Farseer

Oh, I spent all my good luck at this 25c event. Damn you @Stubbe-Unibet

My thoughts about current UOS, after first day and after long ponder beforehand: I was actually expecting that UOS is going to overlay much more than earlier. Unibet has been discouraging grinders to play, and neglected satellites, while guaranteeds are just a fraction of prize pools offered on other sites which turns around people who like big numbers. My expectation of overlays were mainly due to the fact that guaranteeds have not been increased during September. Neptunes are still struggling @ 4k guaranteed. R/A-events will probably reach their guaranteeds mostly, but first two days got 0 of them so likely seeing meek overlays instead. Loss of grinders who were after leaderboard and after nice prize pools is probably going to be super costly. I honestly don't know anyone who is planning to play whole UOS. While earlier there were lots of people grinding, myself included. But now there's little incentive: leaderboard has become irrelevant, while length of the series has almost doubled. Playing two weeks was a challenge, playing 3,5 weeks would be utterly no-life. I think you have been blinded by Covid-19 to neglect your players. Other sites have been aggressive on their marketing, while Unibet has been sleeping: not a single post I have received via e-mail or SMS about UOS (or any other matter) and social media presence is zero. Also no familiar players that I know / could care of are streaming this UOS. And Friday was terrible day of the week to start this MTT. And while Monday was probably even worse, it is little excuse. Sunday would be obvious choice, I see exactly 1 reason why start on any other day and it would be Saturday with 2-day events. @Leo-Unibet

Quick thought for later plans for Unibet Community Masters. Monday is pretty bad day at least for me, some other day (not Sunday) would be better. And I would probably play it more often if it would be running bit shorter time (it takes too long to play on phone for my taste and battery) like with 3 min or 4 min blind levels.

Yeah, Unibet was part of Entraction / b2b / 24hPoker (later IGT when it was closed down) until September 2006. That network was by far the best one, they also had lots of different poker variants including 2-7 Triple Draw. Wish we could go back there, I did like software on that network and think it still beats any and all different poker softwares by far.

I think the idea behind this new MTT is great. Getting action from the start by being PKO with big bounties, while add-on makes it sure to keep deep and making meaningful prize pool It's just hard to describe as UIO is effectively PKO with unlimited re-entry, with add-on which goes to the main prize pool. It would certainly be nice game to stream on Twitch, but 10€ unlimited RE with add-on which is supposed to be played from the start is very expensive for most people who like to play "Home Games". Make Unidentified Object Mini with 1€ or 2€ buy-in would probably be a great idea. It wouldn't be too expensive for many players and those who would like to try it. Could this format be used for our own Home Games on Unibet? It as format would allow players a good amount of play time, as you can always buy-in again?

Just ordered the book little time ago. Will provide some insight once I have read it which might take long considering how slowly I usually read new stuff :) Satellite book was certainly good for new and casual satellite players, but being an old satellite shark myself it didn't offer anything new. I am certain that won't be the issue with PKOs, which I have got much less experience (though that experience is both from Texas Hold'em and NLO8). Know some basic stuff like counting bounties as extra chips if you got chance to get one and trying to keep your stack size bigger than most if not all of your opponents are probably. And about never late register, even if it gets you near the money (as bubble is usually around 1x buy-in).

Wow, I am surprised it took so long for players to find out. Of course roughly 50-70% per cent of all players are bots. Up to 90% at the freerolls, where it would make no sense of delivering free money out to the players. Of course, MTTs are full of bots operated by site. Why wouldn't they? After all, 99% of human poker players are idiots anyway. Easy money! After all, Unibet is part of multi-national company aimed to make profit. Isn't that clear that they are supposed to maximize their profits? As well, it is fully understandable that these "Unibet"communities are mostly made of bots. Roughly 80% of people here writing are clever Unibet bots, who just write to keep curtains on. If someone is praising Unibet here for no clear intention, they must be bots! Why would they do that for any other reason? Stay strong!

Some feedback about UOS8 for @Leo-Unibet : - 3,5 weeks of running time was just too long, it's real challenge to grind (Mondays also weren't rest days if you got to day2). -> Suggestion: Make UOS to run 15 days (+last day2), like earlier versions but make it start on Sunday instead of Monday (Sunday day2's might boost Monday MTTs a little bit as well). Would be easy to have 50k-100k in added guaranteeds, so could make it 500k€ (I would also consider on adding third daily tournament for each level). - Buy-ins varied too heavily. No sense on having 25€ freezeout and 1100€ re-entry or 2€ PKO and 100€ R/A on same price level (last case didn't even pay enough for winner to make it one buy-in for last one pre-bounties). -> Suggestion: UO Online can run as a separate event. If higher buy-ins are preferred, make them "highroller" events or 200€-300€ events as freezeouts with good satellites. No Sundays when 100€ or 50€ rebuy event runs as low one and later 25€ rebuy event as high one (makes little sense). - Satellites could have run alongside events. One thing I have liked on earlier editions that there were tempting satellites on running events / next day or next Sunday events and you could play Unibet only while playing UOS. Suggestion: Different color and 5-10 seats guaranteed for next day / Sunday events would be great. - Current point system is flawed. Having to calculate top17% positions each time is annoying. It also creates double bubble effect where like when top53 is paid either about 48 or 58 places get points, which encourages heavy stalling. Especially when it is 5+ places more who get points, profitability of early stalling becomes quite high. Suggestion: Either make it so that ITM places get points, or better even make it so that each player gets points. Problem with earlier leaderboards (and partially this one) was that top33% or top50% getting points made late regging and stalling to reach that topXX% no-brainer. If everyone gets points, that incentive is greatly reduced as finishing 40/100 and 60/100 makes little difference ( instead of huge difference if top50% gets points). In short: minimize artificial bubbles. - Day2 should always be ITM. Suggestion: Add roughly 30 minutes of playtime for re-entry MTTs for day1 and 60 minutes of playtime for R/A MTTs for day1. These two have more chips in play so they won't reach to ITM as quickly as freezeout MTTs. That timeshould be enough for them to reach ITM. There could also be few more deeper 2-day events, especially on Saturdays.

