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Originally Posted by PS Walmsley
I'm not doubting you when you say that there is a lack of liquidity
at the moment, but then surely the follow-up question should be
WHY is there apparently insufficient liquidity?
With a site as big as pokerstars, even if you can't really support a regspeed in the region of $20, there really should be enough people online, at least during peak hours, such that 180 of them are willing to pony up around $10 within, say, ten or fifteen minutes of each other, to get a few of these games going. After all, you get 9,000+ people playing the Big $11 every day, and a further 4,000+ playing the Hot $11.
As furo says, I think that visibility is a big issue here — now that these big tournaments have drawn those $11 players online, enough of them would play an $11/180
if they saw it; I'm sure many of those who get bad beat or coolered in the early stages would take another go at something if they thought it would start soon.
I understand that you are only allocated a certain number of spots for SNGs under the MTT tab, but under Tourney>Regular>All you have a bunch of great 180s, and somewhat incongruously, sitting next to them you have those absurd 2cent buyin 990man hyperturbos. Now, I'm sure they're great fun, but they don't rake you anything at all, and they still take ten minutes to fill, because other than degens and bustos, who the hell wants to flip coins for an hour and still only get $4.40 to show for such absurd rungood at the end of it all? Frankly, it seems silly that this has been chosen for that slot, over a "proper" MTT SNG.
If you removed this 2c flipathon from Tourney>Regular>All, and swapped it for, say, an $11/180, the increased visibility would surely go a long way to creating the liquidity you need for these to take off. We as players get a nice tournament which we want, and you would finally start to get some rake from this presumably valuable seventh and final spot you've been granted in what must surely be premium real estate at the top of the MTT lobby. I don't see how they would interfere with either the $8 or $15 turbos, nor should they really interfere with the $3.50r either.
If you don't want them there 24 hours a day then do something similar to what you've done with the Sunday-only 60/180s; spawn them during peak hours only. They could spawn every day between, say, 10am and midnight server time, and if the last one of the night didn't fill by, say, 1am server time, then you can just cancel it and return monies.
furo, I don't think the answer is making them red....
TT