MicroMillions II (July 2012) -- Discussion Thread

[roscoe91]

I think the Event No1 is wayyy too top heavy paid. Only 100 places paid when the registrations will probably be somewhere around 50,000. That means only 0.2% places paid !

[DaBigBoss86]

Bryan, please tell your French colleague that he has to put up a Leaderboard for PokerStars.fr's upcoming Micro Series!

In my opinion, every Tournament Series needs a Player of the Year Leaderboard ...

[V-Delaney]

Originally Posted by roscoe91

I think the Event No1 is wayyy too top heavy paid. Only 100 places paid when the registrations will probably be somewhere around 50,000. That means only 0.2% places paid !

lol it changes as more people reg obv. Will probably be 12-15%

[Mph]

This simple tool might help you with creating your own schedule for this series.
This tool can convert starting time of the tournament from ET to any GMT -t/+t for the entire series.
Manual is also inside.

https://rapidshare.com/files/3205177...edule_eng.xlsx

The only problem you can face is dates.
If the tournament begins, for instance, at 16 july 23:00 (ET) and your're in GMT 0 time zone than you will see that tournament begins 3:00 (GMT0) but still 16 july, not 17.
Even though it's not a big deal I believe.

Anyway, it's gonna be nice if someone want to make some updates on this or things like that.

[TeamTrousers]

Originally Posted by V-Delaney

lol it changes as more people reg obv. Will probably be 12-15%

Actually, this one doesn't. It's explicitly advertised as top 100 paid.

A mincash worth 20c is pretty pointless though, so having top 100 paid and a mincash probably being >$30 is quite a good idea imo. Also makes the FT prizes very juicy indeed because there isn't a long tail of thousands of prizes of <$1 eating up the prize pool - first will probably be $2,500, which is pretty sick for a 10c buyin.

[roscoe91]

Originally Posted by TeamTrousers

A mincash worth 20c is pretty pointless though, so having top 100 paid and a mincash probably being >$30 is quite a good idea imo. Also makes the FT prizes very juicy indeed because there isn't a long tail of thousands of prizes of <$1 eating up the prize pool - first will probably be $2,500, which is pretty sick for a 10c buyin.

Oh, come on! Like you haven't heard before of the rebuy 3x-turbos.. The mincash wouldn't be 20c but more like $2 and they could do it a little bit more top heavy than the rest of the 3x-turbos for a bigger mincash. But only 100 places paid?! That's ridiculous! It's like trying to make the final table of a turbo tournament with 5,000 registr. just to get in the money!
Anyway, i don't think a lot of people will care since we're talking about a 10c tournament but just saying...

[The Nemesis]

its only for 1 tourney, so if u dont like it, no biggie, there's plenty more games to chose from.

personally, i think its a pretty cool idea. bubble could get a bit extreme.

[Svizac]

First, thanks Pokerstars for caring for micro-tourney players!

I love big tournament series like MicroMillions, SCOOP etc and will try to play as much events as possible. However it could be better here are my arguments about the schedule:

1. Why does 8-game start at 8am CET? This start time screws europeans and canadians while favors Asia & Pacific and as far as i know mixed games aren't popular there.

2. No No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw? IMO that game is much more popular than you think, more popular than Fixed Limit 2-7 Triple Draw. Even WSOP has 2 of those.

3. Too many $1 rebuys on the schedule, 13 total out of 100 events? I would like to see less of those and more $1-$4 non rebuy turbos (like hot $3,30 for example).

4. Also $1 and $2 rebuy tournaments on the schedule have absurdly large add-on. 30 000 chips addon is just ridicolous it enables most players to double their stacks by taking it. It makes the entire rebuy phase a waste of time. Should be reduced to 10 000.

[V-Delaney]

Originally Posted by Svizac

4. Also $1 and $2 rebuy tournaments on the schedule have absurdly large add-on. 30 000 chips addon is just ridicolous it enables most players to double their stacks by taking it. It makes the entire rebuy phase a waste of time. Should be reduced to 10 000.

30k is only 10-12BBs in a 3x t

[The1Messiah]

I find the 1 dollar 3x turbo rebuy tourneys not intended for a microstakes player at all. Its a ridiculous format for those that wanna "play poker" Its not poker, its just a preflop-shoving/coinflip donkfest and praying somehow to get to the final table that way. Sure, I can understand the appeal for those that have limited time, I play them too, but it sure aint micro....

Also whats really upsetting is the lack of variety in these micromillions. 90% of the tourneys are no limit holdem events. Very disappointing, there ought to be 2 or three different formats for the Stud/Horse/8 Game/FL Holdem events- but there aren't, instead we have all these 2/3 x turbo rebuy donkfest NL games that are there EVERY DAY.

[NZgirl]

Not enough Horse / 8G / Fixed limit 08 / PLO8 / Draw

1 of each in 100 tournaments isn't enough.

2c added.

NZG

[FaraChef]

There's nothing changed at the so-called "special edition" sunday storm.Same guarantee same crappy structure.It has a worse structure than other regular speed MM tourneys wich tilts me.
Also i understand that some people must love the 3x turbo format,otherwise they wouldn't achieve such high prize pools,but so many of them and all hit my schedule while i miss the 8 game(as already said bad starting time).
That aside,cool schedule.

[D James]

Hi Bryan,

Will you release a google Cal, like you did for the previous MM and all other Series?

It's nice to have the Tourneys in my Calendar with the correct Timezones, or did i just missed it?

cheers

[ichild]

Seconded for the Google Calendar, that was pretty cool for SCOOP

[Mike_McDee]

The 10c rebuy is going to be insane. I can see myself having 30-40 rebuys, lol.
Not too thrilled about the fact that there's only one 8-game tourny and one badugi.
I know holdem is a popular game but cmon!

A 10-game mix tourny like the wsop would have been awesome too, but oh well.