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10-23-2020 , 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Not Isildur1
Hi Dan!

First of all, welcome to BOL! I do think that new TD with new vision was long overdue and I like some of the ideas you are implementing.

New 80 minutes reg with new levels is great, it does play a little deeper in later stages and ends quicker. I think everyone appreciates not to play for 3 hours and then have a bunch of people jump in with 5bbs and either max stall every hand to mincash or start shoving ATC in hopes of doubling up.

New freezouts are kinda cool as well. I think structure could use a little tweaking, but I think idea itself is very solid. Could always fire 1-2 upon the side if you have room and know it ends in ~ 1.5 hours. I think even after you hammer out regular schedule they could be kept on in some capacity as a hybrid of MTT and SNG. Like maybe have $5.5/$11/$22/$55 fire off every 2 hours or so? Something along these lines

I do miss PKOs and hope they come soon. I think vast majority of people like them.

Very sad to see nightly $11r to go, I hope you will reconsider it and bring it back. If it really overlays (which I honestly seen maybe 2-3 times and I played it very often) then maybe bring it back with a slightly lower guarantee. I believe pre-Corona it was $7.5 GTD, maybe pull it back to that level and see it hit $10k+ on most nights.

But overall I think you have a good feel for what people want - shorter reg, reasonably smaller % of the field paid (paying 25%+ is silly, it should be 15-20% of the field), structures that keep average stack at 30+ BBs, reasonable number of re-entries (let's be honest here, allowing 10 bullets turns $2k 5.5 into a $2k $55 for badrecs who will go broke much sooner and leave not just BOL but online poker altogether and this is not good for anyone)

And another suggestion that I had is regarding cash games, in particular 6+riles. I don't know if you have any authority over it. The rules are messed up and that's why there's no traffic at all. In your rules trips/sets beat straight and this messes up the game. Nobody is chasing straight draws when you can be dead to a flopped set and this completely kills the game. I guarantee if you could change that the traffic in 6+ games would be huge
This guy needs to be assistant-TD. Lots of great ideas.
10-23-2020 , 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Not Isildur1
And another suggestion that I had is regarding cash games, in particular 6+riles. I don't know if you have any authority over it. The rules are messed up and that's why there's no traffic at all. In your rules trips/sets beat straight and this messes up the game. Nobody is chasing straight draws when you can be dead to a flopped set and this completely kills the game. I guarantee if you could change that the traffic in 6+ games would be huge
Not sure I agree that a change would massively increase traffic to those tables, but I do agree that the hand rankings should be changed to make it the better version of the game.
10-23-2020 , 12:41 PM
The monster $22 $7500 guaranteed is up there now. 30 minute later starting time than normally but it's there. Plus the $22 plo/8 pko. A $16.50 fast mega. A $5.50 $1000 guaranteed w the new structure and 80 minutes late registration.

Thanks TD Dan!!
10-23-2020 , 05:37 PM
Down to 13 in the $5.50 $1k guaranteed w 80 minutes late registration

Impressions:
- Bubble was much smoother
- Avg stack w 13 left is ~24 bb's with chip lead at ~37.5 bb's.
- Overall I liked this structure. Tournament is almost 4 hours in and almost at final table
- Would love to see more of these at various buy-ins ($3.30, $5.50, $11, $22)
- Made FT. Not sure why this one is 8-handed but not much of a difference. 25 bb avg at FT.
- Liked the inclusion of the 17.5k/35k and 35k/70k levels

Thanks Dan!
10-23-2020 , 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by BeerDrunker
This guy needs to be assistant-TD. Lots of great ideas.

Haha, thank you. You are too kind
10-23-2020 , 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by MCAChiTown
Not sure I agree that a change would massively increase traffic to those tables, but I do agree that the hand rankings should be changed to make it the better version of the game.
Well, maybe not huge, at least at first. But traffic would definitely increase and attract new players as well. I personally know a few degens that want to play short deck in non-home game environment and there are no US-facing sites that offer it with "proper" hand ranking
10-23-2020 , 09:02 PM
Yayyy the $11+r is back on the grid!
10-24-2020 , 01:09 AM
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Originally Posted by ramabranch
Yayyy the $11+r is back on the grid!
I noticed this as well. Really appreciate you listening to the people and putting that back on the schedule.

