Your reply seems drunk, I can not even understand what you said.

We did review the uplift during happy hours broken down by VIP Status. It turns out that even we were surprised at how effective it was at motivating lower VIP statuses to try Omaha.

I agree it that the happy hours element of those promotions was the more regular-friendly element. It was also the glue that held both promotions together and made them possible, even if other elements were more cleanly targeted at recreational players.

In any case, you'll see a new SNG promotion in the next couple of months that will include all types of SNGs. I hope you'll agree that it targets recreational players effectively while still benefiting regulars.



We do conduct surveys regularly but it is not appropriate to make a survey available to everyone. We select appropriate representative subsets of our player base so that we can draw more firm conclusions from the results. We also hold focus groups from time to time.

We don't consider 2+2 to be a good source of insight into recreational player opinion.

In general, the faster the SNG, the more it runs. Whatever support 27s would get as turbos they would probably get even more as hypers. However, we do want to keep a good balance of offering. If we offered all our our SNGs at all speeds, the situation might not be so pretty. I can understand the frustration of those who prefer faster speeds of the specific formats that are still offered only at slower speeds. We do expect to slowly migrate towards faster speeds, but not quite yet for 27s.

I don't see any consensus here about time bank modifications, but we are happy to monitor and consider any such conversations.


Here are some of the things we have changed:


Baard will be back with a post in the first half of next week.

Steve or Baard, why not experiment with the timebank on one format/one stake(or a combination of both) so you can get some nice numbers on wether it impacts the retention rate of recreationals? Have you guys tried something like that in recent years? Imagine how much money you guys could save if the average recreational would spend more money/time on your site with a costless change like this... There is no denying that SNGs suffer a lot from lolslow regs simply because it is a format that requires a minimal amount of actions per hand and gives lotsa VPPs therefore is very good for masstabling.


I'm sure I don't have the best ideas on how to exactly change with the timebank but here is a simple proposal:

Time to act: -15%
Extra timebank: -40%
Add the seconds removed to a disconnect time bank that can only activate when your connection is lost
If the disconnect timebank is emptied completely, refill the extra timebank ONCE/game

A lot of people seem to be of the opinion that lowering the timebank would be good for the rec experience, yet it doesn't seem like Pokerstars shares this opinion? Do you guys have anything to back this up? And if no, why not experiment a bit with it ?

adding obv games is not rly an accomplishment

Totally spot on, those games were like mandatory add-ons. Just because you think clicking a few buttons, adding them on to the site and having a tad change of your previous site does not make it a great change. You guys are really too scared to do anything because you have a huge % of the market, however, those people really are not going anywhere because you change a time-bank or a little bit of game structure.

what about 5050 hypers? those would prolly egt alot of attn from everyone

Can we have $1k fifty50s please?

you can have that when we have 1k and 2k 6m hypers

Stars will have to make a new VIP level for 10million the day they release those, come on you get scoop sats

Can we have 6max hyper DoNs, or you decided to never have DoN format on ps again? Sorry if already being discussed, didn't find it..

They are never gonna have DoN EVER again (collusion-hell).

I am really interested in their reasons for quitting DoNs permanently, having DoNs means more SNE chasers.. maybe they became NO- PROFIT organization

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Still highly think time-banks should be looked into. Regular speeds are dying and time-banks of 60 seconds certainly are not helping them out.

Another recommendation is to improve the SNG section of the VIP store.

Also can anyone tell me why we have Euro tables at low/micros, but, higher than that we have nothing but US? How about killing them or adding some to the higher stakes.

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collusion is actually way harder to prove in f50s...

I think pokerstars dropped the ball in investigating dons because its pretty easy to see the collusion where as a slightly different x% ranges in push and call to favour someone in f50s is way harder to catch.

Also, alot of the russians and czechs have gotten a penalty for staking eachother and playing with multiple people in the same games if I am correct.

I would like to hear an official statement about this, and why they are not banned, or why there is not an extra investigation about their play. I'm pretty certain these countries have been colluding in these f50s and I would vote for a 2 person per country max in these games as collusion is very very hard to prove without in depth statisical analsyis

however, u can guess ur getting colluded if u play with 4 russians and 4 czechs backed by the same russian or same czech. Pokerstars, I thought you would have known better after ur chinese nightmare in f50s (whcih was actually very easy to prove). DONS > F50s in terms of collusion problems im pretty sure..., the effect is bigger but the proving is easier.


oh and plz dont quote me and tell me to talk to a security manager, i want this problem public.

6 max fifty50s would be kinda cool actually

lol are u been serious or what

I'll move to mexico if you make 65/35 3 max turbo deepstacks (hear me out please ), run them upto the moon imo... 2 good regs can make money versus a fishy sne reg (not referring to anyone ITT). The good husng regs would have a crack in these too, so maybe some of the guys who moved out of SNGs to HUSNG will play these at high stakes.

3max now there is an idea if we had huge volume of players I'd totally agree but since we don't if hate to split player pool of turbo stts any further

Talking with other guys they thought collusion would be too big of a pain for stars on these..

You'd def ban Russians from siting more then 1 player that's for sure

Those would def have to be WTA.

Perhaps a month long raffle system where players get a chance to win prizes from the VIP store for every Sng they register in. The more they play the more chances they have to win, with the main prize being a PS Porsche.

This way every one has a chance, the recs and the regs. The regs still have better odds because they will play more but the recs will also have a great shot at it unlike BotP since it's the luck of the draw.

This type of promotion is something that any player, regardless of skill level and from anywhere in the world can understand and get incentivized by to play more.