[OFFICIAL] PokerStars MTT Thread
07-19-2016
, 07:10 AM
Downside is there's no "premium" for making the FT which seems wrong. Other option would be to make a 9 handed FT but you can't really do that for Stud.
Of course then you have the weirdness at the WSOP main where FT bubble jump is massive but the ladders at the FT itself are much smaller. 10th to 9th is 350K (or more than 50% of 10th) but then 9th to 8th is 100K, 8th to 7th is 150K. Then again, they are also paying 40% of the prize pool to the top 9 places which seems pretty insane in an event with 6,737 runners. Dem milly payouts tho.
-BD
07-19-2016
, 08:36 AM
07-19-2016
, 08:39 AM
Hey all,
As far as I know, we already have 5-handed final tables for 4-max tournaments. I agree that the others should exist as well and I'll pass on the feedback.
Cheers 
Thanks for the feedback. I've passed it along (and the +1s) to our SNG manager.
Thanks for the detailed response. I've bolded a couple points I'd like to address. Your first point mentions not needing to cater to people who want to play every tournament. What I meant is that players, enthusiasts and regulars alike, have tournaments that are special to them. This doesn't have to be a major or red tournament, but simply something that has registration open in a convenient time slot for them and also ends at an acceptable time.
If we were to do an A/B test, you'd quickly see that guarantees are absolutely required to garner participation. If we removed guarantees from the non-special tournaments, it doesn't mean that players would flock to the red or blue tournaments. Many would simply stop playing.
I still plan on testing a new structure in those tournaments in the near future. It would likely have 8-minute levels at the beginning, then 10 after late registration, then 12 at the final table.
You're right, in 2015/6 it never had less than 20. Apologies, I misspoke. Regardless, a Sunday $530 is not going to happen. Much more likely would be an expansion of the $320 Omania High Roller brand to Tuesday/Thursday. Certainly something to consider before WCOOP starts.
Agreed, it is out there this week.
While we've discussed the other aspects of your post many times before, I think I can chime in on the bolded as I played professionally for almost a decade before moving here. Saying it is probably somewhere in between is fair, but there's certain realities that can't be disputed:
So, from our perspective, just imagine that we're being careful and do not want to flood the schedule with tournaments. It takes a long time to have a sample size and know exactly what is working and what isn't. While sometimes flicking a giant switch can be useful to gather data (like flipping the entire schedule on its head), most of the time we'll be taking our time to make decisions and consider the effects on the overall schedule and player pool.
When it comes to demand, I'd like to use a video game I used to spend a lot of time playing as an example. This game has a base campaign (or main schedule, so to speak) that you can play at any time, but the developers release new content in the form of three-month-long leagues. Once the league ends, there is typically a 1-2 month break until the next league begins. This is done on purpose because the developers know that players who take a break are more likely to come back. If the leagues ran continuously year round, players would burn out incredibly quickly.
The point is that while those who play poker for a living have a nearly infinite appetite, most of our player base does not. The purpose of many promotions is to acquire / reactivate those casual players who we know won't consistently multi-table. This is the reason we cannot run series-sized tournaments every day.
Can't pass up quoting the nice ones as well! 
I've passed this feedback on, thanks!
They have the same pay table as of yesterday.
Just bolding this because I think it is important!
The Weekly 8-Game was supposed to bring out the cash game regulars as well! You all will have a difficult time convincing me that a niche game isn't succeeding because the buy-in is prohibitively low.
I foresee this functionality being in nearly every tournament. Baby steps, though.
Feedback noted, thanks!
Glad to see. I'll let these breathe for a bit before making more additions. Did anyone notice that some of the $2.20s were removed at the same time?
Just leaving an empty quote to say thanks for the feedback. I still read and consider every post.
There are two off peak time slots every day, at 05:00 and 19:00.
I believe in more small increases. Think of how far we've come in the past five years or so!
The Storm was special last week and will be again this coming Sunday.
The structure is part of what makes the majors major. I don't have plans on changing the Bigs structure at the moment.
Yes, all that is left is Majors and non-special, non-NLHE tournaments. Those will be done for this coming Monday.
I'm going to suggest that a pre-registration message is added in tournaments explaining what happens as well. I don't see the logic behind calling it deceptive--you're implying that we want players to think they're only playing a hyper-turbo? Surfacing complex details like this to players is difficult, not to mention that many of them do not want to be bothered by it.