Like the 25€ Neptune, but would've like to have seen some 10€ turbo R/A:s added too. Especially for late evening schedule. Jungle Jane at least needs 10€ Jungle Kim alongside.

Yes. Unibet could grab good amount of MTT players from decaying MPN sites if they would increase their offering. Especially rebuy&add-on-MTTs were very popular on MPN and I have played lots of them there, would love to see some of them "transferred" to other networks.

@Farseer we have the €25 buyin "€5,000 Ice Giant Bounty" running at that time Sundays That is all fair, but I feel that Bounty MTTs caters for different breed of players than re-entries or especially r&a:s. I personally very rarely play bounty tournaments unless they have very quick structure, as I get bored with deep stacks and meaningless play (as in the end all MTTs end up quite shortstacked) and late registering them is really not an option. But of course, people have different tastes and believe current Sunday MTT program could handle more MTTs.

Yeah started to play it due to it giving 3 points for (Finnish players on forum) Trophy Hunt. Wouldn't play it without add-on though regularly, as without it MTT plays quite short after late registration. A quick question: Why it does not run on Sundays? Even without add-on it would probably hit 8k or even 10k guaranteed? I don't think it would hurt Supernova so much.

Probably not, plan to visit Malta in October when it is better suited with my studies. But I may try my luck with last week of Podium challenges. So don't count me out just yet.

Would rather see some love for rebuys. Even weekly 25€ rebuy with some promotion is likely to get bigger sustainable prizepool which is more accessible for lower stake players. Daily 25€ rebuy with huge Sunday edition should really be no-brainer, sites with less / similar player pools run them each day with 5-10k prizepools even on summer and wintertime they usually get like 20k€ prize pools for Sundays. That being said, I am not completely against 200€ highroller. Maybe not for Sunday really, there's lots to play then but do it Tuesday stuff (which is usual high roller day) and have some 10+r satellites (maybe 1/day and 3 in Tuesday) and 25 re-entries (mostly on Tuesdays) which can be accessed via tickets might work rather well once summer season is over.

I received 3 UOS Showdown Freeroll tickets, but can't use them to register the freeroll as they read "UOS IV champ freeroll" instead of "UOS V champ freeroll". Since there's 0 players registered so far I think that's a common problem. Ping @Leo-Unibet and @Stubbe-Unibet .

Just bringing this up again, and tagging @Leo-Unibet and @Stubbe-Unibet for it in case they missed it. Surely at the e-sports age such "Battle for Champions" for poker with relevant prizes would be at Unibet's best interest. (Not winning it this time either, but neglecting esports part of it seems rather bad for poker scene as a whole.

Didn't find information anywhere else so asking here if Battle of Champions commences for this year (X players freeroll for UO and UOS leaderboard winners)?

Any updates for UOS, mainly interested about days? Since so much stuff running up it would be more likely that I would participate if I could try to get proper time reserved and allocated for that series. I guess other people like to know it as well.

Interested, mostly from MTTs / live satellites perspective. Almost 15 years experience of poker as a player, played on many sites + live tourneys too and have lots of experience with different kind of promotions (have even designed few of them myself) and such things. NDA is fine too.

One thing: Get a poker software which is even bearable. Current software with all its bugs is clearly worst in the poker market.

It was today. Missed first UOS high because of this (and was pretty close to lose UOS low as well).

Okay, let's try it. Checked the schedule and looks like best day for a quick stream would be Thursday 13th of Dec. I will late reg freezeout + play Ante Up, which requires quite much concentration so it'll be a bit of a challenge but that'll make certain I won't even try to start any extra tournaments there. But let's try to do it, first time streaming all-in English. So tune up Thursday around 22:00 EET (21:00 CET) at my channel: https://www.twitch.tv/farseerfinland I'll let you know if day / time changes for any reason. Another note: Finnish streamer Korpisoturi is also streaming Unibet Open Series almost every day in Finnish except today and next Saturday when another streamers are online. He'll stream in Pokerisivut channel: https://www.twitch.tv/pokerisivut I am sorry but still I am seething and furious from this: https://www.unibetcommunity.com/t5/General-Poker/The-poker-chit-chat/m-p/206906#M34064 So I have to cancel tomorrow's stream. Should I get back to somewhat stable feeling, I will do a stream either in tomorrow / Friday / Saturday. I will let you know if that happens here (probably will fire a short test stream anyways to test my new setup anyway, but if it won't be complete one including all 6 UOS I probably won't mention it here).

Missed UOS high event because software lobby bugged + in addition lost critical seconds (because bug took a while) because after regging to low event passed a bonus threshold and stupid announcement came over to high lobby and forced me to my profile section. giphy I just hate Unibet software. And I don't understand why all the different lobby problems haven't been fixed, they've been around since launch. Last time my UOS was destroyed because late registration closed early. Now this, probably costing me hundreds of euros in EV as I was 9th in High and 4th in Overall leaderboard before today despite super awful run. Next time I will probably skip UOS unless lobby problems´are fixed.

Null Points (0 flips won) @ high events. tenor