There's no such warning message when registering the $27 Spin&Go. What happens to players who manage to qualify to the ME, they won't be allowed to play the spins anymore ?

Luke in that video of Jaime opening chests, why is he losing stars coins at some points of the video instead of gaining them? Explain this.

We want answers

Rake on starscoins wtf is going on

He ended with 147,597 -
He started with 146,847
= +750
He was awarded 1750 from the chests....

On the contrary if you are forced to play from the start, then so are all the fish/bad players that qualified in earlier satties (apart from late satty players). One might argue a significant portion of the fish are gone in the first 2 hours, yet you haven't even late regged yet. I do not think their are significantly more fish late regging 2 hours in then at the start. I would say the opposite would be true.

What is this ****

:|

Those all-in pre hands with zero context. Can't wait to show family and friends on social media.

+1

What happened to the Big $11? It was there for a bit yesterday with a boosted guarantee, but then disappeared and it doesn't show up in the Completed events since Aug. 27th. Also, my PokerStars didn't shut down, so I don't think there was a reset overnight, but yet my client doesn't have a single tourney starting before 840 AM Eastern this morning. Any idea what's going on?

server restart

Server Restart complete and still no Big $11 at 14:00 ET... someone screwed up and removed it I'm pretty sure.

Hey everyone,

Just now we've deployed a last-minute addition to the WCOOP schedule! Event 82 is a $10,300 High Roller to be played on September 10th @ 15:00 ET with $1.5M guaranteed. The Low version will run on Monday with a $530 buy-in and $250K guarantee. We've added this as a result of player feedback and look forward to watching you all battle it out.

A couple other minor notes:

• In this year's WCOOP, we're using special final tables, meaning in 4-max, 6-max, and 8-max tournaments, the final tables will have five, seven, and nine players. This has exceptions, so please check the tournament lobbies. Additionally, please be aware that in the case of 6-max and 8-max tournaments, only the final six and eight players receive final-table-weighted Player of the Series points.
• If you bubbled a WCOOP Event in 2016, check your account! You have a ticket to this Sunday's Bubble Freeroll, which has 3x $5,200 seats added! If every single eligible person plays, it is still a value of around $100 per player.
• On Sunday, we're also running a $530 satellite to the $25K High Roller on September 21st. It will have two seats guaranteed and will allow re-entries.

We definitely ran some 8 and 10 minute level satellites to all SCOOP Events, but they may have been closer to the target. We'll keep your feedback in mind as we're scheduling WCOOP satellites.

From Dylan, our Head of Customer Loyalty:

I'm not sure I completely understand, but I'm also fairly certain that players won't skip playing high value satellites due to the reasons above. As for the bolded, this is also not possible. We have to award either seats or tickets and cannot award one and then the other.

Yes, this is stated both before you register and in the satellite's tournament lobby as well.

No significant guarantee changes have occurred since June, when guarantees were lowered due to the usual seasonal downturn. They'll slowly be increased as we approach autumn.

The Low Events all have 1-in-7 (14.4%) pay tables, with a few exceptions having 1-in-8.

I'd also wager that mini-WCOOP would come out on top, purely because of the number of players at the micro-stakes level dwarfing the number of players at the $11-$215 stakes level. That doesn't mean it is the correct decision to take! We have to balance our offering to cater to more than just the biggest group of players. I think micro-stakes players will have plenty of opportunities to satellite into WCOOP-Low Events.

These are good questions, and I should have been more detailed when initially outlining this policy. Basically, we've decided to exclude sit and go satellites from this policy. All sit and go satellites will be must-play, but players can win more than one seat. This does mean that players who win seats in sit and go satellites will not be able to play MTT satellites to the Main Event or High Rollers.

They will be allowed to play Spins, but they will not be allowed to play any of the other restricted satellites, such as the $55 daily seat added satellite. Any subsequent $5,200 Spin wins will be credited as T$. The same rules apply to the $25K High Roller as well.

It is a feature designed to promote big scores in our signature tournaments and solidify winning moments among our players. Seems like a win to me!

It isn't just all-in hands! Manuel created a pretty cool algorithm to determine what is "exciting".

I'm not sure what you see, but I can find the tournament in the lobby as tournament #2009914129. Bigs are typically visible in the lobby for 24 hours after they finish.

