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The code block looks better now - you couldn't read the text before :)

New link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0u3tzytks6dev1p/dark_theme_with_code.txt?dl=0

Will let David answer in more detail, but I had a quick look at the tickets given for the tournament, and I can confirm that we'd have exceeded the GTD without tickets being given away - by quite a few k :)

'The Locker Room' is an article series which will give you a behind the scenes look into who we are and how we're working at Unibet. The online poker industry has been struggling a bit in recent years, with many of the largest networks experiencing a decline in traffic. At Unibet it's been a whole other story since the launch of our own client and network. The traffic has consistently been increasing since the launch in 2014, and we're proud to say that we're the fastest growing licensed poker network in the industry. We've reached out to David, who's just been appointed the new Head of Poker, and had a chat with him about his new job, poker at Unibet in general as well as what the future might hold. Tell us a little about yourself, what’s your background and how did you find your way into the Unibet Poker team? I’m 34 years old, originally from London. I watched Late Night Poker on TV in 1999 and immediately caught the bug. Myself and friends started playing weekly home games and unfortunately I’m ultra-competitive, so I decided I just had to be better than them. Training materials were limited at that time but I feel that I have quite a sponge-like approach to learning from experience and just played as much as I could. The games online were very soft in those days and after a year or so playing online I was earning more money from poker than my regular job. I had no major life responsibilities so decided to quit my job and try my hand as a professional player. I ran hot in the first year, took shots at higher stakes aggressively (with terrible bankroll management) and was soon playing NL1000. I played full time for another 8 years and eventually stopped in 2010 as the games had become tougher and I felt burnt out from playing so much. I still had a huge passion for poker and wanted to stay in the industry so I started a staking company. In 2014 I stumbled across Andrew’s post in the original Unibet thread on 2+2 and what Unibet were trying to do really resonated with me. I successfully applied for the role of Poker Marketing Manager and have been loving life here since! How’s your transition to the new role as head of poker been? In between my first role and this new role I was working as Marketing Strategy Team Lead for Bingo, Poker and New Products and still have some work and responsibilities to handover before starting officially as Head of Poker on July 1st. A lot of the original poker team from 2014 are still here and as much as I enjoyed working on other products, I’m really happy to be coming back to work solely on poker and with the same group of people. What does a normal day look like for you working at Unibet Poker, and what’s the best part of your job? A normal day is extremely busy now because we’ve been ambitious as a team and might have been guilty of taking on too many new projects at times. No two days look the same because we’re a small team who work with a lot of developers, ambassadors, external consultants, freelancers and centralised teams within Unibet. Unibet encourages it’s employees to find a good work/life balance but it’s easy to take your work home with you sometimes because you enjoy it so much. I have to tell new members in our team to try not to do that too much, as tempting as it might be. Do you still find some time for playing poker outside of work? As much as I can – if I go too long without playing then I’ll take some holiday and play non-stop for three days. I prefer to play live now but sadly don’t make enough time to do it as often as I like. When is the last time you cashed in a tournament? In live tournaments it’s a LONG time ago! When I was playing professionally I only played online cash games, except for a small spurt playing live tournaments. As such I only have TWO Hendon mob cashes, eight years apart! Now I play a mix of online tournaments and PLO cash games and according to Sharkscope I last played and cashed on 8th May. How did the decision to create a completely new concept for a poker platform come about and what’s the philosophy behind? At that point (2012/2013) new poker players were losing their money and interest in the game so quickly that it was no longer economical for Unibet to even spend money advertising for poker players. A drastic choice was offered – either Unibet takes a risk and does something completely different or just stops offering poker altogether. The poker team that was formed in 2013/14 was essentially a group of poker players from different backgrounds who were frustrated with the direction the industry was headed in and who had a shared vision for how a poker site should look and act. What has been the biggest challenges for your team, since you made the decision that we should create our own poker software and network? Getting our message out to players has been difficult at times although that’s getting easier as we gain momentum. Building a poker site from scratch is no easy task from a development point of view and I think Relax have done wonders as what was originally a very small dev team. Poker is only a small part of Unibets business (around 3%) and it sometimes takes some persuading to convince someone else who works at the company that they should spend more than 3% of their time helping us in poker J The second edition of the poker client was released December last year, how do you feel the new versions has been received by our players? Has it been the success you hoped for? It has been a success because we now have a very solid foundation to move forwards with. There have been a lot of teething issues with the new software – the optimist in me hoped that it would work perfectly from the start and we would be building a lot of exciting new promotions and gametypes by now but we’ve had to spend a lot of time bug-fixing so far this year. Realistically that was always going to be the case and the feedback I get now is that people are generally really happy with the client. We built a lot of anticipation with the new client and it’s a shame that we haven’t been able to deliver a lot of new features since then. However, I feel very confident that we’re in a position now where we can really be ambitious with the client in the next 12 months. How do you create a poker product which caters to as many players as possible, and what’s the process like for creating and implementing new ideas? (would be great if we could tie in the Idea Exchange into the answer and mention that we’ve used some of the ideas posted by the members) I think the main factor is listening to feedback from players. I think we do a good job of coming up with new ideas and looking at things from as many angles as possible but it’s vital to actually ask players what they would like us to build. We can’t play on the client ourselves (only a test environment) so places like the Idea Exchange are invaluable. A lot of features we’ve added over the past three years have come directly from players on places like the community site and ‘By Players, For Players’ is definitely a fitting motto for Unibet Poker. Considering how big a success the 50k GTD milestone tournament was – if we forget about the add-on issue – will such a tournament become a more regular thing? Yes, we’re going to be revamping the tournament schedule later this year. We weren’t sure if the tournament would overlay and the fact that the prizepool reached €65k despite the add-on issue showed that there is a lot of demand from our players for tournaments like this. We won’t be able to offer prizepools beyond that immediately but we can certainly be more competitive and I think that’s vital if we want to attract more players to the site. Can you tell us anything about the next exciting thing that’s going to happen for Unibet Poker? Will we see a new game type added in the near future? I can’t go into too much detail but NLO (No Limit Omaha) Banzai will be added on 3rd July, a completely new promotion type in September and a new MTT schedule planned for Sept/Oct. We’re spending a lot of time brainstorming in the next few weeks and would like be innovative when adding to the client in the coming twelve months. What does the future hold for Unibet Poker? We know that we still have areas to improve upon and will keep striving to be better. However, I really believe in what we’re doing here and would be surprised if we’re not competing with the biggest sites in years to come. We’re going to be producing a lot of unique poker content over the course of the year and are trying to reach a wider and wider audience, both inside and outside of poker. We also have a huge company in Unibet behind us, so I’m confident :) --------------------------- If you've got any questions for @DavidP_Unibet, simply write a comment below. He's away on vacation till Monday, and as I'm sure you can understand, he's a busy man these days, so he might not reply straight away :)