TYVM, fixed.
How do you find the volume and content of these messages? Too many? Not relevant? Any feedback is appreciated.
Feedback noted, thanks.
Anyone else? I was the on call contact and did not receive any reports yesterday.
I'm sorry you don't like it, but this won't be changing. Bounty Builders perform far better than the Bigs or Hots relative to their weekdays. Players clearly enjoy the format.
Pay tables in the majors will be looked at and adjusted this week. The Hots were changed on Friday and are now in play.
It is the middle of summer, the Euro finals were last week, and this week is the WSOP Main Event. Give it some time.
Thanks for the feedback, Anuj. All noted and appreciated as always.
While there's no immediate changes coming to Omania, I'll keep this in mind for the future. Tuesday and Thursday still have room for Omania branded tournaments.
I've passed this feedback on.
The MicroMillions Main Event is now a one day event.
Not at the moment, no.
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Firstly, thanks Luke for all the feedback and some nice improvements and ideas, as well as explaining ur position and opinion on things in ways that I understand.
You have been putting some extra effort in, and it will benefit all sides.
Straight up, starting to like you more and more everyday.
I am (ironically enough) enjoying the MMs schedule at first glance. I like that it is focused at micro guys less then low stakes guys- which has been the trend in the past. The gtds are not decent or good but not bad, and I don't hate the formats soooo good work, imo.
You have been putting some extra effort in, and it will benefit all sides.
Straight up, starting to like you more and more everyday.
I am (ironically enough) enjoying the MMs schedule at first glance. I like that it is focused at micro guys less then low stakes guys- which has been the trend in the past. The gtds are not decent or good but not bad, and I don't hate the formats soooo good work, imo.
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Hey Luke.
The Sit&Go 2.50$ 90 Players are running very bad, only about 5/Day. I think if you change this in 90 Players 3$ Knockout Games much more will play this. But don`t change this into Turbo games, take the same structure as the 1.50$ 90 Players Knockout Games!
Please think about this!
The Sit&Go 2.50$ 90 Players are running very bad, only about 5/Day. I think if you change this in 90 Players 3$ Knockout Games much more will play this. But don`t change this into Turbo games, take the same structure as the 1.50$ 90 Players Knockout Games!
Please think about this!
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As others have suggested, I like the structure that starts off with 20 > 30 > 50 > 100, or a structure similar to the reg-speed STTs.
I'll try to address my thoughts on the three points you made above, but they all kind of mix, so if something isn't clear, let me know.
With regards to shortening the late registration period, you raised two points:
To this I say, so what? Some players want to play every tournament on the schedule, but at some point, they have to realize that that is not always possible. If you continually try to accommodate every player that wants to play every tournament they will end up with longer and longer late registration periods (as has happened, they went from 10 minutes > 30 > 60 > 2 hours+). If there were tournaments starting more frequently they could register for something new without having to fill a gap with already-running tournaments. For example, instead of a single $2.20 tournament with 2 hours late-reg, do two separate tournaments with 1 hour late-reg starting an hour apart.
That's okay for the non-majors. Not every tournament has to have thousands of players with gigantic paydays. That's what the majors are for.
Your comments about shortening the period before the bubble:
1. Don't pay more players. Enough already get paid and the prize pool is far too stretched out.
2. As has been mentioned in a few posts recently, the structure can afford to be sped up a little bit early while being slowed down in the middle stages.
You have painted yourself into a bit of a corner with adding guarantees to every tournament. Guarantees used to only exist on the major tournaments. By adding them to the smaller, "support" tournaments you have taken away the "special" from the guarantees, and when participation drops you get blasted for having to reduce the guarantees on tournaments that never had them before.
In my opinion, there are three categories of tournaments:
1. Major/Weekly tournaments: They occur once a week. The Sunday Million, Sunday Storm, Super Tuesday, and the other blue tournaments. These deserve large guarantees and large fields.
2. Daily Special tournaments: These occur once a day, and mainly include the BIG/HOT/Bounty Builder tournaments, and other little special tournaments. These also deserve large guarantees and large fields.
3. Schedule fillers: Also on the daily schedule, but with no special colour or brand. The truly vanilla tournaments with nothing special about them. They are typically smaller in field size and probably don't require any sort of guarantee. They are there for the players that want to play more tables, or something other than the monstrous daily/weekly major tournament.
