Ok Guys and Gals,I really need your help here

I need some list of things UB can do to make it a much better site.

This is our chance to really get our voice heard.

PLEASE only serious replys,I already know we will get some smart ass comments,but that wont help us.

I have a few Ideas like:

1. having set tourneys at set times every night for all level of players
2. have a sports book attached would be cool
3. maybe better kick backs to the players who play often
4. an 800# for customer service
5. chopping at final tables if all agree
6. more players allowed to watch the big game pros or final tables without room being too crowded
7. maybe use their pros to make a "tip" of the week or soming of the sort

These are just a few things off the top of my head,Ub does many things great like the best blind structures ,look at the other sites at final table ,then look at UB's.UB will have less players pot comitted and its not just an "all in fest".

Thanks in advance for all your imput,eeven if you are unsure if its a great idea or not,list it,who knows others might love it.

Thanks Shawn

Have heads up NLHE cash games at stakes greater than .25-.50. And yes, to answer UB customer services' form letter response, I am well aware that UB has heads up sngs, but cash games and sngs have a lot of differences to take into account! So implement these higher level tables already!

1. Allow Ultiimate Points earned from MTT and SNG tourneys to count for bonus dollar conversions.
2. More tourneys that pay money. Right now more than 1/2 of the schedule is sattelites. Keep the sats, but add some cash paying tourneys.
3. Better tourneys from 2 a.m. until 8 a.m. Geez, there is one $10 game in those 6 hours.
4. Bring back the $500 entry weekly tourney. Maybe even play it on Saturday. Saturday nights have a real bad schedule, so they lose the weekend player.

Definitely reinforce how cool the new added blind structures make the tournaments and that the current structure is awesome. There is tons of "play" throughout every tournament now even at FT.

How about a separate "box" observers can open and chat in while watching a FT. Would not be part of the playing screen but accessed by clicking an icon on screen and available off to the side for observers. This way it would not muckup the current area chat is in and be distracting for players at FT, the players would still have the same area they do now. The players could choose to open this additional box or not.

The biggest thing UB needs is tons of cheap satellites to its big tournaments. Every two hours they should have some sort of multi-table cheap satellites ($3, $5; some rebuys, some not). I mean they only need 40 players to make a $5 tourney non-rebuy work for the SUN200 and WED 200. They also can have some $20 satellites mixed in. Even taken as far as $1 satellites the night before each $100 nightly tournament. I just look at stars and how many entries they get into their big tournaments through satellites and my friends who like these Satellites say UB just does not run enough of them. They log-on, see if there are satellites, and then realize they just missed one or two and that there are no more for 8 hours, so they log-off.

UB should commit to making $100 tourney on Mon, tues, thursday a bigger event with satellites and better guarantees. It seems with satellites and promotions and guarantees that they could have a 40k $100 those three nights (they should commit to that for a month and see if they can get it there, but same guarantee every night even though they will get more play monday than thursday -none of this 40k for a week guarantee but get the word out it is 40k all the time by committing for a month) and $80k to $100k for Wednesday nite. With lots of satellites they will take much for their risk away on these.

Thanks for bringing the different p5's opinions to them. I am sure some good will come of it.

Actually that makes me think of one more idea. Have a monthly "appointment" with you to do what you are doing right now in regards to soliciting suggestions.

WTM, all of these sound good. UB doesn't have enough player incentives to keep us there. I have written them numerous times suggesting cash rebuy tournies, and then when they ran them for a week it was a huge success. So you'd think they would have caught on huh? NOT
Lately i have ventured off to other sites because of the incentives offered.

Good thread
Golf_Nut01

More PLO tourneys.
Less turbo tourneys.
Rebuy tourneys, both lower buy in (3, 5, 10) and higher (30, 50, 100).
More PLO tourneys
Don't decrease the number of satellites, but increase the number of cash tourneys.
More PLO tourneys.

Hey Shawn,
I appreciate the opportunity to give you some feed back on the following.

