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Originally Posted by PokerStars Luke
They were clearly successful, but it is worth starting with the fact that mini-majors had promotional support. It was part of the Christmas Calendar and had added prizes. A weekly mini-majors suite would not replicate the success of a marketed promotion.
I'm not sure what exact promotional support did the Mini's have?
As far as I can remember, my friend, genuine recreational player have hit me on the phone that Sunday, literally screaming, "dude, have you seen, have you already jumped in, they introduce lovely mini's etc etc. He did not even realise that these tournaments award tickets. He just saw beautiful red label, deep starting stack, juicy prize pool and hoped in instead of spend another Sunday supporting his beloved reds from Liverpool FC which should lose anyways.
We have not had any annoucement in the lobby before the day of its start, and they literally smashed their guarantees by far. I have not heard even a word about it before the moment I opened the client and saw surpassed guarantee still whilst in Mini Kickoff late reg.
I doubt it was due Christmas fever, which you basically trying to imply. In reality it's not that crazy guys, which open the client everyday on December to get some All-in tickets for winnig a hand with 7-2 off, who fill the mini's up to their brows and more.
It was just everyone who were thirsty for good MTTs during the whole year.
I feel it's a huge misconception to treat recreationals as one-celled amoeba who should navigate its way to any kind of soap bubble type of promo you gonna offer, and in the same time, to make statements like "we cant turn the traffic wherever we wish". It is delusion of the same kind of nature as "we could have done more" type of communication. Sure, you could!
I mean, you may invent and offer another FIVE BILLION SUPER-DUPER AWARD first time in the history of online poker — for those who will win let's say 5 Sunday Millions in a month.
And you might throw us Mini's as an opposite — and it's your call to make.
Be aware, my aforementioned friend, well-established IT-developer, who is willing to play for heaps couple of times a week, has treated the "play 25 zoom hands and win shootou ticket" part of Cristmas Calendar promo as a joke and did not log-in into the client because of that.
This is like Christmas Eve — we are waiting for that moment not because we believe we will meet real Santa and he gets us to Narnia where we will **** Pamela Anderson or whoever, but beacause we need just a tiny opportunity to create a real holiday to ourselves by ourselves.
And Mini's were indeed that holiday. They were perfectly designed for the smart well-educated recreational player who is just willing to play god damn poker and nothing else like hunting for tickets or spinning wheels of fortune or whatever. And obv for regs. They were succeed not because of the fairy-tale type of promos all around, but because it's what the whole MTT community need.
Last edited by anzhei; 01-08-2016 at 06:56 AM.