If 50/50 are supposed to replace DON's then what's with the butchered blind offerings? All I see are (turbo) 6 minute blinds, and (super turbo) 3 minute blinds! Yet stars are only officially calling their 3 min blind structure - "turbo". So, since when did players accept 6 minute blinds as "non-turbo"? Or, will there be 10 minute blinds offered as soon as the fateful day soon comes when DONs are no more?

I've nothing against turbos on occasion, but admittedly, I definitely preferred playing the 10 minute blind DON's. There must be many of us who liked/preferred the longer blind structure - or at least the choice of whether to play turbo or not!

Please Pokerstars: if you must take DON's off the table, at least give us the same choice of blind structures. Yes, many of us did prefer playing the DON's with 10 min blinds. Not all of us like playing turbos all the time. Variety is the spice of... online poker etc. etc. And I'm sure there are plenty of players who'd like the choice of whether to play turbo or non-turbo 50/50's. And please don't try to claim that 6 minute blinds is anything but 'turbo' in name.

If anything should be butchered, it's not the blind structure...

Indeed not all of us are playing turbo!

Anyway No Big deal for me since i found a new playground

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Here is a comparison of the blinds and antes of the Turbo DoN structure vs. the Turbo Fifty50 structure:

Yes that's another notable point, when comparing 50/50 turbos to DON turbos - the blinds have indeed been beefed up in the manner you've shown.

In arguing that the present 10 minute blind structure (of DON's) be continued, let's hope too that if 10 minute blinds are introduced, when that fateful day arrives, that the 50/50's betting structure should also echo the present structure - at least as far as any ten minute blind games are concerned.

Anyway, here's hoping that Stars will see the sense of offering greater choice to all former DON customers.

@Dlogic: yep, if they don't offer similar choice in blind structures and lose too many disgruntled former DON players who don't just want turbos, them maybe they'll see the sense of offering more choice then. If... it's not too late.

I'm reposting this from the DoN thread.

Thank you very much for your response. The fact remains (even if there is, with all respect, a hyper smart way of arguing that the difference is ceteris paribus negligible) the 50/50's structure is still faster than the DON's.

I appreciate that you gathered a select team of regulars and presumably maths minded experts to analyse your structures and they all deduced that despite their changing at 6 minute intervals, the difference between the old ten minute structure of the DON's, and the newer 6 minute structure is, as I understand from your post above, too small to be bothered about.

However, given that *most* people are not maths whizz kids, time will perhaps tell whether a sizeable number of people who prefer deeper structures (as they understand 'deeper structures' to be) will, in their minds see "6 minute blinds" and think no further than "oh, that's a turbo", and then play other games instead.

You make a valid, point, it doesnt really matter if the structure is similar if there is the PERCEPTION that the structure is much faster, especially vs the higher rake in the turbos.

Thank you cdog Exactly.