Poker release notes 30/08/2017 - v2.9.0

[Chris-Unibet]

New Features and Improvements:

• Aliases at the tables are now hidden until big blind is posted
• Experience has been improved while waiting for a game to start
• Ticket is now chosen as default buy-in option when available
• Addition of Cash Spins for casino games as a reward in two steps of the Mission
• FAQ link added in the Bonus Shop section of the client
• Scroll bars are now more visible

 
Promotions:

• September Mission (link TBC)
• King of Flips - New and exciting promotion where you earn tokens to a game by playing cash game. Once you’ve earned at least one token, you can use it to play poker flips in an in-client game. If you win your flip, after each hand you'll have the option to collect your prize or risk your prize for a higher one by playing another flip.
  

 Bug fixes:

• Improved Mac client stability (especially crashes sometimes happening when closing the Hand Replayer)
• Fixed bug sometimes impacting leaderboards in late registration tournaments
• Fixed bug where mission icon was still displayed in the lobby after steps are completed
• Fixed bug where mouse scrolling was triggering the bet slider when leaderboard pop-up was open

 

 Reminder about our ongoing promotions:

• Double Trouble and Super Double Trouble
• Early Birds
• Betting Freerolls
• Jackpot MTTs

 

The main promotion is starting on Friday and we're really interested in collecting feedack about it as it's a new promotion that we'd like to bring back and improve!

[jonny2192]

Promo link not working.

[MoreTBC]

https://www.unibet.com/promotions/poker-promotions/poker-flips

[jonny2192]

What stakes are low,mid,high?

Thanks @MoreTBC

[jonny2192]

@FeelsBadMan King of flips. what will you do with 30 UO packages :)

[psrquack]

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@jonny2192 wrote:

What stakes are low,mid,high?

Thanks @MoreTBC

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• Players need to reach 50 flops in Cash Games Low Stakes in order to earn 1 Bronze token.
• Are considered low stakes Hold’em NL4 and NL10; Omaha PL4 and PL10; Banzai Hold’em NL1 and NL5; Banzai Omaha NLO1 and NLO5.
• Players need to reach 50 flops in Cash Games Mid Stakes in order to earn 1 Silver token.
• Are considered mid stakes Hold’em NL25, NL50 and NL100; Omaha PL25, PL50 and PL100; Banzai Hold’em NL20; Banzai Omaha NL20.
• Players need to reach 50 flops in Cash Games High Stakes in order to earn 1 Gold token.
• Are considered high stakes Hold’em NL200, NL400 and NL800; Omaha PL200, PL400 and PL800.

 

[jonny2192]

Thanks @psrquack didnt click the terms

[jonny2192]

Bit of feedback, I dont really like the promos that dont give the micro players a chance of the top prize.
I think a slight improvement would be if you flip to level 8 and win you should get 1 token for the next level up as well as the cash prize.

This way it gives players of all stakes a chance to win the UO package even though a slim one.

[Snook]

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@jonny2192 wrote:

Bit of feedback, I dont really like the promos that dont give the micro players a chance of the top prize.

I think a slight improvement would be if you flip to level 8 and win you should get 1 token for the next level up as well as the cash prize.

This way it gives players of all stakes a chance to win the UO package even though a slim one.

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+1

I was thinking the same myself when I saw the prize breakdown.

[MathrimC]

Wait, people will be talking about flips for a UO package all month now?? Well played Unibet, excellent troll :Waterfall:

[jonny2192]

Another thought, this kind of promotion would be good to include all game types rather than just cash.
Play so many sngs get a ticket, play x amount of value mtts get a ticket rather than excluding them.

Even if the requirements were quite high as the rake works out lower at these games it would make more sense to include them.

[jonny2192]

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@MathrimC wrote:

Wait, people will be talking about flips for a UO package all month now?? Well played Unibet, excellent troll :Waterfall:

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just win a flip in Belgium game and stop the trolling. easy :P

[MoreTBC]

+1 on all game types being included. Would have rather seen random drops per tier instead of grinding them out. 

+1 on tokens for higher tiers as prizes too. Lower the bonus points awared and add a token for the next tier.

