Thanks a lot.

Glad to see nothing being done ever by stars to accommodate players with requests to tourneys, scheduling, etc. Cashed out almost every dollar I have. Customer service is embarrassing on this website. I swear the site is run by the water drinking bird in the Simpsons

exactly. small stake got huge field, and lots of recs cannot run deep and never got decent cash, so total KO will be very popular. those previous test tournaments were good examples. but PS could simply look at bounty builder and come to this conclusion. just compare Saturday BB to other days, maybe just look at the ratio, of actual prize pool to GTD, to see if 75%KO got better ratio, at the small stake than high stake. that is good evidence.

the reason most regs hate total KO is because it is a totally different animal, and require different strategy more attention etc. it is a huge deviation from vanilla mtt, which have been very profitable for them with well-defined strategies.

I like the idea of leaving sth like 10% prize pool for the final table. otherwise it is rather absurd playing hand-for-hand when there is really nothing on final table unless you win out. OR unload the bounty once you get to the final table. everyone collects half their own bounty, and the other half goes to the prize pool to play for. so that final table means something.

as it is now, no.1 and no.2 got dramatically different money. yesterday the 33 total KO, no.1 got $12K, and no.2 got $1.2K, huge difference.

actually the more evident data is Saturday total KO.
$11 buyin is 26.9K/20K=1.345,
$33 buyin is 107.2K/100K=1.072,
$320 buyin is 173.1K/175K=0.989.

actually regs hate the total KO format for far more reasons than it requiring different strategy and attention. by looking at the results from a big sample of regs in progs you can clearly see that this format is significantly less profitable.

the strategy is pretty evident and logical i would say. unfortunately, fish never folding is actually a viable strategy for them and we're forced to gamble and punt stacks with them or else we lose EV, whereas in a FO we would print from that

33.4k games this year, about 80% are sngs where he makes 15c/game.

last year you could see him 40-tabling 109BB all the way down to 11c rebuy sats LOL

I mean the guy's just a button clicker, but averaging over 300 games a day is just ridic when you mix in midstakes mtts.

that volume combined with 0 days off = ?

hes actually really good and not a button clicker

How the hell does he call or fold then? Just clicks thin air i assume ?

Going back on track. Luke have a word with the amaya managment

Look at what your company is doing to your customers. If u just want stars to continue being the biggest poker offering with 10 mil gtd sun mil then i advise yous to get some people to help luke with his work. Sorry man no offence to you personally but you need someone who knows the current climate and with data presented they would crush the mtt schedule into the top mtt schedule over every site especially as you seem busy with scoop i mean with the rb cuts they can afford a second guy right to help? oh i forgot monte carlo

Scoops being ruined.

Poker is dying. Amaya is laughing all the way to the bank tho it seems . Poker needs more love . **** bet stars. **** casino games. **** 100% pskos.

WE ARE POKER

Bots R Us obviously. I'm sure the PS security force is on the case/in hot pursuit as we speak lol.

If you can't play 30+ tables at the same time it does not mean that they all are bots. I remember I played 30-35 tables at the same time like 6 months in a row. I don't say it's good or not but it's quite possible.

i played 31-36 tables at the same time for 7 months

How did that work out for you?

so I was just looking at tuborg and the last 4 games he played on stars where "€25 Instant Reward Sit & Go ", he got 2/2 and got 25€. What kind of promo is this ?

https://youtu.be/Ay3tXrF5xMQ

#Rakeit bro

I agree that the Supersonics are missing some satellites. I've added a 6-Max Last Chance Sat to each of them with 10 and 25 seats guaranteed. They both start 15 minutes before their respective targets. Enjoy!

I don't think it creates that message. I think the popularity of variants usually moves in cycles. Five years ago all people wanted was turbo/hyper-turbo, but now players prefer tournaments with more play. It is entirely possible that PKO falls out of favour over time, and we'll adjust if that happens.

I've been testing some different stakes and formats of ticket satellites over the past couple days to see what sort of interest there is. So far, we're generating a large amount of $11 tickets, as one would expect. As we build a base of $11 tickets, I think liquidity will improve in the $11 -> $109 satellites.

I don't know how popular Steps are, but you're all right to assume they haven't been updated for some time. I do believe I've overheard some conversations about a plan to update Steps, but I do not know the details. I'll try to find out.

I'm not opposed to running $27 On-Demands to the Million or deploying some more On-Demands to the Storm, but there is no chance they'll have the same liquidity as the $27s we ran around the 11th Anniversary. They were propped up by around 40,000 tickets generated in the $5 Spin & Gos.

If we started running a Courchevel Sunday Million and it had 7,500 runners each week, would you start to learn the game?

I am fairly certain the popular players here are the ones with the highest insult:content ratio.

I apologize if you feel ignored. Main schedule additions are mostly at a standstill now while we prep for SCOOP.

The average at the beginning of Phase 2 this week was 26BBs. I agree that it should be a bit deeper, especially since play approaching the bubble will be slow. Since Phase 1s have already run this week, I'll add 500/1K and 600/1200 beginning next week.

I agree with this. This is why I like variable level times so much as a player!

This has been discussed ad nauseum. Increasing guarantees on a growing game is natural because it doesn't present risk. Increasing guarantees on a game that is becoming less popular presents prolonged risk. That is why we follow player interest. We have not pushed PKOs in any significant way aside from creating Bounty Builders in late 2015. Their growth came as a result of player interest.

Never a need to apologize, but thank you.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll add this to the list of potential schedule changes which will likely occur following SCOOP.

In a past post on this subject I said:

I stand by the bolded and don't think that "Estimated Finishing Time" is useful information for most players, especially if the tournament has a wide range of entrants on a weekly basis. If you'd like to discuss the topic more, let's!

