There is baards response to it. Not very promising.

I answered his question a few posts after, but i'll do it again now

we want to choose which SNGs appear at the top of FAVORITES -> TOURNAMENTS or the option to view both tabs at once(FAVORITES -> TOURNAMENTS and FAVORITES -> SIT & GO)

Awesome thanks! Hopefully they decide to add it

The real problem IMHO is that no user has a first order preference of "tournaments that start at a fixed time" over "tournaments that start when a certain number of people are registered" they prefer "STTs" or "MTTs" - and they often use the phrase "SNG" to mean STTs.

If all the MTTs were under the same tab, and all the STTs were under another tab generally in the system, then it would solve a lot of problems, including the current impossibility of getting all one's favourite MTTs on one tab because the system requires them to be split by starting time algorithm, and also issues with traffic caused by not everyone who would like to play MTTs knowing that some of them are mixed in with the STTs on a different tab.

yeah it would be convenient to have both sngs and mtts at the same tab.
sngs show at the top of the mtt main lobby, so why not do it at the favorites tabs also, or at least give the option to.

I don't roam in this thread very often, but I felt the need to, after the nth day of atrocious traffic I noticed on the MTT-SNG + the 9.90 MTT failing to meet its guarantees. I ve played through many summers, traffic has never been this low as to be noticeable. I realize that this is the result of spin and goes and PS won't/can't do anything about it, but I do have to say it's depressing as hell.

What's even more depressing is the slow death of the 15/180, which is literally the tournament I associate most with Pokerstars and the one that will hold a very dear place in my heart. Please, never take it away, please do as much as you can to make it come to life again.

They don't even appear in the mtt lobby anymore

Can we have 18 Mans have break EVERY hour. It seems really weird to just have then every other hour; either get rid of the breaks all together so that they are more like a SNG or breaks every hour so that they are more like an MTT. I would think that both Regs and Recs would like this and would add a few of these to the end of their sessions if they knew there were normal breaks

Also this will probably be flamed but whatever, what about making 18Mans have a 3 player payout structure? This would make it play more like a normal tournament which would encourage more recreational players since they can gamble more to acquire more chips?

Outside of around 8-10 hours when 180's still run sort of okay it may be best to try on-demand mttsngs as the games during off peak times are very dead. I started playing today at 10am uk time and finished around 17:15pm. In total I played 31 180s from 3.5+r to 15 and I dont think I missed any, so 4.3 180s per hour. Considering this was a sunday morning it would be even worse on other days.

Maybe during off peak times 45's, 90's and 180's should be replaced by simple $3.5+r/7.5/15/35 on demand mttsngs as the site cannot support the current variety and size of games for most of the day. Mttsngs may then actually run well during quiet times of the day and field sizes would be decided by how busy the site is. Recs dont want to wait 30mins+ for a game to start and will just go play spins so having to wait for 180 players is very inefficient for most of the day but on demand would help this.

Looking at the lobby now at 19:35uk time so near peak and I see there are around 4 $15 180's starting per hour so spin and goes have really destroyed volume in 180s. Not even sure if this thread is read anymore by pokerstars.

+1 to on-demand MTTSNGs. Let the games start when they reach 50 players and have late-reg for 20 minutes or so. Requiring 50 players to start is a number that is low enough for the games to still (hopefully) run, but high enough that the games don't turn into slower 45-man sngs.

I still feel that there are far too many variations of 180 and 90 player sngs, and they are all cannibalizing each other. These on demand games might help consolidate them.

T500

Yeah MTTSNGs are dying, seems like on demand is solid idea to revive them a bit, certainly off peak.

#t500

#ohwaitnoonereadsthisthread

(sorry for my bad English)

I cant read whole discusion so sorry for potentialy repeated suggestion/question.


Is it possible to keep open registration to sattelites for 0.38$ 0.76$ etc. all day long? I wanted to learn such type of sngs but 4 hour is not enough to make good training. TIA.

+1 the full tilt way, on demand mttsng, maybe some zoom like FTP

We need T500 in all 180s. The blind jump from T400 to T600 in a short stacked game is just absurd! It is very surprising that not too many people are trying to push for this change to happen. We also need 15 second time banks to be added at all final tables in all 180s. If all regular scheduled mtts get the original time bank added again at the FT, why can't we get the same in 180s? 180s are also mtts....their is a reason they are offered at the top of mtt schedule!

I have been advocating for for change to happen in the mtt thread for some time now. It seems like the change isn't going to happen by posting over there??

How about we get as many people in here to push for these two changes in this thread!!

Who is with me??

+1

+1

i couldn't agree more a t500 level would really help flatten out the blind structure. Never thought of the fact that this level is obviously in mtts so no reason not to add it to the sngmtts, it wouldn't make a drastic difference in total game time i believe, but would add much more playability to lets call it roughly the "middle" of the tournament. So often playing 180s your fine in the t400 level then all of a sudden bam your hit with the t600 and then t800 from those two points if you don't have a massive stack your forced into push/fold a t500 would add a little bit more time before this occurs which regs would obv like and i think recs would also like a little bit more time to still play "poker" before all chaos breaks loose! Seems like a win-win to me

whilst I agree that improving the structures would be great, MTTSNGs need a much more drastic fix than a 500 BB level. There are too many similar games with slightly different field sizes and buyins (especially at the lower stakes) that are cannibalising each other's traffic and it's time for a clear out.

On Demand would be perfect. It may sound drastic, but imagine removing all 27/45/90/180 SNGs at all buyins and speeds, and replacing them with 36-man On Demand SNGs with 20 mins of late registration. Just set a simple but comprehensive range of buyins, and offer turbo and regular speed variants. There would ALWAYS be a suitable game running or about to start whenever a recreational player sat down to play, whereas in the current climate one can wait around for 20 mins to get a single $8 turbo 180 running at the wrong time of day.

If Stars don't have the software functionality for On Demands yet, then I don't really know what to say. They bought FTP what, 3 years ago?

On demand SNGs, superb idea!

+1

Im getting seriously mad about player danh´s89, even it can sould ridic, when he is on tables, its easy to play 30 tables at once, but when he isnt, its tuff to play 20 tables. I mean, that guy use timebank every single hand, who knows how many tables he plays, but i see everyday some pissed recs in chat typing "zzzzzz" etc.

Is there any chance he get cap of max tables he can play? There someting like this on cash games if im right? I dont think its fair to cut timebanks for all players, but he is really ruining a game.

E: speaking about 18mans, i dont play any other format with him

I know what you are talking about 100%

I think you are better off to email support with your complaint.

Probably they cant do anything about it, if theres a time bank is for people to use it, right? Besides you cant cap how many tables someone plays, specially if hes a reg ($$$)

What bugs me a lot that is somewhat similar is what happens when someone disconnects and you gotta wait 60 secs (iirc) each hand for him to auto-fold, reaally reaaaally annoying.

i have heard of stars limiting players sng/mtt limit if their play is consistently slowing down play. mighta been a while ago so not sure if it still happens but sending an email can't hurt

+1 to On Demand
Set it in a smart an simple way would increase the traffic on MTT-SNGS and allow Stars to keep a variety of games for recreationals 24h.

+10000000