Can you change the starting stack to 3k chips in the Monthly Freeroll?

Only in MTTs and some STTs roi>rake (by at least x2) for games below $50. In any cash games below and around $50 that math is ev+rb=rake paid ...

Can we get earlier antes in both Phase 1 tourneys and the Sunday Storm? I believe they are the only tourneys left where antes start at >200 blind level!!

Will there be MICRO MILLIONS in July?

if you "paid the bubble" tickets to said tourney it would encourage registration throughout

i would assume alot of people dont feel as inclined to reg late after they have missed out on some of the "value" of drawings that already took place

I feel pretty meh about these threads. What have we achieved apart from
B44 and B75 in the past two years?

deepstacks no longer take 16 hours for one. they got tweaked again 2 days ago and i think after 1 or 2 more changes they will be near perfect.

couldn't help but lol at the bad weather argument!

Can we get a "Deuces Wild" tournament? Where deuces are jokers... Or can Poker Stars start offering this game in general? Its fun.

Now at $4k Guarantee........

Here's a quick comparison of some GTDs in that schedule. Old GTDs should be somewhere around may 2014.

Taken of a old morning schedule of mine. So If I missed some MTTs they either had no GTD back then or they were above my limits.

CET
07:00 - Big 3$ - from 6k to 4k gtd (now 8k on a sunday as bigger, got 9.2k)
08:45 - 5$ Hyper - from 1k to 1.5k (got 2.1k)
09:00 - 2$ Turbo - from 2.5k to 1.5k (got 2.1k as well)
09:15 - 3$R 2x-Turbo - from 7k to 5k (got 6.4k)
09:30 - Big 16.5$ - from 12.5k to 10k (21k as 20k bigger on sunday)
09:30 - 2$R Turbo - from 12k to 4k (got 4.7k) - of course, PS doesn't kill rebuys...
09:30 - 5$ Deep - from 750$ to 1k$ (got 1.6k)
09:45 - 5$ Hyper 6max - from 1K to 1.5K (got 2k)
09.45 - 10$ Hyper Limit - actually got cancelled and the one 1 hour later got from 500$ to 300$
10:00 - 10c - 50$ Added - gone completely
10:00 - 0.5$ - got removed, had a 1K guarantee and got reimplented as 0.5$ Turbo 500 GTD 30m later
10:00 - 3.3$ - from 2k to 1k (got 1.2k)
10:30 - Hot 2.2$ - from 4k to 3k (got 6.6k as Hotter today)
10:30 - 22$ 6max 500cap - gone to 27$ with no cap, from 5k to 3k (got 5k)
10:30 - 13.$ KO Turbo - from 2.5k to 4k (got 6k)
10:35 - 3$ PLO 8 - from 500$ to 400$ (got 531$)
10:45 - 8$ 6max 500cap - gone from 3k to 4k with removing the cap (got 4.5k)
11.15 - 8$ - gone from 3k to 2k (got 2.4k)
11:30 - 5$r - gone from 10k to 5k (got 5.8 on a sunday) no rebuy killing again..
11:30 - 25$ Hyper - gone from 25$/9k$ to 27$/5k$ (got 6.5k)
11:35 - 33$ PLO Turbo - from 2k to 1.5k (got 2.2k)
11:45 - 4$ 4max - gone from 2k to 1k (got 1.6k)
12:00 - 1$ - gone from 2k to 1k (got 1.4k)
12:00 - 11$ 6max - gone from 5k to 4k (got 6.2k)
12:05 - 3$R PLO 6max - gone from 2k to 1k (got 1.3k)
12:15 - 3$R 2x-Turbo - gone from 10k to 7.5k - and again.. (got 9.4k)
13:00 - 11$ - gone from 6k to 4k (got 5.5k)
13:00 - 1$ - gone from 1.5k to 1k (got 1.4k)
13:45 - 2.2$ Ante Up - from 1k$ to 400$ (still in late reg)
14:00 - 1$ 6max - from 2.5k to 1.5k
14:05 - 2$R PLO8 - from 4k into a NLO8 2k

As we can see, besides 2x 5$ hyper ,the 5$ Deep and a 13$ KO, almost all GTDs got decreased, the biggest loser being the 2$R from 12k to 4k. Some lost 20%, 30%, 50%, 75%. Just wow.

$11 and $21 SKO at 10:45am ET already beaten last sunday fields after increasing gtds in both with 30 mins of late reg left, surely it doesn't prove anything but maybe will make someone think?

it's just so weird that stars keeps this notion that attracting players doesn't work because they're not around and no promotions are needed to improve traffic, I mean, come on...

Not to mention someone forgot that overlay not higher than ~10% doesn't cost stars in majority tournaments, so perceiving it in one dimension only it's quite wrong. No one is telling you to pay for overlays from rake but you shouldn't freak out if there's single 2% overlay in a tournament or what's worse 'predict' tournament field based on arbitrary things

love the sunday guarantees luke, wp

Can we get antes from the start in all Sunday Majors? Antes currently start so late...

Warm up down to 400k

since storm and b11 are same **** and so close together why not make the b11 the big 11 rebuy on sundays

imo the phase 1s on sunday to the next sunday should be deleted. some poor fish prob get in there thinking they are playing to todays phase 2 and its only taking players away from other games

Also Phase 2 started late again today. And just in case you didn't notice it overlayed so don't forget to reduce it

nvm deleting phase 1s if its still overlaying :\

I've checked more tournaments that had gtds upped for this sunday and pretty much all of them had significant player increase, please don't ignore this fact

edit: of course comparing them to the previous sunday

Good data.

might be the weather variance though

If it's raining in Frankfurt at all next week I fully expect the big22 guarantee to increase now everyone isn't going to the beer gardens after work

everything that got increased GOT HUGEEEEEEEEE if this isnt enough to show i dont know what is

no, its raining