Are HHs fixed after the hem update?

Yes!

You'd have to assume a change is in the pipeline with live $ coming in next year. Liking new schedule btw.

Great there there's less PKOs.

I think PKOs have become less popular as people have realised they can't be late-regged as much.

Even if the PLO8 schedule is better now there is still a lot of room for improvement.
Guarantees for the bigger ones can easily be doubled (both 11$ ones always get over 100 runner when i played), i still miss a major daily and major weekly tournament. Bring some more variety, add PKOs and maybe NLO8.

I miss some turbos later in the night in general. Not much to register and play when you a deep in an earlier reg speed tournament.

Why you bring all the turbos at one hour and the reg speed the next hour?
Just mix that up a little and schedule would be already better.

So today (I hope it was only today?) in counterpunch you allowed registration till 3k/6k blinds with a 30k starting stack, so effectively 5bb, just cuz it was overlaying yesterday?

brutal

Nope, this was just an honest mistake from the staff. We actually want to use a different stucture and 20 lvls late reg with prog clocks for the 8pm tournaments, but they used the pre 8pm structure instead of the new one. It should be fixed by tmrw.

Hi guys

Moving forward, all tournaments will have a late reg period of maximum 2 hours (12x10min or 12x8min or 12x6min) we believe this will have a positive effect on all tournaments from an ecology point of view and will build guarantees up around it.

<3 hands down best news on party for me so far, now get me more tournaments to play and I'd snap move all of my volume

+1 for shorter levels (there's so many levels now) to make tournaments last reasonable duration but -1 for that short late reg. And no need to get stuck with some stiff-necked "max 2 hrs late reg"-rule when you could also introduce some super deep stack tournaments with 15 or 20 min levels.

15 levels late registration with these structures have made much more sense, now Party will probably lose quite much money in form of overlay. For instance 15 levels late registration would have allowed players to late register during second break in 8 min level tournaments which most seem to be.

What happened to Title Fight? I thought I made day 2, but then I was disconnected from the table!?

i think it played a bit of lvl 19, will be rolled back to end of lvl 18 imo, so you are fine and in day2

Cool thanks. Weird ending!

12x6min could have risks of overlays (less entries, less re-rentries). I will probably miss kickoff events due to short LR.

6-8-10 tournaments felt very quick in early stages, had a feeling that I am playing bubble rush tournaments on Stars. I think 8-10 would have been better than 6-8-10.

i think the structures are pretty much perfect right now.
every mtt finishes in a reasonable timeframe.

+1 for changing latereg.. but -5 for screwing daily schedule again..

Can you explain why have you removed all turbos/daily tournaments which starts at half hours? I used to play from noon CET and there were plenty tournaments to play in range 5-22$ ( like 4 tournaments every hour) and now there is 1 5$ and 1 22$ every hour, so basically if you bust them you have to wait another hour to start a new one.. is it really necessary to remove them ?

e: Basically you force people to play from 16 cet because before that there is almost nothing to play

i would prefer even 20 lvls late registration than the action right now with fewer tournaments and basicly all semi tubos, not sure which is better for the eco system just my opinion

teah felt the same better big late reg with more tournaments running

Not 100% sure, but some might be removed bc of ept prague and traffic already being low before 4pm already (just a result of the playerbase really)

+1

Bad move IMO. Your effectively now only offering a decent schedule during a certain time of the day and players looking to play outside of that time frame have very little to choose from.

You should be looking to increase the schedule and giving players more to play in order to attract them to want to be logged into the site. Instead you have done the opposite and decreased the schedule, which is only going to result in players playing elsewhere.

Players aren't going to sit around for up to an hour waiting for the next game to start, they are going to logout and go play at sites where more games are offered.

I recently praised the team for the positive changes that had been made in regards to the schedule and buy-ins. IMO you had taken two giant leaps forward. Now however, I view these recent changes as one giant leap backwards and a big mistake, with a lot of the previous good work now being undone. IMO, the team really needs to re-consider these changes.

Hang on a minute...because of EPT Prague?! So, most of the players who previously played the $5 buy-in MTT's are all now over in Prague and as a result of this, you removed a dozen or more of the games? I find that to be an unlikely scenario, especially considering i'm one of those players.

So, the traffic is low before 4pm because of the player base and your answer to solving this is to remove a ton of the games on offer and effectively give up on that time frame, instead focusing your attention on peak times when player numbers are at there greatest.

Is that not the opposite of what you should be doing?

Surely if you want more players and to increase your player base, then you would give players a reason to log-in and play during those times. Simply offer a good schedule, some good games and put together a small promotion or something to attract more/new players. Don't remove half the schedule and give them next to nothing to play.

Not everyone lives in Europe and for a large number of players, what you consider 'peak' time is in fact there 'off peak' and a time when they are sleeping etc...They are looking for games to play during a time when your schedule offers very little.

+1
You should offer more tournaments with different types of buy-ins all day

Yes some deep stacked mtts are needed for people who like to play longer levels. There is nothing on party at low staked level $22 and below that play anything like the deep stacks or the marathon on pokerstars. Deep stacks on pokerstars are perfect end game structure and we need something like that on party poker not 20-25BB flip fests.

PartyPoker current NLHE schedule:

Bootcamp (under $5 buy-in): 0 MTT's available between 21:00 EST and 04:00 EST - That's O MTT's in 7hrs.

Power Series ($5-$11 buy-in): 13 MTT's available between 20:00 EST and 06:00 EST - That's 13 MTT's in 10hrs.

Now have a look at the Pokerstars or 888Poker schedule during that same time period and tell me how many MTT's you have the option of playing at those same stakes.

Now tell me if you think a player would choose Partypoker over those other sites, to log-in to and play at after considering that information...