Too bad there's 0 rebuys at over 2,2$ buy-in level. But million re-entries...

Hate so much any form of Omaha? Not me! I love Omaha!

I reviewed the schedule and offered feedback on it, but the above is essentially correct. Having said that, from what I have seen so far the guys who worked on the series have done a great job! There are always things which might be improved, which might make some players happier if they were changed, etc...

Usually PF had abundance of 22 FOs early on, now it's just 100+ w/ rare 22 from 1st day.

why there are no $11 events in powerfest? Recently $5 is a bit low for me and $22 too high, this seems like a weird decision.

forgive me if wrong thread.

Yeah, bit disappointed to have not too many low bi PF MTTs, but I guess there will be some kind of low MTT series as Bryan said he is working on.

Cross posting here from MTT thread. I hope that Bryan will replace people who have made Powerfest "most boring tournament series in the online poker world" and actually make series interesting.

Few notes from Powerfest promotions ( https://www.partypoker.com/powerfest.html ) :

First thing, I expect that while promotion page says that medium leaderboard is 22$ to 109$ tournaments and high is 109$+ it really means 22-55 and 109+.

1) Low LB seems very sad, since there's only 7 tournaments per week it's almost certain that winner of largest tournament takes the LB 1st place (and I guess isn't very thrilled to win additional few 109$ tickets) and rest of top places (at least most of top5) goes to other tournament winners.

2) Medium LB, same thing though not so bad with ~20 tournaments per week. With 20:00 CET tournament being so much bigger it's likely that top5 will be manned by Sunday binkers or players who win 30k$ guaranteed.

3) High LB, worst letdown. Point system still remains the same as criticised earlier, and with Sunday mega tournaments some if not most of top5 will go to megafield winner. Also putting 109$ and 25500$ tournaments at the same basket is not nice for those people who care about bankroll management. Prizes are the same like earlier. I guess winner of $1M+ guaranteeds aren't too thrilled with additional 10k$ packages either.

I don't know to which buy-in category those phased tournaments go, but since they're not stated to be excluded from the promotion that would be interesting. If they all go to high category it is likely that whole leaderboard is almost totally worthless as those championship event winner will occupy all $10k package positions. Well, if you win 6-figs from a tournament surely you need a 10k$ package as well.

4) Tournament of Champions: Super boring promotion. Did play in it last time, it was so slow at start and with about 30%-40% of field not even bothering to play it was much like . Since only winner got any meaningful prize (15k$ tickets, 2nd got like one 530$ ticket from 300 player freeroll), it was super boring to play. And it even had somewhat slow structure.

5) Last Man Standing: Only small, positive note in this list. It promotes to play in Sunday, get consistent record by getting money but since prize is just freeroll ticket to 10k$ freeroll (+10k$ package for winner) it really isn't worth to play high buy-in tournaments.

6) Last chance tourney: This is probably worst new promotion I have seen in long time. It promotes bad play, and actually supports your players NOT TO play in more Powerfest tournaments if they don't cash in five first. Why would you like to have people stop playing at Powerfest if they don't cash in first few? Seems like you should fire a person who even suggested a promotion like this, it's really shooting at the leg.

With whole series tournament calendar being so boring and vanilla it is probably no need to say that whole September Powerfest is super huge letdown and nothing to get excited for (we already had good guaranteeds earlier because WCOOP and in some interesting formats). I would much rather play regular week program with the current leaderboard.

I am far more interested to play WCOOP and their midstake series than Powerfest, and it says a lot. Ultra super lame that Party has devolved into "let's make huge vanilla series and keep the most flawed promotions while thrashing interesting ones and replace them with ones which actually reward you from NOT playing".

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...olved-1682910/

Myself and Farseer both informed party support how shortsighted a weekly leaderboard was and now there is evidence of fairly massive cheating having taken place during the entirety of the promotion. Disgusting that nothing was done until a twoplustwo-er spelled it out for party.

