By your logic, Sunday Million would have to be marked as Bubble Rush too. However, there's a technical difference between Bubble Rush, tournaments where the moment of the switch to longer blind levels is not predetermined but happens exactly when the bubble bursts, and the format that used to be called Bubble Dash, where the the switches happen after a predetermined number of minutes passes since the start, but even in what was labeled as Bubble Dash, the first jump between blind level lengths was 1.6x or more (iirc), so Sun Mill is not really BD either.

As for the turbo label - the tempo of life is changing, the number of hours that a median rec can dedicate to a tourney is getting shorter, so is the average blind level length, so pretty everything with blind levels longer than 5 minutes can be considered 'regular speed' nowadays.

Yes they were, we had so many great tourneys on Sundays in the previous schedule, like many already Said; we find ourselves 2 tabling on stars and the rest on other sites in peaktime because of the current offerings on stars.

Just by having 12 min blinds in the bigs on Sundays like we had before allows you to play poker deep for huge amöunts like everyone wants. I never saw someone complain about the lenght of them.

Regarding Sunday 530, just use identical structure from before and no re entry please. It was a very successful and fun tournament.

Sunday 6max tournament (109-215$) around 21.00 CET are missing and would be huge if you add it.

luke its as simple as this

make the hotters and biggers with 100k or 80k guarantees and the bounty builder 10k guarantee, which one do you think people will play. its 100% that easy bud, put big guarantees and nice structures on a ****ing badugie deuces wild mtt and people will learn it

if u build it they will come

There's still heaps of recs that want decent structures longer then 5 minutes. Also what is your definition of a median rec?

No, my logic is fine. I don't really know why are you talking about sunday million which has 12 min levels at start and 15 min a bit later... I said that the micro millions had a 10 min structure and now they are 8 min which is turbo (is this a reg speed? Oh yeah, it is! Because we have a 10 min deep stacks lmao). And by your logic, let's make everything turbo.
Not sure what is your post about. Just don't get it, what are you trying to say? That the turbo and hyper is ok for everyone? As I said before, people who like to play turbo/hyper has a lot of them, left some 10, 12, 15 min for others.

P.S.: About bubble rush: I meant it's starting with a fast structure and then switches to the lower. I thought it's clearly to understand.

Those 3 Max mtts are quite table dependable. Got put on a table today with a well-known good reg and got owned.

I meant that, if you sort recs by their preferred level length, those in the middle will want turbo, i.e. the majority (incl. those silent ones who don't posts on 2+2) want turbos or hypers.

Even if the above is not true, a for-profit gambling operator like Amaya puts more weight on the opinions of those who net deposit more (I don't belong into that category, though), and gamblers who part with their money easier tend to prefer faster structures.

When PKR had just migrated onto the MPN, the then Head of Poker at Microgaming Alex Scott held an AMA on the PKR forums, and when he was asked by a number of PKR recs to slow down the MTT structures on the network (because 3D poker fans obviously tend to be attached to a slower pace of play allowing to see all the animations), Alex told that the majority of MPN customers preferred superturbos and rebuys and that's why fast structures are dominant in the MPN's MTT lobby.

I suspect that Amaya's recent marketing strategy has increased the proportion of hyper gamblers in the player base, especially because it's easier to eventually convert such gamblers into the casino section where the house doesn't have to forfeit a share of net deposits to longterm winning players.

Not everything should be turbo, but the proportion of turbo tourneys will be matching the demographic data on net depositors' preferences, and I believe the share of slow structure lovers in the player base will be more and more minor in the future.

The term 'Bubble Rush' has a concrete technical meaning - a tourney where the level length changes depend on when the money zone / a certain number of last tables / the FT are reached.

Also, Alex Weldon once wrote a detailed article on PTP about why Bubble Dash was good for the game, and Bubble Rush is a direct descendant and a technical refinement of Bubble Dash.

In essence, the reason why Bubble Rush is more addictive than usual MTTs is that 'winning moments' (the ITM phase) last longer than 'losing' ones, and this exploits the human cognitive bias that makes us remember positive experiences better than negative ones and feel as if we've won if our 'winning moments' were memorable even if we've suffered a net loss.

