any plans for on demand 180 turbo ?

Baard has already indicated that they are likely to at least trial on demand MTTSNGs

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19.../#post37235754

From one of his later posts, it seems that waiting for the functionality seems to be the main obstacle.

Hello all,

I am going on vacation for a week+, so Steve will reply in this thread in my place. However, because of the player meetings, this weeks post might be a bit late.

Thanks,
Baard

Baard will be back at the start of next week. Hopefully he'll review the threads on Monday and post on Tuesday. If not, I'm sure he'll be in here soon after.

Pretty much everything that we run would run more if we moved just that format to hyper. If we moved everything, though, it wouldn't be so pretty. We'll keep reviewing, but for now we'll leave the 18s alone.

You're right that in the long run, less popular options will need to be removed while keeping up with market demand for new tournament types, unless we grow the site enough to support additional types as needed.

We will likely do this gradually, however, rather than in one big change. We want to keep the shock to the existing player base as minimal as possible. Players don't like logging into the site to find that their favorite tournament is gone. To find that overnight they have gone from multiple choices to no buy-in options for their preferred combination of speed and size might be a bit much.

I do appreciate the thought you've put into your proposal.

The time it takes for tournaments to start is a key factor in keeping Sit & Go tournaments attractive for both regulars and recreational players. This is the main reason we do not split liquidity; we want to keep players grouped up as much as possible so that games start quickly.

Doubt many people ITT care about this, but the $6 45s and $11 180s (non turbo) appear to have disappeared? Is this deliberate?

this. Want the $6 45 man back. I assumed it was dropped because it wasn't popular enough?

ya i was always reggin for the 11$ 180 but they never ran. maybe 2 would pop off on Sunday but that was about it :S

Hi everyone

I wonder what your thoughts are on having antes earlier in play. I think the structure is OK for the $3.5r 180m sngs, but in the turbo freezeouts, I think it would not be bad to have the antes earlier.

What do you think about changing the $35 180s to $27s, making them in line with step tickets.

I rarely play the 35s, just 15s and lower but I think I'd play a lot more of them if they were more of a gradual step up from the 15s + in line with step tickets.

In a similar vein, I wonder if the $6 45s people want back would run any better being a $7.50/step 1...

I would love to have antes earlier for freezouts.

def yess

I think this is an excellent idea. If people could use step tickets to enter there would be more soft players in them and I reckon the lower step SNGs would be more popular as people would try and get into $27 180s.

(Please correct me if you can only use step tickets for the next step, this wasn't how it used to work on FTP)

I would like to have some timebank added at the final table. Not much, maybe 5-10 seconds, just to make sure I have some extra time to think over a decision when it matters most.

I think antes from the start in every single form of SNG would be a great change - make the games way more fun for recs. This idea was extremely popular over in the STT forum.

Another improvement I believe is interesting both for regs and recs is that you should have the option for seeing the Info-tab instead of the chatbox when a SNG is starting, unless this is already possible by a way I don't know?

+1

Can we discuss higher buy-in rebuy 180s again or is this still off the table?

Given how popular the 3r/180s are, and the big jump between 15s and 35s, a ~7r makes a whole lot of sense.

Table Ninja is your friend.

I bet it is, but I think it's a small improvement PokerStars easily can implement

Hello all,

Back from vacation, I am ready to take on more of your questions. The break from posting was longer than expected, but hopefully we can catch up now.

I made a mistake when I deployed these tournaments the last time around. I apologize for this, and I have now re-deployed the tournaments.

Is this something that most of you want? If so, we will have a closer look at this suggestion.

I can see why you'd want your preferred tournament to accept step tickets. I'm not sure that the $27 would satisfy all or most of the current $35 players, though. When we made adjustments to buy-ins in the past we got a lot of complaints from regulars who were concerned about a reduction in their hourly rate. I suspect that would be the case here.

Thanks
Baard

I can't say I've thought it through in any detail but antes at something like t100 would be at least interesting/ worth discussing.

I think Giodude19 has a point. I'm in for it.

OK, we'll let it slide this time, but don't let it happen again.....


When you changed the structures two years ago, you did it completely without consultation and as a result you totally butchered it. I can see an argument for discussing a new structure which makes the blind increases smoother, and brings antes in earlier, which I believe is what you tried in May 2011, but not at the cost of turning them into hypers with three minutes per blind level.

I don't know whether it can be changed in the lobby, but since the server problems two days ago I always get a notification when I have done the add-on, which is pretty irritating when multitabling. Anyone who knows how to disable this?

again tn is ur friend.