Your statement is incorrect. The vast vast majority of mtt players play at $11 level and below. Mini marathon last sunday got 12,500 players. The $55 marathon only got 3250 entries. Over 9000 players, 75% of the field is not playing the $55 because they don't have the bankroll for it. This is only a $55 mtt. Most people can't afford to play $109 buyins. That is the reality.

Hey Luke, can you add a $4.40 Deep Stacks reg speed at 07:00 CET please? Make it PKO if you wish, but we really need this MTT at that time slot.

There are 2 PKO deep stacks near that hour and i dont believe he will add but we will be happy for more tournaments all day long i dont know what is the reason for not adding tourneys .

Some vanilla then

Such bull**** once again from PS. I got refunded a few dollars for 5 random tournaments due to their server dying yesterday.

I was sat out on the heads up of a PKO (chiplead, 1st place is ~2.5x 2nd) which obviously ended during the disconnection, and 215$ early super tuesday for ~25 minutes. They claim they've done a full investigation but didnt even mention those two tournaments.

11$ Payday needs scheduled satellites. plz Put some 0.11$ Splash and 1$ Hypers in front of the phase 1s

I'd love to play some day:
$22 Mini Battle Royale
$109 Mini Thursday Thrill
$22 Mini Saturday KO
$22 Mini Saturday Scuffle
Bigger $22 or $11 or $55
$22 Mini Sunday Million

the fact that all of these have such an awfully long running times very late in the european morning and nothing is being done is slightly discouragin. Why do they have to almost all start at 20:00 CET+? There's late reg you know. Why can't at least some of them be more suitable for euro recs? The only decent thing is a Bigger $109 currently outside my BR and $22 Double Deuce which is a turbo. Sunday Marathon is no longer an option after the changes as they run also till 06:00+ CET. Sunday Kickoff starts too early. Really need something that would feel the gap.

I'd imagine there are a lot of players like me who share this thinking.

quite right ,need to be 1 hour earlier + saturday scuffle is so late...

mashxx - I'd imagine there are a lot of players like me who share this thinking.
Very true since we are getting older and cant stay all night, its just so hard sometimes, pretty sure that is for all the players.

Thats why there is an early and late special tournament. Although I agree that the early one, like the early thrill today should be a few hours later to fit the euros better.

so pokerstars.es

i cant play from the UK right?

You cannot. Only players on Eu and Com

fml, i tried!

turbo series schedule seems fine. close to 1/4 of the schedule is $55 or below, which, including satties, is inclusive to basically the entire player pool of mtt players. $109s-$215s look fine/good, $530s+ only make up 20% of the schedule. Decent and balanced schedule

waiting 18 hours for a skrill withdrawal, is this now normal for your site?
anybody else having the same experiences? Oh, and it's less than 100$ fyi..

Yeah, super annoying

withdrew today and it got through within the usual 5 minutes.

This morning I clicked one of the SMillion qualifiers a 2.2 rebuy (Splash).
This is funny and/or does not make sense.
The last 10 minutes before Add-On the blinds are higher than the actual rebuy - you end up rebuy in the big blind and you are automatically all in without seeing your cards.
Really ?

Add 50/100, 350/700 and 700/1400 to the double deuce. Extend late reg until 20:00. Bam!

Being able to see your cards adds too much of a skill element to the game. So from this spring the ability to see your cards before show down will be removed in the interest of protecting the 'eco-system'

I know; it is overrated

+1 although I'm not sure if their software/code will allow them to have 1hr 38min late reg, I imagine they have set times of late reg i.e 1hr 30 min, 2 hours etc.

Hey all,

This thread has been pretty active! Apologies for the delayed response, I took a long weekend in London.

Feedback noted.

I feel like I should mention that my posting here is voluntary - there is no requirement that I post, but I choose to do it because I've been a member of this community for over a decade. My presence here will ebb and flow depending on the mood of discussions, how heavy my workload is, what is going on in my personal life, or any number of other things. There's been a lot of positive discussion lately, and a lot of things happening in general, so here I am!

I'm not undervaluing them. In fact I'm glad that you suggested them, they were implemented, and you enjoy them. But I have to prioritize certain tasks above others. It isn't possible to put every tournament under a microscope and examine it every day! When I say that we'll look at something when we have more time, I'm being sincere in that at the moment, we have to focus our attention on the highest priorities, whether that is Turbo Series or what comes next. If nothing else, at least we'll have the advantage of a larger sample size to see how these additions and alterations have done after some time has passed.

I agree that level times should not be viewed the same in Zoom/non-Zoom. A Zoom tournament with one minute blinds likely plays similar to a non-Zoom hyper-turbo.