Also, as a final point for this post, I don't think we are saying "limit late registration to one hour on every single tournament." The larger major tournaments (special Sunday tournaments, the largest blue majors, etc...) can use longer late registration. It is mainly the little filler tournaments that fall in to the third category that should especially be limited to no more than one hour of late registration.
I'll try to address my thoughts on the three points you made above, but they all kind of mix, so if something isn't clear, let me know.
With regards to shortening the late registration period, you raised two points:
To this I say, so what? Some players want to play every tournament on the schedule, but at some point, they have to realize that that is not always possible. If you continually try to accommodate every player that wants to play every tournament they will end up with longer and longer late registration periods (as has happened, they went from 10 minutes > 30 > 60 > 2 hours+). If there were tournaments starting more frequently they could register for something new without having to fill a gap with already-running tournaments. For example, instead of a single $2.20 tournament with 2 hours late-reg, do two separate tournaments with 1 hour late-reg starting an hour apart.
That's okay for the non-majors. Not every tournament has to have thousands of players with gigantic paydays. That's what the majors are for.
Your comments about shortening the period before the bubble:
1. Don't pay more players. Enough already get paid and the prize pool is far too stretched out.
2. As has been mentioned in a few posts recently, the structure can afford to be sped up a little bit early while being slowed down in the middle stages.
You have painted yourself into a bit of a corner with adding guarantees to every tournament. Guarantees used to only exist on the major tournaments. By adding them to the smaller, "support" tournaments you have taken away the "special" from the guarantees, and when participation drops you get blasted for having to reduce the guarantees on tournaments that never had them before.
In my opinion, there are three categories of tournaments:
1. Major/Weekly tournaments: They occur once a week. The Sunday Million, Sunday Storm, Super Tuesday, and the other blue tournaments. These deserve large guarantees and large fields.
2. Daily Special tournaments: These occur once a day, and mainly include the BIG/HOT/Bounty Builder tournaments, and other little special tournaments. These also deserve large guarantees and large fields.
3. Schedule fillers: Also on the daily schedule, but with no special colour or brand. The truly vanilla tournaments with nothing special about them. They are typically smaller in field size and probably don't require any sort of guarantee. They are there for the players that want to play more tables, or something other than the monstrous daily/weekly major tournament.
Also, as a final point for this post, I don't think we are saying "limit late registration to one hour on every single tournament." The larger major tournaments (special Sunday tournaments, the largest blue majors, etc...) can use longer late registration. It is mainly the little filler tournaments that fall in to the third category that should especially be limited to no more than one hour of late registration.
If we were to do an A/B test, you'd quickly see that guarantees are absolutely required to garner participation. If we removed guarantees from the non-special tournaments, it doesn't mean that players would flock to the red or blue tournaments. Many would simply stop playing.
I still plan on testing a new structure in those tournaments in the near future. It would likely have 8-minute levels at the beginning, then 10 after late registration, then 12 at the final table.
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Wrong, when the $215 was removed it had 24 players. That makes 20% over Gtd. How many times exactly did it have less than 20 entries?
Have you actually asked yourself why the FLO8 tournaments weren't performing very well overall? If you had, you would have realized that both the Daily and the Weekly were all starting outside the prime time hours (the same was true for the $215 PL/NLO8 btw).
Here is quote - which unfortunately has been ignored - to demonstrate what difference even a little time shift in ONE part of the world can make:
But instead of fixing what's wrong, you have blindly removed these tournaments. As In the case of FLO8 and ALL other individual mixed games you have officially killed the whole games.
Your alibi $55 Saturday tournaments with horrible structures and wimpy Gtd are a slap in the face to anyone having played these games before.
But players do. Just let it start Su 14:30(ET) make it re-entry, slap a 20K Gtd, make it part of Omania and have a test run for one month. I'll pay the overlay should there be any.
Have you actually asked yourself why the FLO8 tournaments weren't performing very well overall? If you had, you would have realized that both the Daily and the Weekly were all starting outside the prime time hours (the same was true for the $215 PL/NLO8 btw).
Here is quote - which unfortunately has been ignored - to demonstrate what difference even a little time shift in ONE part of the world can make:
But instead of fixing what's wrong, you have blindly removed these tournaments. As In the case of FLO8 and ALL other individual mixed games you have officially killed the whole games.
