Agreed. One of the $4.40 8-max should definitley have 10-12-15 levels format and this one at 10:45 ET is a perfect candidate for that.

(together with at least one of the following:
11:45 $5.50 $2.5k Gtd
12:00 $3.30 $2.5k Gtd
12:15 $8.80 $4k Gtd
13:15 $11 $5k Gtd
what I was implying many times before)

109r canceled embarassing

what the **** stars...

adjust minimum players to 5 or something this is so dumb.

Poooooooof

Can't even find 9 high stakes players to start a 109r game. Such Demand. Wow

so is a friday, saturday or sunday (hyper)turbo zoom weekly (sunday) happening ?

If the first levels continue to be meaningless, more tournaments will be cancelled.

Players regging from the start should be an incentive. Even something like 5% more chips will do the trick

11c on a withered wednesday 10k gtd reached 15k... please give gtd boost to the tournaments that deserve so

you mod?

Would like to see a little more 6max plain regspeed tourneys, especially in low to midstakes buyins. Seems like every 6max is a psko, turbo, rebuy,..

might be biased bc of my playing hours, not sure

looooooooooooooooooooooool

this 109 six max prog shoudl be a daily tournament....

agree with rounderino

YEAH?!? Weekly Zoom between 33/162$

I suggested it before, but isn't it possible to keep tournaments on hold if they don't make minimun entries. Just change the color or something for 15m, so people can still reg it.

At the moment, it is unlikely. I'm working on various proposals to add new red tournaments to the schedule; however, I do not believe a daily high stakes Big would be a resounding success. The daily prize pools of the Big $109, Big $162, and Sunday Warm-Up have been on the decline, albeit very slowly. I don’t see any reason to expect that a Big $215 would reverse this trend, or indeed do anything but follow this trend after the initial shine wears off. If you disagree and would like to share your thoughts, feel free to do so.

This is a good suggestion. Done beginning Monday with a "New Structure & Time!" tag.

Sorry, the $215 PSKO is staying. The guarantee has been increased to $20K daily. I expect another guarantee increase in short order.

I did not say this, nor do I know when MicroMillions is returning. My clarification was simply that Common Cents is not a permanent replacement for MicroMillions.

Beginning October 24th, the Saturday Super-Knockout will move to 14:00 ET and The Weekender will move to 11:30 ET. All satellites will be moved an hour later as well.

My answer from the satellite thread:

I've reduced the number of FPP satellites over the past months. FPPs are tricky--they are not a currency players can deposit. I want them to have exciting opportunities to spend them in tournaments. For that reason, I've slowly reduced the number of FPP satellites while updating the remaining offering. This is an ongoing project but the results have been very encouraging.

Before this, I'd like to update the 17:00 ET $55 FO. Any ideas? Multi-stack VLT? It needs a change!

Many tournaments have received guarantee increases. Some of them are going into effect immediately (Big $55, $109, $215 PSKO, etc.), while some of them will go into effect Monday, 19 October.

An easy way of seeing what has changed is going to Tourney -> All over the weekend and searching for "Boost" or "New".

The satellites have been changed beginning Monday; however, it is a shame that a red tournament can't get three players to register at the start!

Also, all of the Daily $27 turbo deep satellites have changed to $3.30. A few guarantees were increased in the process. No guarantees were lowered.

10:05 - I think this was a typo on your part
11:05 - structure and late registration updated
22:46 - structure updated
13:05 - no change on Cour8, NLO8 late registration updated
15:05 - late registration updated

If the poker world was completely static, yes. In my opinion, the biggest factor would be currency fluctuation. You suggest that the Sunday Million could have its prize pool grow if the buy-in was increased. In reality, that could price out Russia, one of our biggest markets, due to the Ruble exchange rate change vs. USD over the last year.

I've added some new satellites for the $82 PLO and NLO8 PSKO tournaments beginning this Sunday. As a reminder, the Sunday PLO and NLO8 PSKOs have had their guarantees increased for this Sunday!

The idea of adding a pink satellite is certainly not a bad one, but likely doesn't garner much interest without a full slate of communications. Taking communications away from something like Common Cents (or any other number of huge player-base facing promotions) is quite unlikely. The result is that most players would be confused by the concept.