@maruni, thanks for the elaboration. It might feel like 90 %, but it's very, very far from that - we ask this particular question in one of our surveys. However, the Romanian customers are more dissatisfied with the speed, than the average, and the satisfaction score is pretty low. The responsible teams are probably already aware of this issue, but is it only the sportsbook that's slow, or is it the website in general? Same issue with the app? I'll reach out to them to hear what we're doing to improve in this area. All major browsers, as long as you have the latest version, should work. I'd personally recommend Chrome.

@maruni, I'm afraid you'll have to be a little more specific. What exactly would you like us to improve?

@Livertool, I agree with you that mastering the fundamentals is key, and fancy features don't help if the basics are not there. That being said, I believe we're industry leaders when it comes to fast withdrawals, in several of our biggest markets - I remember reading this somewhere and will try and find the source for confirmation. The document processing time is also pretty fast, but of course there's room for improvement. I don't know the actual numbers from our competitors, so I can't say anything how we perform compared to them. We've discussed this before, and I don't want to repeat myself. You can't use a handful of complaints, or even 10 or 20, to say anything about the processing time in general. Every case is unique, and you'll only hear about the ones that take the most time. Simple verification cases take less than 24 hours in several markets. It's also worth mentioning that documents and withdrawals don't have anything to do with the sportsbook as such. It's completely different journeys, handled by different teams, even different companies. It's not like we're saying; we've got 100 resources across the entire customer journey. If we add two here, we have to remove two somewhere else.

I've fixed a few more things (same link as above). If you come across anything you think should be changed, just post below :)

I've updated the most critical things. Will try and get the rest done next week :) https://www.dropbox.com/s/jirdqretyqnxu6u/Community_DarkV02.txt?dl=0

@gommen It's a new structure called hyper-turbo-random-jump-stubbe-special-edition-blind-structure :Rofl:

@gommen I don't think you give me credit enough for my new and revolutionary blind structure!

