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Originally Posted by Alex Wice
Lol, this gave me another idea, you know how BOP is a failed promotion and yet they still give away $250k a month for these?
What if they had a $1k/180 special FREEROLL every month where you could luckbox an entry somehow by playing 180s? 6 seats are winnable per day, 1 at low buyins, 2 at medium, 3 at high, and you cant win a seat if you already won one for this month. I'm just throwing this out there, it might be really exciting for some $2/180 donk to play a $1k/180.
and you wouldnt be excited to play a 1k 180 (thats 50k to first... who isnt going to try to get in on that promotion, im excited at just the thought of it)
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Originally Posted by TeamTrousers
Warning
Of course, I may be too pessimistic, and it could be that On Demand-type availability would be hugely successful on Stars too, but it is dangerous to assume that just because it worked there, it will work here too. Because of what happened to FTP there is a lot of ill-feeling towards them out there, amongst regs and recreationals alike; irrespective of what they actually did or didn't do, FTP nevertheless vanished from our computer screens with perhaps $100m of customer money amid accusations of being a Ponzi scheme, and anything which looks like it might be reworking of an idea from them could backfire on the next company to attempt to implement it.
thank god you brought this to their attention before they release zoom for real money games
just teasing but i think rush sngs are probably a bad idea aside from the benefit of of starting the sng and blinds clock at 160 players of a 180 player cap just to get the next sng regging sooner since the last 20 players is always the fastest part to reg anyways
but even that seems unnecessary tho as it will somewhat clutter the lobby and requre a format change announcements etc and only to get in what 10% extra games per hour in peak times... (when only the massive volume whores can manage to register every 180 that fills 3r-35 anyways) doesnt seem like there is anyone who would really benefit from it except for simakos and it could have unforseen consequences as you mentioned
i think theres most certainly a void to be filled with on demands but its the void between 180s and mtts not just a tweak to how sngs run
heres the "void" a certain type of on demand should be introduced to fill as i see it:
turbo players:
2/8/3r/15 180s........[8 cubed on demand turbos]....... massive field low bi turbo mtts or high bi but reasonably sized field turbo mtts
8cubedTs provide a medium level of variance before players coming from 180s have to play redic field sizes at low abi or 10x higher abi to transition/add in mtts with smaller field sizes
cap games do already do this to an extent but rather than scheduling 40 more cap games throughout the day so theres always one registering at each relevant buy in you could just introduce on demands and let it work itself out
(i already metnioned 11 reg speed on demands as a logical bridge between 4 180s and mtts you can pretty much swap them in the above explanation though, its medium field size mtts that run on a regular basis that is the thing that is lacking that on demands would fill)
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Originally Posted by tomsom87
The AWice revised payout system +1111111111111 (fish fold for pay jumps)
theres pretty much no payjump for making the ft tho, skim some $ off of first place and or or 10-12 and maintain a 10>9 payjump when its easiest to abuse bad players shorthanded and maybe itd be ok
last thing youd want to do is get fish thinking "it doesnt really matter if i make the ft or not, the payjump to 9th is as big as the 2 i just got already and the real money is at the top, and i know... ["im ahead of this guys range and theres no reason not to call", or "if i move all in ill probably get folds"]
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Originally Posted by Breanne1
Hey pokerstars, if you create Zoom(rush) sngs (on deamnd please) there will be no reason to play on ftp when it comes back for a lot of sng players. Since zoom is beta testing right now, I am wondering if there are any plans to add zoom tournaments. Full tilt's rush on demand sngs were a massive success right away and grew ridiculously fast, maybe something like a 200ish player zoom sng(turbo)? Of course this wouldn't be for a bit, but I'd like to know if tournaments are added to the agenda for zoom poker.
Just throwing out some ideas, maybe ppl itt won't agree with me, however anyone who played ftp rush sngs will, the games were so popular and recreational players love them.
its pretty horrid to have rush/zoom sngs 6 tabling rush sngs is considerably more hands per hour than 20 tabling 180s
why waste all the sng/mtt fishes attention with constant action in rush where they can just quickfold to good hands and spots when we would rather have them registering multiple games to not be bored