AbvUrPlayGrd

Took me about 5 mins just to get in, solving captcha puzzles. Solve 1 get another 1, solve that and get another 1, find the bridges until they're all gone and then find some more because we will keep refreshing them. Then find some taxis and some crosswalks and on and on....wtf!

3 hours ago, Stubbe-Unibet said:

Cancellation policy can be found here https://cf-mt-cdn1.relaxg.com/chew/rules/com/en_GB/tournament_cancellation_policy/

Just read through this and it looks very fair to me tbh.

As an aside it must have put me off my stride and I went on tilt for the first time in over 10yrs so if you could stick $20 in my account for compensation that would be wonderful TYVM 🙂

 Would someone be able to explain the way "sit out" works here please?

The other day I took a break and I'm sure the clock countdown had about 5mins. Today I had 4 tables open and selected "sit out next BB" and i think it only had about 3 mins on it. Because the countdown started immediately and I had to wait until all tables reached BB i only had about a minute left which wasn't long enough so I aborted and waited until all tables were pretty much equally close to the BB.

While I waited for the last couple of hands I made some notes and in about 30 seconds all my tables came up with the message below. Do I have to build up my time over a period of play or something? Or is it just a bug because a couple of times lately, i sat out when I'm sure I hadn't touched anything.

Apologies if this has all been asked before but I couldn't find the answer.

☺️Guess I should have put my specs on.

It's not a blog really, more of a story to introduce myself and possibly so that when I lose my mind I can remind myself who I am and what I'm supposed to be doing.

I wanted to do an introduction because there seems to be quite a few nice people on here (in my short time observation) that go out of their way to help people. Quite a few of those have introduced themselves and so I thought I would at least give a bit of background of the person bugging them for answers. Something that has always fascinated me is peoples willingness to help others become better at something that could ultimately end up costing themselves. Poker being one of the perfect examples. Why would you write a book telling people how to beat you or discuss strategy with someone you don't even know? You wouldn't go up to your enemy and tell them the best way to blow your head off, yet for some reason we do it in poker and I do it too, why! It's madness!

I first started playing poker in 2009 when i got roped into a pub game (I was brought up playing cards as a kid and the only game I had never played was Texas Holdem) and had a great time, made some friends and was hooked straight away. I couldn't wait for next week to play again and so joined an online poker site and 8hrs later I was $1500 better off after finishing 2nd in a poker tournament. By the time next week came I had lost most of it because I thought I was the greatest player in the world and could win every game!Sound familiar?

Next week came and fun was had again. By the end of the season I had qualified to play in a live tournament in a casino, along with 2 others. I had never even been in a casino before and found it all very exciting but overwhelming and I was very nervous. After managing to settle down I qualified for the finals and received a nice little trophy although I didn't do fantastically well in the final. After several more casino visits and several good results later I was addicted and decided it was the life for me and so it was. For the next 10 years I lived a large part of my life in casino's making a living from something I loved. It became a love/hate relationship.

When I started in 2009, the fields were huge and we often had to join a waiting list, the prize money was great too and I made a good living just playing local tournaments. I tried my hand online too but I just couldn't get away with it and never did well, really a losing player online. My main strength was reading people at the tables and online I was getting very little that I could rely on, plus I got bored easily without the interaction and conversation. I would play way too many tables just to try and occupy myself and therefore get even less information, so I stuck to live play.

After a while the game changed very noticeably in lots of ways. Not only was the style of play changing but the casinos were getting greedy, putting the fees up and the food prices up. But the biggest killer to the game was the introduction of rebuys, which then became unlimited with add-ons. Not only did I have to adapt my game (as did everyone) but the fields and the prize money were shrinking. Most of the recreational players couldn't afford to keep re-entering to keep up with the crazy deep pocketed players and stopped playing and so in the end the casino's shot themselves in the foot and I had to travel further afield.

My opinion of poker has changed many times over the years, just like most people I have spoken to and I personally have gone from thinking it is 80/20 skill/luck to 20/80 and everything in-between. There is certainly more luck than skill involved in the modern game in tournaments (cash is different). It's a fine line between making your fortune from tournament poker or just getting by. One lucky break and you can be set for life. I can still recall every single hand in every major tournament I entered that took me out( I have a condition which means my memory is failing so I won't have to suffer them forever). I won't bore you with them, especially as I have probably done that already, writing way more than I intended.

