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Originally Posted by clapclap
Please add antes from the start to the 5 seat SNGs, it is pretty much the standard now at the sng offering of any reasonable network to have antes from the start. Anteless tournament poker is tight and boring imo.
Also as mentioned a while back here, you should consider doing some kind of promo to increase traffic at the 5 seat SNGs 50e+. These run very rarely compared to the lower ones unfortunately
Reducing rake for the first 3 entrants would be great, because once only 2 people need to join, they tend to fill up quite quickly, so there would be a big incentive for the first 3 people to start the sng.
On the mtt front, it would be great to see a moderate gtd 50e freezout/reentry or 25r earlier. Right now there is no midstakes mtt to play before 18:00 CET. This might also help boost SNG traffic.
Regarding the 50+ 5mans, I agree it’s disappointing, but it’s in line with other sites, even though Unibet have tried to boost traffic at the higher stakes. They’ve already done rake reduction, when they reduced it to 3% at 50e+ it made no noticeable difference to traffic, very few players are motivated by the rake, Including many regs it would seem. Do they even know about the reduced rake, which I’ve mentioned previously as an issue, stop hiding the rake structure when it’s the industry low.
So, maybe try an extreme version of your idea, first 3 pay 1.7%, last 2 pay 5%. Unibet collects exactly same amount overall as before. These early bird promos do punish recs though, so I’d be surprised if Unibet did it.
Or, make 50e+ 4max. Stars.fr did this for a time a few years back at highest stakes (100e), and it worked.
I’m very biased in that I have way more experience in sngs of the Unibet structure type, but tight is not a word I would use to describe the play of the Unibet sng player pool; antes not as needed as they were on stars for example.