a very strange player (screenname withheld) at 4NL earlier that seemed to have fixed bet sizes of 25c and 50c no matter what the situation (pre-flop and post). I wasn't sure if it was a bad robot, playing different stakes to the one it was programmed for, or just a very odd human.

Did you leave the client open when you logged off/your pc went to sleep?

If it was when you just start up your pc That's scary indeed

I think this makes sense. When I played MTTSNGs I had a Kelly Criterion BRM strategy (see my 2000th post) which basically said I could play $3.50 45 mans as long as I had at least $70 in the account - which might be correct mathematically but when you are too afraid to have a losing session you can't play as well.

But, I do think the correct way is to look at your roll relative to the level below the one you are considering playing (in other words, the lower of the two levels you are choosing between). Consider the case where you are isolated in an old cowboy town and there is only the $10 game and the $1000 game - at what point can you take your shot in the $1000 game? I would say you should try when you have something like $1500, rather than something like $50000, because the key criterion is making sure that your shot doesn't destroy your BR for the stake below.

Hi Andrew,

Could you exchange my €10 Unibet Open ticket to NL10 Holdem cash game ticket please?
If it's not possible then exchange it to 5X€2 Unibet Open Ticket.
My alias is LP1995.

Thank you very much!

Sorry for no post yesterday, I wasn't in the office.

Sure, done.

Yeh, or maybe more interesting would be to award the top 50 a PLO25 ticket as the prize to a PLO4 ticket race.

I agree, I think 5-max is the way to go.

I'm too late for this now, what'd you like instead?

I've not heard of this from anyone else. Do you still get the problem if you reinstall Adobe Air & the poker client?

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Sure, done.

The 10 table limit is there because there's a bug in Adobe Air that makes the client crash if you open 11+ tables. The error message is wrong though, and we'll fix that for the release at the end of Oct.

This might be controversial, but how about replacing €1 buyins with €2?

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Sorry, I'm not going to exchange the forum promo tickets.

I don't know of a better way to do it. I agree that we don't want stalling, but decisions on the bubble tend to be more difficult because they are unusual decisions. If you can think of a way to allow time to think that also cuts out stalling, I'm all ears.

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Should be done now. It's done manually and everyone was out the office yesterday for various reasons. Where possible we'll do it the next day though.

Good luck!

I credited you with another €1 banzai ticket

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Sure, done, and congratulations again!

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Sorry, no idea. Might be best to ask in ATF or ask a mod.

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Sorry, it's a different department so I can't really help. You'd be better off with regular support.

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Was this in the browser version? As that will do it if you're logged in to the site already.

You've played 14,434 hands at NL4 since 1st Sep.

Sure, done.

When I last played for a living I played with 100 buyins. That was heads-up though.

Regular support should be able to escalate it properly. Or send it to me - andrew.west@unibet.com and I'll send it directly to the fraud department.

I agree, you should move up as soon as you have $1200 or whatever, then cross your fingers.

As you anticipated, I'm afraid I can't convert UO tickets to non-UO, so I did the latter.

Normal client, never used browser version. I wasn't logged unibet website or anywhere else and my computer was completely restarted after last session.

Replacing the 1 euro SNGs with 2 euro SNGs would increase the cost of doing the missions. Whether that's good or bad depends on your perspective (and also if mission prizes were increased at the same time)

Andrew please exchange my 10E bonus to 2x4euro SNG + 2x1euro Banzai tickets .

alias - Cash_Ripper

Thanks

Well,as U might remember I also suggested Unibet to offer games for less than 1 Euro,so obviously in my opinion this is not the way to go.
Not that my opinion matters much,when deciding something like this,but since U have asked

Still think given the circumstances,that 1-2-4-10-25-50-100 would be the best option for now.

On an unrelated note,I think the multi buy-in MTTs in this form are not a good thing,I have nothing against multi ENTRY tournaments,but this multi buy-in format creates a lot of inequality.
Not to mention if Average Joe simply registers a tournament like this,he will have serious complaints when he sees that he starts with 500 (or even 100 lol) chips,and other guys at the table already have like 3-5k.
I'm not a fan of buying your stack in an MTT for sure.Make them rebuy or unl. rebuy,thats cool.But imo this sucks balls

Cheers,have a nice weekend everybody!

For my 15 ticket prize could you put that as a bonus?

If you guys plan on doing a SNG promo in the future would it be possible to do it where rewards are given based on participation and results while factoring in the cost of the buy in?

I'd like to see a boot camp format where all players get 1 point for playing a SNG while the winner gets 5 points and 3 points for second. If you add in a multiplier for higher stakes it could be a compelling race as not nearly as many high stakes SNG's run.

