No site-wide deposit bonus specifically for FTOPS, no. Nobody disagrees with your general sentiment, though! Even when we're not offering a global deposit type promotion, there's often smaller batches of offers going out (including for FTOPS).

Glad you like the look of the schedule, thanks for the feedback.

Imho just give out some tickets to some freeroll for FTOPS ticket with any deposit.

Was playing some cash over the weekend and No edge rewards $ was showing up at the side of the screen. Usually this goes up after every raked hand but it still says zero even today. Has something changed?

Nope, nothing has changed. If you're still Silver+ in Edge that number should go up as you play. Write to support if something looks broken, though, and they should be able to help you out.

Heh yeah I played some there this week as noticed there was some 100+ Full ring going but wasn't achieving any rakeback. I guess that's why.

Do you have any ideas for increasing cash game traffic Shyam? I don't understand why traffic is so low. :/

Any plans on HU rush on full tilt?

I was wondering the same thing. I think this would be great, especially at the smaller stakes like 50nl and 100nl.

In addition I think it would be a good idea to reduce the number of available tables for people to sit and wait alone at. I think this should be done similarly to Pokerstars where there are less and less tables available the higher the stakes you go to encourage people to play for tables.

At this point in time I believe the HU traffic on FTP is quite low and people only use the site to open sit and wait for fish while a lot more battling goes on at Pokerstars. It's awesome to be able to sit at 50nl HU zoom on Pokerstars and have loads of players to play with all day. I think this could work on FTP on a slightly smaller scale if given a chance.

Does anybody else experience their computer freezing for around 5 seconds when starting the client?

Today Full Tilt have made some drastic changes to their offering of games at the higher stakes, or there has been a bug in their most recent software update.

The highest stake big bet game is now $250/$500, all ante big bet games have being removed. The SECOND highest stake big bet game is now $25/$50, thus removing 50/100, 75/150, 100/200, 200/400, 250,500 3/600 and 4/800.

The limit games have been more seriously affected as there has been a lot of action at the $2000/$4000 tables. Their highest offering is now $1000/$2000, with the second highest being $50/$100, removing 500/1000, 300/600, 200/400 and 100/200.

These changes seem to be pretty absurd to me, I would say its more likely its a bug, however is there anyone from FTP/Stars that can comment on this?

New update today has changed all 6 card Omaha games to 5 handed rather than 6 handed. I would like to know the thinking behind this change, and whether Fulltilt consulted any of the 6 card regs to ask for their opinions before making it. I am not sure what I think to this right now, whether it will be good for the long term health of the games or not. But it seems to me that the games were doing pretty well as they were, with a (small but) thriving player pool - considering how niche a game this is. I am concerned that the change to 5max will put a strain on the games since it increases the importance of starting new tables off, and this is always difficult in a small player pool, especially when not that many regs are prepared to work to get new tables going.

I guess it isn't a bug. That was posted last week by "Shyam Markus" :

"If you've hated everything we've done so far, just wait! We've been spending the last few weeks working on a fairly major "cleanup" of ring games. If all goes according to plan, that'll happen next week. Lots of game types will be going away, and the overall ring game offering should be much more streamlined and clear. That being said, if we're about to take away your favorite ring game, I do apologize. I wish we could offer absolutely everything (and then some) and have them all be full and active, but that's simply not possible at the moment."

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=3711

-Kuta

Ahh not good news. I think they've made a significant error particularly in 2-7 triple draw as there has been lots of action at the table stakes they've removed

Yep, I can confirm it's not a bug. Lots of changes were implemented today, and for sure many won't be popular.

We did talk to a good number of players about this change. I agree there is some danger here of disrupting a game that was doing quite well (easily the third biggest game we spread after NLH and PLO). The change was mostly to address the feedback that the games could play quite tight because of how strong your hand had to be to win. We're going to give it a try, and if it looks to hurt more than it helps, we'll definitely reevaluate the decision. So give it a shot, and let us know how it plays (and whether or not tables break too quickly/often).

Looking at the data, $1K/$2K was the most popular stake level for 2-7 TD in March (based simply on number of hands played). $100/$200, $200/$400, and $300/$600, and $1.5K/$3K all got very little action (less than 10% of the hands of $1K/$2K) for the month.

