Adding information about the average runningtime for each mtt would be a good thing.

Well several of us have already posted about The Weekender earlier in this thread. But OK, I'll try one last time...

You will have a lot more people playing it if the buy-in is lowered (better for us, and of course better for you with increased money from rake.) For example, I'm sure if you 'halved' the buy-in to $109 you would have more than twice as many entrants, especially if you run plenty of $11 satellites into it
The Payday tourny has nearly 50 times as many entries as The Weekender, so clearly lowering the buy-in would make a big difference (with appropriate promotion/ launch event). Maybe even an extra $55 Weekender as a trial?

Come on Luke, it's a ridiculous difference in price between the regular two phase tournaments - please give something for midstakes players. At least give us a £27 mini-weekender??

82 would be perfect price point

i think 215 weekender is really nice actually, push and promote it more and can become really nice tournament.

i think run a phase for it on tuesday and thursdays would be reallllllyyy nice.

Sorry for the off topic but maybe someone could provide some intel.

We've been waiting 30 minutes at the final table of Omania $320 High Roller for a Host to discuss a deal. Nowhere to be found. Is it worth waiting or has Pokerstars just totally gone to ****?

If someone has experience of it taking hours we may as well just resume play

Host never come once for me.

you should email support with [urgent] in the subject

this + slap 150k guarantee on it watch them flock its that easy


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Smashed it for 10k, who needs deals anyway

Not sure if level or if we are going back in time.

That's what worked for many years.

Variant filter for Bubble Rush please.

They b clutterin' up mah lahby

I know, was the way to go before they added the deal making option to FT's. Would be weird if it was necessary to send e-mails again.

Hey all,

Just to let you know, I'll be in the office sparingly over the next few weeks.



I haven't forgotten, Anuj, but many of these ideas require a significant time investment to conceptualize and execute. I've had a couple ideas regarding Game of the Week, but haven't had time to flesh them out quite yet. The idea (so far) is to have weekly blocks of four game types: draw, stud, mixed (8-game, HORSE, and any oddities we want to throw in), and Omaha (to highlight 5-card and FLO8 in addition to the normal games). By having these four rotations, they would each be played over the course of a month. It would also allow us to adjust the daily schedule without worrying whether or not players will have games to play.

That is as detailed of an explanation I can provide at the moment. I’ll give it more attention toward the end of January, but I don't know what tournaments would change, how the offering would look, if it would receive any promotional support, when it might happen, etc.

Satellite demand is tied to demand for the target. If fewer players want to play Fast Friday, fewer seats will be guaranteed in the satellites. If I created 10 seat guarantees to these tournaments, they would just overlay. Generally though, I don't think the satellites are bad. For the 14:00 $215: 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 3, 5, and 3 seats guaranteed to a tournament that only gets a couple hundred runners. I'm going to remove the early $2.20 Splash beginning next week, but otherwise I don't think there is much to be done here.

As far as Spin & Gos are concerned, that lobby space is very, very sought after. I wouldn't want to use the functionality simply to attempt to manufacture demand.

Feedback noted, thanks.

Are you sure? As far as I can tell, you were sent this explanation:

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This tournament will start at 14:30 ET on December 26th so remember to register, since any unused tickets will expire and hold no value after that.

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Good points, thanks. I think a reasonable route to take is to reduce the ABI of the Win the Button tournaments. That $162 struggles, but might do just fine as an $82. I'll make a note to look into these after the holidays.

What makes you say the bolded? I think nearly all working stiffs like myself would say the opposite. Couple that with the fact that all game types have lower traffic on Fridays, not just MTTs, and I think it is safe to say that people are less motivated to play on that day.

As for Bigger and Hotter, I've asked a couple times for ideas regarding themes for these tournaments because I do not want to deploy them with a simple name change. They already have large guarantees compared to their weekday counterparts. I'm still looking for a good hook! Longer levels in Hots? Single re-entry in Bigs to boost the guarantees? Give me ideas, people!

Create-Your-Own was a pilot organized by the VIP team to gauge player interest. It will likely return at some point in the future, but I can't say when.

Beginning Monday, Badugi tournaments will have the 79-level structure typically found in the schedule. I have not removed the PKO element because I'd prefer to perform one change at a time.

I don't expect this to do anything in terms of participation, but it does make these tournaments consistent with other games in the schedule.

Wouldn't it be called the Sunday Benjamin?

I'm not exactly rushing to add more Sunday high-stakes tournaments right now, but I plan on evaluating the majors early next year. In the meantime, you'll have plenty of turbos with TCOOP coming up!

What information do you think is most important? Time to cash, time to win X times your buy-in, time to win? Do you think this would motivate players to join tournaments or scare them away?

If I add another week-long Phase tournament, there will be cannibalisation. Not only that, but the $10K Payday already has 76 Phase 1s. The early morning Phases aren't well-participated but are required to reach the guarantee. Adding a $55 Phase tournament would only be able to run once or twice daily so that a reasonable number of players join the starting Phases. This would hinder the size of the guarantee that could be offered.

I also disagree with comparing the two Phase tournaments. They're not even close to the same product in terms of impact on lobby space. Like I said before, I'm happy to make changes to the Weekender.

This would start moving this tournament in the direction of the $10K Payday, which I'm not crazy about. I'd be surprised if 100+ players played Phase 1 on these days. That would take the prize pool up to $90-$100K? I think we can do better.

We were having a technical issue where Support was not being immediately contacted when players were requesting a deal.

In the future, please do this if a host doesn't arrive within two minutes. Use the word "Chop" as opposed to "Deal".

Ah, of course it is.

Happy holidays everyone and GL in the Monday Million if you're playing!

Why is it doing this??

edit: how do i post an image?

Pokerstars realized you had an edge so they're trying to make it harder for you to win .

you have to be l33t

New twist: Guess your hole cards!

The way things are currently going with Pokerstars and all there new 'gimmick' games, it wouldn't actually surprise me to see this in the future...

Fantastic, thank you!

that's the wildcard special, I've seen it on WSOP once.

Rakefree 2nd chance rebuys?


As if this information wasn't available in SNGs. The Regspeed 180man aren't shy saying that this game might take 4 hours, so I don't think putting the average ending time for any tourmanet is a bad move.

Next move is to remove the fold button from every street. Make the game more fun and reduce edges a bit more.

Luke I think the best christmas present you can give us is to bring back "The Bigger" mtts with the old structures on sundays.

Luke, if you do another micromillions marathon again, can you put it on a Saturday euro time, so that southern hemisphere players can play on our sunday, would provide bigger pools, & give ALL players on the site a chance. We seems to be forgotten a lot down here, and a Saturday is still a weekend for Europe, unlike Monday mornings when work is involved for the majority of the demographic your targeting.. Would be appreciated if you could obliged next time

Just the average running time. I mean, if you come home from work, and you want to play some MTTs but you don't know what the average running time is, how can you decide what to play? If you want to go to sleep at a certain hour, you must be able to get that info?

Do you think giving the average running time will chase people away? People do realize when they play until the end, they will cash a big amount. Any given moment a player logs in, he cant see the runningtime of the MTTs and choose accordingly. I think not being able to know the average runningtime can also scare people away. Maybe you can experiment with this feature by adding this information to some tournaments and see if this influences the number of players?