The 60-minute versions were replaced with 30-minutes because they averaged 50-60% lower traffic. Basically, I gave all of the time tournaments guarantees and if I hadn't switched the 60-minute versions, they would've had some pitiful guarantees. Apologies if you're disappointed.

It will be announced soon along with some other PCA-specific tourney love.



Ok, ok, let's slow these down and see what happens with the others first!

I'm open to moving them around, but I think the counterargument to the above is that multi-tabling those games is also difficult. Regardless, they're struggling, so a change is needed.

Yes, promotional weeks with massive email blasts and financial support do well.

I'm glad people are enjoying Knockout Week. It has had some pretty crazy fields already!

I'm glad you like it! We are likely to trend toward variable level times. For now, it is a bit difficult to surface to players in the client.

Much work is needed to help out the Daily $27s. I can't promise any immediate changes, but I'm aware they need updated. In the meantime, please continue with suggestions.

It wouldn't be as powerful if we did it all the time! I do think that for how popular knockout tournaments are, we do a sub-par job of promoting them.

From my perspective, it looks as though you want to force the larger pool of players to play their favorite formats at off-peak times so that we can expose the least popular formats to the most players in hopes that they don't cancel?

I'd rather just stuff all of those tournaments into peak time!

I'll do something about the Daily $27s in due time. Until then, I appreciate the suggestions and would like as many as you can muster up! Mixed games are not my strong suit.

I'm really liking the Hyper Turbo 2X Shootout satellites to the milly and to the Knockout Week events. Please keep up these Hyper satellites for all the majors or big buy-in tourneys. Getting a seat in a $55 for a quick $1.53 Hyper is excellent value. Moar please.

A semi-turbo vlt tourney is a good idea for then, after most people stop regging reg speed tourneys (~big 162) and before all the turbos in the following 90mins ish start. Personally not that big of a fan of multi-stack and I think it would get more people as a vlt freezeout.



re daily 27s from ages ago:

lots of good stuff there thnx luke. hoping the deep turb structure is as good as it sounds

Great to see you are stepping up your game itc luke.

While there isn't a b215/h215 thanks for stating why you haven't added one and that you are open to listening to why it should exist.

Shows that you are actually listening to our legitimate complaints and taking them seriously.

Keep it up.

Any chance we could see a reduction in turbo rake for 50's+?

(Stars charges 2x the rake in turbos effectively than in reg speeds, there is no reason this should be the case, and it affects those games negatively as well. A reduction in rake with a promo to go with would help these games immensely and prove to be a very profitable long term decision for the company and the players.)

My problem with it is that there is now a sub-group of tournaments with absolutely zero option for those of us that don't like turbos. The 60-minute games played close enough to a turbo due to the small starting stack. Now our only options are 30 minute ridiculous shove-fests.

For games like this I don't know if it's relevant to compare participation levels between the 60 and 30 minute games. The games are not long enough for large field sizes to matter. It is even more fun when the tables get short-handed in the late stages and we end up playing 5-6 handed in the final level.

Agreed. Also its a big shame that even after getting buy in reduced of weekly tourneys from $215 to $82, they are getting same 10-15 entrants it used to get when it had $215 buy in specially for badugi, stud, nl 2-7sd. Perhaps timeslot is a big factor and/or people don't like to play early levels these days. I hope they will do well at peak hrs.

Thanks a lot.

Imo the ones that are not doing well def needs change in their time slot, the ones that are doing well - no change required. But as broken_jia pointed out there's a gap of 12 hrs with no red non-holdem tournament but again imo daily 27's would do much better at peak hrs than to spread them out to cater entire player pool.

Also Luke, please have a look at $5.50 NL 2-7SD at 12:50 ET, this tourney is really struggling last couple of days. Can you change its time level from 15 mins to 10 mins till late reg period. This tourney is hardly getting any re-entries, also can you extend its late reg?

Oh I meant running them 12 hrs apart from $27 daily time. Like if daily $27 8 game runs at 13:15 ET, they could run daily $7.50 8 game at 01:15 ET.

What was the incentive on delaying Micromillions and if you don't know when it will be back, who does?