Farseer

A short question: is there any Unibet Community regulars coming to The Festival event in Rozvadov? Unibet arranges satellites there so I think there's a good chance some people might to join up. Would be fun to meet some people from the forums IRL. I won a package there and will be around from 3rd of June till 9th of June. This is going to be my first live trip since late 2019, since after covid I haven't won a single package (2020-2022 was quite dead on live front anyways). Used to travel a lot on different live tours during 2010's (usually 2-5 tours per year) and hope to do so again. UDSO might be fun to join too via satellites, but 250€ for a live satellite for a package is bit too rich for me. Maybe shotting some seat only satellite for Barcelona or San Remo?

I would never play them as cash. Mainly due to the rake issues though (usual split pot, house wins). MTTs are super fun, I suggest you try them! Especially when they are KOs. We bought an apartment here together with my brother in February. Preliminary plan is to spend winters here and summers in Finland, but it will probably evolve over time. Going back to Finland next week. I f*cking hate these Finnish winters nowadays, and feel better when air doesn't hurt my face every time I go outside. So escaping shitty weather - streaming has nothing to do it as not doing anything which would be illegal in Finland. Quite rarely even stream unless there is a reason to do it 😄

To take a bit more lighter perspective instead of wall of texts, here are some pictures from new setup and neighbourhood:

No, it isn't. It's horrible, you pretty much destroyed Unibet MTT schedule single-handledly. Well done!

Now I got my reason to do so. Thanks for the push. Why I don't anymore play on Unibet While I used to play a lot on Unibet in the past, nowadays I play almost no MTTs on Unibet. Main reason is that MTT schedule got destroyed in October 2022 completely and now Unibet MTT schedule is almost a complete ghost town on buy-ins higher than 10€ (I calculated 10€ R/A's to cost 25€ or so in average). On daily schedule there are very few buy-ins over 10€ (only and literally not a single one of them has got reasonable guaranteed (over 200x of buy-in). First, let's just bring up for new readers that I solely play MTTs. There are three formats which I usually play: First are Rebuy/Add-ons. I usually late register right to add-on, to get some extra value while getting right into action without super deep phase which usually takes too long to my taste. Second one are Omaha High-Low tournaments. Usually preferring fast formats, hypers are my favourite but I can play shorter versions too (either high buy-in PKO events from the start or lateregging regular events with short stacks) Third one are new: they're 10bb PKOs which are called at Unibet as Banzai Bounties. Fast and skill-intensive, I love those. I also have always advocated and wished that Unibet would introduce Omaha Hi-Lo, which is third most popular poker format (some claim that PLO5 takes that slot, but no, especially on MTTs PLO8 / NLO8 is far more popular). It's much more skill-insentive than Texas Hold'em and it has far more playable starting hands making it far less "fold, fold, fold"-game than Texas Hold'em. Banzai Bounties were sort of my babies, and I love them dearly - just have to play them where they are available. Problem playing them at Unibet is, that I don't play micro stakes and there's no events over (or even) 5€ buy-in when I usually play (I usually start my session after only 5€ Banzai Bounty has already started. So sad - but I am glad they are well alive elsewhere. While there are few games I could still play: for instance 10€ R/A satellites in Sunday and those 5€ Banzai Bounties if they happen during my session, problem is that playing only 1 table from Unibet is not worth the hassle. Especially if you can find similar game from other sites where you are already playing. About UOS Serieses: they have lately become pretty much became just a glorified version of daily schedule, with bit higher guaranteeds. With highly diminished leaderboards and inflated runtimes, they're just not worth of grinding especially as you have to play both 2€ and 100+€ events both, often ending up playing 9+ tables to fight for meaningful prizes. It's just too much for me and probably for 99,9% of poker players to do that, so easier to skip it completely as generally series doesn't really differ much from daily schedule except for a bit higher guaranteeds. I sort of like Community events, but they have also became sort of repetitive and boring. We need a drunken @Stubbe-Unibetor @Rushbieto stream them to get some entertainment! Why wasting my time to post this? Well, I am bringing up my view that Unibet MTT schedule has been pretty much ruined during last few years and there's still a chance of fixing it, namely making Unibet to offer some games that LITERALLY every other site doesn't already offer. PKOs and re-entries really are games which anyone offer and Unibet has super bad guaranteeds on those. So Unibet should (also) offer games that her competitors doesn't offer, for instance: Rebuy/add-ons Banzai Bounties for reasonable price level and prize pools Omaha Hi-Lo MTTs That's my hope, that Unibet gets to revive. To be honest, I am not sure if Unibet is still interested about offering competitive poker offering nowadays. People working at Unibet poker nowadays certainly love their job, but task is hard especially if they don't get some major support from Unibet preparing as a company to make Unibet Poker great (again). Software is nowaday decent: I honestly don't love it, especially stupidly sized tables but there are far fewer bugs than there used to be. Having a casually-oriented place to play without having to worry about poker analyzers / HUDs got a merit. And there's this kind of community feeling as well, which is rare nowadays on different poker sites.

Should I revive this blog? Problem is, that there's no playable R/A's at Unibet, maybe 1 playable Banzai Bounty and no O8-tournaments. Community events might be fun though and I occasionally play a satellite or two when I see overlay around.

I would like to see some promos for active chatters in the blog forums. Like monthly freerolls for 10 most active members, awarding changing prizes (like UOS tickets if it is coming up). I would also love to see streams, but getting them running probably takes too much effort. And make sure that you are available to act as commentary at the live stream when final freeroll runs, @Stubbe-Unibet. With enough booze to keep commentary going. With separate tournament where person who gets your bounty wins another Unibet Open package to keep it interesting 🏹

No luck at the 100€ turbo (it had overlay and I had a ticket).

Is Stubbe streaming every day wearing green Santa Claus suit?

Covid week going on. And 2 satellites I played went horrible, level 3 freeroll had like 5 flips and ended up losing them all while 100€ ticket sat got a nasty spot and dealer's special again: Still bit tired so prob skipping the rest after a bad start (1 mincash from NLO8, small buy-ins so with ticket would have been profitable day).

Cheap and crappy. Spoils good coke. Not really, I have been reading Dara's book though and think it good for players not familiar with PKO elements: https://www.amazon.com/PKO-Poker-Strategy-Progressive-tournaments/dp/1527262774

Super horrible ending of superb potential day. Started by crushing satellites (2/2 satellites at Unibet got me tickets). But with 4 of the major events running like this (lost 3 flips in a row) and counted 3 semibubbles and one 7th place at smallish 55 NLO8 hyper it was completely ruined. Probably slightly losing or break-even day as satellites, 2 mincashes and bounties brought most back, but even by missing the most horrible bubbles would have been solid +300€ day. Not speaking about hitting the potential triple crown... So day is ending with a new friend called

0 cashes, 0 points from finishes. So likely concludes UOS for me. Got level 3 so another freeroll to my schedule. I might still play tomorrow, but without great scores unlikely to play after that (3 low trophies incoming for huge losses!). Really hard to grind long series which has so many events. And since overall leaderboard counts all of them (except crappy phases) - it is all events or no events at all. My upcoming Unibet schedule:

Was a super horrible day, so started drinking. While there were ups and downs, got this little score which isn't enough to save leaderboard or make day good, but at least it means a profitable day. And it long looked like -95% ROI day.

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