As an Aussie grinder who found a 9-5 Job I feel like there is a big opportunity for stars to rejuvenate the offerings they have between 10:00 and 24:00 aest on Saturdays and Sundays.

most people who work will probably go out or have a few drinks Friday night so grinding the peak time Fridays becomes difficult. Playing at peak on a Sunday would mean skipping work on Monday leaving one day a week being Saturday peak to be the only worthwhile time to grind for an Aussie with a job.

There should be a kind of weekend slot modelled on the pacific rim starting time with all buy ins so Aussies and Asia pacific have enough worthwhile mtts to grind on the weekend in the day time

Here's some ideas

Saturday (aest)

10:00 'Early rim special' $11 6 max
11:00 'early Saturday special' $22 fo
12:00 'Saturday pacific rim major' $55 fo
12:30 'Saturday pacific rim micro' $16.50
14:00 'Saturday rebuy $11 r
15:00 'Saturday main rim' 109 fo
16:00 'Saturday happy hour' 5r action hour
17:00 'Saturday rim 8 max special' 8.80
18:00 'Saturday early special" $22 fo
18:30 "Saturday special" $33
19:00 'Saturday early turbo" 11
20:00 'Saturday early hyper' 5
21:00 'Saturday late rim' 11
22:00 'Saurday late rim turbo" 16.50

Could be kinda cool as a monthly or quarterly series for off peak grinders. I highly doubt they will add a dozen odd tourneys to the weekly schedule though.

Hi! , Good move down the lesser known tournament rules, I think it is a good opportunity to be more popular. Dropping from $ 215 to $ 82 more players be encouraged to play!

My recommendation is that apart from the programmed satellites (which look excellent) that add sng satellites can be 1sng satellite turbo six players (2 win entry) and 1 sng hypers (2 win entry), I think it is an excellent idea because of these types of satellites sng, is where most players will win entry to the tournament, compared to the programmed satellites, because every time you fill one another automatically and so on satelite sng opens, and the type tournaments scoop , tccop, wcoop, hundreds of these sng satellites would eventually have, especially hypers sng satellites !!!

a greeting!

Gladiador15

this sounds like a promotion at a brothel

LOL.. Well played!

Bryan, regarding the sats for the $82 PLO and NLO8 Sunday Prog SKO,

The $82 NLO8 runs at 13:15 and its sat go from 11:05 to 12:35

The $82 PLO runs at 15:15 and it sats go from 11:07 to 12:37

Why have the sats for both MTT at the same time ? Wouldn't it be better to start the sats for the PLO 2 hours latter ? It makes no sense that you have none starting on the 2 hours before the tourney.

I believe on the 2nd or 3rd week that these new $82 ran, that the sats where apart for each tourney, but all other weeks they have run together. What happened, do you get more people to play this way ?

Where's the Big $1.10 at? :/

For $11 I would certainly get it every week.

is this new? re-entry?

all of the 2x chances were changed to re-entry

ohhh, gotchya. I dont play alot of 2x chances. Did they rake the 2nd buyin?

obv

be rude not to!

Lol, what a ****ing shambles the Weeklies have been so far. Unfortunately both the Mixed Holdem and the LHE were cancelled. I hope tomorrow is better.
And as predicted, the $82 PLO8 weekly smashed the guarantee by more than 3 times.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/61...hread-1490481/

anyone having an issue with auto rebuys lately? The double rebuy at the start of games works, but despite having "rebuy whenver possible" its not always automatically rebuying. Been having this issue for the last week or so

Ridiculous

If the aim of dropping all of the buyins from 215 to 82 was to get more runners playing these weekly mixed games I believe you've gone about it the wrong way, which is unlike pokerstars. Why not run some super sats rather than dropping the buyins by 65%. You've now made the gap between these and the 500's virtually unbridgeable for the majority of players, as well as meaning that now any mixed game players who play full scoop/wcoop schedules will be taking comparatively HUGE shots compared to their regular schedules as our earn potential has just been massively reduced. Whilst the Sunday KO's are a fantastic recent addition to the schedule I feel that there should be some differential between those and the other regular format weekly tournaments... Perhaps making them 1r1a now the buyin has been reduced to 1/3 of the price thus meaning that the buyin is still cheap enough to attract additional players but the prizepools and specifically first place money are not then so heavily impacted.(Personally I would just prefer them to back to 215's!)

I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling like this. And in no way does reducing the 500's buyins resolve bridging the gap in a positive manner!

Originally Posted by Transcendence View Post
. They don't mind splitting this thread with NLH regulars coz they all love splitting pots so much anyway..

I also lolled hard at this statement

yeah I have this as well at random times

Yes, everyday. Freakin ridic they cant even fix that

Put early antes on the early 33 freezouts and similar tourneys plss

Im going to keep say it but fix your guarnatees lool.... Go from top to bottom ur schedule and look at it.... Pokerstars has single handly killed some of thier own tournaments because u made the guarntee much smaller.

Some of the euros have some of the sickest structure/good tournaments. Eventually they will stop having fisher price software/support an everyone will go there... Just a matter of time.

Should pretty obv to you by now.

You made a tournament that prior was a 75 fo with a small guarntee into the big 75 and Look how much bigger it got and It will only get bigger.

1. Make your Guarnatees higher on alot of your tournaments. 5r back to the 20k, higher the 20c 30r 50r 109r. 50r was 30k to winner post black friday now its completley dead because you lowered the guarntee and made it reg infested.
2. Fix your Night schedule. I speak to people throughout the whole world and I know many grinders that would play on more days if the night schedule was not so withered with many turbos.
3 Do not get rid of Satties to non reds, Infact make a whole section for sattys to all of your tournaments. This is so huge, as recreational players would love to play bigger tournaments, some regs could become satty grinders, more money for you, softer games for everyone, everyone happy. NO brainer.
4. The tournaments missing the 500bb level PUT IT IN its just absolute horrible to have this missing. If you are short when this happen its absolutely deadly. You fixed the 320 on wednesday(it was missing the 500 level) and now the tournament is really good tournament.
5. Change the time for the HOt 109, Maybe where the 30k 109 turbo is, for some reason people just love the name "Hot" that thing would get enormous , change the current hot 109 to a normal one.
6. Make a big 215, trust me it would run everyday, run satties to it as well, do not get rid of the 265 ko the thing is perfect.
7 Make the Cubes and Quads be that the intial rebuy is worth more chips then original buy in this way more people rebuy in
8. You run alot of 27 turbo kos during the day, give them a fancy name and watch them grow maybe "Turbonator"
9. Run a Poker League. Have teams or countries compete against each other in some type of format, write articles about it , talk about it on social media, People love to hear about themselves. This could turn into something huge. Also bring more fun to poker.
10 More to come

I think the killed the rebuys on purpose. Its the only thing that makes sense.

More rake in turbos. More rake in re-entry.

265 20K GUAR on sunday its at 42k already and 12 minutes in