[VikingsAF]

@Chris-Unibet can I ask you something? 

Will the flip be calculated each hand? Or when you start the flipping game, will it already be decided how far you can maximally go? 

Not to criticise, but just so I know how to play it :D

Ps to everyone who is going to try to explain chances to me. I know that the chances for the final prize are equal in both cases, but it changes the mindset you have to every individual flip. 

Then to finish of some feedback. Would be cool to get a cash ticket to the higher stake as final prize (or one before final)  :) that way you can try to work up your way to the UO package :) 

For the rest it sounds really interesting :D

[jonny2192]

@VikingsAF DavidP said on 2+2 that it uses same rng as poker, so presuming it works ame way as normal flip mtts

[Chris-Unibet]

Hi, 

Thanks for the initial feedback. Few comments:

• Give micro players a chance of the top prize.
  What's hard with micro stakes in cash game is that we don't rake them much at all (I believe it's still the lowest rake in the industry at NL/PL4 and NL/PL10). So the downside of it is that we can't go too far with the promotional money we can invest either. Now of course, taking that promotion as an example, we could have added ~ 6 flips to win and that could lead to a package. Maybe that would have been better but that's also a bit misleading to let people think that they have a chance at the end. 
  Would you have prefered that?

 

• Adding all games in order to collect prizes
  Assuming it delivers a good experience, we'll re-use that promotion and could make it for e.g. SNGs instead. We're usually trying to do promotions for specific games to encourage players to change their habits a bit and try other games but there hasn't been many SNG ones lately I guess. Also, I agree it wouldn't hurt to do a big one for all games at ones at some point.

 

• Tokens for higher tiers as prizes too
  I think I like the idea and like it better than adding flips on tops of the bronze tier payout. That would indeed give a chance to access the bigger prizes and this way you could "grind" many silver or gold tokens before trying your luck with them all.

 

• Flip calculation
  It uses the same RNG as normal games so it's not decided beforehand

 

Thanks!

[PaziHalinka]

Feels a bit unfair to be honest. It would"t be hard to include SNGs or MTTs in these promotions(see 20 flops=play 2 MTTs or someting like that). I pay just as much rake as a cash player, but they get something back every single month, and you give nothing to us SNG players. 

[jonny2192]

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@Chris-Unibet wrote:

Hi, 

Thanks for the initial feedback. Few comments:

• Give micro players a chance of the top prize.
  What's hard with micro stakes in cash game is that we don't rake them much at all (I believe it's still the lowest rake in the industry at NL/PL4 and NL/PL10). So the downside of it is that we can't go too far with the promotional money we can invest either. Now of course, taking that promotion as an example, we could have added ~ 6 flips to win and that could lead to a package. Maybe that would have been better but that's also a bit misleading to let people think that they have a chance at the end. 

  Would you have prefered that?

 

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I prefer any chance at a bigger prize, In this promo the win a higher token sounds best or even a random 1 in a 1000 token gets upgraded.

Like the promo this month for a vegas package, the odds are 8000 to 1 but im still playing cash and mtts to get the tickets and with the old slots promo where you earned spins anyone could win a package or the milestone hands even at nl4 you could scoop a big win(I won 1k at that).

I think you would get more positive publicity if a rec player wins something nice but all promos are good just would like to see chances of a bigger win for the micro players without having to use whole bankroll for 50bb buy in at nl100 :)

Its good to see new promos and not trying to be negative just my thoughts on it, keep up the good work :)

 

 

[jonny2192]

The flip meter is in client today. says i have earned 3 flips but will these be deleted?

clicking play on game causes technical error

Also when you get 3 flips for the day, the counter says 0/50 this might cause complaints if people keep playing to unlock another flip.
i continued past 150 flops to see what happened and the counter just stays at 0/50
should really say todays flips completed or something like that.

[Sweeedeeen]

• Aliases at the tables are now hidden until big blind is posted

Hehe :) Now will be a little harder to play and select tables, but it will be fair. So i think its good feature. It would be great if you will add some good and effective antibot features. I read a russian poker forum, knowledgeable people write that the scale of the problem is very large. maybe you should add some traps that will not create difficulties for the players, but will identify dishonest players