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Poker Release Notes 3.24


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Previous release notes can be found here.

 

Release date: 17th January
Next release: 21st February

Like last month, this release is quite focused on the new Banzai 2.0 game. We've got a new flip promotion - Banzai Flips - as well as Banzai game improvements.

Even though it is not directly impacting the Unibet client, it's also worth mentioning that Banzai will become available on several of our casino focused brands: brands where you typically don't have the most skilled poker players.

Promotions

Still running/upcoming from previous release(s):

  • Slobberknocker PKO MTT Series  8th Jan 15th Jan
  • Global XP Race 2nd Jan – 5th Feb (5 weeks)
  • January Mission 1st – 31st Jan

Included in this release:

  • Banzai Flips 23th Jan – 28th Feb
    • New take on King of Flips – Banzai Flips! Please see more below.
  • Cash Game Banzai 2.0 Casino Brands Launch Mission, 23rd Jan – 26th Feb (5 weeks)
    • Banzai 2.0 weekly missions for Casino brands
  • Daily HexaPro Race, 6th Feb - 12th March (5 weeks)
  • February Monthly Mission

Coming in next release:

  • Spring Poker Championship 26th Feb – 12th March

    • New winner´s avatar
    • New table background
  • Spring Bootcamp 6th March -9th April
  • St Patrick’s Mission 16th -  17th March
  • March Mission

 

New features/Improvements

Banzai FlipsTo promote the new Banzai 2.0 format, we have put a Banzai spin on the King of Flips format. The basic promotion mechanic are the same as King of flips: win a Texas Hold’em flip and you've got the choice between collecting a prize or battling it out again, for a better reward. The flip tokens are three tiers (bronze, silver, gold) as per usual. 

  • You level up - better belt - for each flip you win
  • For every level you'll be battling it out against a new villain with the endboss being the big scary Samurai
  • All tiers (Bronze, Silver and Gold) start with a different background and changes once you reach the next tier level. In 9th stage the background changes to ‘Master Temple’. 
  • Prize ladder is improved: 
    • Won prize element moves down and changes color 
    • Players get a sneak peek on each prize 
    • Each villain corresponding to a level is shown as an icon next to the prize element – when defeated it´s crossed out
  • New Combined Promotions View

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Other promo screenshots:

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Other Banzai improvements:

  • In Banzai 2.0 we have added a slow card reveal for your 2nd hole card, if first hole card is an ace (this can be disabled in settings)  
  • We have added additional sound effects/music to Banzai .
    • Lounge music in the lobby
    • Belt Level up sound
    • VS Screen sound

Few screenshots from one of the casino Banzai clients:

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Bug fixes

  • All-in equity bars in Banzai 2.0 did not update if you had another game format open first
  • Banzai Portrait quick buttons setting visible on desktop client
  • Client crash fixes:
    • When busting out of a satellite tournament for one player
    • When simulating connection loss during Banzai 2.0 play
    • When trying to close the client with 2 Banzai tables still open. 
    • Another case with client crash when player had 2 cash tables open and the screen froze. 

Downtime 

We are updating Unibet Poker server side on Tuesday 17/01/2023 05:00-06:00 UTC.

Games will be paused during update.

New SNG tournament creation disabled 1 hour before update.

Update may be finished earlier

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1 hour ago, Stubbe-Unibet said:

We've got a new flip promotion - Banzai Flips - as well as Banzai game improvements.

1 hour ago, Stubbe-Unibet said:

Even though it is not directly impacting the Unibet client, it's also worth mentioning that Banzai will become available on several of our casino focused brands

Why are you doing this? Only I planned a break from Banzai, and here is such sweet news...

1 hour ago, Stubbe-Unibet said:

Lounge music in the lobby

Season 6 Reaction GIF by The Office

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1 hour ago, SShcherbyna said:

Why are you doing this? Only I planned a break from Banzai, and here is such sweet news...

Season 6 Reaction GIF by The Office

Sorry man 😄

But I'm not sure just how much traffic to expect from these brands. It'll be very interesting to follow the promo performance 🙂 

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12 hours ago, Stubbe-Unibet said:

But I'm not sure just how much traffic to expect from these brands

Permission to be cheeky?

Granted.

Allrighty then. If we remember how it worked out with igame releasing hexa and then closing doors few months later, expectations ain't that high 😋

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If i may also ask, if more action is the goal will it show anyway with release? Without being asked to test hexa at igame (need helping hand at maria? i guess i could share my valuable time 😋 ) i don't remember it was promoted in anyway otherwise. I guess igame was gasping its last breaths anyhow so they might not have too much interest to use money and time for it but maybe other brands still have some juice in them? In other words why would anyone play in other brands when you lose value if compared playing at unibet or huone. Couldn't there be any perks that would make it some how interesting for other brand players like option to wager possible bonus money also playing poker or selling tickets to poker with some discount. I just don't see sending email that poker is released or putting out promo banner for couple weeks is enough to lure players in especially when their player base ain't that large and mainly they are casino and bingo players. Sure they might try couple hands but there really ain't any incentive to carry on for longer is there?

