215 turbo for 1050 today showed only 50 players in the rankings while 77 seats, which I find unlikable. It is quite important to see other stacks around bubble.
Also the 215 deep slowed structured the day before had fewer entrants than I imagine would play, is there a way for similar sats for events on the next day to be more visible in the main lobby (with the mtts, the way ME sats are showed)?
Also regular $109 10min ST sats disappeared today, pls bring them back for the next week.

why not switch those 7.50 rd 1 hyper deep satelites to the thrill away from feeding into various overraked reg filled 82/109 turbo deep re-entry satelites

have them feed into another hyper deep obviously? right??

It's almost as if you guys want the Friday 8-Game to be cancelled every week. Pitiful satellite offerings.

May I suggest some $50-$82 deepstack turbos among others.

yesterday the only ept qualifier was the 320 hyper
today the only qualifier is a 320 hyper
this makes no sense at all!

The reason he posted the picture was because the number of players paid in the info box of the table doesn't match the actual number of players paid. This is a software bug with all Pokerstars satellites, as far as I can tell.

I think it's very misleading for Stars to be labeling this thing as a turbo when it doesn't have 5 minute levels the whole way through.

https://gyazo.com/6e4629571bb3463bf3a0999fe1a9d233

this is by design

i still feel like that design is simply misleading and wish they would change it to represent useful information (TOTAL places paid or number of seats + number of places paid remainder).

showing number of places paid minus number of seats is not useful to anybody

yeah it's murder mass-tabling satelites in endgame as the info tab just doesn't give a reliable indication of how many places are paid

ya i agree that for a sat, a seat is a "place paid" and would provide more useful info

I played a mtt toernie again on stars since a long time. Why, because it was zoom, a lot of fun.

I can understand pokerstars dont want to offer too much zoom toernies as it kills rake because people table a lower amount because of it and the better players gethigher edges in a zoom tournament, but, I still think a sunday zoom turbo(hyper) 215 is a great idea, it was the most fun i had for a while playing the 320 zoom a few days back

hey luke, at your last post you didn't say anything about the sats payouts issue, even though i bothered to write a big post about it [u said you were open to counterpoints etc ] and many others posted their opinion about it (gathered some relevant posts for you in case you missed them ). btw, i didn't see any positive responses to the change.

so, as you're silently changing stuff and with everybody's attention to wcoop, i assume you are rewriting SM sats like you said. can you please listen to the feedback and not ruin all the satellite schedule??
these payouts are just terrible.

new wednesday 320 sats with new awful payout already out, what's coming up next?

sorry everyone for the double long post. this is the right thread but luke checks out mtt's thread more

EPT sats/subsats are inconsistently named eg
EPT-Malta Sat [Qualifier]: €530 NLHE, 1 Package Gtd
EPT-Malta Sat: €109 1R1A Qualifier [1 Seat Gtd]
EPT-Malta Sat: €22 Turbo Rd 1 [1 Seat Gtd] to €109 Qualifier

It would be very helpful for filters if it was standardised, eg at the moment typing in "ept qualifier" brings up all the sub-sats as well as the actual qualifiers and typing in "ept [qualifier]" causes you to miss some like the 1r1a above.
I'd suggest something like make sure that all qualifiers contain "[qualifier]" in the name and all sub sats say "qual" instead of "qualifier".
Potentially making a new tournament category "live qualifier" (for qualifiers) which is separate to "satellite" (for subsats) would work well also.


Obviously would be good to apply this to pca, aussie, local tours, etc etc too

I see no reason against some good sattelites to next days events, or big weekend events, near the end of most regs their sessions. So inbetween the B162 and H44. Think a lot of players would flick in a 160/320 deep sattelite (turbo or 10 min blinds) to 1/2k events.

I think it's time for Pstars to add phase sats to the PCA.
I know this will take away some butter from the HS regs who play the daily qualifiers and the guys who play the sub sats but something has to give as the player lobby is just too scary for many recs. The good news is rec players will actually qualify and this makes the Live event softer.

I'd propose keeping the same sats that they have and then in addition add a $10 phase tourney (3x a day 12pm-4pm-8pm) and offer 1 package guaranteed and see how it works. If things are going well then add more lower stake ones.

there ought to be $2.55 6-max hypers awarding 2x step 1 tickets, these would boost steps traffic from the bottom upwards!

crossposting as requested by Bryan ("Take it up with Luke" :P)

the places paid thing should be changed for sure..
honestly it would be ideal if for satellites it said how many actual full seats/packages there are (in additional to how many places paid = how many places in the money).

+1

Sorry I didn't post about this sooner, but there were two $55 deep turbos in the lobby for today. They require five players to start and guarantee one seat. One was schedule for 12:20 and cancelled with one player register and the other is scheduled for 13:00ET.

I agree, Zoom should be a bigger part of the main tournament schedule; however, I'd rather add them at the micro level to gauge overall player interest.

The steps are quite likely to see changes early next year due to the implementation of VIP Steps. The planning process has not begun, but I'm looking for ideas that:

• Include more buy-ins
• Have a smaller entry level
• Players can understand easily

For some perspective, ~1,200 Step 1 ($7.50) tickets have been used this year. To me, that does not indicate a thriving ticket satellite program.

I am unsure about 43:1 for this tournament. While the Thursday Thrill is a popular tournament, I typically prefer $55-$109 for a $1,050 target. Once the Sunday Million satellites have been changed, I'll continue evaluating other satellite systems.

As far as $215, I do not think that ratio is big enough!

Can you please elaborate on the upcoming changes to the Sunday Million satellite's 3x-turbo's,

As many of us have posted in this forum, that we do not want them changed.

Good idea.

Perhaps Luke could post the changes a few days ahead of time on here... and perhaps some people on here can offer suggestions that are somewhat in line with your proposed changes.

Can we have couple more $82 deep turbos for the Sunday 1k 6max earlier tomorrow? 2 or 3 around 215R starting time would be perfect. There's nothing to interfere with and most of the people wouldn't sit so early to play sats on Sunday.

Are the 3x to the million actually changing?? That would be silly...

the structures were the important part for me , not the ratios. maybe you can find room for a nice branded $55 reg speed that was similar in play to the $27 and a couple of $109s with the same structure that those $215s had