Yea, the live sat situation is a problem. I know a lot of guys who would do more traveling except the EPT sat are absolutely horrid.

he's right.

but i also agree with bidon, there should be like one small stakes direct satellite to each live event.
eg. a 22euro direct sat with 3 pkgs gtd to EPT monte carlo. that's equal to 2,100 entrants, so quite unlikely to overlay.

i think the sats are quite decent with small stakes rd1 to the bigger sats/qualifiers, with maybe the exception of some deep hyper qualifiers that have/had poor feeders.
(i don't have the clearest image though, since they've been restricted for my country for over a year now, but i take a pick at the live events tab once in a while)

I was talking about value for anyone who isn't the best in the world, not the actual 'these are offered'.

yeah, they're quite decent for professional high stakes players. Those that make up 95% of all the posters in this thread. The 0,1% of poker population. They're horrible for recreational players.

meh, dont think i would play a 11/22$ with 1pck Gd, too long/frustrating.

I would however play any 109/215 with 10+ packs Gd or even any 700 with 25+ packs. Even if it would run only once a month. I stopped playing the current offering a while ago.

I do consider myself more a rec than a reg those days, and lost tens of k in those sats.

Putting on my conspiracy cap a bit here but even if it was possible for an $11 rebuy tourney to not overlay (and I'm not saying it's not) it's important to ask does Pokerstars honestly want this? 14k out of recreational players online bankrolls just so 1 rec player can attend a Live event and likely not cash may not be a trade off that Stars wants.
Personally I think it is worth it and a good long term business move but I don't think it's a coincidence that the sats are set up the way they are.

yeah, but there could be one organised and promoted enough (so as to avoid overlay) per each event, so everybody's happy.

i don't get the argument about value. of course the field is tough, everybody wants to get in cheaper and have hotels/expenses paid, even the high stakes players.

all ps can do is give decent offerings. they are doing a pretty good job so far.

Sat discussion -> sat thread pls

This thread is about removing guarantees and adding more turbo progressive super KOs to the schedule

Id love to see some more PSKO Hyper Turbos on the micros maybe instead of the 5,10 $ Hypers.. or PSKO Hyper SnGs 180man

yessss yessssssssss.

Bryan should just pick like 5 smart accomplished reputable mtt pros and consoult with them. Just on skype or some other kind of private chat. Not like stars hasnt done something like this in the past and it would be way more productive than whats going on itt right now.

55r just completely skipped hand for hand with 10 left/9 paid. lasted for a decent time period of 2x5 handed tables without the hand for hand kicking in

one guy pretty much abused it and stalled hard but whatevs pls just fix it ye

Thanks for this... will look into it.

Question... when you guys speak of "early" antes, how early do you mean, generally?

As I've mentioned several times, we're not nearly as aggressive on reductions as some are posting here, and we certainly do plenty of raises, as well. As for the Big $16.50 specifically, the issue is the Bigger $16.50, as each Big/Bigger is tied together. It may be possible to alter that policy in the future (we've discussed it), but for now each Bigger has a guarantee which is exactly twice that of the daily Big.

The new 76-level structure replaced the 56-level structure with 10-minute blinds. In some rebuys, the tournament alternated between 10-minute blinds and 15-minute blinds day-by-day. The 15-minute blinds weren't replaced with the new structure in all cases.

There are in fact multiple MTTers that I speak with on Skype (and elsewhere) from time to time, though I don't broadcast this fact, generally...

Happy April Fool's Day! I hope that some of you have enjoyed the silly tournaments today... ;-)

I would like to see antes kick in after 3-4 levels the latest, like in the big tournament structures. Ideally there would be antes from the start (especially in rebuys), Full Tilt does this in some tournaments and its awesome.

Maybe $22-33-55 would be too many... Best would be $22 and $55 but np if it is only $11 and $55, We just want a bigger one and ASAP.

Can't be more wrong ''Again''. They were very popular at the start, then everything went downhill on Full Tilt. I personnally LOVED them and can't see why it would'nt work on Stars with that sick player base. The thing is just to promote them well and STOP treating them as ''SATTELITES'' wtf... Can't believe it has'nt been changed yet.

What do u expect? Doggz's specialty is disagreeing with some of things we say and protecting Bryan everytime there is a post that questions something significant. Tell us more how rebuys are dying Doggz or how guarantees don't matter. He enjoys derailing ideas he doesn't agree with and it gives him a sense of accomplishment when Bryan agrees with him. The fact that he is comparing traffic on tilt and stars and saying it wouldn't work just shows you how he thinks.

Bryan, the Aprils fools tournaments were cool and looked like I lot of fun. Although I didn't play them due to small buyin, I watched the jcarver stream where he was playing them and enjoyed it. The I wont million speedbump tourney was pretty hilarious.

When you have some time, could you please address my previous post regarding second chances? Thanks mate

I personally loved the FTP multiday tournaments as well but that doesn't mean they were overall a success. They got removed because they would miss GTDs over and over again. I remember in the early 11 MD that my Day 2 table would have 1 or 2 players sitting out every single week. It just ended up not being worth it to support them.

No need to feel salty if I disagree with what you say. I've supported and +1 a lot of great ideas in these threads over the years. Even the bad ideas are worth talking about , at least they get the flow of ideas moving. I'm just not shy about telling people when their ideas aren't good or they are wrong. Unfortunately most people don't want to hear that.

*comparing sites, not traffic

I prob came off harsh there and I'm sure your intentions are in the right place. I'm hoping we can all work together more as a community in supporting each other and making positive changes. That's what we are. No matter how you look at it, we are a community.

We are all far more similar than we may choose to believe. Most of us have gone through the same issues of explaining poker to our friends or families and staring at their vacant looks. We have all been through 1000's of bad beats that have desensitized our nerves and given us a strong ability to face adversity in other aspects of our lives. We also all have a huge passion in seeing the game grow. If we work together and are more united in our ideas, we immediately develop a stronger voice. This is not just about stars mtts but poker as a whole and I also enjoy a good ramble.

Bryan, a $33 phase tournament would create a massive prize pool and would be very popular. Even if you had less starting flights, it would be huge. The problem is these phases show up as satties and myself as well as many other players, have satties filtered out. They clutter up the aesthetics of the lobby and I prefer to exclude them from my filter. Therefore I miss the $11 phase 1 often and only play the last 1 or 2 phases on a Sunday before phase 2 starts. Please make phase 1 a non satty and have it show up in the regular schedule. Try it for a week and watch the numbers grow dramatically.

I’m tired of playing 40% vpip in the first levels of rebuys and still feeling gross when I have to get in JJ 25BB effective (40/80/no-ante with 2k effective stacks, aaarghh), so yes, earlier antes in rebuys would be a massive improvement.

+1 to earlier antes in rebuys and overall in all the tourneys.

So adding early antes to ALL tourneys actually makes them faster!

Um, no thank you.

Unless bigger starting stack but thats obviously not gonna happen the HOTs r turbos already and BIGs r almost the same adding antes to them would make the edge much smaller. This is why you all like it?

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