@MoreTBC I was afraid the alcohol consumption at Unibet Open might have had it's effect on your memory ;)

@MoreTBC priority right now is to get the minor issues with the standard theme solved, but as soon as that's done, I'll work on the dark theme - probably going to be early next week :)

The below blog post was written by Remco aka Remk_95. Who am I? I am a 21 years old guy and I am still studying. I play poker for almost a year now and I mainly play the satellites for the Unibet Opens and UK Tour. I started with some sports (mainly soccer) betting on Unibet, but that was just for a few euros a week. Almost a year ago I decided I wanted to try all the things at Unibet, so I tried the Casino, played some Bingo and finally also got to the poker section of the site. When I got to the poker section I tried playing some freerolls and used the tickets you get when registering. At that point a miracle happened. I managed to get a 2 euro UO ticket into a 10 euro one, and when I played that tournament I got a €50UO ticket out of it. I then played the €50UO ticket and got an €250UO ticket! That was when I thought I wanted to take it more seriously, because my beginners luck was obviously not going to last forever. At this point I also found my way to the Unibetpoker twitch channel, which I am still enjoying at this moment. My alias there is remk_95 and I mainly play on the poker tables with the aliases RK_95 or AlwaysFoldKK. I learned a lot at the twitch channel and at that point I started playing the satellites. I also broke down the €250 ticket to start a real grind. Till this point the ticket rolls keep growing slowly, but steady. I even managed to qualify for the UK tour leg in Brighton! The story In the same week I qualified for Brighton in December, the Bucharest betting competition was running on the community. Although I can’t join the community, Stubbe-Unibet was so generous to let the Dutch people participate in the UO Bucharest betting competition. I didn’t even saw that post in the thread, but Jonny2192 pointed it out for me in the twitch channel, so I still owe him something! I send an email to the community guys, got a log in (only for that competition) and placed my bets. On Friday morning when I was at my internship, I saw Stubbe made a post in the thread about the competition. After I read that post I first couldn’t believe it, but it was true! After qualifying for my first live tournament in Brighton in that week, I got a community package for the big brother of the UK tour, the Unibet Open in London! *Insert big time jump* The road to London A few weeks before the Unibet Open started I got a mail from Marco-Unibet about the details of the package. I could even bring a guest for free in the hotel, so it would have been a mistake to not take anyone. My dad wanted to go with me anyway, because it was my ever first live event and he would like to do some sightseeing in London. So everything was sorted out and off we went, we were going to London! Unibet Open London At Wednesday the 22th we went to the airport pretty early because it was a drive of approximately 1,5 hours and you should get at the airport rather early. On the airport everything went really smooth and we got on the plane on time. After we boarded the pilot said there was a small delay because of the storm, but the flight went really smooth and we arrived on London Heathrow at 1 pm local time. We bought a card for the underground and after 2 switches from underground, we arrived at the hotel. We checked in and I went to the welcome desk from Unibet where everyone was very friendly. I asked a few questions to a Dutch employee of Unibet called Leon, and he sorted everything out perfectly, so a big compliment for him also! I went back to the hotel room, relaxed a bit and then my dad and I ate something quick at the MacDonalds and we went to the casino. We walked in and I had a quick look if I could find anyone. Luckily I recognised Stubbe pretty soon and we talked a bit to get to know each other. Marco arrived just a few minutes after that and at that point I also met DavidP_Unibet, who are really nice guys as well. I went back to the bar because it was still pretty early and the satellite that I was going to play started at 20.00 pm. I saw Davitsche standing there, and as promised the first thing I did was giving him a high five. About half an hour later I met Jonny2192 who also would play the satellite. We then went to register us to the tournament and waited for the seat draw to be announced. When it was published I went to the table I was placed on, and at that point I was really nervous. I was going to play my first ever live tournament and was really unconfident about how it would go and if I was going to do the right technical things on the table, not even counting in if I would play good poker. To make a long story short: I don’t remember a lot of things about the hands, got up a bit, got down a bit, but eventually I screwed up with a bluff on the river after approximately 1,5 hours of play. At that point I was a bit disappointed that I busted and also pretty tired, because it was a long day of travelling and a lot of nervosity. I went quickly to Jonny, who was playing on the same table as Will Kassouf. Jonny did pretty well at his table and I think he was up a little bit when I saw him. Because I was that tired I then backed off to the hotel to get a good night sleep, so I could start fresh at the Thursday. Thursday After we woke up we got breakfast and went to the underground. It was time to do some sightseeing! We went to the Big Ben, saw the London Eye, which was unfortunately not working due to the storm, and went to see the house of parliament, Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace. It was pretty stormy, but it still was very nice to see all these things. We went back to