1) WPT / WSOP tournaments (The main tourneys)
2) WPT / WSOP smaller buy in tourneys
3) Bigger buy in online tourneys
4) Step sit and go's

1) WPT / WSOP tourneys (main events)

Right now the stuff out there in the poker world is just not getting it done.
I think the buy in should be a $1000.00 with MTT 100+9 tournaments as satellites into those. I.E. Players buy into a 100+9 super satellite with either cash or a TEC run the super satellite 6 days a week the seventh day is the $1000.00 satellite. Using very low numbers I figure 100 players per 100+9 satellite per day 9.5 players advance to the $1000 satellite per day. Leaving 57 players for the main satellite should pay out approx. 4.5 seats for the $10,000 buy in for the main event and $2500.00 for traveling money, lord only knows what would happen if the number of players increased it would be huge! I also think the current policy on not allowing multiple wins is for the birds. Let the players win multiple times and pay them the cash. I hear this stuff about money leaving the site bla, bla bla, so what. If your site is doing a better job than the rest nobody will go anywhere. ( F Beanie)

2) WPT / WSOP smaller buy in events Full Tilt has started this somewhat it just needs to be implemented for the WPT tourneys as well.

3) Bigger buy in online tourneys

A) The original Stone Cold Nuts on UB was an awesome idea. Why not run it once a month? Again letting players win multiple times in the satellites using the 100+9 MTT idea. I am sure a tourney like that would generate at least 400-500 people with a $2500.00 buy in is a million plus prize pool.

B) I also would like to see a $1000.00 weekly game (paradise has the nuts to do it, however the satellites are not good) That would be a huge draw. So what if it only had a 100 players in it. Which I do not think would be the case in the biggest stretch of the imagination.

4) Step sit and go's

I think party poker has created a monster with the step program! What an awesome idea especially for the pro players this would be one of their main source of income, however the blind structure there and the way players move up the steps is the pits. Let the top 3 advance to the next level. What would really be cool is to let the players use TEC's in the sit and go's as well. It would stimulate play and rake for the site.
I am sure this was probably asking your mother her opinion on something, you really didn't want all this but you did ask! I have such a passion for UB but over the last year I just have not played there much do to in my opinion poor decision making on their part. I have sent this to UB time and time again and all I get is the same response template back from them. Maybe this time they will listen.

Have a good one,

Trent

1) Flexibility of Satellite entry chips (win an entry into a $200 event, you can unregister and play it whenever you want)

2) A weekly large buy-in event that has a set time $500 or more

3) A $10 or $20 rebuy satellite tournament for any event with an entry fee of $200 or more

4) A toll free customer service line

5) Offer an Aruba trip to the Monthly Tournament leader board winner? If repeat goes to second place

6) Allow multiple wins on all events upfront/basically don't alter the rules once initiated

7) Allow Bonus $ to be converted on any game where there is a rake or entry fee

8) Have the Pros play more at there tables so us low rollers can get some ez money (lol)

9) Satellites into all the WPT events/ would be a great thing for a UB qualifier to win another sites sponsored event!

10) Keep having the best player/software interface on the web!

Thanks WTM for the voice!

I play almost exculusivlely on UB and here are the things I would like to see change/improve.

1. Allow for chops

2. Better customer service (although it has gotten MUCH better, but usually you have to go to the management level to get a reasonable resolution)

3. 15-minue blind levels

4. CHANGE THE BONUS PROGRAM!!! I love UB, but they have hands down the worst bonus program I have ever seen. First, allow tourneys to count towards earning the bonus, second, you get one "ultimate point" per hour of play, but one ultimate point is only $1. So if you have 500 bonus dollars, you need to play 500 hours of raked hands??? Thats just obscene...

hey shawn , couple of suggestions :

1) More trnys , but NOT turbos. Every damn trny is a turbo.
2) Rebuy trnys for cash ..... not just sats . And not just $30 rebuys , cheapies for us low-limit grinders.

