*** Official 2013 Stars Satellite Thread (Suggestions, Requests, Etc. - MTT, SNG, Steps) **
05-07-2015
, 11:31 AM
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, 01:54 PM
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, 06:09 PM
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, 08:36 PM
05-14-2015
, 12:01 PM
05-14-2015
, 11:31 PM
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Hello,
I will just interrupt Bryan's regular programming to answer this one. For SCOOP, we are aiming to have one, and only one 6-Max Hyper Sit & Gos for each target buyin running at any given time. The exception to this, is when two similar targets run in the same 24 hour period. In such a situation, we will always start the 6-Max Hypers for a specific tournament 24 hours before the target starts, regardless of whether or not there are already 6-Max Hypers running at the same buyin.
In this specific case, the SCOOP-02-M (Sunday Warm-Up) starts two and a half hours before SCOOP-03-M (Sunday Million), which means that until Saturday at 14:30 ET, the only $74 6 Max Hypers will be for the Warm-Up. At the mentioned time, the same SNG for the Sunday Million will start, and run in parallel with the Warm-Up SNG's until the Warm-Up starts at 11am ET on Sunday.
Another factor is, as you mention, that the Sunday Million is more popular than the Sunday Warm-Up. However, I see this as a good reason for the Sunday Warm-Up to benefit from exposure in form of 6-max Hypers without competition from the Million, particularly since the Warm-Up has a higher guarantee during SCOOP than it would otherwise have.
A final point is that we have looked at the numbers, and seats won in the 6-Max Hypers more than 24 hours before the target starts are almost never used to play in the target (the stickyness is less than 5%). Once the start time of the target approaches, however, this number goes up significantly. Because of this, it makes little sense to have more than the bare minimum of 6-Max Hypers deployed far ahead of the targets start times.
On a final note, four hours before the target, there will be additional lobbies available for the 6-Max Hypers, and there will also be 6-Max Hyper FPP Sats for most events, starting five hours before the target.
Thanks,
Baard
I will just interrupt Bryan's regular programming to answer this one. For SCOOP, we are aiming to have one, and only one 6-Max Hyper Sit & Gos for each target buyin running at any given time. The exception to this, is when two similar targets run in the same 24 hour period. In such a situation, we will always start the 6-Max Hypers for a specific tournament 24 hours before the target starts, regardless of whether or not there are already 6-Max Hypers running at the same buyin.
In this specific case, the SCOOP-02-M (Sunday Warm-Up) starts two and a half hours before SCOOP-03-M (Sunday Million), which means that until Saturday at 14:30 ET, the only $74 6 Max Hypers will be for the Warm-Up. At the mentioned time, the same SNG for the Sunday Million will start, and run in parallel with the Warm-Up SNG's until the Warm-Up starts at 11am ET on Sunday.
Another factor is, as you mention, that the Sunday Million is more popular than the Sunday Warm-Up. However, I see this as a good reason for the Sunday Warm-Up to benefit from exposure in form of 6-max Hypers without competition from the Million, particularly since the Warm-Up has a higher guarantee during SCOOP than it would otherwise have.
A final point is that we have looked at the numbers, and seats won in the 6-Max Hypers more than 24 hours before the target starts are almost never used to play in the target (the stickyness is less than 5%). Once the start time of the target approaches, however, this number goes up significantly. Because of this, it makes little sense to have more than the bare minimum of 6-Max Hypers deployed far ahead of the targets start times.
On a final note, four hours before the target, there will be additional lobbies available for the 6-Max Hypers, and there will also be 6-Max Hyper FPP Sats for most events, starting five hours before the target.
Thanks,
Baard
Sats were deployed to the main events earlier this year than any other year, and there was a ton of great action specifically at the $357>$1050 sats, and by having the main event sats deployed super early into the series, they helped make the other buyin levels around it run a lot more (specifically 109/181). This led to a large increase in the amount of rake that PS took during this time period which is great because as I've pointed out before, this format has the lowest % of regular players winning pre rb in it compared to every other game offered on PS, so PS as a company clears a lot of rake on every game that pops.
On top of that, many of the players that will play these $7000 sats will also be playing the target event. There really isn't a downside to having 1 $7000 satellite in the lobby anyhow imo, it won't clutter the lobby and the target event is one of the most prestigious events of the yr, so why not have the satellite in there earlier.
Plz let me degen in $7ks more than 24 hrs before the event! <3 <3
Edit: Just want to say, been very happy with everything else during SCOOP, and I'm usually someone who complains quite a lot
05-15-2015
, 06:19 AM
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Bit early on this, but was wondering if there could be an exception to this for the $7000 sats to the $21,000 Highroller HU event. I think in the past they have been deployed on the Monday before that 21k HR HU takes place, which usually is on Saturday, and I'd love for this to happen again if it can't be deployed sooner than this.
Sats were deployed to the main events earlier this year than any other year, and there was a ton of great action specifically at the $357>$1050 sats, and by having the main event sats deployed super early into the series, they helped make the other buyin levels around it run a lot more (specifically 109/181). This led to a large increase in the amount of rake that PS took during this time period which is great because as I've pointed out before, this format has the lowest % of regular players winning pre rb in it compared to every other game offered on PS, so PS as a company clears a lot of rake on every game that pops.
On top of that, many of the players that will play these $7000 sats will also be playing the target event. There really isn't a downside to having 1 $7000 satellite in the lobby anyhow imo, it won't clutter the lobby and the target event is one of the most prestigious events of the yr, so why not have the satellite in there earlier.
Plz let me degen in $7ks more than 24 hrs before the event! <3 <3
Edit: Just want to say, been very happy with everything else during SCOOP, and I'm usually someone who complains quite a lot
Sats were deployed to the main events earlier this year than any other year, and there was a ton of great action specifically at the $357>$1050 sats, and by having the main event sats deployed super early into the series, they helped make the other buyin levels around it run a lot more (specifically 109/181). This led to a large increase in the amount of rake that PS took during this time period which is great because as I've pointed out before, this format has the lowest % of regular players winning pre rb in it compared to every other game offered on PS, so PS as a company clears a lot of rake on every game that pops.
On top of that, many of the players that will play these $7000 sats will also be playing the target event. There really isn't a downside to having 1 $7000 satellite in the lobby anyhow imo, it won't clutter the lobby and the target event is one of the most prestigious events of the yr, so why not have the satellite in there earlier.
Plz let me degen in $7ks more than 24 hrs before the event! <3 <3
Edit: Just want to say, been very happy with everything else during SCOOP, and I'm usually someone who complains quite a lot
Much as I see the appeal in firing off $7K at a time, I must unfortunately disappoint you on this issue. For this year's SCOOP, the SNG sats for the HU events are exclusively of the Heads-Up format.
The reason for this is simply that there is almost no overlap between those players who want to play 6-max hypers and those who want to play the HU target. Because of this, we decided to give the HU players free reign in the SNG satellites for 'their' events, and I can say that so far, the numbers of satellite winners that are actually playing these events, have increased.
Thanks,
Baard
05-15-2015
, 06:49 AM
05-15-2015
, 10:05 AM