The Covid saga pretty much sealed my decision to give up live poker as my health already meant it was on the cards (so to speak). It's a hard life for most, glamorous to begin with but very hard. It's a different world all together and surreal. Money loses its value and time has no meaning and the outside world doesn't exist. And when you go deep in a tournament or bring a few £100 away from a cash game you feel on top of the world and it's a great drive home. But then travelling, sometimes hundreds of miles when you can't really be bothered. Sometimes being stuck in a tournament for 3 or 4 days. Grinding all night to bust on the bubble or play cash for 12 hours to drive home £200 down is the flip side. Are there any other jobs where you can go to work to come home with less than you started! Not to mention looking like a milk bottle because you never see daylight!

I expect I will return on a "just for fun" basis at some point, just as it used to be.

Anyway...my goal is to start at the bottom, try not to take it too seriously and learn to be disciplined playing online, which has always been my biggest problem with it(other than not knowing whether someone is thinking about a decision or just scratching their arse).I only deposited £50 so that I had no choice but to start at the lowest stakes(already overstepped my boundaries doing the July challenge and messing around a bit but managed to survive). So I have mainly been playing 4NL and almost trebled my BR and have 3500XP and on Level 3. I'm happy with that but i'm going to struggle to get to Level 5 before it resets on October 1st. I think level 5 is where I need to get to avoid dropping back to Level 1? I'm still trying to navigate my way around here and i'm not even sure how the multipliers work yet (i assume it's the rate you earn XP that is multiplied) but it looks like you need to achieve level 7 to earn a living purely on rewards?

It would be interesting to know what others think is a sustainable and worthwhile level and how they achieve it. I don't want to be living poker 24/7 anymore, just putting in as many hours as I can without burning out and making a few £ at the same time. Also, how do people keep track of win rate, P&L etc on here because I don't think they allow any tracking software? Live was easy using poker journal on my phone but that was just 1 table at a time obviously (although there were occasions where I played more than 1 table at a time).

Ok well if you're still awake,,,,(was only going to be a 2 min intro sry) thanks for reading.

21 hours ago, CuteRaven said:

If you go all in every hand, you will be the chip leader HU 90% of the time maybe, but it's still not a very good strategy.

 

Not my usual approach but at a 90% strike rate I don't care if it's the worst strategy in the world i'm up for it 😂

I'm not sure this Game Lab thingy is working that well or i'm misunderstanding what it's trying to tell me..

2 hours ago, CuteRaven said:

Also I wonder what looks stranger, a continuous stream of small chipdumps, or a few large chipdumps? 🤔

 

I think it just depends how it's done. They just didn't do it well at all.

Should just be able to unregister yourself because it hasn't started.

On 7/21/2022 at 3:21 PM, Martg65 said:

Been playing Temple of Treasure the last few days and won sweet fuck all this slot is most certainly rigged. All I was getting was returns of 8p 12p and 24p at 40p a spin. Like all gambling sites a complete fucking rip off jioke.

I don't know how to break this to you gently so here goes...ALL slots are rigged, GUARANTEED. They are even certified for the degree of riggedness. If you play slots you are guaranteed to lose in the end.

Thanks for taking the time to do all that.

I guess they have to dump large otherwise the rake would eat into their $50 each lol 

I did try to look for some justification and would have preferred to see it as it happened but I do have to say it doesn't look pretty (or remotely concealed).

In fact the only thing they could have done to make it look anymore suspicious, would have been to put in $99 and fold for the last $1

I expect their playing history will be audited, funds confiscated and distributed to anyone affected if found guilty. 

On 7/5/2022 at 10:12 PM, Yiddo44 said:

I know the poker isn't rigged before you all jump on me but this site for poker is just unreal,or I am the unluckiest player ever,after having suck out after suck out yesterday I decided to write down all all ins and calls today,43 all ins and calling all ins,31 times I was ahead,I lost 33 of them to just ridiculous cards,you can literally call the card coming out 90 per cent of the time,aces cracked by 95,no problem,kings beaten by 10 4,light work,I could literally go on and on,so my question to you all is,how the fuck do you control your rage,the emojis don't help mind when you get some donk suck out on the river and then too his hat to you 🤮 

 The technology is there and it's a multi-billion dollar industry so who really knows.

