make the sunday wrap up a turbo

the late sunday schedule is lacking $30+ turbos. Just add a few 30-109$ turbos every half hour pleasee

guarantees are way too low in EVERY tournament

EVERY tournament is smashing the guarantee

it looks way better to have bigger guarantees obv so just fix this if nothing else.

If your main job is guarantees your doing a terrible job

screenshot of blue sunday majors/specials below

https://gyazo.com/37d1e8061c734a6741f94432e5ce8c40

Also playing poker and watching soccer arn't mutually exclusive events.

His job isnt to grow tournaments and improve the player experience.Its to make sure there isnt an overlay in sight and to conjure up as many ways as possible to wreck the tournament player experience.
Hes doing a great job imo

Counted 7 times in my session today that this happened. Was pretty annoying having my timebanks gone when I got back in and being forced to rush some of my decisions thanks to stars crashing on me.....

I had some serious lag issues in addition to this today, however other sites I was playing on worked fine, hmmmmmm.

Yes. Twice and both times I had one FT bubble in progress

3 of the 9 SM final table players re-entered!

Inevitable obviously. But still depressing to see!

Ergo 3 regs taking out heaps of the poker economy by having a 2nd or 3rd chance, obv hurting the rec player.

Also 250k gtd on warmup, come on.

I agree on re entry being stupid for SM as it's brand gets less prestige

But from the other side, it played a lot deeper than usual throughout, so that's very good

Funny that the guaranteed would have been hit without re entries

250k gtg warm up? lol wtf

has nothing to do with it, structures were already adjusted before re entries were introduced. there really is no silver lining here.

Regarding the sunday million
-3x reentry is just way too much (I would be fine with 1 reentry if it was needed to preserve the most important tournament of the week)

- you could even do it without reentry just make some football special
- call the million something like Sunday Million soccer special
-you have football players in your team pro use them to promote a sunday million special
-why not make the million a two day event druing em
-with 15 min levels from the start (which allows to extend late reg to 3h30min)
-with 20 min levels on day 2
-with 215$ bountys on some team pros
-run some special sattellites to the million and put them in the special lobby label them blue put guarantees on them and run them from munday too sunday 3 hours before million starting time give them 6 min levels and 10.000 chips starting stack
i am sure that stars has enough options to save the million as a freezout without reentrys
just do it

hmm ok, if it played this deep before than i agree with you

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whens the last time they even had a bounty on the team pro host thing they always did for the sunday million?

Before Amaya

Luke,

would the above statement mean that the re-entry "trial" is a success and here to stay?

What things beside the above would be considered a successful trial and mean the tournament remains a re-entry?

Randomly browsing pocket fives and had to load up the stars client to check that they'd got this one right. 17.75% of the field paid and a min cash worth 1.15x the buy-in...
https://gyazo.com/9416ccaaa4ce09454826e1d4f4c50705

It would appear that this isn't a one off mistake as all of the larger field 6-max 'majors' yesterday paid out similar numbers.

In some ways, it's actually an achievement that you've created a pay-table even worse than those we've been seeing lately.

GG

Pokerstars still crashes one up to three times a day. Anyone else same problem?

Comparison with a Saturday 6-Max from June 2014 (A week before Amaya takeover)
2014: 1813 Runners, 264 Paid. 14.56% Paid. Min Cash $30.82
2016: 2196 Runners, 390 Paid 17.75% Paid Min Cash $25.47


2014/2016

1: 15.75%/15.75%
2: 11.75/11.5
3: 8.75/8.5
4: 5.75/5.5
5: 3.75/3.5
6: 2.1/1.79
7-9: 1.4/1.2
10-12: 0.9/0.875
13-18: 0.7/0.66
19-24: 0.55/0.513
25-30: 0.42/0.4
~
50th: .24/.215
100th: .16/.14
200th: .11/.09
264th: .085/0.068

Grats on at least retaining the same % paid for 1st as with the 2014 payouts.

Aside from that, it would appear you have managed to take money away from every other person who cashes, in order to pay a ludicrous amount of players.

With the old % of players paid, 320 would have been ITM.
~$1800 was taken from almost all the players who would've cashed before, in order to pay out 70 extra places with an amount which 99% dgaf about.

If you don't give a **** about making your buyin back then why are you here bitching about the extra pennies that 200th place would have gotten otherwise? Your whine doesn't make any sense. Your sitting here talking about how $5 matters but then directly saying nobody gives a **** about $25.

Either you care about small payouts or you don't. Make up your mind.

belive one who is crying about SM reentry is low stakes reg who cant afford to make 2 or 3 bullets there and they stakers . Some low-mid winning recs can cry about it as well . Main of population are dont mind about it and obv med-high regs are super happy about it( obv without guys who owns stable )

The lower payout numbers like 200th etc was purely me experimenting to see how far down the payout table I had to go to find someone who was better off. I actually thought that eventually, I would reach a point where the 2016 payout table became better (before we got to the extra places).

You're right, I don't care about about the few dollars difference between the two for the lower payouts, it's whatever.

However, I do care about the $575 (significant for a $22 buyin) that has been taken from 2nd-6th alone, in order to finance paying the extra places.

I most definitely rescind this comment, just found it pretty laughable that a tournament was paying a 1.15x min cash.

Having done a few other comparisons of payout tables, the bigs have been hit WAY harder in terms or removing money from the FT to pay more lower down.

Even with the new 'improved' trial payout table, the big $55 on Sunday paid about 4% less of the prizepool at the FT than it would've done with the old table.

To say '2 steps back, 1 step forward' might be being generous.