Getting Started on Ujogo - Poker Basics

Getting Started

At Ujogo, we want your free poker experience to be as competitive and realistic as possible. We have designed our games and site to allow online poker players to not only win great prizes, but also to track how they would fare if their Ujogo Cash were an actual personal bankroll.

Here are several ways to enhance your poker experience at Ujogo:

How to Get Started - Ujogo Poker Basics

Set up a profile on your MyPage.
Review site and personal statistics.
Meet new people.
Compete in monthly leaderboard contests.
Find out how to win special jackpots.
Learn the rules of the game and poker basics.
Watch online poker training and educational videos.

How Game Play Works:

Here are the poker basics and features that we have added to even the playing field, to allow you to track your success, and to help you become a better poker player:

All new poker players start with the same $1,000 in Ujogo Cash. No player can start with more.
Ujogo players will be allowed to refresh up to a current Ujogo Cash balance of $1,000 at any time.
Every time that chips are replenished, that player's My Account will reflect that a "line of credit" has been taken. This 'line of credit' is not real money and is simply designed to show players how successful they have been. The 'line of credit' can be repaid at a later date when a sufficient amount of Ujogo Cash has been won. This also means that players can have a lifetime negative balance. (Note: We will allow players to hide this piece of information.)
'Lines of credit' taken in periods preceding the current monthly leaderboard competition will not impact that player's leaderboard eligible point totals.
Ujogo has created a limit for the amount of times that players with negative balances can refresh over a one-hour period. This is designed to significantly reduce "all-in" behavior that has plagued the site.
There will be a Ujogo Cash component for all games, not just ring games. This means that in addition to the ability to win prizes in our tournaments, players will also receive Ujogo Cash for finishing "in the money" in Sit N Go's and Tournaments.
Sit N Go's and Poker Tournaments will have a Ujogo Cash entry fee, and in the future Ring Games will have a rake. This is all designed to reflect real casino play.
Players will be able to track their performance from Account History tables and graphs from their My Page. In fact, you can also track the performance of other players as well.

In addition, Ujogo will be adding additional educational and community features such as additional poker analytical tools, blogs, forums and poker home games.

If there are poker training and reporting features that you believe would make our site even more realistic, please send us an email at suggestions@ujogo.com.