Stars is my only option because Party threw me off on Jan 01 and 888 has gone full ****** with every MTT being re-entry/rebuy and a lot less players on there now. I don't see a viable alternative to Stars but Stars is becoming no fun with excessive rake and too many negative changes to structure/payout. The way it's going on Stars, in 1 year all MTTs will have 1 min. blind levels with 10 bb starting stack...in 2 years MTTs will be all-in shootouts with 50% rake(but with really cool graphics of course).

Stars 30$ MTT 188 runners 35 paid

1- 18.3%
2- 12.5%
3- 9.6%

Party 30$ MTT 318 runners 40 paid

1- 20%
2- 14.4%
3- 10.1%

where are you from?
maybe you can play on winamax. best site payout and pool wise

I miss winamax so badly.

Great suggestion, thanks! I just signed up.

winimax in canada yet? Heard lots of great stuff about them. Also; runitonce launched public BETA today so stars gon lose that much more reg player base

I mean to be fair. RaiseItOnce looks super basic at this point. It will take a lot more time till they actually have a good site. Right now they only have a few cashgame tables.

I cannot believe they talked so much about this RIO poker site by galfond and for these years they come only with this looks like nintendo compared to ps 4 from other sites + zero offering besides cash.So hard to make a decent look for a site ? people make games with godlike graphs,stories and testing for so much time...

holy moly you guys are so ****ing stupid my brain hurts

is stars still reading this thread? i don’t know whether this has been proposed/discussed yet, but can we fix mtt break times? not sure if this opinon is unpopular but going on long mtt grinds esp during coops with 5min breaks sucks for all types of players, you can basically do one thing during a break. why not have a few longer breaks at set times, for instance have a 15min tea break at 2:55pm (instead of 5mins regular) and a 20min dinner break at 6:55pm and a 10min late night break at 12:55am. i see no real downside to this despite mtts taking a little bit longer overall, but believe that the upside is that people go for long sessions more often as it becomes less draining to play. it’s also more healthy for players to eat like a normal human being..

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You must be new around here.

i am in this sub, elaborate?

I guess you are genius why u are still here and not be CEO somewhere ?

This was suggested many times,i also think that 10 min pauses every 3-4 hours or 15 min for dinner and lunch times .Or other suggestion is to make them 6 mins.5 min is not enough to eat or go to WC + make coffee etc.

ok thx

I think its maybe an OK idea for SCOOP/WCOOP events only. Most people multi-table, even casual recs so half the time you wont even be using the break because of other mtts which makes it a bad idea.

gl with getting every network to adopt this simultaneously

i made a post about this in mtt community when I was a noob and got flamed pretty hard for it. in theory it's a decent idea and would be convenient for a lot of MTT regs but 99% never gonna happen for a lot of reasons

There are better ways to talk to other humans than insulting them without even explaining why. If you cant even handle your emotions when reading a few posts then youre definetly wrong in the Poker world.

People like you are the reason why Poker is still profitable, thanks for that.

phew! just when I was about to lose faith in humanity and poker:

yep if the guy which win wasnt lucky at the end was gonna end in 2nd place for 1.2k from 300k prizepoool and the other would get 30k but ps software was with him at the end .

payouts seemed somewhat reasonable again today (1st not being 2x 2nd). did they switch it back?

Nope, still the same. Only a few tournaments with small fields or very high buy ins, dont have that payout structure.

hmm i just finished the big22 and it was sth like 5k for first and 3.5k for second iirc

This is different for each tournament depending on how many players usually play them. Just take a look at the tournament lobby of a tournament, where the latereg hasnt ended yet, under that tab "Structure" -> "Award Structure" and you will see that it depends on how many players participate if the new payout structure applies or not. Also look at tomorrows "Big 22". In some cases it almost has the old structure, but in most cases its way closer to the new one.