Stars hasn't consulted with players over this change (either directly, or here or on the French forums), and its another move that seems to have been given almost no thought. Sound familiar?

Surprised there hasn't been more reaction to this, obv the majority here are playing on stars.com, but stars.fr and .com share decision makers so its a good indicator of stars current attitude to player consultation (none) and how much they've learnt from the poorly implemented changes in 2011 (nothing).

+1

Why you want a break in a game that needs one hour to finish? lol

Because they never heard of pee bottles.

I like your sarcasm. Lets have in hypers a 2min break every 1:13 for those who prefer 8 hour sessions

why do you care, if you dont play 18m?
if i was playing those i would like a break as well, to grab a smoke/fresh drink and take a piss like a civilized human being. Its like with other mtt sngs, volume requires long sessions at high table count, sitting there 30 tabling for 5-6 hours at 45/180mans is a piece of cake because of the brakes.
And i dont think stars would lose rake due to slower traffic 5 minutes every hour, many people would play longer sessions resulting in like 50% more volume in the same playing time

I don't really care since I don't play them but it doesn't make much sense and would make the recs not want to play it. Breaks are there for LONG tournaments.

I don't see the difference between an 18man turbo and a 9man reg speed, both take similair time to finish no?

A lot of players who play 18m also mix in 6m and 9m so for them youd basically just be lowering their tables and $s per hour. Itd be nice for the MTTers who mix them in but they prob wish everything had a sync break. Adding a sync break to something that takes a little more than an hour just seems absurd.

fair enough , although could be 2mins every 2 hours or something...

This is what i was about to post

+1

Its really sick play 6 8 hours and no break for nothing guys.

no it's not

A. use pee bottle or similar

B. stop registering 18m and load up hypers to keep tables up until they die. go pee real quick, load up more of both. takes 5 sec to load up another group of 18s

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Hello all,

Sorry for the delay in the posting this week, but I hope you will still find this post informative.

This is not something that we have seen a lot of requests for. We have a healthy liquidity in our current 18 man offering, so my first thought is that I don't really want to risk disrupting that.

Is this something that many of you would want to see deployed? I must say though, that I would be very hesitant about deploying such tournaments even if there is good support here on the forum.

We have still not decided the future of our Sit&Go promotions. However, it is safe to say that we in the future will be focusing more and more on promotions for the recreational players.

The suggestion made here goes pretty much directly against such a philosophy, so I doubt very much that it will be implemented any time soon.

I can't see us changing every SNG to a KO format. For the stakes we do offer KO tournaments, they are generally less popular than the regular formats, so that would seem to indicate that we don't need to make such a change.

As for restricting the number of tournaments, that is something we have under consideration. At this time however, no decision has been made. Any implementation would take several months to document required functionality, develop, test, and deploy.

Thank you for all your suggestions. When it comes to your MTT suggestions, I feel that you are overestimating the interest for higher buyins tournaments for these formats. The $300 has run on average 2 times per week this year, so saying it goes off easily might be a stretch. For the 27 player format, the $30 is the highest we offer and that one only runs twice a week as well.

Having said that, high-stakes Sit&Gos don’t affect the liquidity of other tournaments very much, so I am willing to put in a $500 18 player tournament as an experiment. If it doesn't get a following over the next few weeks, I’ll just simply remove it.

The Register All suggestion will hopefully be addressed when Easy Seat for Sit&Gos is made available. We are currently doing a lot of testing to this feature and hope to have it ready in the not too distant future.

I am not sure what a 'Lock Register' functionality would do, so maybe you could give a bit more detail on that?

We always welcome suggestions for new promotions in the Sit&Go threads. It is up to forum moderators to decide if a new thread is needed for that. If you can come up with good promotions that a) focus on recreational players and b) are not of a permanent nature (like BotP), we are all ears.

We plan to at some point develop the ability to configure tournaments to have breaks only every other hour. We will then test this out for 27-mans and perhaps 18-mans. Having breaks every hour for these tournaments would not be desirable for recreational players.

PokerStars.fr is a site mainly focused on the French market, so for this there has been an ongoing discussion with players on a popular French forum.


Thanks,
Baard

guess what, its nonturbo!!! people played 30$+ nonturbos only in 2005. get a 27 man turbo

plz

Could you let me know the name of this popular French forum and the star.fr rep on that forum? If its club poker, which I suspect it is, there was a thread started by a stars rep that got maybe 10 responses, none from regs, and I don't think there was any further involvement from the stars rep beyond the original post.

The 2 biggest rake generators and game starters for 6max sng on stars.fr didn't see these changes coming, had no input and don't much like what's been done; pretty disappointing, again.

+1

27 turbo will be good and for shure many people will play

Promotions can be beneficial to both recs and regs rather than exclusively one set of players. Simple changes to BotP could be easily made to improve BotP for both groups and it could be self funded by removal of the Shootout and the merging of Saturn and Jupiter.

Another thing I think you should be considering is whether a promotion could make money for Pokerstars. Hyper Turbos are the perfect game for volume leaderboards and it would certainly both fund itself and make profit for PS from the extra rake generated.

Can we get a nice PS logo'd pee bottle in the VIP store? Maybe make it free for SNEs. Sick of feeling like a hobo. Ty. <3

Hello,

I have now deployed the $500, 18 man tournament. Let's see how it goes.

Thanks,
Baard

How come you cave relatively easily when it comes to new game offerings but are a tightass (no offense), when i comes to new structure?

Lol yea, +1 to Ruse. It's honestly absurd Baard, why are you so absurd?

I was just joking but if we can get enough anger going ill pretend i wasnt.

Obv adding a few games when there are already a lot will have a less drastic effect on the ecosystem than a structure change. Solution would seem to be to find one buyin level or maybe a maybe a different game and introduce the structure there.

I get why you guys want huge confirmation before making changes since itd be so drastic a change and prob harder to tell whether changes in volume were do to the format change or some other variable. Not to mention an embarassing decision if it flops and you have to switch back. But if you just say changed the structure at 30-60 dollar turbos, or 15 and under KO, etc, youd be able to get some feedback and still have somewhat of a control group. And could switch back if it doesnt work a lot easier than you could if youd changed everything.

Maybe even find a buyin level where liquidity wont be an issue and test the new format there. Say an 11 dollar turbo or something. Might piss some people off if you did that and took it away but I think it could work.

Just some thoughts.