Pickleman

Well, I guess this justifies my dodgy call:

though quite why they have to ALWAYS hit their flush draw against trip Aces, I'm not so sure. Still, will be useful practice for the next three nights of community league . . .

I've currently got a rake bonus running which expires on Saturday, and another one on hold. The trouble is I'm going away for five days on Saturday. If my first rake bonus expires, will the second one start up immediately, or can I choose when to start it? If it starts automatically after the other one expires, the chances are I won't be able to get either of them!

BIG +1 for receiving prizes in bonus points. Very helpful for e.g. players for whom €25 MTT tickets are too high. Not necessarily me I'm talking about, but for some microstakes players that would be a bit scary.

1 minute ago, Merenitsu said:

My bounty. It was a very fun bounty.  @Stubbe-Unibet climb up from 200 chips to 4200. During this time, 2 people were eliminated. 🤣  Lucky river. If possible mtt 😀

 

 

Yes, not that was gong to overshove my K2o in this spot, but that would have made the river even better for you.

4 minutes ago, Pickleman said:

@Stubbe-Unibet I got your bounty in the second tourney tonight - though your T9s sweated my kings for a bit! Is there still a choice of MTT or Hex? Can I have an MTT if so please.

Also, I can never seem to get into the chat room. Is there something I'm missing? I'm on a mac if that makes a difference.

OK, scratch that.- I did manage to get into the chat eventually. But sometimes you press the button and it doesn't do anything?

@Stubbe-Unibet I got your bounty in the second tourney tonight - though your T9s sweated my kings for a bit! Is there still a choice of MTT or Hex? Can I have an MTT if so please.

Also, I can never seem to get into the chat room. Is there something I'm missing? I'm on a mac if that makes a difference.

BTW, this bug is also happening on the (Windows) desktop client. Anyone else getting this?

But for the record, this week's password for the Community Poker League is tuuurbo - that's turbo with 3 "u"s! Can imagine that will cause a number of retypes while frantically trying to reg in time, especially on mobiles!

@Andy-Unibet OK, got it. Thanks.

It doesn't come under the "poker" tab only the "All" tab. Maybe that tab should be called "All/other" or something, given that there's seemingly an exhaustive set of other tabs, except it isn't because this payment didn't come under any of them, only "All".

Have they gone out yet? Can't find them in my poker transaction history

Is there a passive/administratively simple way for mods to hand out tickets (for community tournaments) for players who have completed a certain task (e.g. posted in the community 5 times in the last week)? Sounds like a lot of hassle, but you might have an easy way of realising such an idea.

As @Stubbe-Unibet says, once the chat facility is enabled, there will be much more interaction (and needle . . . and anger . . .)

Well, I lost in the heads up . . . to my WIFE!

Don't worry about collusion though, guys, there's no frikkin' way I'm helping her . . .

So far she's reminded me about it 12 times in the last 10 minutes.🥺

iPad (6th gen); OS 15.1

Button is either not visible or one place to the left (i.e. in front of the SB player rather than the button) in the poker hand history.

Get iiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnn!

Paid for all my flips baby!

And while I was in the pub too!

IN YOUR FACE!!!

🤣🤪

20 minutes ago, Pionrj said:

I don't think that anyone is realistically playing these tourneys because of the extra tickets. Or at least they should not be. I'd even say that I've got an huge advantage of these added tickets in one tourney when one player was sitting on my right leading the other tourney and bein fourth in that one. He folded basically everything and it was clear, it was because of the ticket. So, bigger jackpot might make the ICM very unfair when there's already bigger prizes on the LB. And when there's less than a handful of players who understand ICM, those extra prizes are just making life harder for some players.

well you won't get bigger prizes than a UO ticket. I was implying that perhaps there should be smaller prizes for the low jackpot given that it's the same size for the high jackpot. But you're right that's it's not a huge added value in terms of EV. At the start of any given night where the jackpot hasn't been hit, it's approximately 50c. But that's 25% added value on the €1 night and 2.5% added value on the €10 night.[edit - you have to enter both tournaments for the jackpot!]

But I guess it's a chance for microstakes players to get a UO ticket, hence my point about democratic and inclusive.

1 hour ago, Purps said:

Quite surprising really that none of these have gone yet.

Today may well be the day though, if we look solely at expected number of individual players entering the tournaments. glgl 🤩👍

Well, that's certainly true in the sense that smaller fields = greater chance of binking both (50 runners = 1/2500; 30 runners = 1/900), but given that it's basically a crapshoot, then - as I think you're implying - the ticket is more likely to go in the weeks where players have the highest +EV. 

The reality is that the cost of a "golden ticket" in the low stakes is one tenth of what it is for the high stakes, yet the prize remains the same. Maybe for future leagues we could have more stratified jackpot prizes? I know it's not very democratic and inclusive, but just a thought.