I know wrong company community but since other brands don't have their own.

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1 hour ago, Livertool said:

If i may also ask, if more action is the goal will it show anyway with release? Without being asked to test hexa at igame (need helping hand at maria? i guess i could share my valuable time 😋 ) i don't remember it was promoted in anyway otherwise. I guess igame was gasping its last breaths anyhow so they might not have too much interest to use money and time for it but maybe other brands still have some juice in them? In other words why would anyone play in other brands when you lose value if compared playing at unibet or huone. Couldn't there be any perks that would make it some how interesting for other brand players like option to wager possible bonus money also playing poker or selling tickets to poker with some discount. I just don't see sending email that poker is released or putting out promo banner for couple weeks is enough to lure players in especially when their player base ain't that large and mainly they are casino and bingo players. Sure they might try couple hands but there really ain't any incentive to carry on for longer is there?

I know wrong company community but since other brands don't have their own.

Not everyone got an account with every site 😉

The game simply being available - without any sort of push but just being there in the menu - does bring some traffic. The Banzai client is not aimed at typical poker players. It's for those that have account(s) with the casino brands and primarily play casino. It's a simpler client with less clutter and not as daunting to new players.

The promotion is a great way to nudge players to try playing Banzai and perhaps even try online poker for the first time.

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3 hours ago, Stubbe-Unibet said:

Not everyone got an account with every site 😉

The game simply being available - without any sort of push but just being there in the menu - does bring some traffic. The Banzai client is not aimed at typical poker players. It's for those that have account(s) with the casino brands and primarily play casino. It's a simpler client with less clutter and not as daunting to new players.

The promotion is a great way to nudge players to try playing Banzai and perhaps even try online poker for the first time.

For sure. But if one enjoys some brand, tries hexa/banzai and loves it why shouldn't that brand offer something xtra that unibet or huone don't offer since that player can't get rakeback or other benefits of playing.

Just a thought thou .

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15 minutes ago, Groggy said:

Are there any plans to make 50nl banzai a permanent feature and have the Friday special be 100nl? If that happened unibet as my main site would be extremely tempting. 

As mentioned in the long Banzai thread,it is something I've been contemplating.

I'd like to see how NL20 and Friday NL50 will do after the next promotion push (Banzai flip and Banzai added to casino brands with launch promo). Two weeks of post-promo data should be sufficient for making a decision 🙂

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Any chance of returning the €5 Hexapro-Extreme? Occasionally or rather regularly.? I think it would be much better than €10 Extreme, which very few people play, but there was always an instant game at a €5 Extreme.

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16 hours ago, Dragoo said:

Any chance of returning the €5 Hexapro-Extreme? Occasionally or rather regularly.? I think it would be much better than €10 Extreme, which very few people play, but there was always an instant game at a €5 Extreme.

Yes, I think €5 will make a return 🙂

As mentioned in another thread, we might do two daily specials with HexaPro extreme (separate days I mean) and also make the game permanently available. This is still a couple months away as there're some complications with the jackpot mechanic we'd have to sort

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On 1/18/2023 at 8:39 AM, Stubbe-Unibet said:

This is still a couple months away as there're some complications with the jackpot mechanic we'd have to sort

🙂 Sure, but I can't imagine why a well-functioning system should be developed for months. Isn't the only thing missing is the intention? And until then, the players are looking for another room, because they don't like the €10 game.

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3 minutes ago, Dragoo said:

🙂 Sure, but I can't imagine why a well-functioning system should be developed for months. Isn't the only thing missing is the intention? And until then, the players are looking for another room, because they don't like the €10 game.

No, it's not that simple. We basically can't do it with the existing jackpot mechanic. We'll be switching to time based jackpots instead and that's why there's some development needed. It's also not true that the €10 games aren't performing 🙂

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The existing jackpot mechanic can stay as long as there are no complaints. No problem.

I understand, but....We'll see, but from what I've seen so far, at €10 there were usually 26-50 players (so almost only multi-table regulars), while at €5 Extreme it was often > 100. Maybe 2-3 hundred people played it at the same time ? It is very nice.

Okay, Stubbe. Thank you for your answers.

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3 hours ago, marlini2 said:

Great, thank you 🙂 I see that happy hours is now from 10 to 14 instead 11-15, trying to boost traffic in the mornings ? 🙂

Trying to get games going a little earlier, yes. Afternoon generally doing okay. The more hours of the day that there're games for the casual players to jump into, the better 🙂 

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We ended up skipping the client release this month, as there wasn't that much to include. We still had the server release with promos and more, but chose to skip release notes. They'll be back next month, when we're back with a client release

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