It was stated previously that sng 2.0 will only be in the ACR client for now.

Little bit of early feedback:

The blind structure definitely needs a bit of tweaking here. Antes stay at 25 chips for 4 or 5 levels, the 100/200 level is repeated, and the inconsistency here just makes the pace feel a bit unnatural.

I also think the prizepool distribution needs a second look. I drew a $130 $10 game, but was quite disappointed when the payouts for the top couple places were pretty much the exact same as in the standard 7x. Yes, paying out deeper is nice, but a big draw of jackpot style games is the potential big win for hitting a lucky spin and shipping the sng. In these games, though, the top payouts stay relatively constant no matter the number of green cards you hit.

I would much rather see games with a few less people paid (something like 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8 players paid depending on number of green cards), allowing for a somewhat more top-heavy distribution in 2+ green card games but still allowing more players to cash as more cards are hit.

It seems like too much work to mock up a complete structure (sorry), but as it was I didn't really feel excited at all despite hitting a 3 card game, and looking at the payout structures I actually wouldn't be excited even if we hit a 7x because the structure is so flat. In a jackpot style game, it's definitely not good for a result as rare as 1 in 400 to lack excitement, and I think this will need to be fixed if you want fish to stay in these games over the long-haul. Spins fire faster, and that .25% of the time you get lucky you're playing for either 8x or 20x the buyin, a much more "exciting" prize than the 5bi for first you're playing for in a 2.0.

Just my initial feedback after a handful of games, wonder if anyone else has much to say at this point.

Ok so no points for the leaderboard were added from 2.0s today. When will that be fixed and will we get retroactive points for the ones played today?

As far as the layout goes, many improvements needed. Antes should be moved to the middle of the table, not in front of the players. Also don't combine the antes with the sb and bb. Move the payout to another location other than directly in front of the player. All these things together makes it almost impossible to see what's going on quickly late game as evident by this screenshot.

So today WPN CEO talked about the justification for no HUD, which is that these games will soon be available on mobile and mobile users can't use HUDs so it's an unfair advantage. Ok, that's fine.

But notes? We need to be able to make notes on people. When are those coming?

Just started playing it. Some tweaks needed, but different and can see it catching on. One thing that should be done is the box with the prize pool being moved from under the cards of the bottom seat.

Some early feedback, I played about 10 during happy hour

- removing the od's is wrong, esp for the people who rely on grinding them during happy hours for they"re snc spot. Please at least put them back up, or at least during happy hours

- obv the disconnects are a problem

- as well as displaying the ante in front of the players

- I kinda like the structure, leaves room for a lot of play

- Weird that first place never seems to increase, only paying out more spots. Now I like that when paying 2 first place is still a full first place. However as you get bigger spins shouldn't that increase? The point of playing spins is for big prizes but if that only comes when u hit a jackpot, thats kinda weak

Im still undecided on them, I like certain things. I'll have to play some more.

Btw out of the 54 cards drawn at the beginning how many are red and how many are green? I get that 3 are gold

Link to this video?

26 green, 26 red, 3 gold, for 55 total (just for the prize pool mini game at the beginning).

nevermind I found it https://www.twitch.tv/videos/128894077

I agree with everything you said here!

Personally, I'm glad no HUDs can be used! Bovada games are infinitely better because of the recreational model. I know that some people find ways to use HUDs on there but the vast majority of people don't deal with the headache of setting one up.

Thanks for posting the link. Haven't watched it all yet, but some interesting talk about early thoughts on a sort-of built-in HUD, which would be an industry first, as far as I know.

Didn't mention this in my feedback but yes 100%. Antes combined with blinds in front of the players is so damn confusing, especially when tiling 3 or 4 tables at quite a small size. Very bad for playability and put me off playing more than 1 or 2 of these at a time.

I never got refunded for the $69 jackpot promo. I even showed screenshots of the chat log saying "I've reconnected to the server" with the hand history # posted and NOTHING.

Whatever...

So there's no way we can "rail" the SNG 2.0?

please add ITM feature and maybe a "status" tab to tell what place a player is and how many players left

so after calling I was refunded for the 2 games I was blinded out of. good support via phone is hard to get and I like this about winning. thanks acr for the fast resolution.

What happens if someone registers, walks away from their computer to get a drink or whatever, then returns after the mini-game cards have been drawn? I assume they'll be auto dealt one of the cards?

First few games I played the first player drew a red card right off the bat. Playing for underlays is no fun.

Does it really take an hour for a $100 game to start ? :*(

The most popular MTT's when I first started playing poker on Pokerstars was the $20 180-player tournaments.

First place was $1080 and finished in around 4 hours , which is a reasonable amount of time

$50's would pay $2700 for first and $100's would play $5400 for first

Tell me multi-tabling those wouldn't be awesome =)

Correct.

Here's a summary of the prize pool multipliers (number of buyins), assuming there's $100,000 in the progressive jackpot.

That sounds perfect. I imagine that as the quirks wear off, it will get better.

so did the jackpot reset or did some one hit it already? it was over 100k showing just over 99k now....

Played a couple of times after watching the TWITCH live feed. Not bad, some tweaks need to be made as stated with the fellas above but it's not bad. Certainly going after the rec players which IMO is a good thing. Good for the poker economy.

Let's see how long this lasts.

I had similar notes like did other players but will reiterate so its known and in order of importance

1) we cant change the software at all for 2.0 at all? Three words: 4 COLOR DECK!!

2) change the payout structure if can. Like one player mentioned when 4, or 5 players get paid but no adjustment to the top that kinda sucks. yeah its cool more people get paid but really the lure on average is winning a bigger prize not just the normal 4.5x for shipping a 9m SNG.

3) antes and prizepool in your face make it hard to see whats happening on the table itself sometimes

4) be cool if could rail the highest multipliers but this is not a big deal at all