the hotel in the end of the afternoon, I relaxed a bit and then went to the dining room to get some food. I met vongrundal there, who said he was still waiting for his brother gommen to arrive. A few minutes later Stubbe, Marco, YpresX and AndreiBN also arrived at the table. We had a quick chat and after that I went back to my room to quickly fresh up before going to the casino again. In the evening I got to play my second tournament, another satellite to the main event. When I arrived at the casino the other members from the community were also there and I met Gommen and MoreTBC. MoreTBC, Vongrundal, YpresX and I were playing the satellite, and Marco increased the pressure a bit by putting a last longer competition on the community. Kwasozlop, Bizarre12 and VikingsAF were the members that chose me for lasting the longest, so a big thanks to them for trusting in me, but as they know by now I unfortunately wasn’t the good pick. I was doing fine and felt way more relaxed then on Wednesday, so I also could focus better on the poker side of things in this tournament. I went up and down a bit and was playing OK. The funniest hand before the break was when I had KK. I opened from early position, got a call from the cutoff and also the BB called. The flop was AQJ, and the BB open folded to me. Just before the moment I wanted to Cbet, the guy behind me also folded before I could do any action. So I welcomed the chips from the pot because two people folded without me doing anything. Another hand I remember was the hand against YpresX. He shoved his last ~6 BB with 55, I reshoved my ~14 BB with JJ and got no other calls. No cards on the board that helped the 55, so I got some extra BBs. Unfortunately that also meant I eliminated a person from the community. At this point the average stack in tournament was around 20 BBs so everyone was pretty short and I felt I was doing okay. I lasted till the first break, so I was still in after 2 hours of play. Half an hour after that I still got approximately 16 BBs, and I minraised with Ah8h from the cutoff. Got no calls until the BB went all in with his remaining 8 BBs and at that point I decided to make the call. He shows KcTd and I was a slight favourite to win the hand. Unfortunately there was a 10 on the flop and I got no help on turn or river, so at that point I was down to ~8 BBs. I lost three blinds or something and then shoved my remaining 4/5 BBs with K8o. The only thing I really remember from this hand is that it ended up in a 4 way all in on the turn. Allthough I had Kh and there were 3 hearts on the board already (including the Ah), there wasn’t a fourth heart on the river so that meant I was out of the tournament. Luck was not on my side this evening but think I played pretty ok and the most important thing, I had a lot of fun! At that point I went to the other tables to see how MoreTBC and Vongrundal were doing. Vongrundal had a nice big stack and he might even have been chipleader at some point. MoreTBC was very short but managed to win a few chips every time. Lucky for us at that point they got moved to the same table, which made it a lot easier to follow the action. At that point they were crushing the table. I think Vongrundal kept winning hands and also moreTBC got his stack to grew a lot. I don’t want to tell the complete outcome of the final tables, because I think MoreTBC might be going to tell it on his on blog and I don’t want to cut the grass from under his feet (EDIT: He already did in his post). It lasted till 2.30 PM or so, and it was really fun to sweat with the guys and at some point I even got to the feature table with AndreiBN, YpresX and Marco! Friday My dad and I got up a little bit later than normal, and went to the underground to travel to the completely other side from London. There we visited the Tower of London, Tower Bridge and after that, we took the underground to the St. Pauls Cathedral. The underground is a really nice way to travel in London, it is pretty cheap and they will follow up just minutes after each other, so you don’t have to wait long. After the St. Pauls Cathedral we went back to the hotel. The soccer team we support in Holland (FC Twente) had to play on Friday evening, so we watched the game on our laptop. It was a very boring game and it ended up in a draw, so that was a bit disappointing. After the match ended I went back to the casino to have a few drinks with the other guys. It was really fun and at some point a few guys wanted to play a game of poker. We then went back to the hotel and sat down in the lobby. We played some poker and after a few hands Stubbe got his favourite hand 43o, the flop was 42A. I don’t recall the exact action but after a 5 came on the turn Stubbe went all in and Marco called him with A6s [edit by Stubbe: @MarcoV how can you make that call, when you know 43 is the only hand i play? :D] . You can see the river below. As you can see Stubbe was really unlucky and he became the dealer from this moment, which was then again unlucky for MoreTBC, who was sitting to his right. He lost some chips almost every hand just because Stubbe was a bit of a clumsy dealer :) [edit by Stubbe: it was the sleeve of the hoodie, it was the sleeve of the hoodie! - and the beers probably didn't help]. But to be honest, I think we still are all happy he did the job, because I don’t know if the rest of us was capable of doing it any better at that moment. Personally I was eliminated in a 4way all-in with Marco, Vongrundal, VikingsAF and myself, the 4way allins didn’t work out for me this weekend. Marco had 22, I don’t remember exactly what vongrundal had, Vikings had A7 and I had AJ. There was a 7 on the board and suddenly Vikings was the big stack and 3 others were eliminated. I remember Davitsche late regging to the tournament playing pretty aggressive. He got it in with KQ and