Your alibi $55 Saturday tournaments with horrible structures and wimpy Gtd are a slap in the face to anyone having played these games before.
But players do. Just let it start Su 14:30(ET) make it re-entry, slap a 20K Gtd, make it part of Omania and have a test run for one month. I'll pay the overlay should there be any.
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Please definitely run both of those tournaments on Wednesday. There aren't enough mid-high stakes mtts to build our sessions around. Some of us can't supplement with other sites nor should we have to if there were an adequate number of tournies.
Whenever I start my session I fire up everything that is 33+ and barely hit 6 tables. Once I inevitably bust 2-3 of those in the first half hour, i am left with too few tables and no incentive to wait another few hours for the next slot of tournies to start. Way too few offerings and it's making playing any day unappealing.
I reduced from playing 4-5 times a week to barely twice. Pls at least make sure the bb 109 is there on Wednesdays. That would make Wednesday a must play because we could fire two fun tourneys with significant prize pools.
This cannibalisation argument is like the chicken and the egg scenario. The stars reps rely on it heavily and many regs that have logged considerable volume see it as completely blown out of proportion. The truth is its probably somewhere in between.
It's crazy how during any coop series the prizepools are regularly in the 100's of thousands where on a regular day we struggle to hit 15k guarantees sometimes. It's not just US players going to Canada or Mexico to play series that make them big. Nor is it the 800k emails sent out. It's the amount of high value, huge guarantee tournaments supplemented by a healthy regular mtt schedule.
I don't want to make direct comparisons here because I know they are a different animal but the demand is always there.
With fewer and fewer decent non-turbo tournaments to play, this trend may continue. Many regs don't post actively. A few I've spoken to are becoming live pros.
There are enough gimmick tournaments and I'm not even hating, I love prsko's. But what the schedule needs is more high value freezeouts with appealing first place prizes. Beef up the schedule with some regular speed 10-20k+ guarantees that add depth to a thin schedule.
Pls add more tournaments that have significant guarantees or no one is going to play them. A tournament doesn't start at a 5k guarantee and organically magically grow to 50k.
You as a site need to take risks on large guarantees that we will potentially add to our schedules. For example if I see a $82 prsko 5k gtd, it's the pits and not worth playing for a less than 1k 1st place prize. However if that same tourney is a 25k guarantee I never miss it. I know it's an extreme example but u get what I mean. It's the guarantee that decides the number of players not the other way around.
When we fire up a session it's based around there being many large tournaments to play. It's not based on one awesome 215 battle royale with smaller tournaments around it. Pls fix this and make the stars mtt schedule worth playing everyday so we don't have to all become withered live pros.
Cheers
Whenever I start my session I fire up everything that is 33+ and barely hit 6 tables. Once I inevitably bust 2-3 of those in the first half hour, i am left with too few tables and no incentive to wait another few hours for the next slot of tournies to start. Way too few offerings and it's making playing any day unappealing.
I reduced from playing 4-5 times a week to barely twice. Pls at least make sure the bb 109 is there on Wednesdays. That would make Wednesday a must play because we could fire two fun tourneys with significant prize pools.
This cannibalisation argument is like the chicken and the egg scenario. The stars reps rely on it heavily and many regs that have logged considerable volume see it as completely blown out of proportion. The truth is its probably somewhere in between.
It's crazy how during any coop series the prizepools are regularly in the 100's of thousands where on a regular day we struggle to hit 15k guarantees sometimes. It's not just US players going to Canada or Mexico to play series that make them big. Nor is it the 800k emails sent out. It's the amount of high value, huge guarantee tournaments supplemented by a healthy regular mtt schedule.
I don't want to make direct comparisons here because I know they are a different animal but the demand is always there.
With fewer and fewer decent non-turbo tournaments to play, this trend may continue. Many regs don't post actively. A few I've spoken to are becoming live pros.
There are enough gimmick tournaments and I'm not even hating, I love prsko's. But what the schedule needs is more high value freezeouts with appealing first place prizes. Beef up the schedule with some regular speed 10-20k+ guarantees that add depth to a thin schedule.
Pls add more tournaments that have significant guarantees or no one is going to play them. A tournament doesn't start at a 5k guarantee and organically magically grow to 50k.