If I escalated this, I would be asked for logs. My suggestion would be to reproduce the bug, export logs, and send them as well as an explanation (including screenshots) to support@. They'll take it through the same process I would from that point.



Luckily my desk was still here on Monday morning…

Hindsight is 20/20 my friend. I estimated that we'd lose some play in the Million, but certainly not over $2M worth of buy-ins!

I think I can save the company $200K by saying that it wasn't because of the Super Bowl. The Sunday Storm had MORE unique players in this year's Anniversary compared to last year's by about 10%. The mistake was putting them on the same day, not the fact that they ran alongside the Super Bowl.

Thank you for this, it was corrected after seeing your post.

Thanks for the feedback. The limit games will return in SCOOP because I feel they play much better as regular or slow speed tournaments. In Turbo Series, we decided to go with the non-traditional big bet games (NL Draw, Single Draw, and Badugi) because they will play better as turbo. That means if we have to nix a game from the SCOOP schedule to make room for a Stud game, it will likely be one of those.

If I'm being honest, I felt that the Omaha offering in TCOOP last year was too heavy. With the rebrand of the Series and my general inclination to not inflate the size of our Series too frequently, I feel like this schedule strikes the right balance.

Not sure if trolling, but hey I dig it.

$100K guaranteed on this Event is a slam dunk, but the margins from last year didn't warrant an increase. Still, it should be a fun Event.

Miiiiiiiiiikkkkkkkeeeeeeee,

I believe I mentioned this somewhere else in this thread, but our plans for the rest of the year will help make sense of this. Trust me, I understand the pride aspect. I remember winning my WCOOP Event more vividly than any other tournament. It was a 20 hour grind and I came 20th in the early Event that day before going on to ship the late one. At the same time, I don't think I would have the same memories of a TCOOP Event, and that's sort of the point of rebranding it as Turbo Series. It isn't a herculean task to win a turbo tournament.

The average buy-in for Turbo Series is similar to that of TCOOP. WCOOP and Winter Series both offered plenty of tournaments for micro and low-stakes players. Turbo Series will generate huge prize pools by focusing on the lower end of high-stakes; however, in the interest of being more inclusive, the promotions on offer are focused on micro-stakes players.

Very simply, if everything was tiered, it would get boring!

Thanks for the feedback. While we're not awarding leader board prizes for Turbo Series, we're still awarding 3x PSPC packages and spending considerably more on other promotions than we would have on a leader board.

What makes you say that the replacement is a downgrade? The guarantees and buy-ins are both similar to last year's TCOOP.

Enjoy!

There's plenty of cheap opportunities to win tickets which can be used in other satellites or Events!

I am assuming this was a Progressive KO? We have not updated the pay tables in Progressive KO tournaments yet. This task will be prioritized when we have some downtime between promotions.

This does not mean that all promotions should target the highest amount of players, nor should we ignore the masses. This is why both MicroMillions and High Rollers/SCOOP exist!

Feedback noted, thanks.

If you feel you've received an unsatisfactory response, please try contacting Support again, including as much detail as possible.

I think $0.11 Splash tournaments would be a detriment in the long-term. It is less likely that these players will understand that they're playing a satellite to a tournament that forces them to play on Sunday. We still haven't decided what to do with the Payday…

It is hard for me to do something if I don't know they're running too long.

What do you consider too late?

There's ticket satellites running from $0.11 in the Events tab at the moment and Spin & Gos are $2.75. The goal is to create a non-tiered Series that still attracts all level of players.

I am all ears for Splash replacements.

To what end?

It can, but we try not to!

Winamax and party have a few tournaments that end 02:00-04:00 CET which is much more bearable as you can still get a few hours of sleep and go to work. It pretty much doesn't exist on stars, as majority of the cool ones is aimed at ending between 06:00 CET and 09:00 CET which is insane imo.

+1


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Is it me or do the Turbo series ABI is really too high. From the company standpoint it's all about the prizepool generated wich makes them a certain percentage of money/buyin fee. According to that fact you should aproach the tournaments creation using the logic of finding the ABI that will generate the biggest prizepools. Ofc you should take other factors as day of the week, time etc. but ABI seems like a crucial point and also really easy to calculate when you have other similiar tournaments to compare it too. The worst part is they are not only making the prizepools smaller with this huge ABI but they are also eliminating a huge part of the recreational player pool and the mtt reg pool wich makes that tournaments even softer for the top dogs and any other mtt reg that can afford that buyin. The recs and whales will get torn apart and the money will be centralized and cashed out so they didn't only lose out on the prizepools but also with the money not circulating after the series is over.