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Originally Posted by LittleGoliath
Can you please elaborate on why this is the worst schedule you have ever seen? I fail to see that farseerfinland.
Well it's of course matter of point of view, but last 3 months I have played far less in Party than ever before since when I started to play in Party 2012. Effectively just a bunch of satellites since they don't last forever. Part of the reason is holiday, but major reason is that tournament offering is non-existent if one wants to launch a quick session on MTTs. Or at least win something meaningful if session strechts longer.
There simply is currently nothing worth playing in PartyPoker MTT schedule, unless one can afford to play 10+ hours session. Earlier there were at least some turbo rebuys, PLO8s etc. that had reasonable prizepools and running time. And along those one could catch some medium-field NLH during late reg and most of the time finish it around 4-6 hours. Now structures are so super ultra deep and late reg short which makes this impossible.
I am not against PKOs
per se as my favorite format is (hyper NLO8) PKO, but I don't like Party's super slow structures and NL Hold'em PKOs are also more boring / less skill incentive than PLO / PLO8 / NLO8 PKOs. And because one has to play PKOs from the beginning for not to lose value, that means that most tournaments take 10+ hours to finish and at least 8+ hours before they reach any meaningful prizes. Progressive Knock-outs should be action game, not some super long marathon.
While I am writing this there's still running some 1,1$ and 5,5$ PKOs with less than 1k runners which started 9,5 hours ago. That's just ridiculous imo. when 4th place gets like 20 buy-ins. With so many intermediate levels 12 min levels in Party is like 20+ min levels on any other site. It's like you would need to make turbos 3 min levels to get same as other sites with 5 min levels.
It's not like I want everything to be hyper, turbo, PLO or PLO8. Even I can play some deepstack once in a while, especially alongside faster tournaments. But when most "turbos" on Party are far slower than regular tournaments on any other site, it's clear there's nothing for us who want to fire quick sessions once in a while. I just simply get a much better playing experience + value if I play on Stars for non-hold'em tournaments and MPN + bunch on other sites/networks for Hold'em.
So from my POV speaking... I can play long sessions, I just don't enjoy them. So it's gotta be a juicy carrot (LB packages) which makes me to play long sessions which are tormenting, while I can play shorter sessions for lower value (for fun).