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plz don't ignore this post for once

Like Luke gives a damn.... He's the one responsible for ruining MTTs

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+1 to the Sunday big structures. They used to be really amazing tournaments, I dont really understand why they were changed from the bigger versions with better structures.

Hahah wp

I mean the mini 70$ super Sunday is an absolute slam dunk mate. Assuming it would have to be $82 to fall within the buyin parameters. Pls just add it.

Some good suggestions

Just mind-boggling that they haven't appointed anyone to replace Pokerstars Bryan. Lukes sole focus shud be on the mtt schedule. Someone else shud be doing the SCOOPS. Arguably should have three people during the buildup to SCOOP/WCOOP period. It's just not really good enough to say all changes will have to wait until after SCOOP. At least 60% of MTT players for various reasons won't be playing SCOOPS at all. Why shud they not be looked after.

because **** mtt players they should be playing spins or btc.

sunday million overlay coming soon... i am oracle...

With the next change that they are likely to make this will be a reality so they will make sm a re entry and say the decline is due to Summer. But it will have to stay re entry to maintain 1 million all year.

why keep this 10 phase pop up? it really hurts my focus and I never use it

Hey everyone,

I'm out of the office until Monday, but I wanted to stop in and provide some clarifications/comments.

There is not and never has been a concerted effort to push PSKO over another format. When the schedule changed last April, we added more Bigs/Hots than we did Bounty Builders. All three of the brands have 28 daily tournaments. We are usually content to set guarantees with smaller margins on PSKOs because interest in the format is steady or growing.

Another factor to consider is that the schedule has not yet run for a year. Every month from April until now has been a new month with these tournaments. This means that guarantee adjustments happened much more frequently from April-July last year because we couldn't use previous year's data to determine what the seasonal decline might be or the continued effect of an altered schedule.

From my perspective, I think we should discuss ways to make the Bigs/Hots more desirable, not just more playable from a regular's perspective. Many ideas have been floated in this thread and we'll discuss them when the resources to make changes are available. More on that below.

As far as the 100% TKO goes, I understand your point. The tournament has missed its guarantee each week. There's a number of reasons this may be, one of them being players not liking it, which would be fine! I'll discuss it with my colleagues upon my return and come up with a plan for the Saturday majors.

Hopefully this is the long-term effect!

I don't work on live events, but I've passed this feedback on.

Thanks for letting me know about the communications. This was an opportunity for me to talk to a new colleague about an area I wasn't previously knowledgeable about!

I'll be discussing the Saturday schedule with the team when time permits. There's a myriad of ideas in this thread, and we'll discuss those and more.

Anyone else have thoughts on this? Personally, I think heartbreak is a big part of MTTs and this could diminish excitement that is unique to the format.

Thanks for the feedback. The old satellites had more variety but were less effective on average. The difficulty is balancing the attractiveness of the satellites with the number of daily Bigs and the lead time to the tournament. Having a satellite three hours before a Big means that there will be numerous other opportunities for players to join a regular speed freezeout.

What do you think about updating the Sit & Go offering? It would not clog up the lobby and demand would determine whether or not there is room for more MTT satellites.

The reason the Super-Sized Sunday was given a $700 buy-in was purely due to its time slot. The Sunday Million is the most important tournament in our schedule and an $82 Mini SSS would absolutely cannibalize some play.

You mean in the text box, right? I'll raise this with the developers.

Thanks for this. We'll be discussing main schedule changes in the near future.

They have--it's me. I agree with you that it is less than ideal that changes have to wait, but it is the reality of any complex business that workloads fluctuate and some responsibilities take priority over others. We've hired two new starters who will arrive on the island soon, and I'll be working hard to train them so they can start contributing as soon as possible. Until then my primary focus must be SCOOP. As you all well know, it certainly doesn't run itself.

i m sorry luke but you not reducing the guarantee / making literally NO substantial changes to a sinking ship like the 320 is just blatantly obvious amaya campaign to get people to play a less rpofitable more gambly type of tourney that recycles rakes more money in the process. i dont get why u re even writing any excuses seems like a waste of time and energy on your part. either u change it or admit that nothing is going to chane for the very obv reasons jeez

any vanilly timbey owuld be at 50k guaranee right now/ have been removed entirely/ be a win the button 3k guarantee now

nothing new there

Run a midstakes series? Bring back bigger/hotter labels for sunday? Run a pokerstars festival week? Weekend WCOOP series? Double vision promo? There's a dearth of promos for vanilla freezeouts outside of the COOPs...it's no surprise participation and excitement are decreasing. These are promos stars used to run regularly in the past, and shouldn't be hard to re-implement. Biggest obstacle to growing bigs/hots again seems to be pokerstars unwillingness to do so.

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Agree with Everything! A few years back you used to have some kind of MTT promo Every month to look forward to, now its nothing outside of the series..

Very lazy approach from PS side because the demand is there. Just look at the Fields everytime you put up something special.

Also the structures of the bigs was way more playable when they had 3k starting stacks. And good structures are Not only appreciated by regs, IF a recreational wants to play turbos or lottery games, they have plenty of other options on your site.

Ya what this man says.

I give up to be honest it's quite pointless to make suggestions in this thread. We are past the point where ideas are even paid lip service to and are outright lied to now on top of this about changes that have already been made.

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Feedback regarding Bigs/Hots:

First of all, use at least some of your time to make them great again!

1.) Keep improving structures as mentioned couple of times in this thread.

2.) Give them the BIGGER/HOTTER name on sundays which makes it appear special.

3.) Do a 2 week Big/Bigger/Biggest, Hot/Hotter/Hottest Promotion:
1st week you offer THE BIG tournaments from monday-friday with 25% higher guarantees
on saturday they change to THE BIGGER with 50% higher prizepool
and on sunday you give THE BIGGEST a 100% upgrade.

the following week u do the same with the Hot versions.

Add some Big/Hot leaderboard where the winners get nice Big/Hot packages for the rest of the year or
make a challenge where a player gets special prizes for winning (for example) 3 of them in one week or final table 10 of them, winning 2 in one day etc

u did a similiar promotion couple of years back as i remember and it turned out huge!

Longtime lurker in this thread and just wanted to suggest something that I do not believe has been suggested yet (nor has it been denied due to 'data,' at least to my knowledge):

With regard to the Mini versions of the three daily majors, could they be trialed BEFORE the HS major itself? I'm sure I am not alone, in that in many cases I do not play the Mini version that I normally would play, given how much longer it would extend a session. Starting the Mini earlier may provide a feeder effect to the major itself (ie - random recreational player runs up a huge stack/runs up a huge bounty in the Mini and decides to punt in the major) - I don't think that the reverse is true (that random players who fire the major itself would somehow feed into the Mini due to phenomena such as building stacks/bounties/etc.). Sure, the argument of a 'second chance' sentiment could be valid, however at 1/10 the buyin, it doesn't seem so likely given that you would typically need to F2T the Mini to even begin to recover your HS major investment.

Just a thought and I think this could please recreationals (as outlined above), while at the same time making a regular's schedule somewhat more compressed and manageable. A true win-win (notwithstanding any 'data' to the contrary).