I changed in August last year, my impression of the answers:
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Originally Posted by joedot
Are you guys trying to become a real competitor to Pokerstars?... and becoming the place to play poker online?
I certainly get the impression that the poker department would like the poker offering to overtake Pokerstars, though it needs to grow a lot.
As a whole the company (including sportsbetting etc.) has about double the stock market capitalization of Amaya gaming so Unibet is basically a bigger and longer established company.
Although the company has a whole is even more focused on sportsbetting/casino and less on poker compared to Amaya, it seems to understand market segmentation better, so they won't disrespect you by spamming your email with adverts for "million-slots-fun", and there is no equivalent to spin n go.
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Originally Posted by joedot
Are you serious about treating your customers well
Customer service is very active on 2p2. "Unibet Andrew" is the head of poker, not just a customer service rep, so we get the feeling that we know what they are thinking/planning, whereas 888 etc. seem to a be a complete black box.
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Originally Posted by joedot
not just another ordinary poker site with bad software,
This is very subjective of course. I feel like I only really need to see my cards and have fold/call/raise buttons. Bet-sizing buttons are not customizable because recreational players wouldn't use them. Also the site is not compatible with HUDs and doesn't give hand histories. there is also no table/seat selection, or player-to-player transfer. So we can say the software is "rec-friendly"
It's not good for mass multi-tabling (people report instability when they have too many tables open but about 8 seems to be fine). There are sometimes server crashes - probably more than PS - though there was an upgrade recently. The users here seem to just laugh off the server crashes though, instead of going mental as they would with other sites, because the customer service team has built up goodwill. I also see it as a price worth paying for having somewhere not suitable for professional grinders to play - which should then show up in my winrate (or would if I could stop 3-barrelling with 32o).
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Originally Posted by joedot
long cashouts
Money usually hits my account the same day, or the following day if i put in for it late. It depends on your own bank more than Unibet - for example UK banks generally have no monthly fee but keep incoming payments for a day of extra interest (old story, if you don't pay a fee you aren't the customer you're the product).
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Originally Posted by joedot
Also, I know you are growing, but as a player I don't care about whether or not you are growing revenues. I want to see the number of players actively playing on your site growing.
We're told it keeps doubling year-on-year; people who've been around longer haven't challenged that so it's probably true.
Volume is lower though. At the moment (9.48 UK time), stake/games with volume issues are
NL25 - 11 seats occupied
NL100 - 14 seats
PL50 - not running (though rake is planned to drop in this one from 5.5% to 3.5%)
PL100 - 3 seats occupied
PL200 - not running
PL 400 - 6 seats occupied
SNG50 and SNG 100 not running - rake here is planned to drop from 5% to 3% (these are 5-max turbo btw)
Hopefully they will cut NL25 rake too at some point to make a smoother progression.
.. but tbh that's in your hands too. If people support the site (if necessary playing a wider range of stakes when they can't get volume at their favourite stake) then it will continue to grow.
The biggest change though is something you didn't ask - there is no tracking software and no graphs. If you do well at poker, and don't have a sharkscope graph to show on 2p2, did it really happen?
Last edited by LektorAJ; 03-24-2016 at 06:02 AM.