So no clarification on the details of your suggestion. Just trying to get a rise out of people?

I'm not clarifying the details of my suggestion simply because there's no one correct answer. There are actually several different possible avenues through which my idea could be implemented, each one with its own unique attributes.

But here are some rough projections on what might be the outcome if Stars went ahead with it:

[] Like the current spin n gos, these games could prove to be very engaging and enjoyable for the recreational player base especially, but even more so as with more players per spin n go, there is potential for the prizepools to be much bigger and more eye-catching to the customer. These games might be appealing enough to rec players to encourage further deposits from them on a more frequent basis.

[] A reasonable suggestion for the prizepool distribution for a $1 STT spin n go could be between $4 and $20000 for the 6 player, and between $6 and $30000 for the 9 player, with percentages for each prizepool put in place to ensure that from each player's buy-in, the full $1 (minus the rake) contributes to the average prizepool.

[] Similar to normal spin and gos, some recreational players who used to play normal 6 or 9 player SNGs may be directed away from these games in favour of the spin n go versions, so regulars who prefer to only play the normal SNGs may suffer from the introduction of the new format.

I don't agree with most of xxxpocketducks posts, but changing SNGs to Spin Hybrids would certainly increase traffic. Assuming they kept rake the same (LOL) and didn't make prize pools too large (Yeah, right), it'd be a great change.

I also quite like the idea but my main concern is they will rake them too high. Given the recent rake hike I can't say I'm too optimistic.

Thanks for supporting my concept guys.

This sounds like an awful idea. Wouldn't this possibly become the most colluded/soft colluded game in the history of online poker?

I wanted to accuse you of hyperbole, but I started thinking about it and you might be right

Impossible - not with all the industry-leading detection software that Pokerstars has.

LOL

In the months of noticing posts by ducks I realize now he always assumes everyone's post is serious. It's like he needs his own "Penny" standing in front of him to hold up a "SARCASM." sign when appropriate.


His suggestion and responses here are well-articulated and reasonable though. Just don't expect a lot of dialog stemming from criticism or even skepticism, duck also wears rose colored glasses provided by Amaya by the looks of it.

1. Would it be possible to get some regular Ante-Up NLH Sit n Go's in the lobby ?

2. Currently there are only two NLH Ante-Up daily tournaments. A $55 buy in with $2,000 gntd and $2 buy in with $350 gntd.

So what about a daily Anti-up SNG sat to the $2000 gntd game. It does currently have deadline turbo sats with a starting stack of 500. How about a daily regular sat played with the same structure as the game itself. 3000 starting stack, a little lower would be fine, with 5 minute blinds ( the same as the $2000 gntd ). I think this would get a better turn out then the current sats get.

I think allot that play this format do so because they want to play the Ante-up format. 500 starting stack and 3 (?) minute blinds don't allow us to do that for very long.

fort of a new fun format poker game

excuse my spelling and bad grammar

lets say game cost 15$' 10$ go's to game and 5$ to the overall wiener' so say 100 entrants 500$ to first overall wiener' and it is like the cage where u start with 1k chips each chip is worth 10c and nothing for the first say 3 hours blinds and antis increse as normal and after that time u can cash out your sack for your$' or go for gold play for first' member say 500$ is still left' or this could be a 100$ and evry chip worth1$ and game costing 150$ u get my drift' now fun part say 5 remain first place stack might have anouth chips to lock up the overall win or second place might haft to gamble all his booty for the overall win and game will continue till winner or every 1 cashes out and first place cash out-gets overall win+all chips he has made

Couldn't get past this, laughed too hard

awwhhaaaa winner

fort of a new fun format poker game

excuse my spelling and bad grammar

lets say game cost 15$' 10$ go's to game and 5$ to the overall winner' so say 100 entrants 500$ to first overall wiener' and it is like the cage where u start with 1k chips each chip is worth 10c and nothing for the first say 3 hours blinds and antis increse as normal and after that time u can cash out your sack for your$' or go for gold play for first' member say 500$ is still left' or this could be a 100$ and evry chip worth1$ and game costing 150$ u get my drift' now fun part say 5 remain first place stack might have anouth chips to lock up the overall win or second place might haft to gamble all his booty for the overall win and game will continue till winner or every 1 cashes out and first place cash out-gets overall win+all chips he has made

Was that all once sentence? And if you were going to repost, couldn't you at least fix the wiener spelling? Now everyone is going to be snickering

Couldn't get past this, laughed too hard

r fk it .i.

did stars actually announce anywhere about all these STT and 18man changes? All I heard about was the MTT stuff...

What changes did they make to STTs/18s?

New 6max hyper SKO up to $50, same rake than the standard 6max cash hyper.

New MTT hyper SKO (18/24/36 players, 6handed) up to $25, twice the rake of the 6max while starts at 25/50/10 with 500 chips with 1st place prize = 2nd place prize.

****'s all over the place meng it's a total mess D:

What I'm finding interesting is that they're running pretty darn well yet I don't have a single note on anyone, and most of them are shoving and calling totally ridic hands like they're not fish at all. Whole fresh breed of housebots imo

^^^damn, that's a strange payout decision. At first I thought these were Progressive SKO so the 1st = 2nd payout made some sense at least but I'm not really sure what made them decide on this payout.

Seems can only register for one of the 'KO SNGs' at a time, regardless of buy-in, of players or speed.