any chance low-mid stakes can have new structures now? what exactly are we waiting on?

New structures are obv a huge success, why wait anymore till you add them to 55 and below?...

I won a couple of $22 powerfest tickets in Sit&Go Hero last sunday and the expiry date is set to May 7th !! That's 7 days, and it doesn't even cover the whole series...

that was really tilting, its basically a sat, after playing "phase 1" until 4 players remaining you got to a $215 tourney with 2 hours of resgistration, totally different from last week if thats "revolutionizing" that should be explicit because last week was not played like that

I've posted almost ten times in the last 2 weeks (been on holiday the whole time too actually) but my role is to be the link between players and the site in terms of ideologies, implementing new ideas, collecting feedback, explaining things in simpler terms to Party etc. Collete still is imo the best in the industry in getting all the uglier jobs done, she can find out answers and knows the answers to leaderboards, bonuses etc etc

"PSKO's here, PSKO's there" is pretty unfair statement too. On Sunday I played a lot of tournaments on Party and felt like there was infinite really well structured vanilla tournaments.

Moaning for moaning sake will really put off people being responsive and active, I regret last year bashing Luke and others on stuff, it's important for the rep to feel like they should be on 2p2 every day and responsive rather than it being a dreaded part of their weekly routine.

Unfortunately it's not as easy as to just click a button and for everything to be immediately fixed, there is limitations for this. But the structures have proved to be a big success and we will put them into lower stakes tournaments too.

Before we do, is there any feedback on the structures, potentially some small tweaks people would like to see? It's easier to fix a master sheet now before implementing rather than putting structures in and then ammending them.

How much of the fields were made up of qualifiers in the phase tournaments last week at the different buy-in levels?

While I understand the rationale for making the phases with direct buy-ins to both hit bigger guarantees and mirror the Party live philosophy I do think online should be treated differently. I'm afraid those tournaments are going to end up more like the FTP Multi Fifty (super tough tournament for the BI level) than the Stars phases (mostly unknowns on your first table in phase 2s). It's obviously better for regs (and creates more rake) to be able to buy-in directly but I would think for ecology and player experience only being able to get in through a phase would be superior, not to mention it would feel a lot less like a satellite. I like the way Unibet does it where the only way to play their major is to win your way into it.

I probably won't play it too much in it's current form but it's still nice to see Party try some new things and for Pads to be so responsive here. Looking forward to playing more when the new small/mid schedule is rolled out, if it's anywhere near as ambitious as the HS schedule i'm sure it will be great (please don't forget about the morning schedule!).

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We have a few own thoughts, but want to avoid interview bias.

really loving the phase mtts ideas and buy in level but agree with mickey, by putting the direct BI it takes away focus from people grinding it out and then taking a stack through possibly trying loads of times therefore on the site and prob flicking in some dailys to, rather than the goats who just play euro sites on sundays rolling in 10 mins before they start and buyin in for 10x really love the structures and buy ins but that point makes them slightly less appealing

are we done with rebuys on party also? there used to be a ton of real good $5-$55 rebuy dailys with 10k guarantees would love to see the $5 $11 and $22 make a come back as a daily inbetween the brawl and the brawl 2 timeslot

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6pm uk, 7pm cet seems like dead hour on all sites to me. none of the main sites have big tournament that starts and i think its a time when recs log on and want to play. we currently have a $10k $109 psko, but its kinda canabalizing the weigh in/brawl.

thoughts on changing this to a $55r and on sundays it can replace the $109r too

we could run a $11 at the same time as a "mini" perhaps?

I think 55r is good if you also add 11r. If you only add one as a replacement I think 33r would be better.

On the more positive note I think new structures are better than older ones, but need to test them to see how they work in real life. Longer late reg also probably brings more players, and it is reasonable to have longer levels later in the tournament. Just should be careful to make sure tournaments won't last too long. Also prize structures seems to have been fixed (except in high rollers). Will these new structures be used in Powerfest high events or will they use old structures as they seem to have that one in lobbies?

I haven't seen many positive changes during last few months, that's why I have been "moaning". For instance: killing rebuys, introducing (most of them cut now) lots of HS PSKOs, messing up with prize structures which brought up many problems like no hand-for-hand in bubble when 9 paid which lasted for weeks etc. There's also been huge delay in some enquiries like when T$ will be paid etc. But hopefully all these have been resolved to better course.

Anyway, good luck to bringing up more reasonable changes. I don't usually play PSKOs, but adding flagship 11$ and 55$ PSKOs was a good change and I hope there will be more 11$ and 55$ events too later + reasonable satellite tree (you already have 215$ events so making 44$ sats to 55$ might not be unthinkable). Especially rebuys. But I would also hope that you would make rebuys so that rebuy-period does not end when starting stack is like 20+bb, that'll just mean there will be very few rebuys which means smaller prize pool.

7pm cet 11$ / 55$ rebuy seems good idea, if they seem to eat each other change mini one to 5,5$. You could also keep Sunday 109r as special event, without 55$ running in Sundays. Also you really should bring back those 11r turbo rebuy big add-on (did run 20.30 CET) and 3r / 5r hyper rebuy mega add-on in one form or another, they did easily bash 5k / 10k guaranteeds when Party had far less players.

Did play some of those live satellite trees for fun earlier. Could those be changed so that if target tournament has already started (or is starting in few minutes and you can't unregister) when tournament finishes that player would NOT be autoregistered to target tournament. I know tickets have to be usually played within a day, but it would be better if players could decide by themself when they enter to target tournament instead of "right away from when earlier ends". It's annoying if you have played like 3 satellites already and then forced to played 4th right from the start.

sounds good if u ran the 55r along with the 11r daily as i think people that grind low will play the 11 n not the 55 and the 55 grinders will fire the 11 also so wont negatively impact each other??

Sorry! I missed this All things powerfest including the full schedule can be found here>

https://www.partypoker.com/powerfest.html

Can you PM myself the username and I can look at to why these tickets have such short expiry please
Agree they should last for the series unless possibly tied to a promotion or won from a mega sat etc...

this thread has delivered on tons of requests players have been asking for, cut the guys some slack and dont jsut come in here whining running your mouths when this is one of the few sites that actually tries to do things right for a change in the world of poker.

good job party keep it up

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Was the time to act in MTTs intentionally reduced from 25 seconds to 15 seconds?

Just logged into my account to see a $5.50 and $22 Powerfest ticket in my account. Thanks a million, party! #thosesmallgesturescount

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+1 great move got the tickets as well
really like the progress
from stars you get nothing for scoop just a few all in shoot outs
keep going party and you can be the number one site

is this true? why?

Is it 15 seconds in every tourney now? I'm feeling totally rushed in everything, timing out, losing my timebank...

I believe from 2pm UK time tomorrow, all tournaments on the site should be changed to the new structures.