Unibet, 3 months freeroll experience and withdraw

In case CC wants to expand to another room, I would recommend Unibet (I also play at pokerstars, 888poker and william hill).
Since the 3 months that I play there I find (compared to pokerstars and 888poker):
+ the software ok
+ the freeroll + ticket games ok (have not tried anything else yet)
+ withdrawal without deposit, I requested a withdrawal via bank transfer (within Europe), money was in my bank account the next day, 0% cost.

Some minor things for improvement:
- cpu load of the windows client is (very) high; 100% compared to 10% for pokerstars and 15% for 888poker on the same pc. A more modern pc / graphics card may solve this
- seems sensitive for high network load; but nothing problematic
- the pot chips sometimes cover part of the community cards (so far all cards have been sufficiently readable)
- some, not related to current game, info is an overlay over some player ID's, but not dramatic. I did not find a way to switch it off, but also didn't ask.
- when moved to another table, it takes a while; easily 1 minute, irrespective if the game has 1000 players, or changes from 1 to 2 tables during late registration.

8bod8 said:

...- cpu load of the windows client is (very) high; 100% compared to 10% for pokerstars and 15% for 888poker on the same pc...

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I hate that about Unibet, it makes my laptop overheat (shut off). I have stopped playing there because of that.

How much withdrawn without deposit of you ?

kingarthurrov said:

How much withdrawn without deposit of you ?

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Only 21 euros.

I have a 7 year old laptop. I'm playing on Unibet right now and it's using 1.2% of my CPU and 3.4% of my GPU. So I'd say that's normal. But yeah I love Unibet too.

bbennie1 said:

I have a 7 year old laptop. I'm playing on Unibet right now and it's using 1.2% of my CPU and 3.4% of my GPU. So I'd say that's normal. But yeah I love Unibet too.

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Agree, that's more normal.
Somewhere I read that it's the 'correct' GPU that prevents the cpu from overheating.

Pokerguy6666 said:

I hate that about Unibet, it makes my laptop overheat (shut off). I have stopped playing there because of that.

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I wouldn't recommend running 100% cpu on a laptop.
If it's switching off, quite likely there is either/or (in combination with high cpu load):
1) dust blocking the fan exhaust (it's inside the fan, so you need to take the whole thing apart)
2) insufficient or dried-up cooling past on the cpu/chipset
- rarely it's a poorly designed laptop
I fixed a few laptops by cleaning the fan and replacing cooling paste very successfully. Usually you can do it yourself, google for how to take it apart.

Is Unibet available to players in the US?

Pablo22 said:

Is Unibet available to players in the US?

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I'm not from the USA, but I doubt it.
Maybe someone from USA can confirm?

no for usa

I was searching in the tournament lobby , but I can't see too much freerolls maybe just 1 per day , if I'm wrong please give details about the freerolls you play there because I'm interested on Unibet .

AgentXtreme said:

I was searching in the tournament lobby , but I can't see too much freerolls maybe just 1 per day , if I'm wrong please give details about the freerolls you play there because I'm interested on Unibet .

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My friend, I have yet to come across a poker room that has more freerolls than Unibet!


Go to the main screen > tournament (left side of the screen) > full schedule > filter (left side of the screen) > scroll the buy-in to $0.00-$0.00.

strange, below a screenshot I just made (only very few are restricted):

bbennie1 said:

I have a 7 year old laptop. I'm playing on Unibet right now and it's using 1.2% of my CPU and 3.4% of my GPU. So I'd say that's normal. But yeah I love Unibet too.

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hi,
Do you mind sharing what cpu/gpu you are using?
I'll put together another pc, dedicated to poker (I don't want poker clients snooping around in my work pc; I know they do, just to prevent abuse).

8bod8 said:

hi,
Do you mind sharing what cpu/gpu you are using?
I'll put together another pc, dedicated to poker (I don't want poker clients snooping around in my work pc; I know they do, just to prevent abuse).

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It's a laptop though.
My CPU is i7-3630 QM @ 2.40GHz
GPU is Nvidia GT 650m.
I have the poker stuff installed on a SSD along with windows, so I don't know if that matters.

Good luck.

bbennie1 said:

It's a laptop though.
My CPU is i7-3630 QM @ 2.40GHz
GPU is Nvidia GT 650m.
I have the poker stuff installed on a SSD along with windows, so I don't know if that matters.

Good luck.

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Thanks for sharing,
Seems a well balanced laptop.
I use desktop with (very old) core2duo 6700 and geforce 8600GT, conventional hdd (should not make a difference).
Cannot explain to >50* times higher cpu load based on cpu&gpu differences.
Probably they use a feature missing in my hardware.

8bod8 said:

Thanks for sharing,
Seems a well balanced laptop.
I use desktop with (very old) core2duo 6700 and geforce 8600GT, conventional hdd (should not make a difference).
Cannot explain to >50* times higher cpu load based on cpu&gpu differences.
Probably they use a feature missing in my hardware.

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So to try I swapped the gforce with a few years less old ati radeon hd5450.
Problem solved/confirmed its the gpu that matters.

Unibet certainly has its bad points but the fact I can make far more money on there than anywhere else more than makes up for the negatives.

Agree, I just discovered the excellent features on pokestars to limit the max buy in.
Apart from addiction, it's also very useful to prevent accidental clicks, where in 1 click you spend 90% of the bankroll.