I can't see how anybody wouldn't agree on this, except for the players exploiting it. Personally, I'm a bit surprised myself by how little it bothers me, but from a recs viewpoint, I assume seeing someone non-stop rathole would be terrible. Even if a rec has no clue why somebody does it, I'm sure they will be put off by what is very easy to spot systematic behavior and brings a botty feel to the games. I think the 50bb initial minimum buy in is fine, but please make it so that you have to bring back your old stack, when you get seated at a table that you have been in within the past 30 minutes, if not longer. It's just one of those matters which doesn't even warrant a differing opinion from an objective viewpoint (imo )

A few thoughts from me.

UOS

Absolutely love the series and think the leaderboard is a great idea, especially to include nano in the overall board. It's how it should be in my opinion. Its creating good banter and competition in the community, too. Anyone moaning about not being able to play 6 tables or not being able to focus because of the buyin shouldn't really be trying to win a poker leaderboard in the first place in my opinion.

Only real criticism I have of the is the amount of 'same' rebuy tournaments. A lot of 25's with same sort of stack/ guarantee / structure. Low / nano a bit more varied in buyin but these 25's also become a real strain on the bankroll if a few in a row don't go well. Maybe a re-entry variant or another PLO / ante up one just to break it up a bit.

Would like to see a PLO 'Main' in the future with maybe a 50e/100e buyin. But overall I think as a first attempt this a really solid series and I'm really enjoying it. Looking forward to new format that was mentioned too.


Tournament tickets

Can defo see the advantages and disadvantages to all suggestions. My idea is as follows. Scrap tickets and instead have 'credit'. You can still keep credit in separate sat trees but for example if you won a UK25 you would be awarded 100UKCredit instead of a 100 ticket. You can use the credit to buy in to any UK tour sat and it will decrease / increase based on what you enter / win. Takes all the pressure off customer services as everyone has control of their own ticket roll and flexibility.

@David Would having sat tickets that worked like cash tickets be easier to implement than separate currencies per tree?

Example:
You play a UO10 and win it and it adds 50e to that ticket, You can then use that ticket to buy into UO1s,2s,4s,10s,50s and it alters the balance accordingly.

The multi day MTTs has been posted on the community awhile ago as an idea, with a little feedback from Leo.
https://www.unibetcommunity.com/t5/U...t/idi-p/124470

Lets dissect by paragraph,

Not sure what your referring to in community. I remember making a point to leo and another to ray. Neither answered by said persons. Unless its answered by those persons or someone sensible like nmpfan, i tend to disregard it.

Your point on E79 tix, Target Only. Lets see, i have Milky way, Supernova and Sputnik tix. They have a specific name to a specific tournament, but i can use them in UOS events. There are two 100 uos tournys. Can i not make the suggestion to David its futile to put such a restriction, bearing in mind you can break it down to play other events or sats. Also i think there was overlay in 30k gtd. Would it have helped if E79 tix could have been used.

I do agree the debate for tix exchange is over as David has already made his decision. You seem to manage to circle back to it. If you reply to my post, there is no other way to take it than personally.

Re Brighton, You complain others not using tix for target event and then you do same. Any person holding ANY tickets can use the same argument.

Can you stop the 3 hours latereg, 2 hours is more than enough for everyone, thanks.

Really enjoying being back on Unibet, thanks to David for helping me get it sorted out when I ran into a bit of confusion about my account.

I just want to check - I'm going to be travelling a bit over the next while, will I be able to play on Unibet while on holidays in Greece, Bulgaria or the Czech Republic?

Any plans to open shop for austrian players in the near future?

this thread is all about tickets and tournaments :/

When it comes to an update at the unibet android app. i have to reinstall the app. the update reaches 100%. the app doesn't restart after that.
when i than close the app and start it again, the update starts again and the app crashes after.

Sirin yes you should. Poker is limited in:
Birma, Cuba, Danmark, All US states and other territories, France and all its territories, Hong Kong, India, Irak, Libia, Macau, Nigeria, Noord-Korea, Sudan, Zimbabwe, South-Korea

However you wanna spin it buddy, however you wanna spin it

For what it's worth, I do think the Nova €10/€25 sat tickets should have been usable for UOS events. Congrats on the Nova score too, sounded like a stacked FT.

Hello @sirin, some of operators and internet providers in Bulgaria are restricted for unibet.

Great thanks for the reply! Can anyone confirm that playing from Greece is OK? I see there's a Greek themed avatar but I just want to double check.

https://www.unibet.com/terms


http://www.pokerlaws.org/europe/greece


So you should be fine.

That's great thanks.

The Withdraw button in the client isn't working for me. I've also tested the Deposit button and nothing is happening.

