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Originally Posted by lotuspod2
Hopefully o8 gets included this time, jackpots were a disappointment for me and some others. Only thing jackpots did for us was drag many of the recs away from our games which keeps o8 sng traffic down artificially.
9-mans sound cool, but not so sure about hypers though. I think a fair compromise would be 1500-chip turbos with a few blind levels removed, mainly some of the early ones. This would speed up the games but would still leave plenty of time for the most important stages of the game.
This is a very important point. When I played on PokerStars (back when Americans could do that) they accepted a lot of input. They even had a Players Committee. They added all kinds and types of SNGs. Regular speed, turbo and hypers. Buy-in levels at 10¢, $1, $3, $5, $10, $20, up to $100 and beyond. SNGs from 6-max, to 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 90, 180 and 360 players. Double or nothings, later replaced by 50/50s.
Despite the huge player pool, SNGs became so divided that players who were grinding traditional SNGs were having trouble filling a table quickly. If that can happen to a large international playing pool, it can certainly happen on any site currently available to US players.
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