An early release this month due to Christmas being just around the corner - hope you'll all have a wonderful time with your family and loved ones
As it's the last release of the year, I thought we should have a look at what's been accomplished this year. I'll also share a few thoughts and plans for 2020!
Release notes this month are not that interesting, as the previous release was only a couple of weeks ago and most resources have been dedicated to the HexaPro client (more about that later in this post)
Promotions:
King of Flips January 2020
Jan and Feb 2020 Mid & High stakes Bootcamp
Yearly, quarterly and monthly MTT Leaderboards 2020
January 2020 Mission
4 new avatars unlocked through Q1 Challenges
Improvements/New features/Bug fixes
Web/browser client build fix so we can launch Santa´s Challenge and 31 days of X-mas promos from this channel
Game integrity improvement (tracking related)
New CIP Games
Downtime
We are updating Unibet Poker server side on Tuesday 10/12/2019 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.
2019 year-in-review
2019 has been a great year for Unibet poker with several all time high records (yesterday we beat another one, with the highest number of new real money customers), and it was also the year where we could celebrate the fifth birthday (since launching our own client) and 1.000.000.000 hands played!
I've tried to do a complete recap, in terms of client items, but I've surely missed a few items. Overall an amazing year in terms of getting as close to an error-free experience as possible. The focus on bugs has of course had an impact on the features/improvements, but now we're almost there with the bugs, so 2020 will be more exciting, when it comes to new stuff!
Bug fixes:
Hand replayer incorrect hands shown
Addon doesn't work when late reg during addon break
Notification icon only changes state upon login
Web client login issue
Scandinavian characters (åäöø) are being set as lower case
Grey screen upon login
Grey screen when session terminated or moved to another platform
Website loading within client
Reconnect issue
No fold button - incorrect action button shown (seems to be back now though, but in a slightly different way this time: https://www.unibetcommunity.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Hilarious-bug-No-FOLD-button/idi-p/195232)
Client banner loading extremely slow
Addon break breaking table focus on mobile/tablet
Visualize in Tour Lobby if a late registration tournament has closed late registrations due to prizes being reached. This originates from a bug report = "Late registration closing before it's supposed to"
Incorrect tournament finishing position
Alias highlight in tournament lobby only working with active alias (partly fixed. Still issue if alias is deleted/replaced)
Tournament Monitor Issues (wide range of issues related to MTT info in the client being incorrect at times)
Empty tournament schedule upon login
Play in BB display issues (only partly solved)
"Open table" on web not working
Display issue with table switch animation when in SNG queue
Change of alias before tournament starts results in multiple aliases for some user
Client crashing when closing window on OSX
Holecards position in replayer is off on desktop
Timezone issue - different time on table and in lobby (might still be an issue with some timezones. Will test soon)
OM icon only working on mobile
Login doesn´t remember username (only partly solved)
Grey screen upon login (new greyscreen issue)
Wrong info in MTT on-table info box
Level 0 in MTT lobby
Backoffice player ID shown on frontend in MTT lobby
Registration randomly showing as closed
Missing fold button
Bounty freerolls got stuck regularly
Attempt more rebuys than you've tickets and bust
Bust when doing multi rebuy with different ticket types
Final table not created right away
When using fast fold, 'attention' sound still apprears
Change of alias before tournament starts results in multiple aliases for some user
Players stuck at starting stack and with odd positions
Changed tournaments from green to red in tour lobby as soon as late reg is closed
Finished tournaments not showing in client long enough (fixed
Features/improvements/new product
HexaPro only client launched on several casino brands. New and more mobile optimized client with portrait mode support (see pictures and more info here: https://mobile.twitter.com/pokerprojones/status/1202247711044571142)
New mobile UI
Hand rankings at table
Replace MTT images
Updated Prize distribution
Tournament cancellation Policy improvements, idea and implementation
Final table background option
Tournament theme table background option (we haven't started making use of this one yet)
METAL OSX improvements for MacOS
Stack in Big Blinds in tournaments
Setting to disable notifications
Cash game ticket cleared notification. Whenever you clear a cash game ticket you'll now get a notification confirming the amount.
Post big blind out of position
Improved positioning and size of 2bb, 3bb etc. buttons on mobile
Squeeze cards (delay on river card being shown/slower animation)
Post BB out of position
Increased font size in settings & cashier on mobile
New Unibet branding added
New table designs added
Few MTT filter changes
HexaPro 25x multiplier now hands out three prizes (80%/12%/8%)
Hide the balance with “???” if user selects ‘Play another’ in HexaPro and the user has setting balance is hidden (was more of a bug really)
New prize type “Satellite Cash” that fills the first position in a Satellite prize dists that does not cover a ticket to get cash.
Leaderboard icon added in the top bar in main menu
Changed time to act in HexaPro (20 to 15 sec)
Visual improvements of login screen
New promotions developed
Rags to riches
Jackpot mania
2020 - what to expect?
As mentioned before, I think we're almost there in terms of bug fixing. I hope we'll be able to solve at least the majority of the below in the first half of 2020.
"-" shown in MTT player list (mostly in larger tournaments when 150-90 players left)
SB leaves, new BB pays both BB out of position and BB (extremely rare is it requires "perfect" timing for it to happen)
Hand for hand kicking in too early/when it shouldn't + hand for hand notification when it's not hand for hand
Current position not shown in MTT when table alias is replaced/deleted
SNG's to be tilled by ID
Play in BB display issues
In terms of more exciting stuff, you'll see a completely new and redesigned client (table design won't change much - desktop will look more like mobile)! It'll also be a year with a lot of work going into a new loyalty system, which we plan on launching early 2021. Some of the things I wish from Santa this year, to be delivered next year:
Timebank/time to act improvements
Ratholing rules/improvements
Delayed downloadable HH, in anonymous format with only Hero identified
In-client cashier and registration
Completely redesigned client
Below a small tease for the new design.
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