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08-16-2016 , 01:03 PM
Sats for 55 prog ko 6max plssssss
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08-16-2016 , 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by broken_jia
Even though I'm very pro-O8, I'll try to be objective.

5 card PLO is a variation of PLO, so it's more like 2:3. The NLO8 runs on Friday, which is the worst day to play a tournament. There's also the 1k Sunday Grand, so it's fairly balanced imo.

FLO8, PLO8 and NLO8 are really different games. Having a 2nd PLO takes away the variety of this brand.
From point of view of being consistent with offering a whole range of plo games this is true, but if you look at general popularity and what most people want its more plo high. A daily 215$ Omania with like 30k gtd would be nice.
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08-16-2016 , 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by bombonca
From point of view of being consistent with offering a whole range of plo games this is true, but if you look at general popularity and what most people want its more plo high. A daily 215$ Omania with like 30k gtd would be nice.
Actually PLO is far less popular MTT game than NLO8. In cash games PLO holds its ground, but probably mainly because of atrocious rake in O8 games due to split pots.

With that in mind I think there's room to expand MTTs on both sides. There's certainly more room for more major PLO / O8 tournaments.

And please, make at least half (probably like 80% would be right amount, but at least that) of non-hyper NLO8s 8-max or 9-max. I already stopped playing those except hyper NLO8s. And I know lots of other players did too. Although there were some good additions to schedule, all good sides were effectively destroyed by forcing 6-max down though O8 players throats.
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08-16-2016 , 06:09 PM
Hi Luke,

So far I am enjoying the schedule and structures. In particular the offerings at non-peak are far more attractive now.

If I was to suggest anything it would be:

1) Re-introduce 4-max. These tournaments never got huge runners but were really fun and a great niche to have on the schedule that other sites don't provide. In particular I remember the early afternoon $27 4max PSKO as well as the $82 4max deep-stack turbo in the evening. It'd be nice to see a 4-max addition to the schedule even if it did only get 100-200 runners.

2) Have you thought about boosting the weekender numbers by making a day 1a on the friday night, 1b on saturday and allowing a single entry per flight? The weekender should in theory be a great tournament. I feel the problem a lot of people have is they don't want to spend their whole weekend playing online poker and thus giving more flexibility on making a day 2 in it could be more appealing. I think the current $200 price point is good to help the tournament grow.

3) I'm a big fan of all of the hypers and a lot of the turbos being 6max. This helps to keep the average stack-size bigger and we can all play way more hands per level whilst still getting the tournament over faster. Good work on this. I hope you keep these formats as they are both quick and fun.

4) On the subject of hypers - why is it that the supersonic and the minisonic have tiny antes compared to all the other hypers? Maybe it's in error I'm not sure, but it's slightly less fun when the antes only add up to a small blind rather than the usual big-blind or slightly greater.

Great work as usual, enjoy your vacation.
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08-16-2016 , 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by PokerStars Luke
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Originally Posted by GTXR1
Thanks Luke, but... this is still not even close to the other Omania High Rollers:

PL/NL closes late reg with 400/800 (I forgot to substract the breaks in the post above). According to Pokerstars 8-game structure 1 big blind (PL/NL) equals 4 big bets (FL). To comply with this structure the Limit Omania High Roller should close its doors at 1200/2400 big bets (4x800).

This means late reg should be available for 4:15h (currently 3:30h only).
Added another 15 minutes. I'm not going to increase it in larger chunks as I want to ensure there is a sufficient gap between late registration ending and reaching the bubble.
I see what you mean. No worries though, late reg today closed with 4 times as much players as paid.
So I think it's pretty safe to add the final 30min. Or two increments of 15min over 2 weeks.
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08-17-2016 , 05:02 AM
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Originally Posted by f3nix35
1) Re-introduce 4-max. These tournaments never got huge runners but were really fun and a great niche to have on the schedule that other sites don't provide. In particular I remember the early afternoon $27 4max PSKO as well as the $82 4max deep-stack turbo in the evening. It'd be nice to see a 4-max addition to the schedule even if it did only get 100-200 runners.
I already brought this up and Luke said:

"I’ll consider more 4-max, but additions are mostly on hold for now."

So time will tell, I imagine more will be added since at least to me it seems obvious that the schedule is screaming out for more 4max.
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08-17-2016 , 09:54 AM
Hey all,

Bubble Rush is now in the client. The tournaments will begin running on Monday, August 22nd.

Feel free to leave feedback with the caveat that changes are unlikely to occur after the end of business tomorrow as I'm off the island for a bit.

