Unibet reacted well after a technical fault prevented players from adding on during a €50k GTD competition designed to celebrate half a billion hands; Espen Uhlen Jorstad completes a 24-hr Twitch marathon; David Pomroy gets a bump.

In 2014, Unibet decided to leave the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN). There were no spasms of anxiety, only confidence – in the team, the product, and a thorough understanding of their customer.

Three years later and their parent company The Kindred Group picked up the award for Innovation in Poker at the EGR Operator Marketing and Innovation Awards, not bad when you consider the vast monolithic facades they are in competition against.

But that wasn’t the only thing going on in Unibet Towers this week. The online poker room celebrated dealing half a billion hands by hosting a €50,000 GTD online tournament, the highest in their history.