-Stop lowering tournament guarantees. It's embarrassing, Pokerstars needs a "Guarantee Boost" promo on certain tournaments to bring them back to the same guarantees or less they used to be.

-Stop ****ing over Supernovas and Supernovas Elite. Do you know how to run a friggen business and keep customer loyalty?

Most of the tourneys have got their old gtds back - for example sunday storm, super tuesday and as far as I know they have not reduced any guarantees recently

I think they discontinued SNE for the same reason why BoP was discontinued - they were not bringing them new players. I wonder why there was no outrage by regs for discontinuing BoP

in this thread annoying whining regs bashing a basic stars employee.

find a new job or stop being rude with this guy. he's just here to inform us and answering questions about promos, and this is pretty nice.

LOL, you'd probably be in the same boat had you actually put some volume on stars. Take your single digit post total and get off your high horse. I can't play on P.S. as I reside in FLA so I'm not a reg. anymore.

That doesn't mean I don't care that P.S. is screwing over their customers, ruining their brand that used to put customers first, not dead last and being the biggest, honest poker site left.

Some of us know the mod isn't to blame, we're not all narrow-minded like you.
I'm sure you don't mind, you probably benefit from these changes the most.

The PCA puzzle has to do something with MTTs because it gives tickets to the PCA Main Event, which is obviously an MTT (which is even on the 'bucket lists' of some MTT lovers), and it requires playing in a PCA satellite, which can be an MTT or an SnG.

Besides, it's rather normal that not all game variations are covered by a featured promotion at any given moment. E.g. when there are big MTT series, there's usually no big ring game promo at the same time. A poker site can't steer the player base to different game types at the same time. If it needs to ensure that big event guarantees are meant, then it needs to discourage people from ring games temporarily.

There was some discontent (in the STT forum), but the promo was giving like 5% extra rakeback on average, so its removal wasn't that big a deal.

There is already a thread on that matter, please keep this thread clean. TY

That promo only runs for few days in a year :/

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...26&postcount=1

Never seen Promotion 2 run even once, and the rest of the promotions hardly run for 7-10 days which is sad

It really is a bummer that there are no MM this year. I am not a professional by any means and can't afford to play any events over $10 except the odd major. I was really looking forward to the MM as it makes me feel like I can have a cool schedule of events to compete in. I actually deposited more money last month to try and build my BR up just so I could play in some of the MM I really enjoy. Now what is a guy like me supposed to play that is really fun?
Sincerely, a sad MM fan

I recall this detail too. Yet another way that Pstars failed to deliver on promises. This type of deception gives no one hope that anything good will come next year in the way of promos.

There are two ways to run a business and make money.

1) Profit by scale
2) Profit by monetizing current player base.

1) Occurred from 2001-2010
2) Has been happening since 2011.

The problem with the second is there's a short window and what many are concerned with is what will happen first. Amaya gets out of serious debt or players give up on the site. The biggest problem with monetizing your player base is it drives all kinds of players away from re-depositing. This makes the cash grabbing go on for even longer until it becomes what is considered the norm. Maybe it will stop next year after the latest changes but I have no faith and have jumped ship.

live mtt. we talking about online mtts, online promotion for online mtt grinders. and i was right.

Where have all the regular ante up tournaments gone ? I see the gntd in the micro/small buy in being chopped every few months. Which is a little strange because every time I have played them or observed them in the lobby the Gntds were covered. I think they were chopped twice this year. I believe the $55 buy in use to be $5K gntd. Then $3.5K >>$3K>> currently $2K with the same Buy In. ( Prize Pool numbers might not be exact but are close ) Same for the smaller $2 and $5 buy in games.

Be nice if pokerstars put some nlh regular ante-up games back in the lobby.

Nobody is going to win this jackpot and even they know, nice gimmick

all you have to do is win two tournaments with 5000 ppl with the same buyin in at the same time in the same day. good promotion.

i think the main part of the promo is that we will be getting 2 of those tournaments each day for a week rather than the usual one.

its a bit meh but whatevs imo

Bad copu of Full Tilt doube tourneys, what about some cash for making two final tables, or some for top 10 last longer or something

a throwback to the old ftp daily doubles. wish they would have included the other pay tiers like double final table, highest combined finished, double cash so there is a more realistic chance of hitting

yup agreed with itsonlychips. currently the promo part of the promo is unwinnable and stars risk about 10cents in EV when each comp runs. make it fun with people hitting little gimmicks all the time.

Yeah 100k for 2 final tables the same day same hour would have been interesting

Something like this would be so much more fun and attractive:

- Get 1x or 2x your combined BI If both ITM

- Get 5x combined BI if you finish both in top 100

- Get 10x combined BI if you get top 18 for both

- Get 50-100x combined BI if you reach final tables for both tourney

anything would be better, as Asjbaaaf mention this promo is simply having 2 tnys in those slots instead of 1

the odds to win 2 tnys w a field of 6k+ (which the $1.10 & $11 should clear easily) is 36m+ to 1, it truly is lottery odds

The main problem for me is that the promo covers only six MTTs a day (at three buy-in levels)

I'd prefer it to be more regular, e.g., if the $5 and $11 90-man turbo PSKOs were replaced by one united stake - $7 90-mans - and a progressive jackpot was attached to it, awarded for three wins in a row (tourneys being sorted by their starting times) and being 6-figure almost always, and a consolation prize worth 1/1000-th of the jackpot being awarded for three final table finishes in a row (that would require taking a $0.50-0.70 jackpot fee out of the buy-in).

I like this. Obviously exact numbers don't matter but a flatter payout that's more obtainable would be better.

Huge +1 to this like I would even play two $55 at the same time(my avg buy in $8-10) if they come up with promotion like that, but no we gotta win both same time same day lol wtf? You had promotions like "PokerStars makes Millionaires" , spin n go 10+ millionaires where people actually won 1 million, but now do you really think anybody is going to win that jackpot(without colluding) in a span of 14 days? And what if nobody hits the jackpot?

Given the element of skill, there is a roughly 2% chance that over the 2 weeks some individual will win the million.

I don't know how you came with that 2% which seems huge % to me, but even if that is correct, an avg recreational player wouldn't know the odds/percentage. He/she would play those double daily jackpot tourneys once, twice or even thrice but he/she would stop playing for the 4th time or more knowing that its impossible to win both tourneys. If the promotion was something like mentioned above(itm both, ft both, top 18 both) he/she would play those tourneys more often and maybe they will play everyday even if the jackpot was not 1m.

Btw how many players have won both Sunday million/Sunday Warm up or Sunday Storm/Big 11 on same day in the past?

idk but given there's this whole daily double promo there will be a lot more people entering both tournaments on the same day, perhaps up to 10000. So if everyone had an equal chance of winning each tournament, then there would be a 1 in 10000 chance that the million would be won for that particular daily double. given there's 42 pairs of daily doubles, the odds of the million being won over the 2 weeks would be 1-(9999/10000)^42=0.4%. However we should consider that an underestimate.

Given there's an element of skill involved (when someone wins a tournament they're more likely to be a skilled player and hence more likely to win the second tournament), the odds of someone winning both tournaments will significantly improve. Plus 10000 is likely to be an overestimate of the field size so with smaller fields the odds of someone winning increases further. Taking everything into account, I think a ballpark of 1-2% is a reasonable estimate for someone winning the million over the 2 week period.