Shyam, i think the time slot for the new 50$ The Five-O is wrong, it should be 1 or 2 hour later, its a time slot that we dont have much action overall so a 50$ 5k would be a very nice tournament to play, in the time it is right now still action enough to dont botter opening a 5k gtd MTT

again, please consider adding a tournament at 21 ET

agreed

5$ GTD is actually the "20 Buy In GTD" I was proposing; so yes, 10$ might be a little stretch when considering off-peak. I guess it's not easy to program the soft to set the GTD to 10$ from 12ET - 18 ET?

While the old 0.25$ games had an average of 20 players with a pool of 4-5$, the 5$ GTD ones climb up to 25-36 players with a 7$ pool so it is def a sucess - and the euro evening is yet to come. Let's see-

Having a 5$ an a 50$ GTD starting basically every hour is very good for people who skim the lobby and close it as long as they don't find action.

I think it's pretty cool, that with the On Demand games you can have a nano/micro game running at all times which fills up the gaps.

As an long time FTP grinder have something to say too.

First of all would like to ask if it is possible to add up some turbo tourneys at micros level between 06:00 and 12:00 EET? there is none of them. I guess i'm not the only regular annoyed about that. and mainly it is the biggest reason why i personally have to multi site when grinding at this time, simply because i'm not getting enough tables. At other times there is an option to add up 1dollar on demand sit n gos, but at this time there is not any traffic to them.

Another thing i would like to mention is 5dollars on demand sng. I cant remember when the last time saw them running and i think the biggest reason for that is the big gap between 1dol OD sng and 5dol OD sng. it is hard for regulars to jump from 1dol tourneys to 5dol tourneys if they are playing only them and the players who are playing only for fun usually do not want to wait until 18 players register, they just simply jump in to the action during late register. so these tourneys usually do not start at all. My suggestion is to drop the buy in to 2.5 or 3dol maybe. to make people play those sngs i think you can take in to consideration giving tickets to micro rush cash games players during gold rush. I think most players who plays micro rush cash games would not mind to play rush tourney too and that would make those tourneys more valueble for tourney players. For sure, there would be a lot of players who jump into the action during late reg as it is in 1dol OD sngs.

thirdly, i dont understand why 400 guarantee rebuy tourneys runs almost one after another? I think one of them could be moved between 09:00 and 12:00 EET since there is not any micro tourney at this time at all.

I think the tenner plays better as full ring, maybe just change the name and color of it to get more attention to it, it is a good tourney.

ya ill play it everyday as fr but basically never as 6m

$50 Megastack not run today?

I see one in there today. I played it on Tuesday. It's a nice addition. Thought the stack size might be a bit meh but seems cool. Liking some of the schedule changes and nice to see Tilt making an effort on it. Hope the numbers increase and we can get some bigger regular tourns in there.

Why are there no satellites to the Fat Tuesday yet?

Shyam, I still think there is an issue with people not being aware of the improved schedule you have created. If I wasn't involved in this thread, I wouldn't know about them, unless I happened to open the FTP client and spend more than a few seconds studying the schedule. Any chance of getting the word out? Email? Article in Poker News/Pocket Fives etc? Twitter etc? Even make the new/changed tournaments a different colour in the lobby, or put the word "new", "improved" etc next to them....

They're coming! They will be mostly (possibly entirely) on the day of, though.

Yep, we're just finalizing an email now. Hopefully it will go out early next week to $50+ buyin players about the two new $50s, the "Turbo Hour", and Fat Tuesday.

so ive been red since jan (sick brag) anyways... i am constantly being asked questions in the chat


things like: do i get something if i bust you, general small talk bc they think im a sponsored pro and want to talk to me, people asking who i am for same reasons, etc etc .. and of course they are almost all rec players


basically i just think there is a big demand for this.. people still remember the old ftp with the whole learn, chat, play w the pros. you may want to consider making a few small signings where the guys play a lot and are very active in the chat and of course a bounty on their head

Would love to see the $10r rush back please!!

Any suggestions?

for players?

yeah.

tbh, if you manage to get red, you must be a pro. Maybe not a tv-face with an image like "internetkid" or "The mouth" but damn, you have to play good poker (Or run like god) to get there.
Given the fact, for the recs you are a pro and something special on their table.
While a bounty might be a bit costy what about giving out tournament tickets or something like that for busting a red guy?
(cash game tickets for CG could be something else, but I dunno if you should get something for scooping 1 BI at cash)

bring back the bust a pro get a tshirt! that was awesome and the recs absolutely love it

i think it has to be someone who would be willing to grind 4-7 days a week, maybe plays some live and/or uses twitch (or willing to)... probably have like 3-5 pros


id assume any time of contract would be minorn bc they clearly arent looking to spend money but like 100% rakeback + something so bigger name guys wouldnt do it


i also dont think reaching out to a certain country is a big deal.. someone who is just semi known so people could google them etc


off hand i dont have anyone specific in mind, have a ton of tables now but im sure it wouldnt be that hard

ya the thing is... now its more like someone won a contest

for example, i have no obligation to talk to anyone.. and dont... i think the leaderboards are good to give people incentive to grind but as far as expanding or making the experience more pleasurable to any rec, it def doesnt fill that need


i think having actual red pros would be great




its also a pretty cheap way for them to market since they can just give rakeback + tourney tickets as the contract and basically have the guys twitch/tweet/instagram crap all day

Don't think they have enough pros to justify it and I doubt Full Tilt wants to go back to signing tons of pros. But I do agree with you that it was a great promo that added a lot of value to the site.

i dont think the amount of pros should make a difference for having a bounty on a red pro, itd be fun to go after one even if theres one guy in a tourney


fields are so small now theyd definitely only need a few, i think 3-5 playing reguarly would be a good #.... them signing like 10000 players was towards the end of their scam run, i think they were just clicking buttons by that point haha, cant imagine anything like that could ever happen again

Me too however it was never running. The new 6 max $5 rush seems to be a decent hit so perhaps converting the $10 rush rebuy into 6 max might work too.

I've never posted ITT before, never really knew it existed.

I've noticed traffic is down hugely at FTP the last couple of days. The Five By Five has 244 players today, it normally has from 550 to 800. Wtf!?

Also, I haven't seen the Nine Lives for the last 2 days. Was it removed? If so, it makes no sense as it seemed to be popular.

As stated previously they removed the nine lives and moved the five by five to this slot, not the greatest of ideas though imo the five by five was great where it was