Currently just a trial. All versions showed improvement over the weekend, so we'll see how it goes over the next couple weeks.

Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback! Fun fact: we had someone win a ticket in the ticket drop and go on to win a package in the big mega satellite and cash in the Million Anniversary.

A tournament routinely beating its guarantee is likely to continue to do so and increasing the guarantee doesn't present a risk. Likewise, a tournament that overlays consistently is unlikely to magically bounce back. Of course, there's situations where you'd like to reverse this trend, and last year there were more than a few instances where I put the spotlight on the Bigs and Hots when the opportunity presented itself.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll pass it on.

I'll pass this on as well.

This too, thanks for posting.

Which pop-up?

I'm sensing a trend...

Thanks for the feedback. I'll add this to the list of additions to consider in the next round of schedule changes.

Thanks for the feedback. Ghosting is for our brilliant Game Integrity team to worry about. I just make the poker.

Thanks for taking the time to post.

The TLB was discontinued from the beginning of 2016.

That is part of what I'm asking--what are some better ways to entice players to play live events satellites?

This is always a great place to post software issues. Keith is an absolute boss and will be happy to help.

There's a few different reasons, but none of them have to do with contracts or investors. Basically, we could have done Challenges that would appeal to SNG/Cash players in addition to the Monte Carlo Spin & Gos, but we decided to try to reach out to engaged MTT players. We saw an uptick in the midweek majors we dropped tickets in, so we then took it a step further and dropped a bundle of tickets in the Million Anniversary. The result of this is that we had more first-timers in the mega satellites than previous iterations. Reaching out to new players could create more liquidity for future events.

Mash is correct, if there's early Phases still running, Phase 2 will just sit there until they're finished. I've asked for table messaging explaining this to be prioritized for development.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm not particularly keen on adding SNGs to non-branded tournaments. While I want those tournaments to be successful, we need to keep the focus on our brands and peppering the schedule with SNG satellites is not the way to do that, in my opinion.

2+2 was one of the few places it wasn't advertised. It was all over social media, poker media websites, and our client!

Thanks for the feedback.

Way to deliberately misunderstand what was said, I mean I have never been rude in this thread (but can see why others are) and am really tempted to do so now.

It makes me quite angry to see responses like this and unfortunately its partly why so many are really angry at Amaya. Its just underhand and also insulting to a bunch of really smart people (which 2+2 ers for the main are with some obvious exceptions). When what is said is just deliberately misunderstood and some half baked answer is given to a statement not even made.

When the schedule changed there was a concerted effort to push PSKO mtts ahead of bigs, it was not even that subtle because I noticed the pattern quite clearly and never even really paid much attention to the ups and downs of GTDs.

When they (PSKO) missed the gtds they were not decreased a bit like this 100% saturday psko btw. A big missed it once and it was snap decreased within a few days.
When a psko beat the gtd is was almost instantly increased and again when a big beat it nothing happened.

In fact while on the subject of the sat 100% psko, there is no way whatsoever a big would overly that much that often and not be decreased almost instantly.

For a while I monitored this whole nefarious business but lost my excel spreadsheet when I changed computers unfortunately

Only if it's 100% PSKO

Thank you for listening Luke. Will make sure I play the last chance satties!

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+1

Obvious what your doing and fair play your a business squeezing as much money from the depositors as you can. Pushing all low ev/high variance formats ahead of POKER and coming in saying guys its not us its what people want is insulting our intelligence.

There is a definite multiplier effect on the ticket drop. More recreational players with €530 tickets means a multiple of regs follow them to the sats, means more players go to Monte Carlo, means a multiple of live regs follow them there, means the event gets even more press and hype, meaning more of everyone goes --> the promotional money spent comes back and some.

FIX THE LIVE MTTS PAYOUTS

I was playing a lot of sats for live spots and atending a lot of live events and playing i think. 10+ mtts a trip , after you ****ed up payouts in Barcelona i only played 5 mtts there -estrella main, ept main (won packages online), estrella hiroler 2,2k(which was boiling point for me not to play other mtts when i see that min cash after playing 2 days gives you 70€ profit and that first place gives you i think more the 50-60k LESS money from what first place was year before in same event with more players this year which was total disapointment for me abd a lot of players i talk to) and 2x 2k kno

After that i play zero sats online for Prague and skip Prague altogether, and after i see that you didnt get to reason and fix payouts i am not planing to attend any pokerstars live stop ( not playing online sats) except maybe Barcelona ( and treat that as vacation and play very few mtts)

I can also see in lobbies of sats that some other players that were playing sats for live events are not playing also (idk from what reasons, but i can make a guess that with party live, 888 live etc and you keep butchering schedule and payouts and over charging for accommodation /serveses your live stops will get less and less attendance)

As i post it before i dont know why you(amaya) are doing what you are doing with MTTs ( online and live) and poker altogether, is it ignorance, incompetence or some other unknown motivation or mix of all of it, but you are ****ing up pretty hard on all fronts and only, ONLY thing that is keeping you ahead of competition ( online) is pokerstars great software
when other sides upgrade their softwares players will get away from pokerstars as quick as you can say BOOM abd never come back again, which is very sad thing for me...

Thanks for passing on my message Luke. Have had an email from your responsible gaming team and will discuss it with them further.

With regards to Saturday schedule... is there a chance to change the bounty builders to 50% instead of 75%... and keep your 100% Total KO if you must insist? A bit of a compromise? The amount of regs I talk to who now say they have absolutely zero desire to play on Saturdays really does speak volumes.

Not all 'regs' dislike the Saturday 75% KO's. Personally, i'd prefer to see them stay and see Luke get rid of all the 100% Total KO's instead (which is the opposite of what your asking for).