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Re: Challenge History

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
2 weeks ago
2 weeks ago
well, I don't know - all I know is, I knew where it was on the old system and I can't find it now. I'm guessing it was with the update, because now there's no longer a tab on the history page where you can select for challenges.  Any sneak peek of what's in stall for the new loyalty system? I'm guessing challenges won't be involved then! ... View more

Re: Hand for hand kicking in when it shouldn't do

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
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@Stubbe-Unibet for the record, it just did it again today in tournament ID22857569. Same scenario as last time - tournament started off on one table, then expanded to two. When it did, HfH kicked in. This time it stopped after around ten hands - when a player busted I think ... View more

Challenge History

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
2 weeks ago
2 weeks ago
@Stubbe-Unibet before the latest updates, you could view your completed minor/major challenges on the History tab. I can't find that any more. Is it gone? ... View more

Re: Hand for hand kicking in when it shouldn't do

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
2 weeks ago
2 weeks ago
Hi @Stubbe-Unibet , Well, the problem reported above - i.e. HfH kicking in early in a tournament before late reg has even finished and we're miles from the money - is actually quite rare. But while we're on the subject, do you know that the "hand for hand has ended" message quite often comes one bust *after* the money/final table bubble has burst? In that scenario, the software isn't enacting HfH any more, but the message "waiting for other tables to finish" still appears every hand (like, even in the case where there are no other tables ) That still happens quite a lot.   ... View more

Hand for hand kicking in when it shouldn't do

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
2 weeks ago
2 weeks ago
I'm currenly in a 10e UO (ID 22816506) and even though there are 13 players left and three prizes available, we're in Hand for Hand Seen this problem before - I think it sometimes kicks in when the tournament expands from one table to two - but that was quite a while ago. Needless to say, it's not a bug you guys should leave unfixed. ... View more

Re: Thread for Poker Results

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
3 weeks ago
3 weeks ago
Please can I have my MTT results for all of 2020. Thanks. ... View more

Re: Community Poker League - Xmas 2020 Edition!

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
a month ago
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a month ago
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@Stubbe-Unibet yes even though I was the beneficiary of this, I agree with @MicroBeard that the points system should be like before - counting up from min cash to winner in single points. That way you get more points if you win a bigger tournament, but you don't win too big from coming first, and don't win even bigger from coming first in a bigger tournament. The point is if you come first, you're already winning big, whereas the point of a leaderboard is to reward consistency over a series - and for that you need to recognise lots of small cashes. If it's any consolation @MicroBeard a had another cash which didn't count because I didn't have my community nick ... View more

Re: Community Poker League - Xmas 2020 Edition!

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
a month ago
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a month ago
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Ooh that was close. 8th and 1st, but one flip away from being massive chip leader in the one I came 8th. ... View more

Re: I WANT TO PLAY MORE,BUT I CANT

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎12-12-2020 12:30 AM
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‎12-12-2020 12:30 AM
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It's like a cross between a bot and a Sacha baron Cohen character  ... View more

Re: Flips with santa claus

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎09-12-2020 01:06 PM
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‎09-12-2020 01:06 PM
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If you have @Stubbe-Unibet saying it's random that means it's random. Let's put it this way - if you were as successful a business as Unibet, based on just offering an RNG and by openly stating what your cut was, why would you try to lie to shave off an extra percentage point, given the amount of effort and energy it would take to cover your tracks? And why would you take the risk of being discovered? I mean that's your entire business model - killing the golden goose - for the sake of an extra tiny bit of profit. ... View more

Re: Flips with santa claus

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎09-12-2020 12:05 AM
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‎09-12-2020 12:05 AM
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@HardGain last flip promo I kept all my flips till the end. Was playing 25e cash and had over 50 silver flips by the end. Managed to win 2000 bonus points which I believe is 5 silver flips in a row? I have to say it's much easier to keep dispassionately flipping till you get your target if you have a bunch of flips in the bank. ... View more

Re: Community Poker League - Xmas 2020 Edition!

