+1!

What's up with those 2100 dollar 180s? Made for Greek players to dump their rolls in the lobby? Or somebody forgot to set it to playmoney?

Amaya embracing random button clicking style for a few months now.

Can we have HighRoller 180s, like the 5K and 10K ones as well ?

and Oh, Can You make the minimum payouts bigger and FT payouts smaller ? (This is a serious post, I barely make FT appearances, and can continue playing with fatter minimum payments)

+1

I'd be happy to just payout a few less % and get the min-cash up to 2x + rake.

Looks like all the 2-7 SD mtts are PSKO. This is a really bad format for this game because the equitys preflop vary so much in this game. Certain hands literally cannot be played regardless of the good odds you get or the bounty the guy has. Games like PLO and NLH are fun in PSKOs because you can call 63o from the bb to try and bust a shortstack to eliminate them and you will always have some equity. In 2-7 SD if you have QJ4K4 or something it doesn't even matter if someone has a huge bounty on them as your hand has like near 0% equity. Its just not a game people get allin very often unless the stacks are shallow and doesn't fit well for this format IMO.

would be good for recs and regs alike imo, I think this is best approach since final tables have taken a huge hit already

I puked a little then lol'd

pfff

$1k 999 person hyper pls

Absolutely agree with you. After having played a few SD PSKO mtts, I don't think this game is perfectly suited for this format even though I was one of the few guys who suggested Luke to have one SD PSKO tourney on Saturdays only but what we are seeing now is that all the daily SD mtts have become PSKO which is really bad. There are many downsides of PSKO format and I don't think making all these SD mtts PSKO is the perfect solution to get new players. Sure it worked for the $2 buy ins but its not working for other buy ins and not every single draw mtt has to be PSKO.

ok guys a couple of days ago I asked whether other players had also seen the disappearance of the 1c/2c ZOOM pool games.

I asked Stars about this and this was their response to it!

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I really do not understand were this goes along with the idea of catering more to the recreational players and giving a more pleasant experience?
I might assume that a rec who wants to play some quick cashgame does it on the lowest limits instead of higher up and risk to chance of ruining his br.

My assumption --> 1c/2c Zoom does not generate enough rake and by forcing rec players to play higher limits then their br allows they would have to deposit more often. So long for the experience.

The thing that bothers me the most in this story is this.
As a Belgium player I feel discriminated with this move. All other countries still have the 2NL Zoom pool available to them and people on .BE do not.
This is not something that is done out of legal decision i.e. you can not play 2NL Zoom as a Belgian citizen.
Therefore in my opinion this is pure discrimination because hey if I feel like playing 2NL Zoom just for the fun of it I cant!!!

Curious what other people think of this?

Well, I think you shouldn't ask cash game questions in the MTT thread in the MTT forum. I doubt any of us care that there is no longer micro penny cash games.

I looked for the cash game thread but didn't find it. Maybe you would be so kind pointing me to the right place? Much appreciated.

I do care.

what happened there

+1

they are forcing the Belgian low stakes zoom players to move up to the 2100 dollar sngs.

Agreed. You forgot to mention NLO8, which is super successful and fun as a PKO because equities run so closely.

Imo, games that are good in a PKO format:
-FLO8
-NL/PL 2-7 Triple Draw
-PL Stud 8
-FL 2-7 Triple Draw
-PL Badugi

Pretty much all games with split pots and/or multiple streets/drawing rounds which is what makes the equities run closer. NL 2-7 and 5 card draw are single draw games.

This is amazing.

FiveTenss i care too

I would recommend you simply move to another site where you can play as low as you like: the games are hardest on stars and the VIP program is the worst so why bother fighting for that. Just move site IMO

I don't understand, I would think the opposite is what you should want. If equities run close, turning it PKO will make it so nobody can fold anything ever and it becomes a skill-less flipfest. Even more so than it already is, of course.

turn the 17:25 ET 109 6max into full ring, there is a 109 6max prog 1h b4, ppl are not going to be playing 2 109 6max at the same time

and there is also a 109 6max HT at 17:05