The new structures on mtts seem good to me. My only gripe was the rebuys as these are many players favorites including mine. Looking forward to see what other changes you make to the schedule.
10-24-2020 , 11:53 AM
but why i cant find the 22$ 7.5k gtd.starts 18:00 CET not anymore?
10-24-2020 , 12:30 PM
i think that its not too great that you have different sections for the tournaments. would be great if they are all under Tournaments. because sometimes you dont even realize that there are Plo tourneys because of those different sections.
imo
10-24-2020 , 12:30 PM
and would be nice to add some 6+ tournaments. would love it actually
10-24-2020 , 12:33 PM
and sometimes when you swap table then you play heads up the first hands, the blinds are vica verca. so the button is big blind and thats wrong.
10-24-2020 , 01:24 PM
Is there a reason the $55 Saturday night Monster Rebuy is off the schedule tonight? That tournament is one of the highlights of my weekend and it obviously didn't run last week due to the site being down, so was really looking forward to that tonight.
10-24-2020 , 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by PaWa
but why i cant find the 22$ 7.5k gtd.starts 18:00 CET not anymore?
It was there yesterday at a new time. It was at 9:30 am pst and used to be 9:00 am pst.
10-24-2020 , 04:02 PM
that feeling when you plan your session because of the schedule but they change it few hours before the tourney starts ... FY BOL
10-24-2020 , 07:58 PM
There are alot of missing tournaments. Wasn't there a $33 entry rebuy listed earlier? wtf
10-24-2020 , 09:56 PM
Yeah I'm not quite sure I understand the point of taking out these Saturday rebuy tournaments. I'm not sure how often the $33 meets its guarantee, but the $55 handily exceeds it pretty much every week. I get changing the structure (idk for rebuy tournaments though) but it really doesn't make sense to me.
10-24-2020 , 10:03 PM
Is the site shutting down or something? This is quite ridiculous. No Sunday Main Event either
10-24-2020 , 10:27 PM
Ok Ill give you a quick update. I have been following the thread.

So let me start off by saying when i came to the company overlays were very very high.
My job is to get this overlay down whilst still offering you great tournaments and a playable schedule which is still in the works and wont be ready for a while.

I will get a good idea from this current schedule that is out there what I will be able to give you guys in January.

However, where you think this one tournament or another tournament doesnt overlay. That maybe so but everything you see that starts 2 hours later or before etc will affect how a tournament performs. The 1st thing that I saw from the current schedule once I started was that there are too many tournaments all competing with each other. The player base isnt big enough to sustain such a schedule and im working very hard on getting it right.

I also want to create some polls. (once I learn how) To get the feedback very clearly and to also give you some more info in why things happen the way they do.

Just remember you guys may be able to play 6 tables at a time but for the average recreational it will be 2 tables at a time so you have to take that into very careful consideration.

Again you can Pm me if you want to discuss tournaments on skype. Im always willing to do that.
10-25-2020 , 05:16 AM
Thank you for the update.

I understand that some recs play just a few tables and that needs to be taken into account, of course they won't play every single tournament but I rather have smaller guarantees and tougher fields than having to wait 1hour before a tournaments starts and having to wait 4h before I can have at least 6 tables. That also should be taken into account. It's not the "one game a week" rec that gives you rake. Micro and low stakes grinders pay much more than the recs and want to have tournaments available to print some volume (more volume = more rake). The pool will definitely shrink if the schedule remains this naked (this happens 2/3 of the day and it is worst on weekends which is unbelievable).



I wish you a good work. Looking forward for your (and our) success! Kind regards.
10-25-2020 , 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by RManPT
Thank you for the update.

I understand that some recs play just a few tables and that needs to be taken into account, of course they won't play every single tournament but I rather have smaller guarantees and tougher fields than having to wait 1hour before a tournaments starts and having to wait 4h before I can have at least 6 tables. That also should be taken into account. It's not the "one game a week" rec that gives you rake. Micro and low stakes grinders pay much more than the recs and want to have tournaments available to print some volume (more volume = more rake). The pool will definitely shrink if the schedule remains this naked (this happens 2/3 of the day and it is worst on weekends which is unbelievable).



I wish you a good work. Looking forward for your (and our) success! Kind regards.

THIS!!!!!!
10-29-2020 , 11:58 AM
I am testing a structure today. Its going to be for bigger tournaments and the guys that want 10 min blinds. Will be a $1 $500 gtd at 3pm et.

its roughly a 9 hour ish running time. If you play it, as always would love to hear the feedback.
10-29-2020 , 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by BetOnline Dan
I am testing a structure today. Its going to be for bigger tournaments and the guys that want 10 min blinds. Will be a $1 $500 gtd at 3pm et.

its roughly a 9 hour ish running time. If you play it, as always would love to hear the feedback.
I really enjoyed all the $50k starting stack with late reg ending at 20bb you had going during prime time. Now we have a $22 $3.5K at 6EST and thats it till 10PM EST where we have an $11 $1.5K

Schedule was looking good but now prime time is just filled with long late reg tournies again that are super short by the time late reg is done. This is an issue for anyone like me who cant be starting tournaments at 7-9pm EST that late reg isnt over until after 10pm
10-30-2020 , 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by ldmariodl28
I really enjoyed all the $50k starting stack with late reg ending at 20bb you had going during prime time. Now we have a $22 $3.5K at 6EST and thats it till 10PM EST where we have an $11 $1.5K

Schedule was looking good but now prime time is just filled with long late reg tournies again that are super short by the time late reg is done. This is an issue for anyone like me who cant be starting tournaments at 7-9pm EST that late reg isnt over until after 10pm
+1 to this for the players who have full-time jobs on the east coast.
10-31-2020 , 12:09 PM
where is the $5,000 Haunted Freeroll? this is ridiculous

      
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