$2K/$4K had very little HU action, but did get a semi-decent number of hands at 6-max in. And a case could potentially be made for $500/$1K since it got about 75% the number of hands as $1K/$2K. However, we're trying to consolidate some players and the hope is the $500/$1K and $2K/$4K players can play $1K/$2K. If that proves wrong and there's still strong demand for $500/$1K, we might (might!) consider adding it back in.

Definitely continue to give feedback, and let us know how the changes go. We're trying to improve the playing experience for as many of our players as possible, and while it's impossible to make everyone happy (especially with the number of changes we just made), we're always willing to try to improve things that we might have gotten wrong.

Have you got a link where we can see all of todays updates Shyam? I can't see it on the website cheers.

You gotta be out of your mind. 2k4k triple draw was the most active high stakes game for the past three years and that's a fact. Removing that after maybe two or three months where it only ran half the days, and without talking to ANY of the regulars, must be a joke.

A pretty good summary was posted to the blog:
http://www.fulltilt.com/blog/ring-ga...ges-full-tilt/

Nobody would argue.

You ninja-edited! Sorry for the brief reply above. We did a massive consolidation of games/stakes across all ring games, so there's no question there will still be room for improvement here. If there's a strong push from the players to bring back a certain game/stake level, we'll absolutely consider it. We won't be bringing back most of what we removed today any time soon, though, especially not before seeing what impact those changes have.

Excuse my strong words Markus, I was quite shocked to see these changes.

Can you say more about why 2k4k triple draw had to go? It sounds almost like you looked just at the last month of play to determine which tables to cut off. Since I played almost every day at these tables in the last two to three years my own perception is that they were the most popular highstakes game on the internet.

:-) We are definitely not in sync today.

Okay, fair enough. So let's give it some time to sink in and then see enough people miss the old game.

so the idea of players getting to high stakes is official dead over at FTP I guess? 1000%-2000% increase between top 2 limits just doesn't seem like the best move to me.

Completely agree with this. It was the most active game by a considerably large margin as well I'd assume.

This has got to be one of the worst updates I have ever seen. All CAP games at NLHE have been removed and although they weren't very popular they still ran from time to time and they were the only 30bb games out there. I am sorry but that is one of the main reasons why I played on FTP. I don't understand why having a little bit more game variety would be so detrimental.. after all there is no cost to you for having these tables up.

Also I am not a nosebleed player but that is what FTP is known for and removing most of those games just hurts the site's image. Noone cares about the players anymore

There may be a few odd exceptions but overall these changes shouldn't be considered good or bad but viewed as necessary for Full Tilt and it's long term growth. Consolidation of game types/levels should have been in the top 5 things that needed to be done for over a year and I'm glad it's been done.

I'm curious about the move to 5 max tables and the ratio of new tables spawning more easily compared to tables breaking quicker as well.

edit: rake hike to jackpot SnG's sucks but probably the people that play these won't care too much.

+1 I think it's great for my games.

CAP games remove is absolutely crazy step. Before black friday CAP 30 was very popular. And i know many players who really like CAP 30. CAP 30 is exlusive tables and i think it is BIG mistake to remove it. Some people (like me) play on FTP and hoped that when number of players will increase, CAP games again will come to life. This step is a good reason for looking to another rooms. And minimum 2 players more think the same. I am talking about players who make more then 10k rake per month. I am very upset.

I am one of the most active regulars in the 6c games. Over the time i've been playing it has been pretty apparent that the majority of players don't like playing short handed. Tables run fine 5-6 handed, but as soon as we get down to 4 or less they break quickly the majority of the time. Now it only takes one person sitting out to start the domino effect. We've seen this already today, there were 5 full tables of 2.5/5 running and 5 minutes later just 1, each breaking almost immediately after the first sat out. As i've been typing this the last remaining full table broke 1 minute after one player sat out.

Really bizarre changes. I've spoken to 2 of the 3 other regs who have logged the most hands at 2.5/5 and they share my concerns. None of us were consulted about this either, which seems odd. Hopefully you change it back soon.