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Originally Posted by the_bridler
Because the guy in charge of the tournament schedule first thinks how long a tournament takes and if it takes longer than 5 hours to cash he isnt interested.
It doesnt matter that all the data shows recs love to have room to play, have supported the bigs how they have been for years, get angry at the tables when they find out how quick the blinds are and start going on about bingo poker, that the best online series in the world get so many entries because of deep slow structures etc etc
have to agree with this unfortunately.
too many personal preferences mirrored on many changes, like the capped games removed (no, MTTSNGs aren't the same), faster structures and highly reduced number of satellites (and many of them are made hypers).
All of the (remaining) hot's sats for example, 2 or 3 at each hot, are hypers now, when there used to be at least 3 turbos at each. thanx-no thanx.
Capped games; i remember some $2+R 500cap that always filled up and all the while when there were at least 2 tours $2+R uncapped close by. that means people liked them.
new bigs' running times are ridiculous really.
like i said earlier, this suits my personal preferences, if i play hots that run for 4 hours, i'll definitely be regging more bigs now when they only last an hour longer. but lol at this, big's shouldn't be crapshoots.
about adjustment of structures, it's nice that luke
seems open to discussion and tweaking, but it's not like you can't foresee running times etc base on numbers (thus have a decent structure from the get go). i'll give a little of leeway to this, cause many tours are added and with the whole schedule changed numbers are a bit harder to predict.
ps. imo it's probably too big of a task for one person only, whole schedule nlh and mixed games, new structures, and satellites.