Look on the bright side. 25% of the time you were behind but you still managed to win 25% of them. The use of emojis is definitely having the desired effect.

How and where do I see the hands?

🙂 Nice run! 

No i'm Abv. Hope those weren't your Jacks! GL

Sitting in the 0.5/10 DSL with some really erratic guy who raises utg for 187bb and calls a 600bb shove with 23suited!  And wins v JJ

I've seen some horrible things but that actually made me feel physically sick for the guy with JJ🤮

So I was wondering if there were any worse stories or if that takes No1 spot?

4 hours ago, Stubbe-Unibet said:

Should add that this transaction history will not show ticket transactions.

Instead, you can just check your hand history in the client, where each tournament will show in the buyin filter.

As I can tell you don't trust me: the tickets were used in:

Wormhole, Omaha Deep Space, Space Madness, Moonwalk

All tickets used the 17th-18th, so you used the tickets on the day or the day before posting here.

I can also confirm what Andy said above. There's no delay with missions. However, tournament missions for instance don't complete the second you register, as you'd then be able to just unregister again and complete missions for free. 
As for the freespins, you'll have to contact support by chat, but I believe you've declined them when opening the game (it's unfortunately easy to do).

😆It's not that I don't trust you Stubbe. I'm not used to the software and don't know my way around yet (The PLO tc is the one I had missed). I prefer to use my own initiative instead of just automatically defaulting to asking. The problem for me is that I don't yet know or understand some of the symbols(what the hell does a red and white striped canopy with x stars under it mean for example), how certain things are achieved or where to look for specific information because i'm used to navigating around a completely different site.

Maybe I missed an induction link that would explain everything in detail and if you don't have one it would be a good idea to. It would save you some work too 🙂

I understand the tc's would need to start and actually expected it would need to complete or I bust out before being credited. With the free spins I suppose that could have happened without me noticing if I was multitasking at the time and hit the enter key. I'll pay more attention in future, though it seems strange to have to confirm that you want the free spins. Do free spins reduce life expectancy or something!

Anyway i'll try and figure out as much as I can myself in time if it doesn't frustrate me too much.

Thanks for your help.

6 hours ago, Andy-Unibet said:

On the main Unibet site you can go into your account > History and few a transaction history. You can also request a game stats reports from CS.

We've never had any reports of there being a delay in the crediting of mission rewards after the missions are completed so you'd need to provide some evidence of it happening for us to investigate.

CS will be able to tell you if you've got pending free spins and what happened to any previous free spins.

Thanks Andy

I'll check that out thanks.

I'm not sure how I would acquire proof of the delay unless perhaps using a real time screen recorder to show the mission requirements being fulfilled and then opening the mission page to show it not being credited. Seems like a right faff to me so i'll leave it for now unless it becomes an issue.

However I can assure you that following the limited instructions provided, there are times they are delayed or I need to complete them again.

TY

When playing an MTT as part of a mission, do sats count as an MTT?

21 hours ago, Stubbe-Unibet said:

You have used 4*€5 tickets and never had a €5 ticket expire 🙂 

Thanks  for the response. Am I able to access a log of every game I have ever entered and if so, how? "

I have completed missions and not been credited for them until quite a way past the requirements. I have also been awarded free spins and never received them (money train) and actually wasted £1 like an idiot on a couple of spins thinking they were free.

Hi

There are a few peculiarities i'm having to get used to here but one of them that I don't think is supposed to happen is for tickets to disappear when they still have 13 days expiry left?

I had 4 x £5 and I know I used 2. Even my history shows only 3 used (still not 100% convinced about 1 of those).

Could admin check that for me please.

Thanks

I have to admit i'm more than just a little concerned that I have deposited funds here now after reading this thread. 6 Weeks! And still excuses being made as to why this hasn't been dealt with! An admin was on annual leave? wow!

I only ended up here because I have verified my account, had confirmation that it's been verified but still get a notification to ask me to verify.....

Could someone who isn't going on annual leave sort this out please before it becomes an issue. Thanks

P.S. Skilfulpoker I think you must have the patience of a saint.