3) The option to play a sat to a Sunday trny , and then un-register and use the TEC whenever you want to .

4) the option , when viewing cash tables, to see how much the players have in front of them without actually bringing up the table. ( ie: stars lobby )

1) Store hand histories on our hard drive so that we don't have to use that stupid HH grabber for Pokertracker.

2) Tournament dollars, not TECs. Let people buy-in with any combination of tournament dollars and cash.

3) Offer the same SnG structures at every buy-in level (why are there no 10-seat $33 Turbo SnGs?).

More types of tournaments...PLH in particular would make me happy.
More non-turbo tournaments. Half the tournaments i used to play became turbos.
More observors per table, especially for the big cash games.
Bonus point conversion for tournament play.

The top of my UB wish list includes:

1. Ability to store hand histories to hard drive.
2. Allow chops.
3. Some variation of pokerstars' tournament dollars. If people can unregister from a tournament that they satellite into and use the money for another tournament many more people will play the sats.
4. Move the $150K Sunday night tourney back to 9 or 10 pm!!!!!!!
5. Increase the value of UB points when used to buy into tournaments. Again, take a look at Stars.

Shawn,

4 years of playing on UB, here's what i think:

1) Kickbacks for sure
2) not only 800# but better customer service, we all agree that their email responses are terrible.
3) chopping at a final table
4) better way to convert Bonus $$$, I liked the one guys reply of any fee, so if you play a $5+ .50 ($0.50 being the fee) to $100 + 9 SNGs, tournies or whatever, they should count towards the bonus $$$.

I also heard rumor (it may be true) that UB will hold $3 satellites for bigger tournies but in addition to winning your seat, if you make the final table or top 5 or something, you will get up to $100 Bonus converted to real cash. That would certainly juice up the satellites!!

UB needs more satellites to the WSOP and WPT.<SPAN> </SPAN>I don�t like playing on stars but in 2006 I am going to have in order to qualify for a WSOP 06 seat.<SPAN> </SPAN>It�s must be embarrassing for them to only qualify like what 87 players to the wsop while poker stars sends over 1100.<SPAN> </SPAN>More Satellites!!

I hate that force to front thing.<SPAN> </SPAN>I hate typing in one window only to have the other window force its way to the front.<SPAN> </SPAN>It�s a pain in the butt.

There Regular Satellites needs adjusting.<SPAN> </SPAN>I hate playing an hour and a half for 1 SNG.<SPAN> </SPAN>The Turbo�s are better but it�s still an all-in fest after a half hour.<SPAN> </SPAN>A Happy medium would be nice.<SPAN> </SPAN>I just switched to FTP�s sngs because I like there structure better.<SPAN> </SPAN>SnGs end in an hour.<SPAN> </SPAN>A 1-table sng shouldn�t last for over an hour IMO.<SPAN> </SPAN>

Marketing is right on in one of the above post.<SPAN> </SPAN>How can a top site only have 15 K in players while most of those players are playing at the free tables?<SPAN> </SPAN>More TV Commercials to bring in fresh players.

How about some loyalty for each year you�re still playing there.<SPAN> </SPAN>On your anniversary date, you get a free entry into the $200+$15.<SPAN> </SPAN>As long as you meet the requirement of hours whatever that may be.

Player stats like they have on Cardplayer.com.<SPAN> </SPAN>I would love to look up a player like westtexasman for example and to see how he actually did throughout the year in tournaments.

I stats page on what hands are actually dealt on UB.<SPAN> </SPAN>So people can stop complaining about all the AA vs KK hands they see.<SPAN> </SPAN>I would also like to know if UB has more AA compared to 22.<SPAN> </SPAN>Would be quite funny if AA appeared on this site 5% of the time compared to 22 at 1%

Referral bonus STINKS!!!.<SPAN> </SPAN>Affiliate program does it work?<SPAN> </SPAN>Anyone making any more on the Affilaite program.<SPAN> </SPAN>You recommend someone to play here, they spend thousands on raked hands, do you actually get anything back.