Except the part where the BB doesn't actually go from 2500 -> 3000 -> 4000. For the specific game in question with the number of players it typically gets, the largest jumps in effective BB that affect play the most happen right before the FT. I don't see how decreasing everyone's stack in BBs by 50% right before the FT feels fun for anyone. I don't play MTTs that much any more, but I have played it 3 times this month and happened to have final tabled twice and final table bubbled once so know exactly when the FT bubble was on each of those days:

PokerStars Hand #155579543332: Tournament #1607640958, $75+$75+$12 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIX (1500/3000) - 2016/07/05 11:39:32 CUST [2016/07/05 0:39:32 ET]
Table '1607640958 7' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: KingOfThe$ea (166396 in chips)
Seat 3: puan29 (67913 in chips)
Seat 5: Pedpano (213638 in chips)
Seat 8: 69iMhoT69 (266117 in chips)
KingOfThe$ea: posts the ante 500
puan29: posts the ante 500
Pedpano: posts the ante 500
69iMhoT69: posts the ante 500
Pedpano: posts small blind 1500
69iMhoT69: posts big blind 3000

PokerStars Hand #155823091716: Tournament #1607640985, $75+$75+$12 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIX (1500/3000) - 2016/07/11 11:32:14 CUST [2016/07/11 0:32:14 ET]
Table '1607640985 9' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: kelroypoker (173051 in chips)
Seat 2: Adso139 (258916 in chips)
Seat 6: KingOfThe$ea (37260 in chips)
Seat 7: teohellas (119705 in chips)
Seat 8: trampalau (247495 in chips)
kelroypoker: posts the ante 500
Adso139: posts the ante 500
KingOfThe$ea: posts the ante 500
teohellas: posts the ante 500
trampalau: posts the ante 500
teohellas: posts small blind 1500
trampalau: posts big blind 3000

PokerStars Hand #155986643276: Tournament #1613251016, $75+$75+$12 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIX (1500/3000) - 2016/07/15 11:31:02 CUST [2016/07/15 0:31:02 ET]
Table '1613251016 4' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Vic_Lud (174288 in chips)
Seat 4: jamaicano77 (104851 in chips)
Seat 5: Truttman (292359 in chips)
Seat 6: *****rk (109166 in chips)
Seat 7: KingOfThe$ea (59032 in chips)
Vic_Lud: posts the ante 500
jamaicano77: posts the ante 500
Truttman: posts the ante 500
*****rk: posts the ante 500
KingOfThe$ea: posts the ante 500
*****rk: posts small blind 1500
KingOfThe$ea: posts big blind 3000

As you can see the FT bubble was played each time at BB3K which means 20 minutes earlier the play was at BB2K. I'm mainly bringing this up because this is the only >$100 "non turbo" MTT that runs daily on the nightly schedule and the structure is pretty terrible for what is suppose to be a "normal speed" game. I don't think it is such a bad idea to consider changing up the structure to lower the number of effective BBs in the early/mid stages and give a little more play for the later stages.

This is pretty interesting.

what's next 30 second blind levels?

And 20% rake. Better for players who want to grind Supernova El... oh yeah!

I wonder how 888 did get more creative than PokerStars. How didn't you think about making Spin&Go's to end sooner by forcing all players all-in after few levels! Surely recs love it and play MOAR! They also rake it more, surely because of such great innovation!

Awesome! Thanks.

I see lots of tournaments have the 2x+ minimum cash restored. However that's not the case for the Omania High Rollers. Could you please adjust them too.

I think that with the number of people that PLO on peak schedule you could add at least 1 daily $109 or $215 PLO game, like I mentioned earlier the $55 bowl offering does close to nothing to attract anyone who plays PLO100+. I'm sure if you advertised a week ahead of time with a banner in PLO cash lobby and a decent guarantee the turnout would be solid.

Btw last nights PLO $320 high roller had a $35K guarantee and the prizepool ended up being $60K, upping the guarantee to at least $50K would only attract an even bigger field. Given than 39.5% of the field were reentries, getting people to register as early as possible will increase the total entries and having "fake overlay" for a longer period of time is a great way to incentivize the players to register.

*increasing the BB by 50% causing a 33.3% decrease in # of BBs

Many posters including myself agree with this point but the problem in this solution would be that it would possibly hurt the number of "late registration" entries. They need to keep the effective BB's high enough in the early/mid game to still allow an incentive for people to late register. It's been pointed out though also in this thread that in certain games people seem to abusing the late registration system and purposely late regging for tournaments to create a more +eV situation for themselves all while lessening the player experience for many of the original "table starters".

