*** OFFICIAL PokerStars MTTSNG Suggestion Thread ***

[mcfc1234]

+1 to a 180 leaderboard this would be awesome!

also pleaseeeee add a higher buyin 180 like $50/$60, I think this would attract both, recreational players and grinders because the payouts will be so nice

[Mr_Paintball]

Game liquidity makes a ton of sense and why sudden and small changes shouldn't be made. As "cool" or "awesome" it maybe to add another level 180, could have a monster negative effect to the regulars that play them. The risk reward doesn't seem legit imo.

As far as the leader-board is concerned, merging 45's and/or 180s into a BOP would be pretty sweet. Even if it meant higher rake per game I would be all for this where rake would be redistributed via BOP. Think because of the high amounts of volume people put in these anything else besides a BOP style leader-board would be useless.

[PS Walmsley]

We are considering various options for changes to leaderboards for Sit & Gos. Some of those potential options include a separate leaderboard for 45-180s, re-structuring Battle of the Planets or perhaps even a completely new approach to promoting Sit & Gos.

As has been noted in the thread, a survey seeking feedback on leaderboards and Battle of the Planets has been sent out to a representative group of players. If feedback from the survey indicates that Battle of the Planets isn’t a major factor for players when deciding what to play, we would consider changing to a simpler, cut-down version and diverting funds to other SNG promotions instead.

If anyone has any promotional ideas for Sit & Gos, by all means suggest them in this thread. Bear in mind that one of the major reasons for any promotion is to encourage new players to play Sit & Gos, although they have to make business sense as well. So while “Free money for all SNG players!” would no doubt boost the player pool, we probably wouldn’t go for that

Promotions should aim to attract new players rather than just moving a player from one game to another. Also consider the possibility of promotional ideas that might not benefit you immediately, but would indirectly benefit you in the longer term by boosting the player pool and making games more attractive.

[Vrilya]

Originally Posted by Mr.Aros

Ok, then i understand why there is only one buy-in for 180 regulars.
But are you sure that the turbo-lovers would leave for the 15 min regular?
There are 4 buy-ins for turbos at 180 man, but only one buy-in for regular 180 man.

But i guess poker stars has a good understanding of their customers and if there were a demand for lower 180regular buy-ins they already would exist

Im not so sure, its seem those who screem 'turbo' all the time are the loudest. But are they the majority, too?

[Teebor]

A timer until the next blind increase would be good.

[mckrogh]

Originally Posted by Teebor

A timer until the next blind increase would be good.

Use "info" tab?

[striiing]

could be worth looking into promoting pot limit omaha, its more of a action game and the gap between the level of play between the regs and the new players wouldnt be as great. Maybe adding a ante in the later stages of omaha sitngos and tournaments, unless there is a reason why there is no ante?
It would be interesting to know if new players play more or less than new players 5 years ago.

[Teebor]

Originally Posted by mckrogh

Use "info" tab?

Bit of a pain when playing a lot of tables and it doesn't give seconds.

[Curious George]

Originally Posted by PS Walmsley

We are considering various options for changes to leaderboards for Sit & Gos. Some of those potential options include a separate leaderboard for 45-180s, re-structuring Battle of the Planets or perhaps even a completely new approach to promoting Sit & Gos.

As has been noted in the thread, a survey seeking feedback on leaderboards and Battle of the Planets has been sent out to a representative group of players. If feedback from the survey indicates that Battle of the Planets isn’t a major factor for players when deciding what to play, we would consider changing to a simpler, cut-down version and diverting funds to other SNG promotions instead.

If anyone has any promotional ideas for Sit & Gos, by all means suggest them in this thread. Bear in mind that one of the major reasons for any promotion is to encourage new players to play Sit & Gos, although they have to make business sense as well. So while “Free money for all SNG players!” would no doubt boost the player pool, we probably wouldn’t go for that

Promotions should aim to attract new players rather than just moving a player from one game to another. Also consider the possibility of promotional ideas that might not benefit you immediately, but would indirectly benefit you in the longer term by boosting the player pool and making games more attractive.

Pleeeeease don't make the leaderboard as luck based as Battle of the Planets. MTT type leaderboards are just so much better.

[JD Klinkz]

Maybe a type of leaderboard that takes into account the amount of tables you are playing as well; In a type of average. That way both new players who play 4 tables won't get CRUSHED by 40 tabling regs in the leaderboard.
I suggest this just because the leaderboard will basically become about who can pump out the highest volume (like merges), which isn't going to attract new players when they figure this out.

Basically some kind of method that will show the skill edge a player has but isn't dominated by volume so that it is the same x amount of regs in the top places.

[thearthurdog]

^^ no offence sir, but there is no way this will happen.

[anzhei]

+1 for $8/180s nonturbo

[JD Klinkz]

Originally Posted by thearthurdog

^^ no offence sir, but there is no way this will happen.

I know but thought I'd throw that kind of idea out there. The whole point of the leaderboards is ultimately to increase rake so obv they are gonna make it volume heavy to try and get players how play 2k a month to play 3k

[furo]

Originally Posted by anzhei

+1 for $8/180s nonturbo

trust me 8/180s are too low to increase your hourly longterm.

fme there will be 4 or 5 4s running and one bigger one. so you increase the ABI by 1$ or something, with 15s (even if they just run ~15% as often as 4s) the ABI would be higher + you can still mix them in when moving up to midstakes.

[-Gio-]

More Heads Up MTT please!