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Originally Posted by I AmLegend11
Also I see that the Monthly SilverStar+ and GoldStar+ both have been downgraded to worse structures with only a 1500 chip starting stack. Will this be changed Luke? We lobbied for a long time for the changes in these structures and they were great.
This was a mistake. It has been fixed for the next iteration of all the monthly VIP tournaments. Sorry!
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Originally Posted by skadooshh
Some good replies, thanks for taking the time to keep us informed. Really glad to hear you are a fan of the Minis. Also very happy the rebuys are getting some consistency.
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Originally Posted by Sect7G
Luke if you were a betting man do you think WCOOP will have a higher or lower prize pool compared to last year?
I am a betting man, and I'll go with higher. The ball is in your court, Bryan!
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Originally Posted by the_bridler
Sats have got alot worse actually, far less opportunities for players to sat in and the number of sats for the special sunday mill was a huge let down.
No rebuy fpp sats and no added x2 or x3 sats for the special mill, in which on the sunday of the tournament all the x3 sats hit the cap so a ****load of players didnt even get the opportunity to reg all x3 sats on that day.
Scrapping sats like the 11r and 8r sats to the mill on week days was fair enough because they made like 1 seat, but to get rid of the 2r x2 sats and 11r and 8r on sundays that gtd a load of seats was a big mistake.
Im not requesting any changes to improve things for the better how they use to be as thats 0% to happen ,but just thought id point out u shouldnt pat yourself on the back when you have actually made the sat schedule alot worse limiting sat options to all majors across the board and introducing the new min cashes for sats which are good for nobody.
I recently did some end of year research on the changes to Sunday Million, Sunday Warm-Up, and Sunday Storm satellites. Some of my findings:
This comparison is over a significant sample. It is also worth noting that total entries in main schedule MTT satellites have increased year on year while the number of satellites has been reduced.
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Originally Posted by capotinha
luke, do you have news of TLB 2016?
There is no TLB in 2016. We're still in the planning stages of a new promotion to celebrate tournament winners. Matthew will have more on this in the future.
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Originally Posted by GOT TO WINN
Is it possible to get a regular NLH Anti Up game back in the lobby running sometime between the $350 GNTD and $2000 GNTD ?
I see some satellites have been added for the $2000 GNTD anti up buy in, which is great, but are hypers and NL Holdem. Is it possible to change this to turbo / regular Ante Up structure / Add one that has the previous mention structure ?
I wish more people liked to play ante-up! I don't think it is a bad format and encourages some critical thinking about strategy. The future of this format in the main schedule is unclear.
I'll pass along the feedback about the SNG satellites.
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Originally Posted by jayme87
In addition to the turbo offerings in relation to regular freezeout mtts , will you reveal,whether a lowering in abi will result in more / less turbo?
Hope we see more mtts this year and not less!!!
My inclination is less, purely because of the implementation of dynamic structures. It is likely that more tournaments start with 5-minute levels but end with longer levels.
You'll probably have less MTTs, but the goal is that they're all unmissable.
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Originally Posted by TheEye
are sm/swu running on tcoop main sunday or replaced with the 500k/me tcoops?
They will not be replaced by TCOOPs.
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Originally Posted by RaiseAgainst
The Big 7.5 - 15k gtd
The Bigger 7.5 - 15k gtd
Will this ever see an increase?
The Big $7.50 was actually at $10K. It will be increased to $12K beginning Monday. The Bigger $7.50 will stay at $15K.
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Originally Posted by DanteA
Seems like they adjusted starting times of majors to :01, :02 and :07. At least I havent seen that before.
The team put a significant effort into mitigating the lag this weekend. It seems as though there was some relief, but it is clear the problem hasn't been solved. If you're able to point to specific time slots which are noticeably bad, I can make an effort this weekend to do more of the same.
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Originally Posted by ferdilicious
did i miss the post where Luke replied regarding the earlier antes @SWU and SM ? couldn't find it but i kinda fast scrolled
All of the major structures will be reevaluated this year.
