In...if my ID issue gets solved quickly

This. I just don't get it. It would surely not be a problem for South American & Canadian players to start at 11/12 O'clock and you would gain more customers from the whole of Europe and Asia.

Looking foward to it all anyway. Like somebody else said, it's nice to finally be bankrolled for a series...

is there a printable schedule available?

solid nickname

Love the idea of this and hopefully playing quite a few

Byran: For the main event the title says 150k+ to first place however if you look at the payout structure between the entries of 9361 and 28800 the % of prizepool awarded to 1st place would not conform with the 150k to first place.

Apologies if this issue has already been raised

+1 to highroller

For those on AEDT, it makes it hard for people who work full time. A starting time between 4pm and 9pm (ie. 7pm) would be nice.

Also, late reg of 120 min? Is this for normal speed only or turbos as well?

+1 for highroller ;D

This is exactly why I suggested it. So it maintains the integrity of being micro and for micro players.

lol at the highroller demands.
There is a highroller event every single day in the schedule guys.

Keep in mind that this isn't targeted at most of you and $11 buy in IS a highroller event for a micro player. A $55 event would not fit into the concept for this series at all.

....and here you go with the Highroller Event ;-)
IIRC, when Stars did this tourny last December there was a guy claiming he had written a script to rebuy automatically - he held an absurd chip lead at the end of rebuy period.

can't wait to be pissed off the entire series with PS freezing/lagging and the SNG lobby going down 2+ times a day

agreed better time for euros for main event would be nice

the schedule timing is awful if you think about players in Asia.

Bryan, it looks like the max entrants for event 1 was increased from 50,000 to 100,000. Since there were already 14,000+ entrants reg'd for event 1 12 days in advance, it seems pretty obv that a cap of 100,000 entrants is still too low if you want everyone that wishes to play the tournament to be able to play.

This looks like it's going to be a super successful series in terms of player participation, which is awesome. I just hope you guys don't shut people out by having the max entrants set too low for the events.

But the majority of players are in Europe so you have to make a schedule which is best for these.

Also, I just noticed that the structure of the newly deployed event 1 is completely different from the original event 1.

The new one is a turbo w/ 5 minute levels. The original one had 10 minute levels.

The new one has late registration/rebuy period for 20 minutes. The original one had late registration/rebuy period for 60 minutes.

The blind structure of the newly deployed tournament looks like it was intended to mimic the original structure of event 1 except where the starting stack/blinds have been divided by 20. However, there are many levels that are missing if that was the intended goal.

The canceled event 1 lobby states that everyone that was reg'd in it is going to be auto-reg'd in the new event 1. Are those users also going to get a notification about the changes to the event structure?

Several of the pay structures will be updated this coming week, either due to tournament expansion beyond what we have pay tables for (Event 01, for example), or to make a few tweaks to make sure they're in-line with requirements.

Well said.

All players who were registered in the old Event 01 have been emailed, and the changes to the format were pointed out to them. The registrations are processing now, though this will take a while to complete (by the end of tonight, I reckon... I'm feeding them in, and watching the system process them, etc).

As for the structure, it is as you say modified. The blinds-to-stack ratio is intended to be the same, though it's not really possible for it to be precisely the same at all levels due to not being able to have incremental chips in play. I have tweaked it since you wrote the above post, bringing it even closer to an exact 20:1 relationship (old:new)... thanks for the feedback.

Looks good.

It will be cool to see how big this series is. My completely off the cuff guess is that total prize pools will exceed $20 million, 4x the guarantees.

pics of hat?

This the main event should def be earlier..

again, the tournament series are never Asia-time zone friendly. Another failure.

Bump , any chance me is rescheduled

Bryan, I know you're probably already on top of this, but just in case I wanted to point out the blind structure issue with event 2 (well, all of the $1 3x-Turbo+R events).

You've got the blinds capping at 1M/2M. This same tournament ran on Sunday and got about 20K players, and with all of the rebuys/add-ons, the blinds ended up capping at 1M/2M before the final table, and the final table played very deep for a turbo (I think HU each player had over 200BB).

Assuming Event 2 reaches 50K players (which is quite probable), and assuming people go nuts with rebuying (it's a 3x-Turbo, so again, quite probably) if nothing is done with the chip/blind structure the event will take ages to complete as the entire final table may well have 80-100BB with blinds being capped at 1M/2M.

Looking good! Only moving the ME to an earlier time would be perfect!