It wouldn't change the 530 field. Same fish would play both, same regs would play both and then you get all the fish and regs who would shot the 530 and not the 1k. Run both imo.

I way preferred the old schedule anyways, after busting SM was still exciting, b162, Sunday 6nax, second chance, s530 all really great fields. May be wrong but think we basically have b215 and 1k?

Maybe I'm alone here but I way preferred old Sunday schedule (never mind all the Sunday brawl/tired/other full tilt tournaments. Outside of WCOOP and scoop it becomes not so amazing to play like it used to be. Think prizepools say same thing, warm up 750k to 250k this year. Is that down to poker dying or stars changes? Either way super scary.

you're not alone, but there's not much we can do except try to convince Luke to bring at least some of those tournies back. schedule just dies after b215 and that is very sad, especially on sundays.

+1

before you guys got rid of the $20 reg speed 180's 2-3 would still run on sundays, bring them back! noone likes the 30 pko 180's.

hey, super tuesday 250k guarantee today, over 400 runners, increase it please.

also sunday 215 win the button major please 8max.

The Win the Button Tornaments has less runners as other Touraments.....

there are 2 3.30 fo wtb tournaments. one starts at 18:15 eet and the other one starst at 21:10 eet. i think one should be normal.

21 of these SNGs ran last week. Honestly, I think that is a good result. It is possible they continue to pick up as people realize they do not need to be present when the tournament begins.

"Super" Saturday is once a month, but there's VIP tournaments each week. This past weekend's tournaments were deployed a bit late.

This has been corrected. The new buy-in+ rake is $304.76 + $15.24. We've retroactively refunded $4.76 to each player who participated in one of these tournaments. Thanks for pointing it out!

I recall the Sunday 500 being extremely reg-heavy. That is the reason a buy-in increase was chosen for the new schedule. Any thoughts on re-entry? The PLO is doing extremely well with two re-entries available. Also, the guarantee will be increased this coming weekend.

I'm going to be looking at guarantees this week. As I've said before, I'm not going to aggressively increase guarantees during our major series. Last week was the first week post-WCOOP; therefore, I'll be adjusting guarantees this week.

It was $425K. I'll be increasing it to $300K this week.

While this is true, I think they're looking at the tournament the week after WCOOP and thinking that the Sunday 500 would have been bigger. I don't plan on changing the Sunday Grand(s) to $530s, but I'd happily consider some changes to improve the current offering.

They're still in the lobby. Do you need some assistance?

Events -> WCOOP & Mini-WCOOP -> WCOOP Final Table Replays

We're currently evaluating the usage of re-entries in the regular schedule. While we haven't reached any conclusions, we're not going to add re-entry to the Sunday Million unless we feel it is necessary to reach the guarantee.

I don't agree with the logic regarding having both a $530 and $1,050 at the same time. There isn't an infinite amount of money in player balances, and, since the field size shrank, not all of those $530 players had the appetite for a $1,050 buy-in.

As far as the Warm-Up goes, the highest prize pool in 2016 was $580,600 on the same day as the Sunday Million 10th Anniversary. The next highest was $491,200. The highest in 2015 was a shade below $700K. This does not include *COOP ‘special editions’ or other promotional instances of the Warm-Up.

I've added majors here and there since the schedule was launched. I'm not opposed to making changes! The only concern I have with this time slot is that it doesn't appear to be bursting with demand.

I'll pass this on to Baard.

There's no changes planned to the Bigs, Hots, or Bounty Builders. I think 28 per day is plenty and there is a plethora of choices during peak time.

That is why they were converted to Win the Button in the first place. Every tournament was chosen because it was under-performing. They've all received guarantee increases, so in my opinion, it has clearly been a positive change.

I'll keep them as they are for now since they've done better as Win the Button. If that changes, I'd be open to converting one back to vanilla freezeout.

I can imagine you do a big "sigh" now, but you mentioned before that you would possibly bring back the "biggers" for sundays, is this still on the table for this year?

Also I noticed you can buy some tickets for tournaments in the shop, like tickets for $22, $55, $109 and so on. Is it possible to add some tickets for $44 and $33 bounty builders? Would be nice to use tickets for those i think

There is no demand because there is no offer, it's simple as that. I would play b215 if there were some tournies to support it. There are none currently, so i just wait for cooldown and sonic while steadily busting out of tournaments elsewhere and finishing my session. Before new schedule i would always play b162 on sundays, because there was always 2nd chance and 162 6-max and then a turbo wave to support those tournies ending basically by hot44 and 51hyper.

+1 more reg speed mttsngs, even make them a pko if you have to for them to fill.

not even a single word adressed to all those guys criticising the starting time of mini million? what about mini warm-up ? structure / startingtime-change double deuce/minimill ?

could you please add a BountyBuilder 5,50 at 16:30 CET

Can we get a $16.50 ultra deep stacks win the button starting around the same time as the $162 one.

the 22 4k needs the same treatment please

and the 109 4k

or make them some kind of gimmick like psko or 6max win the btn or some combination of the 3

+1

+1

swapping DD and MM is a great idea

Agree

^+1

and $33 deepstack pko at 16.30 CET pls. is a perfect fit next to 215BB and in between 16.50BB (15.30 CET) and 44BB (17.30 CET)

or replace 16.50 DS PKO w $33 version and move $16.50 DS PKO to an earlier timeslot (17.15 CET?), think that would be even better since a $33 version wont run as long as a $16.50 version.

No sigh! This was a helpful reminder.

I have been giving it thought, but haven't reached a conclusion yet. Part of the problem is finding a hook. I don't want a deeper structure in the Bigs because they already last quite a long time. In most cases, they already have larger guarantees. Any ideas?

I’ll pass on the ticket suggestion to the VIP team.

A minimum of 7,500 people are enjoying the Mini-Million on a weekly basis in its current time slot. Around 5,000 enjoy the Double Deuce. While I understand that it is logical for a turbo to have a later start time, these tournaments are clearly flourishing in their current time slots. When you couple that a change could potentially affect the hundreds of seats guaranteed in similarly priced Sunday Million satellites, it becomes clear to me that the risk is too high and the upside is minimal.

Lastly, I looked at all non-satellite guarantees this week. Many were redeployed for the weekend, but only some were given the "Guarantee Boost!" tag. I'll be taking a look at satellite guarantees when time allows.

Not sure how others feel about this/ a reason why PS does this: why do the mini versions of tourneys start after the major version of them? I find it slightly annoying when busting the major version of the tournament and then having 1000 BBs in the 11$ version of it. Imo would be better to start the micro version before the major. Thanks.

Do the Starscoin all-in shootout satties award must-play seats? Seems like they have to for the concept to really work. Seems like a really good concept too, especially if they're not raked (are they?).

In general, I think you might want to consider running some rake-free satellites that award must-play seats and don't give you anything for winning multiple seats to discourage grinders from playing. This way you create seats to the target tournament that you wouldn't have otherwise gotten, you are raking the target tournament too so you do end up generating additional rake, and you get more fun players into the target thereby increasing field size from the regs who come to play against them. It's a win for everyone (PS, fun players, and regs).

In theory that is a great idea. Amaya alleviating 100% of the rake (let alone any) in any format seems like a long shot. Would be cool to see though.