There doesn't seem to be a single vanilla nlh event which isn't a special edition of existing majors (Sunday/Tuesday)

Add more

A lot of non-turbo satts for the higher buyins please

+1

+1 to all of this w special +100 for 6 max thrill/super tues think this is a fantastic idea and should get a lot of consideration

100% pko is just not a good idea.

+1 to no 100% PKO

+1 to less $11 and more $27

+1 to 3 max instead of 4max and also make 1 or 2 of these PKO (25% or 50%) zoom

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Agree with everything that's been said about NLHE events (can't speak on other games).

- Instead of lowering buy-ins add events. Especially when aiming to exceed 90.5M in prizepools.

- Marathon was a huge succes, very weird it's been excluded (hopefully for now).

- Having a 6max version of ST/TT sounds f***ing awesome

- Thumbs down obv for 100% pko. Although its funny to see people making final few tables and not/barely getting any return at all, find the format to be a complete joke and should be erased from series/daily schedule. Make BTC 100% pko or smt for the straight up gullable gamblers.

- And please add vanilla NLHE events instead of changing existing tournies into SCOOPs. Really takes away the prestige of the whole series.

Now I realize I'm just copying everyone's opinions, but it shows how important it is and vital to have an excellent series.

When I saw the schedule I wasnt excited at all seeing that most NLHE events are just special editions of existing mtts when newly added events will boost weekly majors aswell and provide a few epic weeks of online poker.

Another point I'd like to add. If you go with $11/$109, you'd have to set gtd something as low as $10,000-15,000 which would make it very less special. A gtd of something like 15k or less would be more suitable for micro millions, or mini wcoop. And if you look at last few years coop numbers, take single draw for example.. $27 buy in scoop in 2015 got 1360 entries and in 2016 it got 1414 entries. And $11 single draw event last year in mini wcoop could only get 1460 entries.

So I'm not sure if reducing the buy in of these games from $27 to $11 would boost no. of entries significantly.. infact overall prizepool would decrease significantly. So would suggest you to do $27/$215/$1050 for these variants.

+1 for 27 215 1050
27$ should be the buyin of 90% of the low events

Agree that 27/215/1050 is much more reasonable buyins and Will attract the same players.

you cold also do some 27/109/1050

+1 seems more than reasonable. The issue seems to be with the low buy ins so yeah make more $27 but maybe don't change the M and L levels, if the other players were cool with that too but I haven't seen any mention of it so far.

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+1 to some 27/109/1050, by far the most profitable for most targeted players, not to big not to low, 11$ in so many tournaments is waaaay to low for SCOOP!

+1 for a Marathon Event, everyone loved this!

big -1 to PKO 100%, please not this joke...

Reasons behind different payouts this year compared to last year?

maybe you can make some of the 11/109/1050 into
16.5/162/1650

please make the 100% pko a re entry

make a scoop ultra deep marathon event please x 4 min cash

add a nl08 psko

make a 1r1a scoop mtt

add 3 max zoom pko

add a sko

make the payday 11$ into scoop special phase

then add a 27/109/1050 phase
run them x amount of times per day

do not make phase as part of events surely you can add some

nlhe vanilla events
5.5/55/530
7.5/82/700
11/109/1050
16.50/162/1600
27/215/2100

in there place.

change main event buyins to enable spin entries

deadline sats to all scoop events

The $21K 8-Max NLHE was on Saturday last year. I don't think this group of players is particularly sensitive to which day it is played on, so moving it to Wednesday should ease the burden on players who plan on playing the big Sunday tournaments. It will also make for a better experience for observers!

The Heads-Up and Shootout Events are in that slot on purpose--if they are scheduled in early time slots, the turnout suffers because they do not allow late registration. I'm cognizant of the fact that they run for a long time and have significant downtime between matches. This is something I'll look into when it is time to write the Event structures.

Thanks for the feedback regarding the 3-Max. Which tournament would you replace?

As far as the Phases go, like I said in the OP, scheduling is not finalized for these Events. Last year, we ran 6x $1,050 Phase 1s, 12x $109 Phase 1s, and 34x $11 Phase 1s. I would expect a similar ratio for this Series as well.

Thanks for the feedback.

• The total number of Events is not going to change to any large degree. The number of Events was decided upon to provide space for the Phase tournaments in order to reach their guarantees. We will not be replacing each Phase 1 with a new Event. In addition to this, it is important to remember that our player's wallets are not infinitely deep. Every time we add a new tournament, we thin out the fields to some degree.
• Last year, we ran 17 NLHE Events with a Low buy-in of at least $27. In this version of the schedule it is 16. The reduction in $27 (or higher) Low buy-ins is due to the changes to non-NLHE games. These games will benefit from having lower buy-ins.
• Sunday, May 14th will likely have a Phase attached to it as well.