As for bonus points perhaps KOing 2 people in the same hand.
Playing 2 SNG's at the same time. (once a day challenge)
Coming back to win after being under 100 chips?

Other odd hands/bad beats etc.
I'm not sure if the software team can do the hand bonuses with SNG's like they can with cash.

This only covers 5 man SNG's so perhaps 1 point for the winner of a HU match and .05 for participation.

Sect7G, HUSNGs are usually excluded from promos of this type for the obvious collusion problems, I'd keep it that way unless the promo is something very different from what you've described.


Rewarding KOs alters the game strategy for some people, something I'd rather not have to think about.

im not that familiar with how the cash bootcamps work, but I'd have separate leaderboards according to buy-in level (you'd prob have to group 10/25/50/100s into one leaderboard due to low volume at 25+). This gives lower stakes recreational players a chance (fwiw, I'd be favourite to win the format you described, so this isn't self interest). Have a fresh leaderboard each week.

Hi Andrew,

Can you change my 3x 1€MTT for 3x 1€ SNG?

User: KimosabiALN

Thank you!

Hi, I was thinking of making a deposit using Skrill but it wasn't listed on your "make a deposit" page. I contacted support and they told me that Skrill was recently removed as a payment option. Could you tell me the reason behind this decision as Skrill is supported by pretty much every major poker site?

+1

don't get me wrong, the timebank function is ok, let's pretend people need more time in some cases. what I don't like is the "disconnection timebank" in those cases, ESPECIALLY, when it is being done over and over... and over again. Like I said before, extending your time with disconnections in that phase does not make sense at all - you do not act, you stall the game, and 99,99% of the time you fold anyway. That would have a grain of sense only if it was NOT hand for hand play and that disconnection "trick" would make a difference.

Is it possible to remove the timebank for disconnections for the hand for hand play? Instead, for example, if person disconnects (that would probably happen before normal timebank is activated), system would use the normal timebank for the time to reconnect instead of giving more time for basically nothing I am sure people would get the idea fast and would not stall the game and annoy other players

Hi Andrew,

Could you convert all my current tickets into poker bonus?

Thanks !

Andrew, how come the designer/copywriter for the dutch poker client always make spelling mistakes? it says avator instead of avatar this month..

Looks like skrill is only available in certain regions..

hi andrew
could you exchange all my tickets into cash bonus ?
username: cheers16

thanks

A change to 2e bi sng would definitly be better. These 1e sng are just too lame lol. And then to 4e is quite a big step for a smaller bankroll.
And a promo for sng would be nice as well.

About SNG -
I think €1 is ok for NL4 players,
€2 would be better for NL10 players (?)
and €4 is ok for NL25 players etc.

so yeah, maybe adding €2 is not bad, then you also maybe can have more options for challenge rewards, giving players €2 tickets, then people maybe will want ticket exchange less, etc....

yeah agree

Why not make it 25c/25c like they do in the casino in my town (1e/1e blinds in reality). The games there are CRAZY. In Omaha (8-max) the number of players reaching the flop is about 50 % I would say.

The blind structure maybe isn't the main factor for the wild play, but I think it contributes. People tend to be more unwilling to fold when the've already "invested" as much as a big blind.

I personally would hate to post a big blind in the small blind position, because I play tight and absolutely suck OOP, but I think that more players reaching the flop maybe would weigh it up.

Unibet are pioneers, but maybe this would be to drastic?

Are you ever gonna have a promo that require a deposit during the duration of the promotion?

Also, could you please change my Banzai5 ticket to bonus?

Alias: HitMeInDaAce

Hello Andrew,

Can you please change my 5 x 1 euro mtt tickets for 1 x 4 euro sng and 1 x 1 euro sng ticket. Also, can you change my 25 euro unibet open ticket for a 25 euro sng ticket please, thanks.
My alias is Random1

Nice post BlueSamurai in regards to the multi-stack option.

tbh this option needs to go. This option does create a bigger prize pool but it comes at the expense of the recreational player who doesn't know what's in his best interest.

For regular MTT's it's not horrible as there is incentive to win the tourney but for satellites this option is terrible. The chip leaders in satellites when there's multiple seats carry what I call dead chips. These chips were purchased by players but in essence they are lost in the prize pool due to their irrelevancy as the chip leader is going to get his ticket punched regardless of how many dead chips he carries.
These dead chips open the door for a late regger to join the satellite for the minimum and battle it out with the other short stacks. He's getting an effective discount due to the dead chips accrued by the chip leader. This underlying issue is true in regular satellites that have too late of a registration period but the problem of excessive chip leads is exaggerated by offering the field more chips (at a price) at the beginning of a satellite.