Satellites?

I'm thinking public perception is more of a detriment to you than the tourney schedule you came up with, it seemed reasonable when I read it, but shit 2 mill in overlays is a lot for that time period, you're all fucked imo unless you can repair the company's reputation.

i could be way wrong here, but wasn't it annie who said "if the guarentees have been lowered, then that means i'm not working for ub any more" or something like that (again i could def be wrong, dont follow p5's too much anymore but i believe i remmeber reading that somewhere) ub is a f'ing joke either way

I would switch the times of the 3 major tournies: the 120/20k deepstack, the 120/40k, and the 50r/25k. I would move the 40k into primetime of 8 pm (the same time as the 100r and the FTP 65k), the 50r to 9 pm (same time as the stars 100k), and the 120 deepstack to either 10 pm or 7 pm. I think the volume of all 3 tournaments would increase in doing this. I would also move the 200k on Sunday to 4:30 or 6 PM to go head-to-head with the Sunday Million or 750k.

 

Originally Posted by Mkind16

I would switch the times of the 3 major tournies: the 120/20k deepstack, the 120/40k, and the 50r/25k. I would move the 40k into primetime of 8 pm (the same time as the 100r and the FTP 65k), the 50r to 9 pm (same time as the stars 100k), and the 120 deepstack to either 10 pm or 7 pm. I think the volume of all 3 tournaments would increase in doing this. I would also move the 200k on Sunday to 4:30 or 6 PM to go head-to-head with the Sunday Million or 750k.

very good idea...cosign

 

Originally Posted by Mkind16

I would switch the times of the 3 major tournies: the 120/20k deepstack, the 120/40k, and the 50r/25k. I would move the 40k into primetime of 8 pm (the same time as the 100r and the FTP 65k), the 50r to 9 pm (same time as the stars 100k), and the 120 deepstack to either 10 pm or 7 pm. I think the volume of all 3 tournaments would increase in doing this. I would also move the 200k on Sunday to 4:30 or 6 PM to go head-to-head with the Sunday Million or 750k.

The deepstack has been doing very well at 8pm so I don't want to move that. So that leave the sniper and the 50r. It doesn't make sense to have the sniper and deepstack start both at th 8pm hour I don't think so that would just leave putting the 50r at 9 and the sniper at 10pm. I don't think the sniper would do well their and the 50r seems to be acting as a nice lead in to the 50 freezeout at midnight.

Comments?

Annie

How about moving the Deepstack to 7 or 7:30pm, the Sniper at 8, and the 50r at 9? I know I normally dont play the rebuy because rebuys take longer and a rebuy starting at 10pm is kinda late, but I def. would play it at 9pm

The deepstack was at 7:40 and did not do well there. I am concerned about moving it earlier because of that and the 8 pm time slot has just been really rocking it this week so I just don't want to touch it. I totally get the point about the rebuy at 10 pm but I am kind of shooting that at mountain and pacific time zone players who complain about the the 7 pm slot being way too early. Tough to balance both time zones. The only other play would be to put the sniper and the 50r both at 9 pm but I am really wary of that...

Ugh...it makes my brain hurt.

option A - lower guarenetees so they are even less competitive with your competition thus UB loses more customers and money

option B - keep the guarentees the same and UB will continue paying the overlays which have apparently reached the 2 million mark recently

I'm OK with either Annie

There is no point having a great tournament schedule if nobody trusts the site or the management team.

Rebuild the reputation of the site,be open in investigations, get some English speaking customer support reps, stop ringing me up all the time to offer me impossible to clear bonuses etc etc

A. Guarantee rebuy MTT's and prime-time MTT's.

B. Offer bigger buyin daily or weekly MTT's.

C. Organize a mass positive PR campaign at UB, how much better would reimbursing the players and the 7 week 2 mill overlays look after a serious effort to let the online community know that you're taking this issue seriously and what kind of progress you've made on the issue? Rather than not really saying anything at all, which is what I think a lot of the communities problem is with UB.

FWIW, I used to really like that "make a FT on a saturday and get free entry into the 200k" promotion. I used to play strictly on UB.......now I just think what's the point? All they seem to offer is their appealing software, there is no real prizepool's and more importantly, there is no security. I'm curious to know whether that 2M in overlays includes all the refunds cheated players got and/or Hellmuth's latest paycheck. UB is in serious trouble, while stars and FTP just keep moving forward and forward.......whether it be security measures(i.e bot checks) or juicy knew tournies.

 

Originally Posted by annie duke

 

Originally Posted by Mkind16

I would switch the times of the 3 major tournies: the 120/20k deepstack, the 120/40k, and the 50r/25k. I would move the 40k into primetime of 8 pm (the same time as the 100r and the FTP 65k), the 50r to 9 pm (same time as the stars 100k), and the 120 deepstack to either 10 pm or 7 pm. I think the volume of all 3 tournaments would increase in doing this. I would also move the 200k on Sunday to 4:30 or 6 PM to go head-to-head with the Sunday Million or 750k.

The deepstack has been doing very well at 8pm so I don't want to move that. So that leave the sniper and the 50r. It doesn't make sense to have the sniper and deepstack start both at th 8pm hour I don't think so that would just leave putting the 50r at 9 and the sniper at 10pm. I don't think the sniper would do well their and the 50r seems to be acting as a nice lead in to the 50 freezeout at midnight.

Comments?

Annie

The deepstack has done well there but the 40k is the source of the bigger overlays right now and it's the biggest tourney you've got. 8 pm is primetime for online poker. That's the time slot that gets the most traffic. So it only makes sense to put your biggest tournament there.

Annie I appreciate the work you have done for UB and especially the changes for the small ball player.

The $10 10k must be hurting a lot in the overlay department making that a 6 or 7k wouldnt put a dent in people playing it.

The $1 t/r is hitting nearly 4k and the guarantee is 5k

The $5 rebuy is getting close but likely should have an 8k guarantee

Switching up the bounties to be a little less puts more into the prizepool which I believe has been done with the 12:20 it was $2 bounty now $1

I'm sorry i dont play the bigger guarantees so I dont have any input there.

Annie, when you said "if the guarantees are lowered, then that means I am no longer working for UB", (or whatever you said), I think what you were implying is that you wouldn't allow the management to push you around and force this on your new schedule, and you would quit your job if they made you lower them.

Way to stick to your guns.