43 minutes ago, Pickleman said:

Similar problem for me just now in the Sputnik Omaha 2 rebuy. Felted on the last hand of the buy in period, as we go into the R/A break, I press the rebuy and then the add on buttons, and it didn't accept and said I busted the tournament.

Never seen this before.

sorry meant to say this is on IPadOS 15.0.2 but as it's never been a problem before I doubt this is a bug specific to that platform

On 10/11/2021 at 1:08 PM, SCOBY said:

I couldn't add on, touching the add on button, it changed at the break, touching the same problem several times, it didn't add on.

 

Similar problem for me just now in the Sputnik Omaha 2 rebuy. Felted on the last hand of the buy in period, as we go into the R/A break, I press the rebuy and then the add on buttons, and it didn't accept and said I busted the tournament.

Never seen this before.

My forum filter seems to be forgetting its settings in between logins (desktop - windows). Am I missing something or is there no way to make the settings/checkboxes sticky?

@Stubbe-Unibet are you also interested in iPad bugs?

3 minutes ago, Leo-Unibet said:

Hey @Pickleman I don't know if I would call the longer Omaha a success, it was doing as expected. We have during UOS a mix of 25s and 50s, rebuy reenter and freezeout.
The reason why I went for a bit higher buyin with option to reenter again is with a freezeout and just €25 buyin, the guarantee wouldn't been so great. Let's see what I do next time. If we do reentries, there are nothing stopping me from allowing multiple re-entries

Good stuff. I think multiple re-entries is definitely the way to go with Omaha MTTs (regardless of buy in amount). There's so much variance it makes sense.

14 hours ago, Merenitsu said:

I already know who the winner is. 5 people will play in the last 2 tournaments.

Well the prize pool for the €1 tournaments will still be €100 in week 8, so I'm guessing more than 5 people will reg, even if they don't have a shot at the league prizes

5 minutes ago, Seb-Unibet said:

Headsup...

Thanks@Seb-Unibet. Yeah sorry about that one, 40% away from glory for you . . .

I'll have an MTT ticket please.

15 hours ago, Stubbe-Unibet said:

Curious to hear how you'd deal with the previously described situation. 9 handed tournament. 9 players registered, late reg still open. 10th player registers. 

Instantly breaking to 2 tables of 5 sounds like a bad idea on paper to me, unless the goal is as many table switches per player as possible. 

I guess the problem is there isn't a one-size-fits-all, when we're talking so many  - but still very different - small size MTT's. For some, one model would work well, while it for other would be terrible - especially when we mix together rebuy and addon with freezeout. 

I think if you asked most tournament directors they'd say "yep, that's how you do it". Yes, that can mean that you split 1 x 9-seat into 2 x 5-seat, then a player busts, then you go back to 1 x 9-seat again, but that's the way it works, and I'm pretty sure I've seen exactly that happen online. 

It could also happen live, of course, and that's a blinking nightmare. I think TDs do use their discretion in that case to wait - either for more players to reg or for someone to bust. But online it's really not a hassle, is it? What else are you supposed to do if a 9-seater goes from 9 runners to 10?

Unibet's algorithm means you play heads up in a tournament that you shouldn't be heads up until there are two people left. That violates a more fundamental rule than moving people about a lot, and it's certainly against the spirit of rule 11.D of the TDA rules:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mg0oc5e9higwvul/AACvSfnLPt73dy_Tg3azpflea?dl=0&preview=2019+Poker+TDA+Rules+DOC+Longform+Redlines+from+2017+Version+1.0.docx

Yes I agree it's about small MTT fields. @Purps the one player at a time phenomenon might shed light on what's happening. When this happens to me now, I time out on my clock and at the end of the hand, there's usually 3 or 4 players who sit down simultaneously.

My guess from this is that the table balancing algorithm works as follows: when player A registers, wait for only one (other) table to complete a hand and use the high-blinding algorithm; BUT if all the other tables have completed a hand [within a certain time frame], use the table breaking algorithm (i.e. break tables and rebalance all of them).

My further guess is that there isn't really a dedicated algorithm for how to rebalance tables as number of tables *increases* - the software just adapts the table *decrease* balancing algorithm, i.e. high blind unless you're lucky enough that all tables have completed a hand within a given time window.

If the above is true, how about the following fix: 

Instead of waiting for one table to complete a hand, wait until two tables complete a hand - if "two" is the number of existing tables in the whole tournament, invoke the table breaking algorithm; if there are more than two tables (and not all of them have finished a hand), high blind x number players from x different tables, where x is the number of other tables that have completed a hand. Iterate the above until tables are balanced.

It's a fudge but it would work better than the existing, no?