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***OFFICIAL Stars 2015 MTT Discussion Thread*** ***OFFICIAL Stars 2015 MTT Discussion Thread***

03-23-2015 , 01:01 PM
16.50 turbo zoom just cancelled might be something to look into
03-23-2015 , 01:04 PM
Thank you for making the sonic 6 max!
03-23-2015 , 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by UPAY4DINNER
Is it just me suffering from serious laaaag?
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Originally Posted by moleskined
nop, everything is laggy and buggy here also
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Originally Posted by mashxx
"The nature of the Internet is such that incidents like these can happen for reasons beyond both your and our control. In this case, I am able to confirm that your disconnections were not caused by our servers as at the time of your disconnection, the remaining players at your table continued to play without difficulty in your absence."
Add this also:

"After the review of the provided log files, we could see that the user.ini file, with your PokerStars settings and preferences, might have gone corrupted. In this scenario, our application may not work as desired.

To solve this issue blah blah blah"
03-23-2015 , 03:01 PM
Why can PS.FR have a 10+R 1R1A Monday night 30k GTD and Stars.EU not?
03-23-2015 , 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by mashxx
Because they're incredibly short-sighted about it. They take tournaments one by one and check gtds for overlay. If there is - within 3 days it's lowered, no matter the circumstances. If it smashes the gtd - it takes months of bureacracy and players' frustration to raise it tiny bit.
I'm sorry to have to contradict you or anyone else here, but the above is simply not accurate, as I've demonstrated with examples previously. To cite just one more recent example, the Big $109 overlaid many times while attempts were made to raise participation in it, thereby preserving its guarantee of $100,000. We did not want to lower its guarantee. (To be ultra clear, we never want to lower any tournament's guarantee.) After more than a month and tens of thousands of dollars in overlay, the guarantee was finally lowered. As for raises, quite a lot of guarantees have gone up over the last few weeks, even while other some guarantees in other tournaments have - by necessity and in response to decreased participation in said tournaments - gone down. There have also been many improvements throughout the schedule in the last few months... with new formats, new buy-ins, changes in times, new tournaments, tournaments with guarantees which didn't have them previously, etc... all designed to make the schedule better overall, and with many of those changes coming about thanks in part to feedback from this forum and other places.

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Originally Posted by Danshiel350
Just wanted to give a bump to an idea I mentioned a while back. It’s for a shootout phase mtt whereby the first phase would be a Sit and Go. Think this would work excellently and you seemed to like it. The prize pool could potentially get pretty huge. Any further consideration given to this kind of thing?
It's a very good idea, and one that I look forward to using (possibly in WCOOP, even), once we can have Phase 1 Sit & Go.

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Originally Posted by PlzTeachMe
About cleaning up the schedule: there're way too many $5 cubed tournaments packed together. I think everyone would benefit if they get combined to one tournament with a higher guarantee.

More specifically,
14:30 ET: $5.50 1R1A, 5k gtd
14:45 ET: $4.40 2R1A, no gtd
16:00 ET: $5.50 2R1A, 8k gtd
16:45 ET: $5.50 2R1A, 5k gtd
There are several places where we have a few too many *R1A tournaments in one place. This should be changing relatively soon, especially if we add new Bigs/Hots, as is currently being discussed.

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Originally Posted by Asjbaaaf
any more thoughts on 8r turbo 180s bryan? i think roughly 10 would run on a random weekday and wouldnt take much volume away from many games
I don't have much to do with the cash Sit & Go tournaments, but I've forwarded your request along to the man who does.

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Originally Posted by Lockhurt
Thank you for making the sonic 6 max!
It looked like fun. Given the feedback here asking for it to be 6-Max, and in response to the change to 6-Max, I was somewhat surprised to see that the participation in the Supersonic didn't rise from the 9-Max version. We'll see if that changes next week.

Thanks as always for the feedback, everyone. Please keep it coming!
03-23-2015 , 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by BryanS-PS
It looked like fun. Given the feedback here asking for it to be 6-Max, and in response to the change to 6-Max, I was somewhat surprised to see that the participation in the Supersonic didn't rise from the 9-Max version. We'll see if that changes next week.

Thanks as always for the feedback, everyone. Please keep it coming!
Ye the 6 max sonic was awesome im sure having the ept malta main event running the same day affected the amount of players to a decent degree.

Give it a month or 2 and am sure we will see the participation rise.
03-23-2015 , 03:56 PM
Ya I was def firing it if I had been home in time and I am sure all the others busy in the casino on Sunday would have too. Easily another 100 buyins that didn't Get to play it
03-23-2015 , 04:01 PM
I feel a huge overhaul is needed of midstake reg speed stuff. If you want to play a tourney for a decent bit of $ up top, it has to be either a turbo or a big, I find this annoying because I like to play poker and not watch boards run out.
03-23-2015 , 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by theMBK
This will likely be because of the way that favourites work where they get taken out if the guarantee or buy-in changes which isn't exactly ideal.