You as a site need to take risks on large guarantees that we will potentially add to our schedules. For example if I see a $82 prsko 5k gtd, it's the pits and not worth playing for a less than 1k 1st place prize. However if that same tourney is a 25k guarantee I never miss it. I know it's an extreme example but u get what I mean. It's the guarantee that decides the number of players not the other way around.
When we fire up a session it's based around there being many large tournaments to play. It's not based on one awesome 215 battle royale with smaller tournaments around it. Pls fix this and make the stars mtt schedule worth playing everyday so we don't have to all become withered live pros.
Cheers
- Recreational players do not play a lot of tables.
- Recreational players do not have an infinite bankroll.
- Demand is not constant.
So, from our perspective, just imagine that we're being careful and do not want to flood the schedule with tournaments. It takes a long time to have a sample size and know exactly what is working and what isn't. While sometimes flicking a giant switch can be useful to gather data (like flipping the entire schedule on its head), most of the time we'll be taking our time to make decisions and consider the effects on the overall schedule and player pool.
When it comes to demand, I'd like to use a video game I used to spend a lot of time playing as an example. This game has a base campaign (or main schedule, so to speak
) that you can play at any time, but the developers release new content in the form of three-month-long leagues. Once the league ends, there is typically a 1-2 month break until the next league begins. This is done on purpose because the developers know that players who take a break are more likely to come back. If the leagues ran continuously year round, players would burn out incredibly quickly.The point is that while those who play poker for a living have a nearly infinite appetite, most of our player base does not. The purpose of many promotions is to acquire / reactivate those casual players who we know won't consistently multi-table. This is the reason we cannot run series-sized tournaments every day.
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Fwiw I love many of the new additions you have made to the schedule in the last few months. They are very encouraging. Would just like to put in more volume and given that stars offers the best product in the business, I am happy to solely play there. Also a lot of us have no access to other sites to supplement our schedule in these random Asian countries. But regardless, there is no site better to play on.
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There should be mtt satties to all MM events and certainly the main event should have an abundance of satties in the regular scheduled satellite tab as well as a deadline satty.
I see that there is sng satties list, but never even glanced at it.
I'm playing every MM event I have time for, regardless (not rebuys except those .11c ones.)
But a lot of players are like me and don't give sng satties a glance, whereas mtt and deadline sats that are for games in a micro series will add thousands of extra players that won't/ can't otherwise play them.
I see that there is sng satties list, but never even glanced at it.
I'm playing every MM event I have time for, regardless (not rebuys except those .11c ones.)
But a lot of players are like me and don't give sng satties a glance, whereas mtt and deadline sats that are for games in a micro series will add thousands of extra players that won't/ can't otherwise play them.
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Thanks for the +1s.
When I was talking about tournaments being special, I was referring more to my opinion that it was partially the guarantee that made them special. With regards to there being multiple instances of the same BIG/HOT/BB tournament each day, I'm okay with that. I'm not saying your opinion is wrong, just that we have different opinions here. Agree to disagree.
I am okay with it because I only have a small window where I can play MTTs. I almost never get a chance to play anything outside that window. Chances are high that I won't be seeing the same major tournament twice in that time. There are lots of special tournaments that I am unable to play due to the starting time, so I am happy when I get a second chance to play them. I can understand that the players that have time to play across a 12+ hour time period they may get bored seeing the same thing twice, but I would imagine that is a minority.
I wanted to add something else about the "filler" tournaments, but I can't really figure out exactly what it is that I want to say, and feel like most of it would be repeating my own previous post, so I am skipping that idea
When I was talking about tournaments being special, I was referring more to my opinion that it was partially the guarantee that made them special. With regards to there being multiple instances of the same BIG/HOT/BB tournament each day, I'm okay with that. I'm not saying your opinion is wrong, just that we have different opinions here. Agree to disagree.
I am okay with it because I only have a small window where I can play MTTs. I almost never get a chance to play anything outside that window. Chances are high that I won't be seeing the same major tournament twice in that time. There are lots of special tournaments that I am unable to play due to the starting time, so I am happy when I get a second chance to play them. I can understand that the players that have time to play across a 12+ hour time period they may get bored seeing the same thing twice, but I would imagine that is a minority.
I wanted to add something else about the "filler" tournaments, but I can't really figure out exactly what it is that I want to say, and feel like most of it would be repeating my own previous post, so I am skipping that idea
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+1
The #s from this years WSOP O8 events also show that, O8 is quite popular. The 1500 FLO8 got 934 players and the 10k got 163 players. I dont have the past SCOOP and WCOOP #, but it has performed well.
