i still find this backhand nonsense hilarious

I wouldnt mind, but it needs to be promoted. Return of the Sunday 500! 500k gtd(200/250k after), special colour, lots of sats. (1x re-entry maybe?)

If they just changed it to 500$ unannounced I bet you we would still be playing with the same playerspool. Since nobody took notice and the field/first still sucks at the start and no way its gonna grow again organically from there. In most peoples mind it will still be a tournament you should be skipping. Might even decrease since the fish who are still playing it see an even lower first.

And I think the Sunday overall is quite boring. I often only have like 2 tables on Stars and still tons on other sites. 215$ 2nd and 160$ 6max were nice tourneys at the end to keep you playing. After 10 CET its basicly a turbo and a hyper to play. I would join the 55s if there was something with it to play and I don't end up 1 tabbling those things for hours.

It's no rocketscience. We are professionals, but still enthusiasts, the same things still excite us as the recreationals do. Just put up decent tourneys with a good structure/name/color/gtd and people will come. An 300$ PKO 2nd chance @ 22h30 would still draw huge numbers f.e.

Thats why I also don't get you run more small MTT promotions. I get MTT isn't your main focus anymore and not much will happen pbb esp not before WCOOP. But for example the mountain series you ran. Its only 10 extra MTT over the weekend. It gets all people excited, people to deposit, everything else is bigger too, its generates huge extra rake. And it doesnt take that much effort?. I dont see the downsides of it.

Would be nice too if you ran more of those things. Mountain Series is the last thing i can remember and how long was that ago. Otherwise it's only a 5m SM/10m SM and stuff.

+1, PS need to give players an option to nuke all the boxes altogether, so that I can let those stupid boxes pile up and nuke them once in a month. It is downright crazy that you have to click each box to release a few cents rakeback. whoever design that system got to be a moron to think players like to waste their time clicking boxes.

Sorry Luke but every day makes it tougher and tougher to plan and attendance will naturally be a lot lower. As gray posted last year we basically had the whole schedule already.

Luke out of office bud

They're still considering to replace the WCOOP with a chest opening contest.

lol

Luke training new guys on how to alienate the poker community.

oh really? lets make them all 3min, its only micro tourneys right? MM was always 10+ min levels and now stars has screwed it up! At least be honest about it here!

FYP.

WCOOP schedule?

Decembro

Fwiw this might be the reason for the delay given how much they have caught up this year

Www.pokermasters.com

Since amaya bought PokerStars the things are going worse and worse. I don't understand why are you doing all this stuff? Removed a lot of bonuses, battle of the planet, increased rake, removed supernova elite, removed a lot of good MTTs etc etc etc. Now you replaced the bonus program with that trash stupid chest system. Wtf are you doing there? Really I want to know what is your point guys? Do you want to destroy poker at all or just you have a crazy boss? You have less and less people day by day but you still continue to destroy PokerStars. I really miss those days when poker was great on PokerStars.
And finally why on earth you replaced micromillions events from 10 min to 8? Are you all crazy or what is your problem? Really Luke what are you doing there?

$_$

well done giving the 5$rebuy a 7500 chip addon at 800/1600 blinds. Do you just click buttons? this is a terrible experience for anyone!

Just ridiculous...

It was the same for the $1 rebuy last week

Anybody else hear about "bounty coop"? Heard rumor that's going to be the next series, not wcoop.

LoL

Altough I agree it's very LOL, I actually heard a team pro mention this series. But maybe/hopefully I misunderstood

I mean I wouldn't be surprised. But Obv it's complete nonsense and just like Amaya to even be in a position that sth like this is a possibility.

Why would it be nonsense? Surely, the guarantees would be rather low, and it has to be a standalone alternative series rather than a WCOOP replacement, but the cult of PKOs does have followers (thousands of them, judging by Bounty Builder attendance), and I think most of them are OK with playing 50% Holdem ones, unlike me, who is a 75%/100%/non-Holdem elitist