AndreiBN called him with A3 or A4. AndreiBN won the hand and we were down to three players and if I remember correctly (It was pretty late and I had a few drinks :Smile:) YpresX was eliminated shortly after that. That meant VikingsAF and AndreiBN were heads up. Only remember the final hand where VikingsAF continued his rungood! All-in with 62s against AndreiBN’s 55. I think Vikings made a straight so he won the tournament! After the all-in I think it was 4am or something so I went to bed quickly after it. Saturday After a good night sleep my dad had the idea to visit Wembley. We looked at the website and saw there were only mini tours for that day, because the final of the league cup was on Sunday. We decided to give it a try and took the underground to get there. When we arrived it looked massive from the outside, but it looked even more impressive when we got on the stands. What a big and beautiful stadium that is! They were preparing for the final, so there were some things going on at the pitch that would also happen the next day before the match. It was really nice to see it and really added something to the tour. We then decided to go to Wimbledon to see that stadium also. It was a pretty long travel to get there and because of the community side event I was going to play in the evening we didn’t have enough time to take the whole stadium tour, so we only bought a ticket to visit the centre court and the museum. It was really nice to see the centre court! If you look at the event on the television it looks as a very big stadium, but if you are really standing in the stadium it is way smaller then you would expect. Anyway, it was really nice to see it and after visiting the centre court we took a quick look at the museum. Although I think it is a really nice museum with a lot of interactive things in there, we didn’t had the time to take a really good look at it, so after a quick visit we went back to the hotel. When we arrived back in the hotel, I almost immediately got back to the casino to play the community side event. It was really nice to have a tournament with only people from the community. It had a hyper turbo structure, every 7 minutes the blinds went up, because it was important that it was finished before the bounty tournament. The casino needed the tables we were playing at and some of the community guys were also going to play it, so the structure was fine. I went out after a 3way all-in with AndreiBN and Stubbe. Andrei had A7, I had A8 and eventually Stubbe called with A9. No suckouts this time and Stubbe got us both eliminated. I was fine with it and had a lot of fun in the tournament. I would have loved to pick up a bounty, especially the bounty on MoreTBC’s head. The poo hat was really worth fighting for, but eventually UhlenPoker got it on the final table. Upside from this: Uhlen promised he is going to wear the hat at his next stream, so really looking forward to that! (EDIT: he left it in London, so Marco took it, but eventually he should wear it on one of his streams!) After the side event was finished we watched Vongrundal, AndreiBN and Vikings playing the bounty tournament, but except vongrundal taking one bounty I don’t think anyone else got something out of it. We then went to the players party with some community guys. It was really fun at the players party, but I think I had a few beers to many, especially counting in that I had to leave at 7pm the next morning. We walked home to the hotel with a group I don’t remember from who were in it. I only remember I talked a lot to Davitsche, while Satu was guiding us home perfectly! We arrived back at the hotel between 4 and 4.30 am and I had to leave on 7am, so that was quite a short night. But I still am really happy I didn’t miss it, because I had a really good time and it might be a one-time experience! I had a hangover on Sunday, and when we arrived back on Schiphol I was really tired. When I got in the car I immediately fell asleep and only woke up just before I arrived home. I was completely exhausted after a great weekend! During the event I spoke to a lot of people from the community, Unibet employees and also some of the ambassadors. The beautiful thing that stood out for me this event was that everyone was so friendly and accessible. I heard from Ian, David L and Dara that they are probably all going to stream on twitch in the future, so also really looking forward to that! I think it’s a great improvement for the twitch stream, because last months there wasn’t too much streaming going on at the Unibetpoker channel, but as said before, hopefully and probably this is going to change in the near future! I had a great experience at the Unibet Open in London and I am really grateful I could get there due to the community guys! Also I am really happy that I met a lot of, in the words of AndreiBN, lovely people! Everyone was really friendly and I think we had a great community group together! I had an amazing time and hope to meet some of you again at future Unibet events. I will be playing in Brighton in two weeks, so if you are going there I hope we will meet, it’s always nice to meet some new people! If not, I hope I manage to qualify for one of the other events so I can meet you there, but that is still a long way to go. I am looking forward to the moment I can also participate in this great community, but we will see when it happens. For now, one last thanks to everyone making this community so great. Although I can’t post here, I really like following it and reading all the stuff! A big compliment for Stubbe, Marco and Jeppe for doing a fantastic job! Remco – Remk_95 @BonusPater, @jonny2192, @MarcoV, @DavidP_Unibet, @DaVitsche, @vongrundal, @gommen, @YpresX, @AndreiBN, @MoreTBC, @VikingsAF

Update almost ready. Ended up changing quite a lot more than I had planned. Below a few sneak peeks.