There's also a group of High Stakes cash players that play FLO8 and 2-7 Triple Draw. A 530 or 1050 would bring them out, but something smaller like 215, 82 or 55 may not.
I think 20k gtd is a bit rich for the first week of the tournament, but i would be willing to chip in up to a 10k gtd if there is any overlay. Over a short period of time, a 20k gtd is very realistic.
The #s from this years WSOP O8 events also show that, O8 is quite popular. The 1500 FLO8 got 934 players and the 10k got 163 players. I dont have the past SCOOP and WCOOP #, but it has performed well.
There's also a group of High Stakes cash players that play FLO8 and 2-7 Triple Draw. A 530 or 1050 would bring them out, but something smaller like 215, 82 or 55 may not.
I think 20k gtd is a bit rich for the first week of the tournament, but i would be willing to chip in up to a 10k gtd if there is any overlay. Over a short period of time, a 20k gtd is very realistic.
I foresee this functionality being in nearly every tournament. Baby steps, though.
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Thanks for the replies Luke. There's been some nice changes recently, and feels like you are actually listening. MM is good, if not a tad "boring" imo. love that us micro/low stake players get some ultra deeps, an idea would be to have some $2-$22 ultra deep in the regular schedule. Anyway, thanks again
Just leaving an empty quote to say thanks for the feedback. I still read and consider every post.
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its in the same spot where the info on the bigs final tables is. you click on the structure then theres in blue text blind levels and thats where it is. they seriously hid that **** and its honestly seriously sketchy and deceptive imo. i honestly hope the bubble dash's overlay because of it even though we know they probably wont and im probably gonna be a idiot and fire them anyway.
TYVM, fixed.
How do you find the volume and content of these messages? Too many? Not relevant? Any feedback is appreciated.
Feedback noted, thanks.
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think u guys screwed up a bit w the sunday grand 1k. a lot of regs and stables don't include it cuz they perceive the sunday grand as a bad value 1k to fire with such a low guarantee. Had stars initially slapped a nice 500k guarantee on it, it would be doing much better instead of just letting it sit in the lobby and "organically grow." WHY can't sunday support a really good 1k, afterall there are more highstakes players online sunday than during the super tuesday/thrill???? If you're fine just having a lame 200k that will inevitably wither, maybe let's try doing the sunday grand once a month with a bigger guarantee and running satellites all month to it sounds a lot better to me.
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Some suggestions I have:
1) Lack of $2-$7.50 8max/9max non pko turbo mtts:
$2.20 at 08:10 – 12:15 ET
$3.30 at 05:15 – 14:40
$4.40 at 08:15 – 18:00
$7.50 at 03:15 – 14:50
^ Please add these tourneys. 8 max or 9 max I don’t mind but please no 6 max tourneys. We have enough 6max and pko tourneys in the schedule.
2) 8m/9m hyper mtts:
Please add $5.50 buy in 8m/9m hyper mtts at 07:35 – 11:35 Slot. We had plenty of $5 buy in hypers in that slot in the old schedule but none in the new schedule.
3) $7.50 Hyper PKO at 13:25 needs to be special on weekends:
Please make this tourney ultra deep special (with 50k stack) on Saturdays and Sundays like we had during scoop. That tourney was very very popular.
4) $1.10+R at 14:15 (the one which used to have $30K+ gtd) needs to be RED:
Please don’t let this tourney die. It used to have $30K gtd just few months back and I jokingly predicted in April that it would be $10K gtd very soon and it really did, infact its now $7.5K gtd. Wtf?
Please make this tourney just like as it was few years ago when it had 90 mins late reg. I mean Luke in your previous post you mentioned that if a tourneys late reg is dropped to 60 mins, one of the two things that would happen is its prizepool would become smaller and this is what exactly happened with this tourney. It was one of the biggest tourney couple of years ago and please don’t tell us that Stars leaving those 30 countries + recent pull out from Portugal, Israel, Slovenia etc is responsible for the downfall of this tourney. I can think of only two reasons what led to this disaster – i) Reducing late reg from 90 mins to 60 mins and ii) Rake on rebuys.
Please make this tourney RED and give it a new name like Daily Rebuy Madness and throw a nice big gtd (take a risk) and it will start growing once again or else gg this tourney. Oh and it would be great if rebuy tourneys were raked only for addons but I don't see that happening ever.