From my last post:

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Originally Posted by PokerStars Luke
Bubble Rush

Our new tournament format "Bubble Rush" will launch on August 22nd. These tournaments begin with hyper-turbo levels until the money then slow down to regular speed. When testing this format, it became obvious that Bubble Rush tournaments need at least a few hundred players to provide the ideal experience, so the additions to the schedule are primarily $0.55 to $33, with a $109 on Saturday and Sunday. They are a mix of majors (this is why some majors were recently moved to earlier time slots) and "regular" guaranteed tournaments.
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08-17-2016 , 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by f3nix35

2) Have you thought about boosting the weekender numbers by making a day 1a on the friday night, 1b on saturday and allowing a single entry per flight? The weekender should in theory be a great tournament. I feel the problem a lot of people have is they don't want to spend their whole weekend playing online poker and thus giving more flexibility on making a day 2 in it could be more appealing. I think the current $200 price point is good to help the tournament grow.
+1 this sounds like a good idea
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08-17-2016 , 08:32 PM
Is there a good reason why the 22R has been taken out of the schedule? It is small but also unique and it hasn't cancelled much at all.

This led me to think why not make a daily $22R at peak time. I think this could become a popular tournament.

We need to keep rebuys alive!
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08-17-2016 , 08:50 PM
after we returned to unraked rebuys.
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08-17-2016 , 08:58 PM
$33(-$55) Deep Stack PKO around 16h CET please

100% succes without a doubt.
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08-18-2016 , 04:02 AM
So we have 23 new daily tourneys nicee!

Would have liked if some of them were KOs, zoom, rebuys(bubble dash format used in MM), some with 3-6-9 min level instead of 3-12.

Also I noticed blue bubble rush have also 35 mins late reg? I think they could have 45 mins if you add few more blinds level. Otherwise there is not much difference between blue and black BR tourneys.
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08-18-2016 , 05:52 AM
some additions: mini sunday warm up 33$
55$ two day event like the weekender on
33$ deepstack pko the time big55 start
one special sunday 6max in a medium buy in range 22-109$
phase satts to millly,last phase running the sunday to avoid the unregistration

superstack to lower stakes like the 162 one but something in 22-82 range
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08-18-2016 , 06:20 AM
bubble rush sunday million?
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08-18-2016 , 02:09 PM
Big109 35k GTD , BB109 80k GTD ....... Its not hard to know what u guys want us to play.....
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08-18-2016 , 04:37 PM
I posted this idea in another section of this forum and got positive responses.
Here is a new MTT-format idea for you PokerStars!
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When it comes to regular knockout tournaments, it always feels like to much of the money "disappears".

The knockouts at the end of the tournament become pretty much insignificant.

So I got this new cool idea!

Instead of the normal knockout that starts immediately, the tournament proceed as a normal tournament UNTIL we reach the money. And when the money is reached, that is where it becomes a knockout tournament.

It would work like this:

100 players register for 100 + 9.

15 gets paid.

Half of the prizepool is paid out as a normal tournament. And the other half is divided equally as bounty to the players who ITM.

In this case, when we are in the money, everybody would get $333 on their bounty. Because half of the prizepool ($5000 is divided among the 15 players who is ITM).

You could experimenting by paying more players or something.


What do you think? Would me much more fun right?
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08-18-2016 , 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Wanted_Doni
I posted this idea in another section of this forum and got positive responses.
Here is a new MTT-format idea for you PokerStars!
________________

When it comes to regular knockout tournaments, it always feels like to much of the money "disappears".

The knockouts at the end of the tournament become pretty much insignificant.

So I got this new cool idea!

Instead of the normal knockout that starts immediately, the tournament proceed as a normal tournament UNTIL we reach the money. And when the money is reached, that is where it becomes a knockout tournament.

It would work like this:

100 players register for 100 + 9.

15 gets paid.

Half of the prizepool is paid out as a normal tournament. And the other half is divided equally as bounty to the players who ITM.

In this case, when we are in the money, everybody would get $333 on their bounty. Because half of the prizepool ($5000 is divided among the 15 players who is ITM).

You could experimenting by paying more players or something.


What do you think? Would me much more fun right?
I think progressive knockouts are much better. All the knockout tournaments should be changed into progressive knockout tournaments. Just my opinion.
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08-21-2016 , 02:25 PM
I like the idea of knockouts occurring after the money as well.
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08-21-2016 , 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by jayme87
bubble rush sunday million?
Dont joke about it, SW is down from 500k to 250k, and barely hitting, so sad. But i have no doubt Amaya wants to do it, but maybe the next rake increase comes first.
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08-22-2016 , 02:13 PM
so Bubble Rush are just a tweak of the old FTP Flipout mtts..
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08-22-2016 , 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by JOHN4KOS8
33$ deepstack pko the time big55 start
why so late, do u like one tabling into the wee hours that much

should be scheduled earlier than the 16.50pko ds or replace it w a $33 version and move the $16 to an earlier slot as the $33 is more likely to attract less players
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08-22-2016 , 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Uhrenknecht
so Bubble Rush are just a tweak of the old FTP Flipout mtts..
I argue they have more skill than that... but yes, they definitely are similar.
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08-22-2016 , 04:37 PM
Regspeed rake on bubble rush
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08-22-2016 , 05:57 PM
they should probably find middle ground between reg speed and hyper rake, bubble rush is def tourney i will look forward to play as rec
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08-22-2016 , 11:43 PM
reg speed rake when 80% of MTT is a hyper? come on guys stop trying to rape the people who still have blind ignorant hope in this company
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