Seems like they already did, now when I planned to late reg the nano rebuy

I probably should have checked the late reg time, I just assumed that the late reg period would go on forever.

Btw I do agree with you, half an hour really should be enough.

I was sick sunday and monday and for that reason I missed the two 10 rebuys now I have 6 UOS €10 tickets and only 2 events that I can enter... Anybody who knows what will happen with the other 4? Will they be available untill next UOS?

Thanks for all the discussion regarding the MTT series and client improvements needed, nice to see the conversation there and it's super useful for us.

I'm going to skip over any post which debates gender equality as that's a rabbit hole and isn't likely to make this thread enjoyable to read for anyone bored of the debate. I will drop this in here though and leave one more thought - focusing on the need to bring more women into the game will likely have benefits for us in terms of new players, but as a male poker player I'm slightly embarrassed that only around 15% of our player base is female. I've seen only positive feedback from initiatives we have launched at live events and it isn't something we're going to drop, apologies if you feel discriminated against.

https://twitter.com/UnibetPoker/stat...95753580670976


Hmmm, you're neither warm nor cold. I guess you will have to wait and see

As you mentioned, it's too soon for me to make any statements on what changes we will make for the next series but we will be looking at all of the feedback and data that we have and making adjustments as necessary. Personally I'm fine with 6 events per night as if you remove the overall leaderboard aspect it means there is something for everyone.

Damn, you're a hard taskmaster.

I think I can commit to 'one day' but I can't honestly say if it will be this year or not, given the planning involved it'd be more realistic for us to aim for 2019. On that note though, I'd be really interested in advice from Canadians in this thread as to where we should be looking for our new Canadian traffic (poker news sites, forums, etc).

The Missions are in the hands of a new Marketing Manager so thanks for the feedback, will pass it on. Regarding translations, some markets at Unibet choose to translate these names and some stick with the English version so will pass that on too.

Agreed, we'll definitely increase overall GTDs for the next series and overall the first one has been really pleasing.

Our focus is going to be on software improvements for the next 12 months or so, as mentioned in an earlier post we have dev work committed for the big new features this year so we have some room to focus on the basics again. Also agree that more PLO events would be a good thing but we don't actually have PLO8 format built in the client and are unlikely to add for a while, just because of liquidity issues and need for dev time to be prioritised elsewhere.

Adding handcount to the profile section would be useful (both for players and ourselves in use for promotions), will have a chat about it here and I'm sure add it to the backlog.

I was all for a shareable hand replayer a few years ago and while it's still on our backlog, it's usually de-prioritised each quarter. The main reason for this is that we don't feel a shareable hand replayer by itself would add much value - boomplayer on Stars seems to have declined in use over the years but if we could come up with an extra hook or compelling use then it'd find more favour here.

Hopefully back on track now please don't stay away for too long!

On that note, I still want to organise the call with you guys but underestimated how much work I'd have to come back to after the last few weeks. Sorting the ticket exchange policy is a priority though so will reach out to each of you soon.

This could be because of the way the leaderboard is constructed, thanks for bringing to my attention.

Apologies for this, it seems that there is an issue with some old Stan James accounts and that those players are also being missed by support. Please let me know if you're still having an issue and I'll find a way to get your details and look into it.

Which country are you in?

The software is built with the next generation (at least post 2015) of machines in mind but this can sometimes be down to something else such as a graphics card driver. You might have been asked this before but are your graphics cards drivers up to date?

The main area of focus for the next 12 months will be on usability and UX improvements but that might not solve this issue. I think you've got my private email so if you drop me a mail I'd be happy to look into it further for you with Relax.

I like all of these suggestions. Disconnect protection is on the roadmap and is something we'll discuss here in a call later this week.

One downside with a poll is that sadly, you guys are often the vocal minority. There are a lot of features and improvements which will be suggestions coming directly from these threads but there are some which are dictated by other things. A good example would be improvements to the mobile lobby and client - that's probably not something which is high on the list for you guys but we see it as a necessity due to the way the industry is moving, and particularly our wider playerbase.

I think we have gone a bit gung-ho with late reg in places, similarly with the increase in r/a qualifiers. I'm not too concerned about that traffic finding it's way to our site though, we have good mechanisms in place to prevent and catch bots/collusion and there are a lot of sites out there more tempting for people to try that activity on.

MTT improvements are on the list for usability improvements, it's a legacy of us neglecting MTTs for so long but it is high on the list for us. Apologies for the annoyance it can cause at the moment.

Ul, gg and all that but obviously we didn't arrange for that to happen.

If we stretch to €5 then these games don't appeal to the same audience but we'll have a look at everything once the series is over.