Do you have any suggestions? Like I said above, in terms of NLHE, there is one less $27/$215/$2,100 Event than last year. This is easily amended, but more detailed feedback is required. We feel strongly that the non-NLHE games should have a reduction in buy-in. We do not feel that High Events with 40 unique players are helping us reach our goals or adding prestige to the Series. If any non-NLHE games are going to have an increase in buy-in, it would likely be Omaha variants.

Feedback noted, though I don't think these formats are fair comparisons. I think a closer comparison would be a generic Zoom tournament. What would you replace?

It certainly isn't dead. Have $25K to spare?

Do you have any suggestions? It is hard for me to do anything with this when I look at last year's schedule and we had 5.5 Omaha8 tournaments (one was Mixed Omaha) while this year we have six.

Thanks for the feedback, Anuj.

• I agree that 100% KO should be re-entry for the fun factor, but I don't want to overdo the amount of NLHE re-entry in the schedule. I'll consider it.
• Your feedback regarding Draw is fair, though it is worth mentioning that Draw was on a Sunday while Stud was on the Saturday just before Main Event Sunday. Despite this, the High Stud Event drew a bigger crowd. I suspect that the Low and Medium Stud Events would've done much better on a Sunday. Regardless, I tend to think that we'll begin rotating the less popular games in WCOOP/SCOOP.
• I'm not sure about the payouts. On one hand, I agree that it is potentially a draw for some players. On the other hand, I want the Events to be focused around the poker being played and not other external factors. I also want to avoid any potential confusion that could lead to smaller fields.
• How dare you suggest breaking the sacred [almost] 10x rule!

Smart with a capital S. I'll take it.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean here. Every single year when we offer a Series, the goal is to iterate on the previous year and make it a bit more exciting for our players. This year's iteration is the Phase tournament running for an extra week and therefore having a bigger guarantee. The guarantees will be higher than last year's $40M and the start times are exactly the same range as they were in last year's SCOOP.

I had a chat with a player about these which convinced me they have potential. Basically, 50% bounties contain both the fun of a knockout element and the exciting final table prizes of a traditional MTT. 75% bounties lacks the exciting prizes of a traditional pay table. Progressive 100% KOs throw the pay table out the window. There's no need for hand for hand or ICM. A player's sole focus is to accumulate bounties.

Also, the 100% KO in TCOOP was extremely fun to watch. Basically, I do not see the issue with continuing to try them out in the regular schedule and COOPs. If they are not popular with our players, they'll be removed.

Yep, I addressed this above, but that's the plan. The schedule above was meant to show that we plan to fill gaps with Phase 1s.

• I agree with the sentiment behind changing Events 47/48. I'll take a closer look. My logic behind this one was fairly simple--the previous Saturday has a $5.50/$55/$530 NLHE Event in that same time slot.
• I generally agree with this as well, though to some degree it depends on the structure of the Phase Events.
• Ultra-Deep Stacks, just with a shorter name.
• Again, the Phase starting times are not final, but there's a couple different considerations to make here. We want players from all time zones to be able to participate and we do not want a lot of overlap during late registration for similar Events.
• I do not think the final Sunday will get a NLHE at 08:00. It will overlap with the final Phase 1s. I did add a PLO for those with big hearts, though.

It's not impossible!

There will not be a marathon Event in SCOOP. Every time we run a tournament that is longer than two days, we are running a risk if site issues occur. The short explanation is that if we have site issues while a tournament is manually paused (any time after day 2), we'll be forced to play a hand. This has obvious negative implications. I'm hoping that we can have a fix in place for WCOOP.

Thanks for all the feedback!

• Unfortunately, we don't have the ability to run a big bet mix. I'd snap run something like that for April Foolishness if it was possible!
• n-Stack has been removed because I don't think it attracts players. It isn't prevalent in the normal schedule and I think placing it in SCOOP would just result in an unpopular format taking a valuable Event slot.
• Since we only have one NL 2-7 Single Draw Event, I feel that it should be vanilla.
• Overall Series prize pools are not heavily dependent upon the mixed games. Like I posted above, we only have one less NLHE tournament with a Low buy-in of $27 or more. This can also easily be amended.
• The final Monday is meant to be a sort of winding down for SCOOP, not another day of Events. While plans for Monday aren't finalized, it is unlikely that it will be converted into another full day of traditional Events.
• The Championship tag was only used in WCOOP.

There's five versus 4.33 last year (one of the Player's Choice Events was hyper-turbo).

