***OFFICIAL Stars 2015 MTT Discussion Thread*** - Page 132 - MTT Poker Strategy

Need a tourney that plays as HU Hyper for first 3 rounds then plays as normal mtt for the remaining 12.5 percent of the field all with same starting stacks and playing ITM.

Possibly one around 55 40K sunday where say if there are 1000 entrants... after 3 HU hyper rounds field is down to 125, and all start with same stack and are ITM... just throwing it out there... its hu flipaments but with some edge... unlike FTP All In flipaments..

05-23-2015 , 05:59 AM

#3278

AnFiieLd.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rounder63

I strongly disagree that people dont enjoy rebuys.

Look at 8r 8c 11c structures got fixed and gtds went up so they are worth playing

The rebuys that are dieing is because the GTDs are just make them not worth playing.

I think with some tinkering can fix most of them.

Maybe im old and witherrrrrrrrring but actually enjoy playing the game instead of flipping

05-23-2015 , 06:33 AM

#3279

ChopSueyyy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FreeThinkMX420

any chance of a midstakes championship of poker 11$- 320$ buyins.

yeah, its called SCOOP

05-23-2015 , 09:37 AM

#3280

broken_jia

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Congrats on the gig, Luke. I look forward to future interactions with you.

Any thoughts on improving the structure of the $530 PLO and PLO8 so that they are more inline with the Super Tuesday and Thursday Thrill?

Also, I wanted to make you aware of a separate thread that has been used to discuss non-holdem games. Will you be popping into that thread as well?

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/61...1/index24.html

05-23-2015 , 09:42 AM

#3281

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Originally Posted by PokerStars Luke

Speaking of PSKO, the 18:35 $55 PLO 6-Max is now PSKO. It was either that or removing it from the deployment!

Yes good idea. Although as it starts around H44 id say running it as a turbo would be inf more successful. A whole lot of people are ending their sessions then and wont be regging reg speed games.

I'd think a lot of the H44 field will play another 50 turbo at that time though. Especially one with as much action as a 6 max plo psko has.

05-23-2015 , 10:08 AM

#3282

sirluckbox

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChopSueyyy

yeah, its called SCOOP

Needs to be $11-$82 and have a lot more nlhe, scoop is more about mixed games.

05-23-2015 , 10:45 AM

#3283

FlipMaster08

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Put a 33$ FO 5k @18:15 et, dead zone for low/mid stake players. Only have a dead 5r and a awful 4q.
You need to make people reg till the nigthlys. I already said that a lot of times and get zero reply from stars.

edit: After 33$ 4k @09:15 et, the next 33 FO is 23:00 et, dont know why we cant have a 33$ in the middle/peak time.

05-23-2015 , 10:47 AM

#3284

Asjbaaaf

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Quote:

Originally Posted by fivetypes

yup agreed. would play it 100% of days i play the hot 44 if its a turbo, but prob under 50% of days if its a reg speed(will only reg if deep in another reg speed or someth, dont wanna be up for hours 1 tabling it when you bust all the turbs) maybe the fieldsize/runtime will be short enough anyway, but will be interesting

05-23-2015 , 12:22 PM

#3285

rounder63

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Quote:

Originally Posted by norfair18

Luke, what is your take on the relationship between guarantees and participation in tournaments? This recently has been a point of contention between many players and Bryan. Simply speaking, most players agree guarantees drive participation and aggressive guarantees promote growth in tournaments. Whereas Stars business practices recently have been to lower tournaments at any time a tournament's guarantee seems to be threatened by an overlay. This reduction in guarantee then further decreases participation further decreasing the guarantees in an endless loop. Many tournaments have been killed off this way in the past year.

We've also talked about how guarantees need to be adjusted based on the day of the week. Clearly traffic is greater on Tuesdays and Thursdays with the ST and Thrill, yet the Big109 was recently lowered to 80k from 100k because it overlayed on a few mondays. Nevermind that it was doing great on most other days of the week...they all unnecessarily received lower guarantees too, further reducing traffic. The sunday edition guarantees are a great start...i hope they can be further expanded to the weekdays. 888 has adjusted their guarantees very aggressively on their 162 Crocodile tournament based on the day of the week and it performs fantastic. So there is precedent for this model being highly successful.

I hope you can keep the guarantees up as much as possible, and not lower them until it's clear tournaments cannot sustain them long-term. Also tournaments that fantastically over-perform their guarantees (there are many) need to be raised too.

Spot on, I witness it with my own eyes, Im in there slugggggggggggering it out everyday

05-23-2015 , 12:51 PM

#3286

rounder63

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I dont see how adding a 700 on saturday could possibly be negative?

05-23-2015 , 01:23 PM

#3287

margenov

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I've asked this before and I will ask it again - Can we expect a fix of the structure of Montly 100 FPP 30,000$ ? Something like Big structure with first levels 6 min, then 8 min and then 10 min levels?

05-23-2015 , 02:52 PM

#3288

I AmLegend11

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Quote:

Originally Posted by margenov

+1

The Monthly 100k also needs to be corrected.

Update the both of them to 3k starting stack with:

10 min levels in the weekly 30k

12 min levels in the monthly 100k

with antes from the start of the tournament.

The Supernova 1M is a beautiful tournament but can we get antes from the start as well please?

05-23-2015 , 03:37 PM

#3289

DanteA

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Congratulations to your new position, Luke. Good luck to you, Bryan.

Luke, what do you think about a small/mid stakes rebuy tournament? $11 Sunday Rebuy, 44 Sunday Rebuy and the already existing 109 Sunday Rebuy?

05-23-2015 , 05:05 PM

#3290

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Strange decision to postpone expanding the bigs and Saturday 2 event. Both bound to be extremely successful. I can literally think of no drawbacks to getting them on the schedule in June.

05-23-2015 , 05:10 PM

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I can tell you the drawback.

What tournaments are you removing to fit them into the schedule?

Answer that question and I bet you can get them on the schedule sooner.

05-23-2015 , 06:15 PM

#3292

rounder63

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This 215 six max prog should run every saturday or on another day.

05-23-2015 , 06:35 PM

#3293

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rounder63

This 215 six max prog should run every saturday or on another day.

yea its amazing... more variable speeds

05-23-2015 , 06:39 PM

#3294

ChopSueyyy

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162d pko 6max wednesday variable

05-23-2015 , 06:51 PM

#3295

22riverrat22

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rounder63

This 215 six max prog should run every saturday or on another day.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aguskb

yea its amazing... more variable speeds

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pretty amazing game, dont change a thing aside from making the buyin fit the day of the week!!!!!!!!(every day of the week)

05-23-2015 , 09:40 PM

#3296

blakkman08

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rounder63

This 215 six max prog should run every saturday or on another day.

came here to post the same exact thing, amazing mtt. if u dont want to add anything please convert the 109 turbo psko to 6max variable. would be goat turbo on ur site. make a special sudnay edition of it and watch it explode.

05-24-2015 , 04:43 AM

#3297

gregz41

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DoGGz

I can tell you the drawback.

What tournaments are you removing to fit them into the schedule?

Answer that question and I bet you can get them on the schedule sooner.

The Big 215 could easily take the slot of the warm up Monday-Saturday. There seemed to be some consensus on this.

B82 could be a conversion of the 109 freezeout at 00:00 gmt and the h82 could be one of the hypers around that time too if it was a case of simply replacing another tournament.

I'm not sure you can replace a high stakes tournament with a 2-day tournament given that the latter is very unique in structure and buy in.