As above, sorry for the annoyance here but it will be improved with time.

Like the idea of leaderboard freerolls/exclusive tournaments but as mentioned below your post, the buyin shouldn't necessarily dictate tournament length (although there is a happy balance to be found somewhere).

We'll definitely look to add more variation to the next series. We are indeed pushing more players towards the bigger tourney next Sunday, if not enough of those tickets are used for the target tournament then we'll likely suffer a heavy overlay.

It's something we can look at when implementing MTT improvements, thanks for the feedback.

There is 6% rake at our 'high' stakes cash games yes, maybe that's mid stakes to some. We feel this is offset by the rewards and promos we offer, including promos like VIP Double Trouble where the ecology is boosted quite heavily. We're going to make some adjustments to rake in the coming months and certain games (low stakes cash and SNGs) have industry low rake but we're never going to be lowest in the industry at higher stakes games because the money there is significant enough to be able to boost the site in general (and those games themselves). If that's what you're after then another site is probably for you.

I'd definitely rather move to more 2 day events than 10+ hour tourneys. A lot of the field sizes exceeded our expectations and this has resulted in slightly longer tournaments than expected.

It's still running, which country are you looking from?

We would lose some, but I'm not sure how many right now. One of the reasons for Nano tournaments being there in the first place is that we feel other sites are neglecting players at those stakes and feel quite strongly that everyone should be offered a decent schedule no matter the size of your bankroll.

You guessed right, making a note for next series discussion

This is likely to be something on your end as we really have been low on disconnections for quite some time now. If you pm me your setup I can have a look into it for you.

I agree and regardless of the actual effect it has on someone's equity, the perception in the eyes of more casual players is worth a lot and I can't imagine it makes for a fun experience. An anti-ratholing measure is in development, I would expect it comes in at some point over the summer.

Agree that we could do with some more variety and I think that'll be addressed in the next series.

The issue with issuing tournament 'credit' is that it doesn't solve the issue of ensuring money won in qualifiers gets used for target tournaments. While regular players undoubtedly help to start games, there is also a sizable proportion of players with tickets who are then regging games at the last minute when an overlay is on the cards and so not actually helping to start games at all.

We've built the problem ourselves with the policy we have had up until now but I will discuss with some of you in the coming week or so.

Agreed, our late reg is probably a bit excessive at times and I'd rather lower GTDs slightly where needed rather than ruin players' experience by extending late reg for so long.

I believe you can play from Greece and Bulgaria (players just can't set up new accounts from there) but Czech Republic shouldn't be possible.

I'll look into it, I'm not up-to-date on the situation there.

Which device are you trying to play from? Could you also provide me with one of your poker aliases?

Second that, congrats on the score!

We removed the withdraw button, not sure why deposit isn't working though

On a serious note, that sounds like an unusual one. Which OS are you playing on, and can you drop me one of your aliases?

I always thought that it was mostly weaker players doing this. Not allowing ratholing would probably mean that the weaker players lose their money faster, and to me ratholing isn't a big deal if the initial buy in amount is 20bb or more.

Weaker, perhaps, in the sense that the guys who are currently systematically doing it probably wouldn't be the greatest players playing 4-street poker with deep stacks. I don't know much about the great game of shortstacking, but I wouldn't say they're doing a terrible job at it. I'm positive that they're taking money out of the games, at least including rake, as is within their rights.

That last sentence hinting at allowing 20bb buy-ins, is the most awful thing I've read on a poker forum for a long time . And there's a pageful of gender equality discussion right above.

It's all about balance and the bigger picture. Do you hear anyone complaining that for this UOS Unibet is giving away more in Leaderboard prizes then they will make in rake and paying overlays. The tlb would be like Stars running a 5 million dollar tlb for SCOOP. Do u expect that anytime soon? But heh they got 5% rake right. And like 5% rb

My bad. I thought 20bb was the smallest buy in they allowed. I don't sugest they lower the buy in ammount.

Not allowing ratholing makes more sense when you can choose to play another table, if you want to play at the same table then you have to buy in for the same ammount you left with. But with automatically seating you don't have that choice.

Be sitting at e100 sng around 9pm GMT, have a punt

could you please reconsider your PLO missions. They take way too much time and most NLHE guys just don't enjoy this ( stupid ) game and i'm even +EV.

The solution on Banzai seems to be that you have to buy in for the same amount you left with if it's within a certain time limit. Isn't it possible to more or less copy-paste the code for other forms of poker?

I think Andrew wanted to do it where people who leave with e.g. 144BB would be allowed to return with 100BB but not 50BB until they had been away from the tables for a while, which seems to be a sensible compromise.