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Originally Posted by OurSurveySays
Hi
I have no interest of ever playing online satalite to online tournament but I'm interested in live satalites. However in my filters to see love satalites it shows me tonnes of online satalites too and clutters my lobby. Could you separate the two please?
Sadly, this isn't technically possible in the way that you mean. The "Live Events" tab in PS7 is pretty handy. Any chance I can convince you to play some online satellites? Some of them are pink and guarantee lots of seats!
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Originally Posted by The-Toilet
Not sure if this has already been brought up so forgive me if it has:
Have you guys considered moving the Sunday $500 2-3 hours earlier?
I feel like the numbers in this tournament have been struggaling and personally i love playing this tournament because of the structure but i still find myself skipping it often solely because I always end up one tabling it while I'm not even THAT deep yet. The event just runs way later than everything else.
I've mentioned it to a good 20+ HS regs who've all agreed they would love for it to be earlier. Just doesn't make sense to me to have a long deep stack tournament starting later in the schedule during the Sunday majors.
The issue with these high stakes tournaments is that this group of players is much more fickle than the rest of our player base. They travel to live events and generally do not have 9-5s. This results in the field sizes fluctuating significantly from week to week.
My first post in this thread describes some functionality that I could see being useful for this tournament:
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Originally Posted by PokerStars Luke
The implementation of dynamic structures. I am seriously excited about the implications of this functionality! Imagine a typical freezeout but the levels are eight minutes in length, then 10 minutes once the money is reached, 12 minutes at the final three tables, and 15 minutes at the final table. The ability to lengthen the excitement of going deep in a tournament in a dynamic way has a lot of potential.
I do not think that moving the time slot would significantly help the size of the field, but the above functionality could mitigate the times you're sitting there one-tabling the Sunday 500. Thoughts?
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Originally Posted by Asjbaaaf
s500 $82 deadline turbo skips bb1000 right on the bubble which is brutal
I'll give this a look to see if it is consistent with other deadline structures.
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Originally Posted by Fanta Pomelo
27 ko t capped @ 1200?
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Originally Posted by anuj22
Ouch!
And looks like many other $27 turbo knockouts too #1437133887
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Originally Posted by Asjbaaaf
wtf??
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Originally Posted by blakkman08
rofl
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Originally Posted by mashxx
I personally like this change. $10k overlay satisfies me. Keep up the good work Stars! And please delete all the posts regarding it Asj.
OOPS
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Originally Posted by Transcendence
The thing is, only a small percentage of MTT players even read this thread and I would guess the majority of recs have never even come across it. Therefore, until this silly satellite packages issue gets fixed, the fields will still b a lot lower than they could be. I mean it's been ages, fix it already. Just for some silly $109 ticket, we have to go through all this hassle.
I posted above regarding a test being conducted starting today:
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Originally Posted by PokerStars Luke
In my last post, I mentioned a test for Bounty Builders. Starting Monday, the $1.10 and $7.50 Bounty Builders running Monday-Friday will not award tickets. We'll measure participation to see what kind of effect it has. I'm on the fence about the stakes argument for removing Bounty Builder tickets. This is because it is not a given that those who win tickets are always regs or even MTT players. Think of it as a way of potentially hooking people on the format we all love.
We'll keep an eye on the results.
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Originally Posted by Transcendence
Hey Luke, just a humble suggestion if u are adamant that the success of the minis was directly correlated to the marketing and emails.
Next Sunday, throw the minis in the schedule and don't promote them at all. Watch them explode and continue them weekly. If I am wrong and they fail miserably, then u have ur answer. However I would wager my 10 years of experience playing on stars that they would be a humongous success as a regular addition. I think the arguments in favour of implementing the minis far outweigh the cons.
In addition to what I've already said regarding minis, I will add that I'm not comfortable adding tournaments to Sunday until the lag issue has been wholly resolved.