+1

In MicroMillions-83 HORSE you'll be able to late-reg and get a whopping 0.5 BigBet as starting stack.

Edit: And it will probably hit the money before late-reg is even closed.

Epic first post to join date ratio ^^

Well, i'm not a man of big words and was pretty busy the last few years.

LMAO...funniest thing i've read in a long time!

In the past year or so it's comical how much less I'm playing on stars and how much my volume has increased with other sites. Stars is so worried about depositors, how about withdrawers though? When I withdraw from stars to play on other sites seems like I'm a depositer on the other sites I play on. Keep up the terrible work.

^ Used to be goldstar almost always, since the rake increase + payout table changes I've been rocking the chromestar (!). Just barely made silver now though, because of Micromillions (although that was also mostly disappointing, especially combined with the new payouts). Bend it whichever way you like, paying 1 in 6 is just too much.

thx that there is a 8max micro O8 MTT now
but plz adjust the payouts.

make the payouts 8max worthy.
so 8-9 place not the same amount.
pay 40 not 41 etc

this is brilliant

Best post I've seen

best new poster since BoilingOatRunner / Commodus?

Luke, seems MM replays have stopped uploading after event 50

I'm a micro stake recreational MTT player. I used to be Chromestar every month.

But since the merge and the MTT changes I have accumulated 0.01 VPP and I deposited $0.00. Way to go Stars.

By the way I also play less on other sites since I used to open other tables when I was playing my MTTs on Stars.

So in a way it is bad for poker in general. They chased away a rec player from the tables when they say they want to attract them.

What a joke MM was... ME reached cap no warning nothing(only after it reached there was a warning). Horrible 10min structure avg stack 25bb.....

The rake you've added to each and every rebuy (including add-ons) in a rebuy tournament is, in my opinion, a complete rip-off. Especially considering the fact that, we have already paid rake when entering the tournament in the first place.

I have filtered out rebuys from my tournament filter list and will never play a rebuy tournament again on Pokerstars, whilst you continue to charge 'rake on top of rake'.

Luke, I like the idea of 'Bubble Rush', 3 mins -> itm then normal/ slow ish structure. Please add diff levels of buyin ranges asap

Could we have some more 4-Max tournaments? Currently there is:

$2.20 PROG KO, $2.5K Gtd
$11, $2K Gtd
$4.40+R, $1.5K Gtd - This by far has the best structure. Can we have 1/2 more of these daily please?

Also there used to be a $82 NLHE [4-Max, Ultra Deep Stacks], $X Gtd around ~9pm GMT

Is there room for something similar? 4-Max w/ 50k chips w/ quick ish structure. Always used to beat like $8K Gtd. Maybe $22 is more accessible or even $11. Either way it was a good tournament.

I've avoided talking about rebuys, but +1 in that they do feel a tad 'ripoffish'. Just my opinion.

Also I just would like to bring up the mid stakes BI tourney series again in case you forgot.. Who is in charge of running this? Any idea if it is being considered?

What happened to the $X.XX [6-Max, Zoom, 1 Minute Levels]?

Also, I often play off peak and struggle to get enough tables going (sometimes) and was wondering if you'll ever add some sort of "on demand" generic tournaments that run once 25,50,100, whatever people reg them?

lol and I thought they'd have trouble justifying 10% rake for a 15-30 min timed mtt, they sure showed me

after those $0,02+$0,03 mm satties nothing surprises me anymore

Luke, maybe the "mini" mtts should start before the "main event" cause they have bigger fields and end up finishing too late...
and maybe starting the morning ones 1h later... it ain't going to change to players playing all night long, they dont play those anyway.... Just like 1hour later would be way bigger fields... cause of the late reg... instead of 5 start it at 6:00 ET ...

Luke, can you run some data to see how well the NLO8 hyper MTTs have done since the start of the new schedule?

From my observations, these games have smashed the guarantees and will continue to do so with the armound of re-entries people are taking.

Looking at the schedule, there are gaps in the scheduled. I've made a few specific suggestions that you can hopefully use (all times are EST).

0:32 - $27 (1k gtd)
4:32 - $11 (600 gtd)
5:32 - $27 (1.5k gtd)
7:08 - $55 (1.5k gtd)
9:08 - $27 (1.5k gtd)
11:32 - $82 PKO (3k gtd)
12:08 - $82 (3k gtd)
13:05 - $27 PKO (2k gtd)
18:08 - $27 (2k gtd)
19:32 - $11 (750 gtd)
20:27 - $11 deep rebuy (1k gtd)
21:12 - $3.30 PKO (400 gtd)

There are quite a few gaps, as the schedule hasn't been adjusted much since the new schedule was launched.

Proposed schedule (new tournaments are bolded):

0:32 - $27 (1k gtd)
1:32 - $7.50 (500 gtd)
3:08 - $27 PKO (1k gtd)
4:32 - $11 (600 gtd)
5:32 - $27 (1.5k gtd)
7:08 - $55 (1.5k gtd)
6:08 - $7.50 PKO (600 gtd)
9:08 - $27 (1.5k gtd)
10:08 - $7.50 (1000 gtd)
11:32 - $82 PKO (3k gtd)
12:08 - $82 (3k gtd)
13:05 - $27 PKO (2k gtd)
14:32 - $22 deep rebuy (2k gtd)
15:35 - $55 hyper (2k gtd)
16:35 - $7.50 PKO hyper (1.5 gtd)
18:08 - $27 (2k gtd)
19:32 - $11 (750 gtd)
20:27 - $11 deep rebuy (1k gtd)
21:12 - $3.30 PKO (400 gtd)
22:08 - $27 hyper (1k gtd)
23:35 - $7.50 PKO hyper (500 gtd)

Lastly, the 20:27 NLO8 deep rebuy should have the late reg extended by 4-5 minutes as it currently ends at 20:55, which is a 5-min break.

One more thing, Luke.

There was some discussion in the WCOOP thread about why all NLO8 and PLO8 MTTs were 6-max on Bryan's first drafted schedule. Some of the PLO players chimed in about 9-max PLO being boring, but had generalised their opinion to that PLO8 and NLO8 would be the same, despite not playing much of the game.

Bryan ran some numbers from the last few years and concluded that PLO8 events feel in participation once it was changed from 9-max to 6-max. He says:
"I think that it's pretty clear that we need to look at changing the PL Omaha Hi/Lo Event to 9-Max, or perhaps to 8-Max"

Do you think the above makes you want to re-consider making all the PLO8 and NLO8 events 6-max? I think from a rake perspective you guys probably make more money due to more re-entries, but your predecessor made it sound pretty clear that 8-max/9-max is the more popular format.

You have recently added a couple 8-max and 9-max events, but this isn't enough. Can we expect to see some 6-max events (hypers and Omanias can be left at 6-max) being converted to 8-max so that the schedule isn't so 6-max heavy?

Not sure if I should post this here or in the software thread, but the new "today's majors" message is cool, however I think it is necessary to be able to display the starting times in each individual's selected timezone. I don't know whether that's possible, but it would make it a lot better.

yeah, one of my pet hates is having everything in some other timezone that i have to work out / convert

+1

Totally agree. A friend took a risky spot to use his reentry and it was capped so he was just out.

It was shocking how shallow it played for a Main Event (ME). I expected this to play like a higher stakes tournament as the ME for micros. What went wrong? Was it just that people nitted it up 4k away from the 9k-payed-bubble? How was the depth after the bubble burst? Unfortunately I busted around 10k when my 55BB stack went bust in literally-back-to-back-hand coolers.