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Originally Posted by AvoidMe?
You should watch the replay of Staples' stream with Luke on the new schedule, he explains the new structures a bit. I agree with him.
You are not going to have an objective opinion from Amaya employees. They get paid to promote the new schedule. They talk about blues and their sats, and the bigs, they do not mention the rest of the schedule. Jaime says "i love those regular speed pink sats" but he doesnt mention that regular speed has disappeared from the schedule! (lots of MTT that have very good gtd's). Is that variety? Only Hypers, Turbos and Semi-Turbos (heavily raked)?
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Originally Posted by PokerStars Luke
If I am going to play 4-5 hours, not make the money, and be exhausted for work, I'm not interested.
This is not accurate, maybe you forgot the data. The big 55 gets ITM in less than 3 hours. Today Saturday, with 3h 28min of play had only 8,7% of players remaining. Also you mention with Jaime "tourneys of 12 hours". The Big 55 duration is 8:30h in a weekday, and the Big 109 6:50h.
Actual structure is on the fast side, there is space to do it slower (like all the players asked, by 5000 they meant a slower structure) and still remain far away from 12 hours. Lots of recs like deep structures, the $11 Deep Stack (RIP) was full of recs always and not too many regs. And there is always a Hot 15 minutes away so you can make the Big's slower to have more variety. Not to mention The Big 22 that is really fast now.
But i understand that those politics came from the top. Amaya only wants to host heavily raked fast MTT's (Turbo, Hyper, PKO) and drive traffic to them (thats why they removed regular speed). By making MTT's faster they increase effective rake, reduce edges, and players have more time to play more heavily raked variants or to play casino too (remember $1 to casino has 700% more profit than $1 to poker). All brick & mortar casinos do that, poker tournaments as fast as they can so people has time to gamble in the casino.