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎08-12-2020 11:12 PM
‎08-12-2020 11:12 PM
. . . and just to be sure that was "winning" continuous present tense, rather than "winning" future tense. No amount of chips is ever a sure thing in a PLO tournament (apart from all of them!) ... View more

Re: Community Poker League - Xmas 2020 Edition!

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎08-12-2020 11:09 PM
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‎08-12-2020 11:09 PM
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Yes I do hope you cross-check all your "rigged" posts with the ones where you flop the one out in the deck that gets you paid ... View more

Re: Community Poker League - Xmas 2020 Edition!

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎08-12-2020 10:42 PM
‎08-12-2020 10:42 PM
That'll teach me to make the dinner before the tournament. Made the same mistake on Monday with the UOS PLO25 ... View more

Re: Community Poker League - Xmas 2020 Edition!

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎08-12-2020 10:37 PM
‎08-12-2020 10:37 PM
any reply to this? Of course, the one tournament I forget to reg in my alias is the one I'm winning @Stubbe-Unibet I'm currently regged as ltrllythfmt in case you're feeling generous ... View more

Re: Community Poker League - Xmas 2020 Edition!

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎08-12-2020 08:52 PM
‎08-12-2020 08:52 PM
Is there any way to change your alias once you've already regged for a tournament? I've forgotten to reg as my alias ... View more

Re: Flips with santa claus

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎05-12-2020 10:56 AM
‎05-12-2020 10:56 AM
The cliff's notes from that link I posted is that you should expect to win five flips in a row once every 62 trials. and also: wins in a row.                  expected no. of flips to hit 1                                       2 2                                       6 3                                       14 5                                       62 10                                     2046  ... View more

Re: Flips with santa claus

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎05-12-2020 10:50 AM
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‎05-12-2020 10:50 AM
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If it were true that the prize was always double what you started with, you should be indifferent to flipping - it would be just a 50:50 gamble on doubling your prize. However, some stages give you more than double: so when you've got 40 bonus points for example, the next flip is for 1e hexapro. That's more than double your money so it's rational to flip. The prizes increment like this - more than doubling every now and then - all the way to the top. In other words, if you assume you had infinite flips, it would always be rational to gamble - the highest prize is the highest ROI. BUT, you don't have infinite flips, so it's a risk of ruin problem. These problems are pretty complicated mathematically (I had to google the formula because I couldn't work it out myself )*. So instead of working out the optimum stage to aim for given how many flips you have, it's best just to pick a "more than double" prize target stage you're comfortable with (based on the number of flips you have and how gambly you're feeling) and keep flipping till you reach it, then cash out. * if anyone is interested in the maths, knock yourself out   https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/364038/expected-number-of-coin-tosses-to-get-five-consecutive-heads ... View more

Re: Poker release notes 3.2

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎27-11-2020 10:58 AM
‎27-11-2020 10:58 AM
@Stubbe-Unibet  Hi Stubbe, Still getting the following bugs with the mobile (ipad) version: 1. Resizing/text size issues when going freom landscape to portrait or vice versa - app defaults to small size text and won't go back. 2. Search box becomes large when you click on it, and won't disappear when you click elsewhere, obscuring the Omaha/Hold em buttons. 3. Occasional login fail when you allow the app to lapse and log itself out. On relogin attempt it severally says "you're logged into another device . . . " or "you're logged out" and won't log you back in no matter how many times you repeat. Have to kill app and reopen to login. 4. Occasional inability to put in a password for password-entry tournaments. Text box appears, but can't put text in. Have to kill app to reset - going to another page and coming back doesn't work. Also - a more global request - in rebuy tournamemnts, is it possible to have the rebuy/add-on options for a tournament either appear on the same box simultaneously (as they do in some other software) with checkboxes so that rebuy and add on options are easily distinguished? Either that or put the rebuy option in a different colour to the add on? I accidentally rebought when I meant to add on in the 50 rebuy Omaha UOS. This would not be a problem if the rebuy and the add on gave you the same number of chips, but as the add on is worth twice the value of the rebuy for the same price, that's a really bad idea financially at that point! a) there's no way to go back and correct your mistake once you've made it, and b) it's easy in the heat of the moment, if multitabling to miss that it's asking you for a rebuy not an add on and misclick it, because the window is almost identical.   Many thanks. ... View more