I agree that they should look into this more and come up with a better system. In some tournaments it seems like 20% of the field or more registers on the last level of registration. Many of these players clearly aren't late regging because they had prior obligations and just signed onto pokerstars. Many of them are purposely regging at that point because of their prospective tourney $ expectation at the point with the effective bbs still playable with a decent percentage of the tourney field already busted out. Late registration probably doesn't need to be as long as it is in many tourneys and they should consider making some of the changes that you suggested to the blind levels too.

true

something to consider is replacing some rebuys with the old 2r1a, 1r1a format. Those tourneys had a nice structure and the thought of only having to do a raked rebuy max. 1 or 2 times might bring more players back to these timmays

Yeah, I agree. I used to play that format all the time. The payouts in those games we're good too, with fewer people getting paid.

yeah i want those reg speed rebuys back

Also miss the cheaps cubeds and quads a lot. Bring back 8c at peak time!

Ah the good old 8c and 11c. Those were awesome tourneys.

I absolutely loved the 1R1As. I'd even prefer no add-on at all (just to avoid making late reg so profitable. I used to late reg at the last second and play top 3% until the add-on and still have like 70BBs). This would be pretty much a re-entry, but the min cash usually covered the extra buy-ins. This adds to the perceived value of cashing a little if you can avoid using the re-buys. A HATE how re-entries still only pay under 2x buy-in. As soon as you re-enter you don't see profit until you beat more than 2/3 of the field that cashed.

I would really love a return of the 8 cubed and 22 cubed. They were brilliant tournaments. Also a daily 11r with a 20k gtd prizepool would be great at peakish time or slightly after.

The 11r 40k gtd on Sunday was an excellent tournament and seems like a slam dunk to bring back mate. I have made peace with the rake on rebuys and would love those tournaments back in our schedule.

The Sunday 11r 40k was just awesome. Pls bring it back. Thanks Luke.

Bring up some 11r Turbo Super Add-on and I'll play it. Otherwise, just kill them all already and let them out of their misery.

Guys, you know there's like 50 other networks with r/a:s with no rake. Come on! I hope that even Party will see the light, although they deliberately killed rebuys I hope they realize to bring them back in coming winter. Come, join the fight again White Walkers who just want more re-entries and raked rebuys!

Just replace the withered 11r I never play anymore n replace it with an 8 cubed 11cubed or 2r 1a

Wtf is a white walker? First of all, in some countries like where I live we have no access to other sites. How am I supposed to play some crappy gtd rebuy on some other site if I'm not allowed to play there and have no access to those sites? Most of Asia cannot play on partypoker, winamax or any of those sites.

Secondly, get over it. Life is too short to fight battles you're not Gna win. While Amaya owns stars, rebuys look like they are going to be raked. Either make your peace with it or go play elsewhere. This is a stars thread and I'll request tournaments that I think will b successful.

I want more tourneys to be added and think rebuys can do well again or if not at least the cubed ones can. Go play on some other network if that's such a problem for u. Also lol at 50 other networks? Do these even exist? Do they have decent guarantees? Can most of the world play on them? The answer to those questions is probably no.

Peace and good luck to u.

+1 mini weekender

+1000 old 2r1a / 1r1a

Hey, Micromillions 80 has a 20K guarantee. Is that a joke? Is it a mistake? Wtf?! You want to discourage me from playing so you:

1. Rake rebuys.
2. Make the gtd so low I don't care.

Good job. I'm not playing it.

If nobody wants to play a withered 11r why would anyone play a withered 8c?

1) because the rebuys/add ons are capped at a Fixed amount, meaning they are cheaper overall

2) people like their structure/game type

I can't be the only person that remembers the cubes withering up severely in 2015 and 2016 along with rebuys. If these came back they would be 2-5k GTD or some ****, and I doubt that's what people really want.

22c was withered, 11c 8c were awesome till the end.

best cube and quads for value was the 5 imo esp the 5q on weekends

I quit Stars a few months ago but in a moment of weakness I found myself logging in to splash around a bit earlier this week. It was a horrible experience and I won't be returning. This guy nails it:

It's like how the ring games were when every table had at least 4 chinese 20BB shortstackers. Everyone has to adjust their ranges accordingly, and it's a horrible playing experience for an occasional player.