I mean, you're both just acting a little defensive/ego-brittle but also providing plenty of good points. Move on!

maybe you should of made 267 quality posts instead of 16000 stupid ones.

Satellite84 made a perfectly reasonable post that made a lot of sense. What reason does he have to deflect his role when no one knows about it if he never posts.

Give me strength.

Swear you act like your opinion is law and everyone else is stupid.

Newsflash you're the one talking nonsense.

"You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only skin him once"

What this means?

It means you can take our money how many times you want, with a smile on your face when you keep us happy, but making us mad here its not a good strategy for your business.

You do tones of money overall, including spins, casino and sports bets, but destroying poker consciously?

Its not a good ideea.

REMEMBER THIS:

BEFORE AMAYA, BEFORE spins, BEFORE sports bets and casino, WAS POKER

Dont detroys the base of this platform and the beggining of all, the top of piramid doesnt exist without base.

I have no reason to repeat what smarter people here said about changes.

Late edit:

We can survive in Eastern Europe with under 500usd/month but doing billions of dollars and be greedy and more and more?

You dont take the money on the ground and you dont live forever.

The world will spin and moving forward with or without you, just to know.

You amaya you have an army of people with many faculties at Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford, Pricenton (i searched them on google) with degrees on MBA, marketing, financial and ****, THEY DONT KNOW YOU CANT HAVE A FULL HOUSE WHEN YOU DESTROY THE WORKING PLACES?

In any domain of living, any business was created and sustained by grinders?by regulars?

I dont know if you know or you admit, but i was the one who sent you emails in the past about removing 11$ 180 slow on pokerstars and change them with ko format 11$ ko 180 because was no volume on them, i was the one who gave you alot of tips how can format of sngs could be, what to remove and what to change. i still have the emails.

like in the past, i say, you are wrong now.

Nice guarantee drops!!!!!!

Don't worry Luke just tell the higher ups that less than anticipated traffic is good for poker like how you told us and maybe they'll believe it!!

All the new changes sucks!!

Rec micro player here, most of my buyins are $1.10 or lower, apparently the kind of player that PokerStars is catering to now. I log in tonight for the first time all week, and imagine my surprise to see that virtually every single one of my "favorited" tournaments no longer exists.

How can I be expected to play more often when you eliminate most of the tournaments that cater to my meager bankroll?

Please make all Omaha8 tournaments 8-max or 9-max until further notice. It's much better than having everything being 6-max crapshoot.

The schedule itself seems fine. The added blue tournaments are a great addition. Single game/stake/format specialist are going to complain because the schedule doesn't contain enough of their "game" for them to mass/multi table but I'm sure this is done on purpose by PokerStars.

Same with the moving of a lot of turbos,hypers, and other poker variants to six max. I'm sure a big part of this was to dissuade the mass multi tabling weak reg group which makes up a large portion of the current player pool on PokerStars from multi tabling these games profitably. The six max format is going to be much more exciting for the recreational that enjoys action and from my experience these games play out much better six max. Effective stack sizes were really solid throughout all the tourneys I've played so far and much better than the shallow mid to late game stack sizes from the former full ring turbo/hyper variants. Good job on that change.

Just fix that reg speed format Luke....

starting at 2K from a $27 six max turbo progressive KO you have the levels go-
2.0, 2.4, 2.8, 3.2, 3.6, 4.0, 4.8

where as in a full ring Big $44 from 2k-

2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0

5minute blinds in the first and 9minute blinds in the later so you are essentially running a turbo structure at this point in the "Big". Fix that please.

This is the BIG FIFTY FIVE, not a hyper turbo. Please sort the structures out

in b4 more fish/shills ask "what's the problem here?"

This is absolutly OUTRAGEOUS!

Good for poker!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lool wow so bad if that doesnt say it all then i dont know what does

FYP

Bigs need longer levels Luke, come on you done it for deepstack do it for the bigs asap

The "Bigs" need more gradual level jumps and/or possibly longer levels. If I had to choose I'd take more gradual level jumps before longer levels though. Players can stall and abuse time but they cannot as easily abuse a structure with gradual and consistent level jumps.

Just a quick post as i have only skimmed through all the negative comments in this thread, my point of view is as follows;

All the posts that are mad saying "X is bad, please fix it" "Screw you, you are ruining the site" so on and so forth, i mean fair enough you are venting your frustration but take a step back, think about what you are writing and think on how constructive it will be towards helping Luke and the rest of the guys with trying to better the schedule.