Re: Don’t fancy it

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎22-11-2020 08:55 PM
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‎22-11-2020 08:55 PM
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Thanks @ReCorpH  To be honest I was partly joking - I think if you're going to collude, you wouldn't attract attention to it like this! Nevertheless, there was obviously some kind of explanation and I wondered what it was. Nice to have mods to answer these questions - and quickly too! ... View more

Don’t fancy it

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎22-11-2020 05:02 PM
‎22-11-2020 05:02 PM
Was going to play this tournament but don't fancy it for some reason.... ... View more

Re: "Why unlucky and how to deal with it"

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎20-11-2020 03:04 PM
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‎20-11-2020 03:04 PM
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You could try these three articles: https://www.thehendonmob.com/alex_rousso/tournament_poker_therapy_pain_and_heather_graham Topically enough, written when I was a Unibet ambassador! The link above is to the first article, but you can also find parts 2 and 3 if you click my name on the list of writers on the right.  Another possibly helpful one - appropriate title given Esir's tagline is this one: https://www.thehendonmob.com/alex_rousso/id_rather_be_lucky_than_good You may already know all about luck and variance, but it's always good to have a detailed look at bankroll graphs of money-making players to understand just how swing-y the whole thing can get. ... View more

UOS X

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎08-11-2020 05:21 PM
‎08-11-2020 05:21 PM
I see the tournaments for UOS X have been loaded into the client. Are there going to be any leaderboard promotions for this series @Stubbe-Unibet ? ... View more

Re: Spooky days in the Unibet Poker Community

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎29-10-2020 10:59 PM
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‎29-10-2020 10:59 PM
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Won the Omaha Deep Space (64 runners) as Card_undead ... View more

Re: Spooky days in the Unibet Poker Community

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎28-10-2020 11:50 PM
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‎28-10-2020 11:50 PM
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Re: Omaha Tournament Structure

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎22-10-2020 03:45 PM
‎22-10-2020 03:45 PM
PLO8 has a really small player pool so I think, sadly, cash games would not be a flyer. However, tournaments could work - you'd only have to run one a night. It's really good for recs because you're always backing into something in O8 which means you've always got some equity to cheer on. And of course, you can never bust if you have The Wheel The good news is it's only a minor software tweak to add the low bit of high/low if the existing software copes with the four cards bit. However, I'm guessing the Unibet bods have their hands full already  Nice to dream though! ... View more

Re: Omaha Tournament Structure

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎22-10-2020 03:39 PM
‎22-10-2020 03:39 PM
I should have added that the corollary of this is that playing tighter is better when short stacked in Omaha. Since you can't raise all in, and since there won't be enough flops you can be sure to proceed with, knowing you're not making an equity mistake, it means you as the raiser (with a decent hand) can't afford to be so aggressive. (At least not in comparison with the equivalent situation in Hold Em). By the same token, the caller - even with a mid-range type hand, can afford to be more loose. It's only going to cost them 3.5bb and they have a bunch of flops they can hit which, regardless of their opponent's raising range, they know they have enough equity to proceed.  In other words, it's more of a flop game, and therefore we need to be deeper to play it properly. BTW, I know it's only a few days away, but the tournament structure for the IPO Omaha rebuy still has antes in. Just wanted to flag that up in case it's been overlooked. ... View more

Re: Perpetual stalling despite it being hand for h...