I don't mind terrible players at my tables, no matter the blind structure. They're usually not less terrible at high blind levels in terms of chips (not bb!) lost on average per hand than at low blind levels. Paradoxically, they tend to fold too much when the stacks are extra-short. Their key property is that they don't study, whereas a slow structure lover is more likely to eventually become good at poker and thus net deposit less lifetime.

I dont think its true. If that was the case why has the Big 4.4 and the Bountybuilder 4.4 more entrants than the Hot4.4 which starts between them. If your point was true that wouldnt be the case. For years we have seen regs and recs alike calling for more turbos. Now that rb is essentially gone I doubt there is much need for an even more turbo-friendly environment. We got more turbos, hypers and other gambling stuff yet the numbers go down regardless. I think its more for economic reasons. I think a rec who wants to play mtts cares far less about the time than everyone thinks. I think he is more drawn to big guarantees and big payouts for finaltable. If he/she has not much time and wants to gamble he could as well join the zoom pools.

How many entrants of Big / BB / Hot 4.4 are losing players? What would happen if BB were hyper? What if the guarantees of Big and Hot were swapped? Why wouldn't anyone want to win both fast and huge and do so in a seemingly more skill-dependent way than in Spin & Gos? How many recs care about rakeback %?

because every rec on stars does not think the same way as you. also habsfan is 100% accurate. It's about big prize pools

Bigger -> slightly larger gtd and 2 more mins per level once it hits ITM (or throughout).
Hotter -> slightly larger gtd and 1 more min per level throughout.

Minor changes that will help a lot.

You do realise no matter how good an argument you put forward for any changes this rep will find a reason not to implement them.Just look at the pathetic excuses he gives for not using great pieces of feedback in the last year, with the latest one being why he isnt bringing back hotter and bigger.

lol luke will bring them back but remove 2 mins per level

While I agree that big prize pools may attract more deposits, the downside (for Stars' management) of slow structures is that recs lose too fast there and a lower share of their deposits goes to rake as a result. Slow structures are better for the current winning regs, but Amaya's mercenary interests may be in conflict with regs' ones here. I don't insist on any MTT change, just I was trying to theorise about why your wishes aren't being granted.

Speaking of wishes, thanks to Luke for conveying my suggestion on 36-man super-KOs - their final tables were changed to 7-max today.

So some wishes are granted instantly, as you see, and I don't think I'm special - just I happened to suggest a no-brainer. Other wishes are less trivial and require more deliberation on Luke's side.

Anyone have any information regarding WCOOP 2017?

It might make those tournaments have more players, but if you look up recs on Sunday you'll notice that they often play just 1 or 2 tournaments. This means that if they choose to play a Bigger/Hotter they might not play the Mini Sunday Million or the Double Deuce etc... and those guarantees will have to shrink. Net upside for other players = 0.

Looks like the guy who won $0.55 hyper action 6 max micro millions managed to get himself more then first place. Presumably a reg

Yes but we are not discussing the reasons why. You said the vast majority of recs enjoy blind structures of 5 minutes or less. That is just simply not true. The vast majority of recs play mtts of low blind structure because A) The vast majority of mtts are turbo and B) They have the biggest prize pools. If stars decided to run a 100K guaranteed $11 deep stack, all the recs would jump onto this, stars would add more, etc

yeah uve to skip it mate ur finished

Can we get a schedule Luke? #wcoop

Yes, please...!



Quote from Luke a few posts up:
"WCOOP 2017 will run from September 3rd-26th."

+1

I thought the bad user experience comes while opening the lobby and seeing the rake. Guys who join these seem dead inside and just physically can't get any bad feelings on the bubble.

I'm a rec. Used to be decent but then got a real job and stopped studying. I mostly play turbos. The fact is I just don't want to play poker for more than three hours most nights. Playing poker for eight hours straight is great if it's your job but awful if you actually have a job.

Is there room to change the early edition of the Super Tuesday and the Thrill to $530 buyin level? (and the mini's to $55)