I think its pretty pathetic in which a majority of the responses are to the new schedule change yes, i agree the structures are a bit off in some tournaments but if you can string a few brain cells between you all, just think hey! Imagine if we all pool together and post suggestions on what will fix what, and some good numbers to back up your statements, im pretty sure it will be highly taken into consideration and the structures will be adjusted to fit.

Theres not much else i can say rather than turn those negative comments into constructive feedback and i am sure Luke and the rest of the guys behind the scenes will appreciate it a whole lot more. In all honesty i bet they just read the start of posts and if it comes off negative just skip the post entirely, thats what i did pretty much and im just a fellow punter.

My 2 cents anyway.

This!
Bigs need back the blinds 2.4k, 2.8k, 4.8k, 5.6k etc and only then 2-3 more minutes extra.
Also we need a replacer for the 16.5 turbo which had the best turbo structure, far better than hots.

thanks for your response to my long post of questions to you doggz.

I also understand why asbaafs tone has changed in the previous months or so.

BANG BANG

the 2.20 2k has a decent structure for 8 min blinds tho 50 bb avg with 7 left at FT 1.1k runners approx

Your post belongs in the garbage. In one poorly written paragraph you state "fair enough, you are venting frustrations." No, people are observing objective reality about what these changes translate to in their every day experience. Also consider that this news is at the end of a long list of bad news given to players since Amaya took over. You ask that they zoom out and try to "help Luke" which is exactly what most of the posts ITT are doing; providing feedback which happens to be negative. The feedback is negative because the changes are awful.

In the next horribly written paragraph, you allude that this feedback is "pathetic" but then in the next breath admit that structures are "a bit off." No you dolt, they are all off. With the exception of the hots, All of them. All of them are. Not a few. All. Everyone ITT almost unanimously agrees on this, except you and a few other shillfish.

Then you move on to sarcastically state that people posting "negative" comments need "imagine" what would happen if they had more brain cells to give super positive feedback which you would find acceptable. How ironic that you would imply other posters ITT are collectively stupid when you are writing at a fifth grade level.

You also imply that the guys behind the scenes would reciprocate better if people just were not so darn mean when critiquing. That's not how businesses work. You don't just get to ignore critics because they don't frame their message like an old English gentleman. GOOD businesses that are not out for corporate white collar raiding (like Amaya) or subsidized for bad decision by governments in non monopolized climates must always address and adjust to public outcry or criticism and it's hard to believe that this has to be explained.

The reality is that there have been several if not dozens of extremely concise and helpful posts ITT made by people playing all stakes, all with a hell of a lot more brain cells than you. Gtf over yourself and stop being bias towards the side of the multi billion dollar company that is cashing in on brand equity at your expense. Just unreal the people coming in here trying to damage control for god knows what reasons. GTFO shillfish.

Structures aren't fun luke. Mid/late stages of bigs are too shallow, you need to increase the blind level back to 10 asap.

Taking mtts like the 13.50KO and $22 10k is super sad too, no clue what made you decide that but now there is almost nothing a low/mid stake grinder could play.

If you had this plan, well done but i was pretty disappointed at those being removed.

Couple lovely additions to the schedule tho, the mini and some majors look super sweet and the lobbies and games look to head in a good direction overall.

Just two words gets the bigs structure sorted asap and if you could add some more games (like 13,50Ko n 22 fos) for the low/midstake mtt grinders. Bigs arent turbo/hyper. Let them stay the way they were. I'm guessing b55 and b109 are the biggest mtts on stars and now their structure are awful.


Im optimistic here and think you'll look into them tho and keep up with the good work you have put in.

^ nah, it's cuz changes are awful

First of all, even if my post is written poorly in your eyes, its quite funny that you are posting more negativity itt.

Secondly, you call me a dolt? Haha, who are you? You are a nobody and you are coming in spouting your negative toxic mouth in an environment where it is not really welcome.

Thirdly, if i was luke id rather read a 5th grade level post that is full of positive feedback, than a post that is written by some nerdy ****wit grammar policing idiot that is full of negativity.

Also you point out the fact you seem to know how a business is run? Guess what, Luke doesnt run pokerstars he works for them, any changes that are made to the schedule that he puts forward earns him no extra payment so therefore he is not trying to make more money for pokerstars, he is just fulfilling the job title he has been assigned to.

Last but not least, im a pretty reputable member of the community, some people hate me, some people love me, sort of like a king really, ya know? So yeah theres 0% chance i can be a shill as you call it, and i have many other reputable people that will also confirm this.
Who are you anyway? You are some random cretin thats just crawled out of some cave and shouting his mouth out like hes Dwayne Johnson or something, pretty hilarious.

Mods need to clean this trash of an idiot up and give him a little timeout, give him some time to think about how he approaches a volatile situation.

Aprils fools right?