5) 3 max zoom PKO major tourney on Friday:
Why is this tourney not yet in the daily schedule? I’m sure many players loved this format and it would be huge if this became a Friday major tourney. Would love to see this tourney at 09:30-11:30 slot. We have majors at that slot only on Saturdays and Sunday. On weekdays for us Asian players either the majors start way too early or they start very late.
6) Timebomb tourney’s rake too high:
Have to mention this again. A 15 mins tourney with 10% rake is unbelievable.
1) Lack of $2-$7.50 8max/9max non pko turbo mtts:
$2.20 at 08:10 – 12:15 ET
$3.30 at 05:15 – 14:40
$4.40 at 08:15 – 18:00
$7.50 at 03:15 – 14:50
^ Please add these tourneys. 8 max or 9 max I don’t mind but please no 6 max tourneys. We have enough 6max and pko tourneys in the schedule.
2) 8m/9m hyper mtts:
Please add $5.50 buy in 8m/9m hyper mtts at 07:35 – 11:35 Slot. We had plenty of $5 buy in hypers in that slot in the old schedule but none in the new schedule.
3) $7.50 Hyper PKO at 13:25 needs to be special on weekends:
Please make this tourney ultra deep special (with 50k stack) on Saturdays and Sundays like we had during scoop. That tourney was very very popular.
4) $1.10+R at 14:15 (the one which used to have $30K+ gtd) needs to be RED:
Please don’t let this tourney die. It used to have $30K gtd just few months back and I jokingly predicted in April that it would be $10K gtd very soon and it really did, infact its now $7.5K gtd. Wtf?
Please make this tourney just like as it was few years ago when it had 90 mins late reg. I mean Luke in your previous post you mentioned that if a tourneys late reg is dropped to 60 mins, one of the two things that would happen is its prizepool would become smaller and this is what exactly happened with this tourney. It was one of the biggest tourney couple of years ago and please don’t tell us that Stars leaving those 30 countries + recent pull out from Portugal, Israel, Slovenia etc is responsible for the downfall of this tourney. I can think of only two reasons what led to this disaster – i) Reducing late reg from 90 mins to 60 mins and ii) Rake on rebuys.
Please make this tourney RED and give it a new name like Daily Rebuy Madness and throw a nice big gtd (take a risk) and it will start growing once again or else gg this tourney. Oh and it would be great if rebuy tourneys were raked only for addons but I don't see that happening ever.
5) 3 max zoom PKO major tourney on Friday:
Why is this tourney not yet in the daily schedule? I’m sure many players loved this format and it would be huge if this became a Friday major tourney. Would love to see this tourney at 09:30-11:30 slot. We have majors at that slot only on Saturdays and Sunday. On weekdays for us Asian players either the majors start way too early or they start very late.
6) Timebomb tourney’s rake too high:
Have to mention this again. A 15 mins tourney with 10% rake is unbelievable.
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Really nice job with Omania changes Luke. It seems like they're smashing the guarantees pretty well and a lot of new players are being brought to the game.
A couple thoughts:
- I usually register for a 6-7 hour block starting at 11et and during that time there is only one PLO hi Omania. I imagine there would be no trouble adding in a $27 at some point during the peak time that would perform well.
- The KOManias seem to be doing great. Is there any thought of adding one or two to the weekday schedule? One each of plo/plo8/nlo8 would be perfect.
Thanks!!
A couple thoughts:
- I usually register for a 6-7 hour block starting at 11et and during that time there is only one PLO hi Omania. I imagine there would be no trouble adding in a $27 at some point during the peak time that would perform well.
- The KOManias seem to be doing great. Is there any thought of adding one or two to the weekday schedule? One each of plo/plo8/nlo8 would be perfect.
Thanks!!
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Hi Luke,
A question regarding the MM Main Event - it used to be noted as a 2-day event in the lobby with day 1 going on for 6 hours and resuming at the same starting time on day 2.
Has this been changed to make it a one-day event, since it doesn't say it in the tourney lobby anymore?
A question regarding the MM Main Event - it used to be noted as a 2-day event in the lobby with day 1 going on for 6 hours and resuming at the same starting time on day 2.
Has this been changed to make it a one-day event, since it doesn't say it in the tourney lobby anymore?
Not at the moment, no.
07-19-2016
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