Hey Karter - GL with the qualifiers!!

Still working on getting one too - hopefully soon

milestone hands?

Please add a higher rebuy turbo 180 SNG something like a $9r or a $10r now that you´re raking rebuys and addons there´s no reason why you shouldnt offer these as this have been something that have been asked for years already by players.
Those $30 PKO 180s barely run even on sunday and im pretty sure a $9r/$10r turbo 180 SNG will have around the same ABI and will run far more often than those, you can just eliminate the $8 freezouts ones and just leave the $3r, $9r/$10r and the $15 or maybe increase this buy in a bit, cheers.

bring back battle of the planets alike promotion and spread it accross other forms of SNGs

That's not gonna happen, if anything there will be spin & go promos.
Take pokerstars.fr as example - they had battle of planets a long time still after stars.eu withdrew that promo, then stars.fr had a sng leaderboard based on volume, now they only have regular spin promos (that are pretty valuable though), so you see where they weight to.

Just saw Labax at the tables

Got a really rare payout with the Card Match today - only a 1/500 (?) chance of getting this amount?



It sort of feels like the prize should be a bit larger for such a rare prize - like a Sunday Million ticket or something? Or even a ticket for the $1 mil freeroll would have been great at this point lol. 0/3 - guess there's still 7 more chances to go, so will stay hopeful ...


Yeah, Golden SNG's would be great - the December festival 2 years ago had a week of Golden SNG's, and a week of Milestone Hands, and it seemed like games were packed with people who don't usually play? Maybe promos like that might interest people in coming back, who may have disengaged?

Nice hit on the card match!

Was cool seeing you in the pool. You've got the yellow friend tag now

And yeah card match rewards generally seem a bit lacklustre but 2.5-3 dollars a day on average is like an fair amount of buy ins for something like 10z so hard to complaint too much.

Got into the free roll today after failing like 10 times for the previous time. I actually railed it live while I was playing, that must be the trick.

Thanks for not marking me a fish lol

Have you tagged as someone friendly as well - also anuj!


That's true - guess the $1 mil freeroll (and other tournaments) get lots of attention for having big prize pools. But then the chances of winding up with the big $ aren't so great - and there's only 4 of those $1 mil freerolls. While with the cash promo, maybe the top prize isn't as big, but with the chance to play every day, guess the money adds up pretty quickly, doesn't it?

Wonder if the CardMatch would work in a SNG? That could be fun ...

Pretty sure have made more from the promos this year, than from the tables By a lot

Oh well, guess it's not 2012 any more - guess my prize from the CardMatch today is enough to get a box of Girl Guide cookies. They freeze really well, so a box can last a really long time too ...

https://www.girlguides.ca/web/GGC/Co...FinderMap.aspx

Been a bit of a mixed return to PS. Friday I lost two buy-ins trying out the Card Match promo (although I don't buy in for the full amount), and another 4 tournaments without cashing (including re-entries in 3 of them).

Yesterday went a bit better, made a couple bucks in addition to the Card Match prize, and finished 12th in a tournament with no re-entries . Still down a couple bucks overall for the two days, even with $5 from the promo.

Overall, I don't mind the Card Match promo. I wish the prizes were bigger, but for as little work needs to be done, I guess I can't complain too much. It is mostly free money, after all.

About the animations, I like the fact that it highlights the cards when the hand is dealt if they are on the bingo card. I play with the tables on one of the smallest sizes, so it's very difficult to see what cards I need to match. I'm indifferent regarding the animation that plays if you win the hand. It's minor enough that it doesn't get in the way of anything.

Yep, for sure recreational players on spin&go want to play it for 10mins, don't 6hrs tournament, but who cares ? If someone win this ticket, register to this tournament, he can just push any 2 when he decide to leave and it's him decision. You(Pokerstars) don't loosing anything(playerpool is all time the same or bigger on spin&go), all players have benefits - regs in MTT have bigger prizepool and more recreational players and recreational players have chance to win some $ if they want and have few hrs ( ) .

My other idea is to add something like "medal" like this 1kk medals(if someone reach 1kk vpp he have little red medal next to his nickname, you know what I mean ). And you should add similar medals to players which was in TOP3 WCOOP/SCOOP/TCOOP event. If someone was in TOP3 in WCOOP he should have a gold/silver/bronze medal next to nickname, and if I point coursor on it, there is popup and text "This player win/was 2nd/was 3rd in Event xx 215$ 20/09/2016" or something like that. Similar to SCOOP (maybe there should be a medal in leaf shape, you know spring=trees and all plants flowering ) and TCOOP (there maybe should be cloud or something).

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Regards

Won the $1 million freeroll today What about others? Especially TrustySam, I hope you get one too

Thanks so much Anuj And congrats to you and Labax on your tickets!!

Was starting to relax a bit, seeing the number of entries to the qualifiers go down each day - then they went up today, and started to panic a little! LOL.

