more turbos please!!!!

This looks worse than what they have now

yea what the hell happened to the $33 buy in deep stack 20k gtd?

I loved that one

They should have some deep stacks like the 5000 chips 30 min blinds on pokerstars which were really popular

They're just watching their own butt and being safe with GTD's which is fine, but don't claim you're 60% of the traffic and then come out with this schedule. Tbh if you came out of the gate with bigger GTD's although you might have lost some traffic you will gain it from some of those Non-Americans who play stars, pp, etc...and will start to take Lock Poker (Revolution Poker) Seriously. As of right now the only people to take you seriously are your Regs, and even then 50% of them are playing more volume on other sites.

Oh well sadly ill be on there since i have no other sites

Currently cake doesn't have Horse or mixed game tournies. Will this change?

how about a afternoon special Saturday tournament? say a 320 30k? i actually like to have Saturday evenings available. Merge doesnt have a special Saturday tourney so i know you didn't think about this in the copy and paste tournament schedule that was put together. I think it'd also be attractive to European players as well.

hope the gaurantees increase VERY quickly, otherwise its gg revolution.

We most certainly do intend to raise the guarantees quickly but we also wanted to be sensible. We have come out of the gate hard with the first weeks guarantees but wanted to temper expectations with the weeks afterwards to ensure the guarantees remain profitable for all the Revolution partners.

We understand the hit the smaller rooms take with massive guarantees so would rather build things up rather than see the people who can afford it the least take a hit.

We work on a long term strategy not a quick hit, we'd rather build this right rather than try to compete recklessly with the existing Merge guarantees which are bound to drop dramatically unless they unpartition the Sportsbook players or their remaining partners take on very large overlay fees.

We really wont be able to accurately compare the guaranteed tournaments for a few weeks until after the dust has settled.

At least try with plo8. That's pathetic.

i still fail to understand how putting a near identical tournament schedule to merge's makes you in competition with them..why not actually revamp it based off a more organized site like pokerstars?

Will the clock on Revolution be fixed? Or will it still be an hour behind like it is currently....

Agree. If you're gonna have the same tourneys as merge, why not stay on merge? We want a real "revolution" not a sorry attempt of a poker network. Hence why we WANT to leave merge. Not wanting huge overlays is fine and understandable. Not fixing the horrible structures is not. Literally like 95% of the schedule is identical unless, unless you changed starting stacks, blind levels etc. Let's pray you did. Not to sound like a negative Ned or any thing.

Can't expect Revolution to invent new tourneys or be like Stars from Day 1.

It's not that easy to change around schedules on a new network like Cake and have the best structured tourneys in the world right out of the gate when they're making the move on relatively short notice.

I'm sure as the dust settles, Revo. will look for feedback from players like Stars does and modify their schedule.

For now, this is just more options for the player to choose from and a good alternative to Merge.

hey shane what time zone for this tourney schedule?

^ probably central time again..lock seems to be a little behind in just about everything they're doing still lol not sure why the time zone of all things would catch up so to speak

Because now Lock *can* make that decision.

This imo please have the blinds be at least 10 minutes. I miss the days we had big stacks and it required skill than shoving stacks less turbo type tournaments

almost every tournament currently on Lock (Merge) is at least 10 mins unless it's a turbo and most are 15. considering how Matt Stout copied and pasted the "new" tournament schedule for Revolution, i'd be shocked if he didn't copy the structures Merge uses as well.

Does anyone know if the super turbo satellites (Ex:11.20/$33) will transfer over to Cake? The press releases promoted a 100k sunday 109.... The nighty 33 dollar re-buy was slashed hard. I am curious to see how this pans out. Lock has been blowing a ton of hot air.

Awesome Post Shane! greatly appreciated over here!

i agree with many of the other posters in this thread that the plo8 schedule is HORRIBLE. When will sites learn that while PLO might be a more popular cash game than PLO8 it is definately not more popular when it comes to tourneys.


I cant believe these words are coming out of my mouth but Lock should do what Absolute/UltimateBet did and create a strong Omaha hilow MTT schedule beginning at around 16:30 through 20:00 with a new multi starting every 30 minutes or so. This would allow PLO8 regs to get in decent MTT action without staying glued to their computer all day. Most regs would play all the tourneys during that time. The regs would know that between those times they can definately get a game. This also lets the casual player join in because youre catching them after work and before they go to sleep.

If you want the regs to play you need to create a schedule that makes it easy to remember without having to remember specific times. The way i suggest would let them know that in the evenings there will be a PLO8 MTT starting soon even if they missed the last one.

I also would like to see alot more PLO8 games. And God forbid, think about throwing in a couple NLO8 like we used to get on P*********

If you guys don't fix this, not only are you going to make me not want to play on Merge any more (less players now), but I'm not going to want to play on Revolution (failed promises) either!

heres an example of what i would recommend for daily PLO8 schedule that is realistic...

between midnight and noon i would run a few $1-3 rebuy along with some $2- $5 freezout tourneys with no guarantee

12:00 - $10 + rebuys with a guarantee
12:30 - $5 NLO8 freezout with a guarantee
13:00 - $10 turbo freezout with a guarantee

then until 16:30 i would go back to running the small buy in no guarantee schedule i ran between midnight and noon

16:30 - $5 + rebuys with a guarantee
17:00 - $3 + rebuys NLO8 with a guarantee
17:30 - $10 freezout with a guarantee
18:00 - $6 + rebuys turbo with a guarantee
18:30 - $5 freezout NLO8 with a guarantee
19:00 - $10 + rebuys with a guarantee
19:30 - $20 freezout with a guarantee
20:00 - $3 + rebuys turbo with a guarantee

then go back to the to running the small buy in no guarantee schedule while perhaps mixing in 1 more guarantee at around 22:00.

I would also recommend running some $1 + rebuys satellites for the next days guarantees. I would also have 1 weekly big buy in plo8 multi of $100+ and maybe 1 of around $50+ with them being deepstack freezouts.

Exactly like shaunnn said - these things need to be one right after another. If I have to wait 2 hours or more between these games, I'm not going to waste my entire night and play ANY of them!! Who knows.. I could have been waiting around for the game to get started, and then get knocked out (hopefully not) way before the money. Then what am I supposed to do? Go take a couple hour nap while I wait for the next one to start???? No I don't think so. I will not play any of them to begin with. I will watch TV, or hang out with my friends. Probably playing some live poker at one of THEIR houses! NOT at Lock.