I play a lot of $25 & $10NL at UB. Saw all the hoo-ha around the Rai$e bonus structure. Basically what it boils down to for anyone who can't clear the top levels (and I don't see how you would unless you're playing $100NL +... and a lot of it) is that it's now AT LEAST twice as hard to clear bonus $. Used to be 10 Ultimate points per $1 clear. Now it works out at 20 / $1 once you work through the crazy math of multipliers that they've built in to mask the change. And since you only accrue UB points for hands you play, it will take 2x f-in forever to clear bonus dollars for anyone running reasonably tight and not multi-tabling like a mad man.

Oh ... and they only release bonus in increments of $10... which at "Contender" level requires 600 Ultimate points which is no small feat.

UB always used to be a b!tch to clear the bonus at lower stakes... now I think it's damn near impossible.

Too bad, 'cause it's still my favorite software around...