Ashenfaced

If you are including me in that, I'm a recreational player and tbh I do enjoy it, find it annoying to have my stack and status wiped out. If there was an option to be sat at an empty table and wait for it to be populated I'd prefer that over losing those.

That is a good point about the dynamics, admittedly something I hadn't considered... but I don't think it outweighs the issues I brought up, esp regarding if being sensei is meaningful for promotions. I'm glad you are considering it and thank you for how you've been listening to feedback and your responses. Congratulations on the kid!

Also, do you ever sleep? 😆 As a degenerate poker player it makes sense for me to post on forums at 2am, but for an employee its a bit above and beyond the call of duty ! 😅😅😅

Me personally, yes, by a mile. The gamified element of becoming the sensei is fun, but if you lose it by the table breaking its very frustrating - happened to me a few times now. Its very painful going from playing relatively deep to having to spin up a stack and starting from the ground floor again, it also resets all your progress on the levels. How it worked in Banzai 1.0 made more sense in my opinion, and that was also without the gamified elements that losing your stack really hurts. Battling to become top dog in the dojo and sitting there with a big stack, ready to take on all challengers is great fun... only to then have it ironically taken away if you successfully beat all challengers. Also means its partially down to luck (outside of the obvious luck of poker lol) who can get a big stack without their table breaking - if there are promotions later regarding getting the biggest stack of the day/week etc this would be really damaging.

You even lose being the Sensei... makes it feel really pointless...

Just want to chime in, I know its been mentioned before... I really think it's absurd that you can play for 1h, build up a good stack, play someone HU for a bit, then he leaves, table closes, rebuy to a different table for 10bb...

I had the same issue, decent game and stack in B50, have to switch to my phone so I can manage to lose €100 while having a piss just so I dont lose my stack. The 90s is pretty silly.

Hi, sometimes the health bar/equity calc is blank. Both players are full gray bars. Other thoughts: I usually play without avatars - Is there a way to turn them off? Thanks, Ashenfaced

Thank you Stubbe!

Hi Stubbe, I've been having some issues with the new Banzai format...

If anyone drops out, I'm happy to be an elf

I agree, however as it took 2 weeks and 7 email chasers for me to get my results for Banzai I had to check! Well to strike at the heart of the issue, the rakeback and promotions will never equal the extra rake that I pay, esp with my on/off, on/off volume, so I overall cant factor that in very heavily. I have a few followup questions if you dont mind; If you have/will give out further info, does that % filter down to the more marginal winners like myself, given it will have a proportionally higher impact on lower winrates? (If you have modelled results for me specifically i would be very interested in having it PM'ed to me) Will you be consistently monitoring the health/liquidity of Banzai games & consider reversing/altering this? Do you have any further details on the promos (esp if they have relevance to a rec like me) ?

When you did the simulations, was it done per hand?

Hi @Stubbe-Unibet, I'd like to give some feedback on the Banzai rake changes as a recreational player who has put in (What i see as) decent volume in the Banzai formats. Overall, I think the increase is far too much, the games wont be able to handle it. Since the start of 2020 I've played 140k hands of B20, raking €5.7k and profiting about €12.4k, which is 4.5bb/100. If you increase the rake 2.5x, that 5.7k turns into 14.25, meaning that for the same period and level of play, I'd now be at +€3.8k - knocking my winrate down by 70%(!!!) to <1.5bb and making it not worth playing. I often start games and play shorthanded, stopping doing that would mean less hands overall for the Banzai format As a sweetener, I've also raked 5k in HUSNGs and tbh I only play them when Banzai isn't running, against opponents who hold lobbies (IE my game is always the marginal addition, so its prob 10k that wouldnt have been raked). I know that the money for promotions has to come from somewhere, but this ruins a format that is the only reason I log into Unibet and is unbeatable on other sites where rake is higher, such as Sky which I quit playing on after they took their business in a similar direction. I think the maximum that the game would support long term is 1.5%, with 2.5% you are very seriously risking a dead format, at least for vast swathes of the day; Its likely to always run Fri/Sat night of course.

Logging off now. Hope this holds.