Luke, what I am trying to say it is
Imagine mistakes/histakes grinder with abi 40-70$ who will play/grind all good hi/mid stakes (33-215$) sats with like 5-10%roi and want to play 1-2k events but he actualy cant affort to buy directly into 1-2k, and certainly cant buy in directly into 5200$ main,
so now if one player can win only one seat this player have no motivation to grind a lot of satellites because the ratio is like 1-10 seats or smt., and he might win seat in his first 2-5 sats he play but he also might not win ticket in the first 10 sats he is playing
The intention of this kind of player is to grind sats and to play target sat as profitable/cheap as posible for ex if one has like 10% roi in 109 sats for 1k target mtt he is grinding them abd reinvesting his prifits from sats into target event, this player has motivation ti grind sats because is they are profitable for him and he is reinvesting his prifits into high buy in target mtt that he cant affort to buy in directly

So when this player cant win more then 1 seat he will probably play only couple sats like 2-5 instead of playing like 20+,
now imagine that there are probably minimum 300+ players that fit this description,( that will grind a lot of sats and play target event, but with 1 seat only policy probably at least 60-70% of this players will end up playing only few sats and if they dont get lucky and bink seat, they wont play target mtt)so that is like minimum 100 less players registering in every sat and probably 150+ less runners into target mtt

So with first seat must play and leting players to play/win more sats couple things are happening
- sats are rewarding more tickets because more players are playing them= bigger field ( and not to mention more rake is generated abd we all know that #moreRakeIsBetter)
- when first seat is must play and you are rewarding seats/tickets for next seats win and allowing this tickets 1/2/5k to be chopped to 109/215$ tickets ( manually via mail or store or w/e) you are directing trafic to 109+ sats and wcoop main events

As i said previosly capping satellites winings to one seat only is realy bad for trafic of sats ( i think best option is caping to 3 seats max where 1 seat is must play and next 2 seats will be choped into 109/215 tickets but because u said that software option is one or unlimited imo for above reasons if one player can win only one seat is really bad)

And do you realize that chances for a recreation player to win seat are via SNG are way way lower vs him wining seat in MTT sat?
I understand what are you doing here, you wabt to increase chances for recs to win seats into target MTT via MTT sat abd firsing regs to fight each other into sng sats but the thing that you are not considering is that recs have limited amount of money that they want to invest in MTT sats ant they want/ will play sats that reward more seats and MTT sats with a lot of seats guaranteed will be first choice to regs that will play few sats and what will happen here is tgat you will have like 4-5 MTT sats that will reward 50+ seats and other that will reward only 5 seats

P.S. Just to make clear i havent checked sats options yet in software and i assume from posts in this thread that this MTT sats policy is applying for all MTT sats and not only for 5200 main event MTTsats and thats why i am writing this post assuming that you can only win one seat in all MTT sats where target MTT is 1k $+ buy in

It was my bad. I have the -Ant in my filters so I can see re-entry events but not the Ante Up ones... and when you added Guar-ANT-ee Boost to the event it removed it from my view in both my filtered view and my full tourney list. It's back now. Thanks.

147,009 + 35 = 146,882

haha so you win but you lose amIrite?

I'm planning on playing both MTT and SNG satellites to this, so just to make sure I'm 100% on this:
-If I play and win a MTT satellite, I'll get a must-play seat. Afterwards, I could play sng satellites and if I won, since I already had a seat, I'd get T$5200?
-If I win my first seat in a sng, it's a must-play, but if I continue playing sng's afterwards and win another seat in those sng's, it'd be credited as T$5200?
-If I win a seat through a sng, it's a must-play, and there's no point in playing MTT satellites thereafter as I wouldn't be given T$ (or the client would prevent me from registering for the MTT in the first place since I'm already registered for the target tournament).

All 3 of those are correct, right?

It'll probably result in me holding off on sng satellites until a few days before the event, but I can see how it makes sense. Appreciate the clarification here.

Launch feeders for 109 satties please w/ adequate structure.
Std deep turbo or reg speed w/ moderate blind levels increase speed.

Hi Luke!

Any chance to have satellites to the mega satellites giving small bankrolls shots to WCOOP high? For example, the 1050 Sunday Million WCOOP on the 3rd has 55$, 109$ and 215$ Mega sats, it would be great to have 5.50/11/27$ Qualifiers to them like turbo or hyper turbo an hour or two before the mega sats?

If I remember well SCOOP had this kind of offering.

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Is it true that satellites to live events will now restrict people to one package and one seat win only?

Yes

Has anyone else noticed we don't pay rake on SNG or MTT?

Used to show the amount + rake, now it just shows total buy-in...

I want to share my opinion about the sats.
It is not fun to enter in a tourney with 5+ hours late reg from the beginning 250bb deep.
I like scoop format-satellites that give you 109$ ticket and you use it for a scoop event but it is not good for recs because regulars grind these sats and when they have too many tickets,email support to convert them to hot 109 tickets or TMoney.So it's not optimal too.
I think best solution is still to be able to win 1 ticket for the specific event but if the event hasn't started yet,give us a ticket just for this event so we can be able to register when we feel it's right.

+1 this so many times.

I won't really be playing any satellites if it forces me to play 7+ hours just to get through the bubble. It would also be better if satellite would not instaregister me to target event even if it has already started.