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Originally Posted by PokerStars Luke
If you are referring to 6-max hyper-turbo satellites being first seat must-play instead of awarding tickets, no. 6-max hyper-turbos are the sole exception.
cmon man why do you have to do this to SNG sats (16mans, 36)
I can see a 109 mtt sat to the super tuesday being OK for this since there are like 1-3 of them that run. shootouts pop off a lot more..,
yeah some regs grind these games, I know how much you hate hearing about how there are some people that win at poker, but you get heaps of recs in the MTT from playing them anyway by winning a seat to the target since the 16s-36s are insanely high variance and anyone can win a seat in them.
if you have to change for the sake of change, why not make a change that your FIRST seat won is a ticket, and once you have earned your ticket to the target, then all additional wins will be T$. Isn't that way better? Since you get people spreading their T$ action over a variety of MTTs instead of just the target.
The problem with making every seat won a ticket is you incentivize the guys who grind these games to not play beyond winning their seat, and then the games will not run as much once the target tournament is running - which you do realize, if you play a SNG during the MTT when it runs you are FORCED to play anyway.
I do recall a day where the 16 mans did not show up in the lobby for the big 55/ hot 55 and a couple other mid day tourneys and you guys had DROPPED the guarantees significantly. Let that be a warning sign that maybe you shouldn't try to fix something that is not broken.