What needs to be developed is an anti-favourites system where you can remove tournaments you don't want to play rather than the other way around.
obv anyone who read the stars7 improvement thread at all will know i'm a huge proponent of an inverted favorites filter, by far the most elegant solution to "the problem"
*** my 2Kth post since its now fading into a locked thread forever:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=880


to restate the obvious problem again ill quote myself from feb 5 2015 in that thread:
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FYI yesterday updating my favorites i added 75 new gold stars (100% of them new guarantees on mtts i had previously favorited) by opening 200+ GTD mtt lobbies lobbies bringing my total favorites enabled to 1423

update, today i have 1010 favorites enabled and i havent dis-abled any myself

sure theres a reason the number dropped beyond changing guarantees, but it doesnt change the fact ill be forced to manually add 250+ more favorites within 3 months when i could be essentially done with that process forever, and never miss a new game i want ever again

Last edited by 22riverrat22; 03-23-2015 at 05:20 PM.
03-23-2015 , 05:25 PM
Gotta just make filter-favorites, man. The tournament-by-tournament favorite system doesn't work so why waste your time?
03-23-2015 , 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by BryanS-PS
To cite just one more recent example, the Big $109 overlaid many times while attempts were made to raise participation in it, thereby preserving its guarantee of $100,000. We did not want to lower its guarantee. (To be ultra clear, we never want to lower any tournament's guarantee.) After more than a month and tens of thousands of dollars in overlay,
as another member has already pointed out quite elegantly, even if the tournament overlays on occasion, it doesnt mean the gtd should go down

big gtds get people to reg
big gtds get people to LOGIN
big gtds steer people towards your brand vs another

you should never reduce the guarantee of a tournament that overlays by less than the amount of the rake and that should be fairly clear


918
109 ×
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100,062 =

so if x day of the week the big 109 "overlays" by 82 runners, theres a very good chance that just looking at rake gathered from that single tourney alone having a higher guarantee will lead to increased interest, more people logging into the client, and higher overall rake

all that is happening if it overlays by this amount or less, is that people who choose to play on a "slow day of the week" thereby generating traffic when its needed are receiving a direct rake reduction

surely the other games they participate in and are raked in more than offset this trivial "loss" on this day of the week itself

if you dont agree with that, surely its more than made up for other days of the week in the form of similar increased participation

this isnt gibberish is it?
03-23-2015 , 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by DoGGz
Gotta just make filter-favorites, man. The tournament-by-tournament favorite system doesn't work so why waste your time?
i play a diverse range of buyins, games, and formats. i cant get closer to ideal functionality than i am with current available options, but where i am requires upkeep worth restating
03-23-2015 , 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by gregz41
I feel a huge overhaul is needed of midstake reg speed stuff. If you want to play a tourney for a decent bit of $ up top, it has to be either a turbo or a big, I find this annoying because I like to play poker and not watch boards run out.


amen on the poker part
03-23-2015 , 05:58 PM
Hey Bryan, 22$ 6max re entry at 16:15 ET only had 1 reentry today, i think it is bcs no one wants to reentry in 22$ for 360$ up top. Makes 0 sense to me having a reentry tournament with low gtd.

Also, in that time range we had a lot of good low/mid mtts.
What u think abouu that? Maybe push that mtt for another time zone or just remove?

And i wanna repeat myself again, 18~19 ET need some more low/mid mtts, hope i dont bust a lot of tournaments now bcs i dont wanna stop reg.
03-23-2015 , 06:04 PM
The morning schedule still blow'eth
03-23-2015 , 07:04 PM
And Bryan, why stars dont give a shoot for micro action hours? Everyone knows that 4q is dead, make it AH with the same gtd and see how it gonna be.. I bet its gonna be a huge sucess.
I think the late 3r have to become AH too.
03-23-2015 , 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by FlipMaster08
And Bryan, why stars dont give a shoot for micro action hours? Everyone knows that 4q is dead, make it AH with the same gtd and see how it gonna be.. I bet its gonna be a huge sucess.
I think the late 3r have to become AH too.
100 percent make low stake action hours, people would love them...
03-23-2015 , 07:27 PM
+1 to low stakes action hours
03-23-2015 , 07:33 PM
Cant wait to register this 5r 25 add on....... #thingspeopledontsay
03-23-2015 , 07:47 PM
Lol. U ramble a lot lately but this one is quite funny
03-23-2015 , 08:01 PM
http://gyazo.com/d2cee229770605c7f716a6c1d00cf522

Can you move late reg back to 15 minutes in this, not sure why it shouldnt be, its just extending thru break is all.
03-23-2015 , 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by blakkman08
Lol. U ramble a lot lately but this one is quite funny
Yeah im sorry to rant, Ive made alot of good inputs, Just beyond frustrating things to me and many others is pretty face up obvious and the speed of things getting done are really not up to par.
03-23-2015 , 08:20 PM
5r big add on, big antes without gaurentees, ante ups without guarentees, clean these. get ya vacuum cleaner out bryan
03-23-2015 , 10:35 PM
About the ante ups, some turbo / hyper speed low / low middle buy-in ones would be fun during later hours. Used to play 55$ turbo one earlier, but it's little too high buy-in to take just to have some all-in flips (I like to latereg). Maybe some 11$ turbo 1k$ guaranteed (for start) could live on late European evenings?
03-23-2015 , 11:31 PM
FIX THIS STRUCTURE, CMON! I WANT TO GRIND SNG'S, BUT NOT WITH THAT RUBBISH STRUCTURE.

HERE, I'LL EVEN DO YOUR JOB FOR YOU. REPLACE IT WITH THIS.

      
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