Thanks for the feedback. I haven't looked into structures yet, but I believe that Day 1 should always be a reasonable length. Once players are ITM, there isn't much value in forcing them to play for several more hours. I'd prefer players have to play a longer Day 2. That said, the plan is to look at how tournaments ended after Day 1 last year and make appropriate changes. The only planned 3-day tournaments this year are the Phase and Main Event, though. I explained why this is above.

Yes, we have the ability to run re-entry knockout tournaments. There's a few in the regular schedule.

Just because it is very commonly played one way doesn't mean it won't be fun to play it another way! If it fails, it will be removed. I have no qualms about that. Any others have an opinion on this Event?

Cheers! I explained why there will not be a marathon Event in SCOOP above.

There will not be watches for the winners.

Thanks for the comments.

I'd rather increase the buy-in of the Super Tuesday/Thursday Thrill than convert them to 6-Max. I think the series has a healthy amount of 6-Max at the moment.

There's already an additional NLO8 tournament compared to last year.

Last year:
$27/$215/$2,100 6-Max Progressive KO
$27/$215/$2,100 6-Max Turbo Zoom
$27/$215/$2,100 6-Max

This year:
$11/$109/$1,050 6-Max Progressive KO
$11/$109/$1,050 6-Max 5-Card Hyper-Turbo
$27/$215/$2,100 6-Max Turbo
$27/$215/$2,100 6-Max

Personally, I like the variety on offer this year! It is also worth noting that one of the PLO8 Events is 8-Max.

I don't plan on adding more Events to this year's SCOOP, but if you have suggestions for conversions, feel free to leave them here and I'll look into it.

I like non-turbo sats! This is another reason that I do not want SCOOP to bloat in size and scope at the moment. By iterating on SCOOP with the Phase Event, we can keep tournaments spaced out and schedule satellites accordingly. I plan on using a lot of On-Demand, so it will be up to you guys to smash the register button…

Thanks for all the feedback, and keep it coming!

+1 for Marathon
Also dislike the 100% psko, but if you keep it at least make it short handed + reentry

A non holdem variant on Mon the 15th might be nice, maybe that day only stands out as meh to me though? Also, would love to see some pko in limit mix games where hand equities run pretty close together. Razz or limit 08 would be really fun this way imo, especially razz where you are getting close to the right odds to chase, like all the time does the irrelevancy in the first few levels kill this?

$27/$162/$1050?

THIS!

Very very reasonable for those events where 2100 for the high would hurt participation levels

I see absolutely no reason why the 5-Card PLO8 is a hyper turbo, excluding a supersonic SE theres no reason for hyper turbos to be anywhere near SCOOP.

5 Card PLO8, would work well as an N-Stack, 1-2r1a or a regular rebuy. I think on the high buyin tier a regular rebuy would hurt the participation levels.

The NL08 6 max turbo, there is no reason for this not to be Zoom. Scoop should have as little turbos as possible and a Zoom turbo is a semi turbo itself so that is an absolute no brainer.

I really don't agree that N-Stack formats hurt participation levels. Last years PLO 5 stack PLO event got solid numbers. 638 runners for a $530 on a weekday is pretty solid.

Furthermore you have included a No Limit Omaha Event yet again, which isn't even in regular schedule so your reasoning behind a lack of N stack event contradicts your inclusion of No Limit Omaha event.

I feel like the reasoning behind the exclusion of Marathon is really really weak. The same could be said of most multi day tournaments. Judging by replies a marathon event is the event which has the most demand. I strongly urge you to reconsider.

-1 to 100$ psko. what an absolute joke. This is Scoop. This is Prestigious. This isn't AA>KK, but it means nothing to your tournament because he has 10 more chips than you.

PS will not add more events and a lot of NLHE games wont be re-entry, how about 4 tiers of play, something like (all in $)? Or at least for all NLHE games.

11/16.5/27
55/75/109
215/320/530
1050/1575/2100

- If the 10x buyin levels are sacred to scoop, so should the watches be

- Reason for no marathon event seems pretty absurd since you got it to work fine during wcoop and there's still two months+ before scoop starts. Every other post is asking for it, at least try everything to fix this in stead of just writing it off already

Why are you ignoring most of the posts of people not liking 100%psko? We are players too



- Please remove at least one turbo and don't think anyone really craves a bubble rush scoop event either

- Why no early nlhe event on the last Sunday? Just run a phase more if you are really worried it will cannibalize the phase that runs during that time (which it won't, and there will be loads of phases anyway)



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He had a chat with a player and 100% ko are extremely fun watch

-1 to 100% psko

Such a pointless gimmick format.

p.s. And do you even realize how life-threateningly heartbreaking is it to get 2nd in one of these?

why make 1 of the sunday warmup 2k's a re entry? Just keep all of them as a freeze out