Guess quite a few tickets have been given out already, but there's still quite a few left too? So hopefully still enough tickets for everybody who wants one? Will wait until Saturday to get all sour and bitter, if am still ticketless by then - lol jk ... would be lovely to get a ticket, but if not then that's okay too


Hey Karter, yeah the variance can sure add up pretty quickly, can't it? Unibet's supposed to have some ongoing promo where if you lose money in a week, you get a ticket to a freeroll with some really nice prizes - would be lovely to see Stars do something like that, especially when poker's not getting any easier ...

krrrystek those avis for the old FT seemed to super popular - probably little badges at Stars would be popular too? Especially if they're changing the VIP program next year, and nobody will have stars anymore?

I did create an account for Unibet a few months ago, but haven't used it. I don't really want to deposit any money, and I've heard it's not the best for multi-tabling. I'm quite used to the variance though, been playing this game for too damn long. But that would be a great promo to have on PS!

I was lucky enough to earn a freeroll ticket in my second attempt. I have cashed in both, despite not even playing in the second one . Hopefully I can keep my streak alive!

That's a fun story Karter Yeah, hopefully they fix it so everybody gets to cash - that's the best part

Am in the exact same spot with Unibet - for some reason, just haven't been eager to make deposit, so was hoping to try and get something going with freerolls ... but they seem a bit top heavy? Like 400 entries, top 20 get a $1 tourney ticket, or something like that?

Since this is just a hobby, just want to keep things fun with no pressure, so am doing other stuff when not playing on Stars instead - finally added on a data plan to play Pokemon Go, so that's been fun. So far, it seems like all the best Pokemon creatures seem to be hanging out a Tim Hortons - guess everybody love a timbit? And have started knitting a mitten ... hope it doesn't wind up in too weird a shape lol


So pretty out today!

Does anyone know how long the cardmatch is gonna last?

Forever apparently

Hey TrustySam.
For what it's worth, I didn't get a ticket for the last $1 million freeroll until the last chance qualifier, and it was EASY!!!
I was registered in every shootout throughout the week and got nowhere, but the qualifier is a cinch. Just play tight and you'll be fine... actually I think you can just fold your way to a ticket, you probably don't even need to play (depending on numbers) just make sure you're registered!

Really, really appreciate you taking the time to describe what it was like playing the tourney qualifier last time antiquity Because was just starting to wonder what it might be like, and have been worrying that maybe my attempts at playing might make things worse than just sitting out and not playing at all ... with the way i play?



Have been 'that' person in the past who winds up getting outlasted by sitters, and that's always a bummer So was really happy to hear that tight play worked well for you

After reading your post, went to check on yesterday's qualifier, and it looks like was actually lucky enough to get a ticket through yesterday's qualifier - so it looks like won't have to play the 'Last Chance' after all. Was already starting to worry about getting a ticket on Saturday though, especially with the numbers starting to puff up again, so your post was great antiquity - thanks so much!! Best of luck on Sunday!!

I played Pokemon Go for a bit, but I'm too cheap to pay for a data plan, so I could only do anything when at home or at work. I stopped playing a while ago, too many Drowzees around here.

Congrats on getting the ticket though!

9 attempts at the freeroll, bricked them all! Can I use my freeroll 'one time' for tomorrow?

Congrats TrustySam for winning the ticket finally!

Ouch

Btw few days ago when I had won the 1m freeroll ticket, I had already started the challenge for next day's freeroll ticket and got registered again for next day shootout even though I already won the 1m freeroll ticket. So I asked support to unregister me from next day's shootout but I got no response from Stars and they didn't unregister me and unfortunately I won another 1m freeroll ticket

If stars had unregistered me 1 more player(may be saxby93 :P) would have won the 1m ticket and it wouldn't have gone wasted.

But I did see yesterday at least 13k players got unregistered from yesterdays shootout just few mins before its start. I guess they already won 1m freeroll tickets.

Haha they should have a transfer to player option IMO! congratz though mate, hopefully see you on the tables Sunday!

The above simply shouldn't be happening and Pokerstars have stated that they would make sure it didn't happen, by way of unregistering players manually if need be. Obviously, that's not happening and it comes across like the team running the promotions for Pokerstars are 'all talk and no action'.

The whole set-up in regards to this promo and a player earning there way into the million $ freeroll is 'flawed' and we have already discussed this in this thread previously over the last few weeks so, i'm not going to repeat it all again.

I will say though, that to make matters worse in regards to those responsible for setting up/running this promo, these same issues we're brought up and also discussed during the previous million $ freeroll. I personally even went as far as outlining everything through an email conversation with the team responsible, in the hope they would fix things for this current million $ freeroll about to take place.

The only change I have seen between the last one and this current one, is there statements and assurances that players would be manually unregistered - which obviously isn't fail proof.

There are simple fixes and solutions to the set up of this promo which would remove all the issues (which I have previously discussed during this million $ freeroll and during the last one months ago) yet, none have been implemented.

We keep talking about it but, nothing changes...and the promo keeps running in a 'flawed' state.

What doe's that say about Pokerstars and the promotions team...?!

Thanks Karter, Anuj

Did the same thing as Anuj with yesterday's, clicking the button before the qualifier from the day before had run - and then wound up getting a ticket ... and then wound up getting registered for the next qualifier because had already pressed the button ... yikes! So glad the unregistering was working at least some of the time, because there's probably lots of us who were doing the same thing?

Would be nice if they could add extra tickets back into the Last Chance qualifier - every little bit would help ...

Hopefully the 10th time will be the charm Saxby - gl gl!!