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎22-10-2020 11:42 AM
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‎22-10-2020 11:42 AM
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yes +1 to this but it would obviously still be a pain to sit there and wait.  I've thought about this before and the only thing I can come up with is a targeted email to those who do it, explaining what "hand for hand" actually means. Targeted because broadcasting a message might end up with more people realising why it's done. ... View more

Re: Omaha Tournament Structure

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎21-10-2020 06:07 PM
‎21-10-2020 06:07 PM
@Leo-Unibet  As promised, some theory about tournament structure in Omaha and why deeper structures suit this variant more. I hope this is especially relevant with the announcement of UOS X and the impending IPO event. Let's imagine a fairly standard short-stacked situation in a mid-late tournament setting: it's folded around to Hero on the button with a top 10% hand and 12.5bb. Hero can make it up to 3.5BB raise, we'll assume that SB folds and the BB has a hand in the 10-30% range, i.e. a top 30% hand, but not the top 10% among them. So Villain can fold, call, or jam for near enough effective stacks. (Before we continue with the Omaha analysis, let's just consider the equivalent situation in Hold Em: with a 12.5bb stack and a top 10% hand, Hero can jam if he wants, or he can min raise to try to induce a jam from the blinds. Either way, he likes the spot. Villain has the opposite problem. He's got a dodgy call if Hero jams, and (although he doesn't know it) a poor equity rejam if Hero min raises with his 10% range)). More about Hold Em later. In Omaha, let's look at the equity on the flop Villain has with his 10-30% range against Hero's10% range.  Here's the flop equity graph from ProPokerTools. It charts Villain's range against Hero's range on a whole bunch of flops and then sorts them according to equity. In other words, it's a frequency chart - so against Hero's top 10% range, Villain will flop around 66% of equity or more, 20% of the time against Hero's range. Around 40% of the time, he'll flop 45% equity or more. The key thing to take away from this graph is how smooth it is. Despite Hero having a really good hand and Villain having a decent but not amazing hand, there are a whole BUNCH of flops Villain is happy with and not so many our Hero is happy with. If you don't believe me, take a look at the exact same equity match up in Hold em:   So, same hand ranges, different poker variant. The graph is a lot less smooth. There's a precipitous drop around the 20% of flops mark. On around two thirds of flops, Villain certainly doesn't have enough equity to call a jam, and should worry that a donk bluff bet is playing into Hero's hands.  So there, in graphical representation, is the idea that "post-flop equities are much closer together in Omaha than Holdem". And just to be sure, here are the preflop equities, once again same ranges, the only thing that's different is the variant: Range                             10%-30% hand                top 10% hand Omaha                              41%                                 59% Hold Em                            35%                                 65% So what does that mean for tournament structures? First, Omaha is played pot limit precisely because the equities are closer together - if it were no limit, it's simply not in players' interest to hang around if they know they have an equity advantage - wiser to get all your chips in now, because it's that much more likely than in hold em that your opponent will catch up. Second, Omaha players need to be deeper stacked in tournaments in order to manouvre around the subtle differences in equity on flops. In Omaha a raise preflop is only a prelude to what happens on the flop - and therefore players need deeper stacks to make sure those decisions are not standard all-in-or-fold, see who wins situations. Whilst I understand that for small buy-ins, Unibet might not want to run tournaments that last all night, I think there is an understanding in poker that mid and large buy ins get the structures they deserve. I have to say that some of the structures for the 25 and 50 buy ins have been pretty much crapfests. What's particularly disappointing is that it hasn't been a question of some higher buy ins with good structures, some with worse - they've all been universally too fast, unlike in Hold em where the structures have been varied. The most influential factor in tournament structure is length of blind level. So please do consider some longer blind levels for some of the Omaha tournaments in UOS X. ... View more

Leaderboard Payouts

by Pickleman Rank 10 in General Poker
‎14-10-2020 03:56 PM
‎14-10-2020 03:56 PM
@Stubbe-Unibet  Hi Stubbe, Am I right in thinking the leaderboard payouts have now been done? I ask because I got two payouts with no explanation accompanying them, as follows: 1) I got some bonus points in my account (with no tag/explanation attached) on Oct 13th 11:00 GMT, which I presume was the Low leaderboard payout; and 2) today I got some money deposited directly into my account, with only a weird reference number, which I presume was the nano leaderboard payout? ... View more
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