totally agree. make it 2 day with a 9hr day 1, or move everything back 2 hrs, or back to 15min levels.

Only because I have a $109 ticket I would not be registering any 20 minute levels it's too fkn long.

This was just unfortunate because it had been delayed for 2.5 hrs. Although please please consider variable time levels/new structure to cut the early levels short. Yesterday After 2hrs of play bb was 160 and we were already past midnight. Was just a disaster. I've made a pretty reasonable suggestion I guess so please look into it if you don't have the technology to implement VLT. i understand you can't change it now during powerfest, but please reconsider the structures after it.

so it ended on the 8th or before, it was there on the 8th and i opted in and have played 3 109s from the 8th , pretty stupid to have it availiable if u aint gonna vouch it

also i thought it was play 3 109s or 215s not 4? :P

F2T yesterday in 2130 GMT one, lasted 10 hours from the start with little over 800 players toget 18 players. These structured are hideous.

5000 chips starting stack, 15 min levels for first 8 levels and 20 min after that and it'll be little shorter with no problem.

I think it is opposite - fish love to rebuy with 10bb; faster structure at early levels equals more rebuys. I think PP should start with T50, T100, T150, T200, T250, T300, T400, T500, T600, T800, T1000 and T1200 in exchange for more levels at later stages. With a structure like that players will get 8bb with starting stack at the end of LR.

Oh boy,
please make sure you never again have 20min level on weedays. This Pokerfest will run for 12h+, which will be 08:00CET-09:00CET, no rec-Player will be playing again if it takes that long. 15 Min Lev. where perfect as the Game went 10h so it was finihesd 06:00CET, which was for everyone a doable thing.
I gonna skip every 20min Fest from now as im not willing to play 6h one table and be awake that long.

Does it mean another daily MTT which finishes at 6am every day?

Yeah, wasn't rly necessary to change the contender from 12->15Min, it takes to long now aswell It was pretty perfect with 12min. In this one so many rec-players are playing, they want to have some fun, which they have due to the deepstructure @ the beginning, but wont play forever. please change it back to 12 min and keep in Mind that your main market is EU, so plan tourneys for EU players, meaning pretty much no weekday MTT which starts before 22:00 CET shpuld take longer then 4-5CET.
Your 23:00 55$ 5k Counterpunch shouldn't be 12min as it take just to long, make it 10min and way more players would play it.
You should take Length and Finishtime more into consideration when implementing games.

+1 Ive stopped playing counterpunch too

I`ve asked for 5k starting stack in Counterpunch.

two 530 powerfests starting 1 hr apart tomorrow (facepalm)

It's already been mentioned. Interesting to see how it pans out all the same!

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Finished at 5am last night. When I FT'ed it a few weeks ago it finished just after 3am.

After tonight, I will not register this tournament again until it reverts back to 12 minute blinds.

me looking at the powerfest #81 event in the break

bb30/60

nope, not yet

Ditto.

i think all poker sites fail to some extent in this regard.

all peak majors should look to finish within around a 3hr window (say 2am-5am UK time), and schedules and structures manipulated to fit in to that. put capped entrants on certain mtts if need be.

similarly, early mtts (ones that start in euro morning/midday) and late night mtts (midnight and after) should also have a targeted window. it would make it so much easier to plan a playing schedule, and put in more volume.

as an example, it blows my mind that on stars that they dont swap over the big 109 (standard finish 2am) and big 55 (standard finish 630 am) to both finish at around 4am. similarly for big 22 and big 11. oftentimes, i skip big 11 and big 55, because im old and i hate late nights (grrrr)

Your tourneys look awesome, party. Still not playing because the early game is too_damn_slow. It's not even that the tournies last forever because they're not that slow once they get going, but damn, taking 4-5 hours to reach itm on a daily 22$ makes me very sad. This kind of structure is ok on your 500k 215$ tomorrow, but god damnit you made that one 20 minute levels and it'll last until 10am or something extremely stupid. If you want this structure it's a must to make it a 2-day event.

I go to sleep at ~3am most days and I'm willing to stay up a little later on a sunday if the tourney is really nice, but I would pretty much die if I ran deep in this one.

Great job with the series , Nothing wrong with 20 min levels during their pokerfest series IMO.

+100 about early game being too deep. rather make it faster in the beginning and compensate for that during deeper stages, will make for a much better overall structure.

to me, this is the single biggest turnoff from regging a lot of tourneys on party and instead im only playing there sporadically.

** powerfest week 3 Main event **

Hi all

Its the day of our week3 main event #84 - $500K GTD $215 buy in @20:00CET
You can check out the qualifiers in the game lobby click on Qualifiers for this Tournament
On todays line up we also have x3 $109 buy ins - events #83, 85 and 86

Week4 - our final week - kicks off this evening with events #87 and #88

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http://www.partypoker.com/blog/powerfest-update.html

Thanks

Colette

Wont be playing the Pokerfest Sunday main today because it is starting far too late for a 12 hour + mtt at 7pm.

Easy fix though :
Either
1. make these big deep 20 min level mtts 2 day events or
2.Make the starting stack 5k rather than 10k, or eliminate a couple of early levels.

Barley any point in playing for the 1st 2 hours given current structure.

Does anyone know how long time it takes to cash out to neteller using partypoker?