Cool. I played in the cage and put in the survey that have ~60% of the field cash doesn't seem like battle-to-the-death cage like environment they were going for. I got last place in the money too but feel like it'd be better this way. Also, no reason people need 3 mins for the whole tournament - just increases stalling. Looking forward to The November cage.

They have a bunch of satellites leading to one actually qualifier? So all the money dumped into these (buy in for 1.50) is only going towards one actually buy in? maybe final table. I agree with most of these posts on here saying there needs to be a mini cage to attract more people. The hefty buy in is whats scaring people off.

Uhmmm.... so who thought a 3.30 1R/1A to the 30+3 was satellite was a good idea?

(Seriously the satellites to all these promos need to be revisited and thought out better.)

Hyper-turbo 6 max steps please!!! Start step 1 with around $3 buyin. Follow Full Tilt payout structure for steps. Make sure players earn rakeback for all steps regardless of how they bought in for said step (ticket or straight buyin). Print monies!!!

Cage is a great idea, but more direct qualifiers IMO!!! Why not run a direct sattelite on Sundays??

The cage got like 50 people last time right? Only 25 this time, not sure it's something that is sustainable on a monthly bases. $5K buy ins is very large for American sites.

Maybe a $1K cage would go over better? I know I'd play that, but $5K is too much to only win like 2-5x your buy in.

On average should be added to the end of that last sentence. Only 3/25 people (maybe 4 I forget) made more than 2x their buy in this time.

I think it got like 66 last time....tonight only 25. I missed last time but was considering hopping in tonight. When I saw only 25 ppl regged I interpreted that to mean there was latereg, or else the reg/fish ratio would be much worse this go-around.

Then I found out there was no latereg (could you not have put this at least ONE place in the lobby?!!) so didn't feel bad about not regging if only 25 ppl entered. 5k is a lot of money for a novelty tournament and sometimes you want to rail the action to get a feel before jumping in to make sure you're not just throwing money away. Can you add a limited latereg period next time?

That said, I think the cage is a great idea and while the current 5k cage won't grow the network, having like a 1k cage and slapping a 100k guarantee on it, or a 100 dollar cage and a 30k guarantee I think would. You could probably run the latter once per week and it'd be a huge hit and attract a bunch of new players.

That'd be pretty fun. A 1k or even a $100 cage.

blinds .25-.50 5 cent ante, then .5-1 and finally 1-2.

given the amount of entrants it could go up to $2-$4 imo. that would be great.

scale the levels back to 1 hour and you have a 4 hour event that isnt too long or too short and it has the players to pack a punch.


$100 sunday weekly cage, with re-entries during first level

yea a 100 wud b nice. people will line up to play that, regs and fish alike. if they add a bi-weekly 1k for higher buy in players the network will attract a ton of players

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honestly i think its that we just need to check it out and be open minded. i railed it and now I want to play. not many players on it but the whole concept to me is pretty dope. If you win a ticket can you save it for a future event?

$200+15 sunday cage match

4 lvls - 45 minutes each or 6 with 30 minute lvls +3/6 and 5/10

.25/.50
.50/1
1/2
2/4

Is that like a mini cage tourney?

that would be fun. but the blinds should start at .50-$1 so the starting stack is 200 bbs like the 5k cage. but yea i agree, a weekly sunday cage with a $100-$1000 buyin would be very fun, i'd play every week!

it seems dumb to me to roll out this innovative form of poker, but have it inaccessible to 90%+ of people you want playing on your site.

you announced it -> "this sounds cool" -> look up details -> "...so i have a small chance to satellite into a $5k cash game where i'm locked into playing with HS players for 4 hours, lol no thanks."

why no smaller Cage matches every week? why not even smaller nighties? why not on-demand 27-man 2 hour/3 levels for $250?

you guys developed an interesting new way to play poker then told your player base "bring $5k, or you can watch." i've been looking for reasons to deposit here for 2 weeks now and all i find are reasons not to.

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100% agree with the above.

Yep, clearly a bunch of us want a smaller version of The Cage.

$100 micro cage

$250 small cage

$500 mid cage

$1000 high cage

Run satellites

Profit?

Have 36 man On Demand Cage Games that run for 2-3 hours

There isn't a difference between $100 and $250 really. If they were to do it your way (and I think it's a solid idea) it'd be better if it was like a $30, $200, $500, $1K. I don't even think they should take away the $5K, but every month is pretty ambitious for something with a huge buy in and a small % of return on your investment. If anything, it needs to pay less people. Who really wants to put up $5K when only like 10-15% of the field makes more than twice their buy in? With that kind of return you're much better off just sitting down at a 25/50 game.

I like the Buy-In amounts. Do something like:

$50-Daily

$200-Weekly

$500-Bi-Weekly

$1K-Monthly

$5K-Bi-Monthly or Quarterly

See how it responds and optimize based off the numbers

no need to make it too complicated. just increase the stakes by 5x with a small, mid, and high stakes cage.

$200 weekly small stakes cage
$1k bi-weekly mid stakes cage
$5k monthly high stakes cage

mix in some PLO and there's something for practically everyone.

agreed....I think a $30 or $50 would do well.

Thing is know winning won't fix it. They have shown they look at our suggestions and will do nothing. Or make a joke about it like 'Winning CEO' did. This site is a joke

They really should do a nightly lowers stakes version, like 200 or 100 dollars. They'll easily get players for that. I mean if they do 30-50 they'll likely get a lot of players in it nightly, and they should really be doing a Sunday night 1k Cage.