Only reason they were caught is they forgot to lock their Sharkscope Usernames.

^^ this is quite lame. It's clear to me that Party needs a big overhaul in the security and fraud department - which seems quite incompetent so far. There are bots, cheating in the leaderboards, and STILL no security tokens. Rly?

Yea there was a lot more cheating in the leaderboards that a 5min sharkscope search showed up and party have done nothing. One account was playing for something like 5 days straight to win a package - nothing done. If party want to ensure the prizes were awarded legitimately they need to put a full team on it. Some people are claiming multiple teams were colluding to win packages.

Hello Bryan, i feel like a big mistake party makes is ignoring the micro/low stake players. there are no 2$ 3$ 4$ tourneys (god knows why) also the guarentees are very low and the structures are boring to say the least. Look at the 19:00 KO it actually has a fun structure and always doubles the guarentee. My main question is why you ignore the main player base of the game, which is the micro stakes.

tldr: no 2$, 3$, 4$ mtt's the gap between 1 and 5 is too big, lack of turbo's, micro players ignored on party.

Run some $3.30 turbo 27-180 player On Demand MTTSNGs, listed in both MTT and SNG tabs.

I think there's easily enough potential traffic at that level of buyin that these would prove to be incredibly popular. More so once players who enjoy playing the MTTSNG format on AmayaStars find out that Party is running them.

Many players are looking for reasons to ditch Stars right now but for players who's preferred format is MTTSNG, they have nowhere to go. Why not welcome them in?

Those players will probably add in some of the scheduled MTTs in that buyin range on the side.

Win win.

Run higher stakes on demands if the 3s are popular. Have a promotion like a monthly MTTSNG leaderboard to support the new format. Make a big deal about it on social media. Sponsor a twitch streamer who grinds for the leaderboard. Or two, with them competing against each other.

Awesome poker formats supported by awesome promotions with awesome marketing is the way to go. Gogogo.

+1 this would be great. I play a lot of mttsng on stars and would love to move some action to party

Please add more tournys at ALL levels asap its very much needed that is all thx

I agree with this. I've played 50 tournaments between $5.50 and $22 this last week as a casual player. All tournaments feel very similar and I like things simple but more variety for micro/low stakes would be really great.

More $2 $3 $5 $10 $22 tournaments with random cool names like on 888 with higher guarantees would be cool.

Although I think that Bryan did kill 3x turbos in PokerStars by reducing (they did go from 1,1+r with 60k guaranteed -> dead) latereg from 120 min to 90 min I still think this from all what I have seen:

Please Party, fire your whole incompetent MTT team and let Bryan to build his own team.

I believe that all people are free to make one mistake. Just don't make such gigantic mistake again, please.

I agree with the bolded and disagree about the 3xs. I made a lot of money with them. Partly it's skill but at least 50% can be attributed to a structure that is flawed by amateurs not understanding the importance off the add on. Rake on rebuys put the nail in the coffin.

After some debate on here even party changed it about a year ago. (sorry) But in true Party form they ruined all rebuys.

They did really die long before rake was introduced. Prizepools were 10%-20% of that what they were pre-late reg changes on those tournaments which still run. Adding rake just made final blow to already dead format.

While it is true that add-on had great advantage, that change was what really killed them. Recs didn't care about their winrate really (they just saw great chance to make 1$ into 5-figs), but when prize pools withered they abandoned them in masses.

Same happened with Party, although they deliberately killed rebuys more like really by removing them directly (they had very successful 11+r turbo and 3+r hyper with 10k guaranteeds and then just removed them).

It's really either you have rebuys that has long late reg and great prize pools or you have no rebuys as history has shown us. You can't have it both ways.

Dear Bryan,

You (partypoker) need to make sure you specify how long tickets are valid for in satellite lobbies else you will end up with a lot of pissed off customers.

- pissed off customer

I agree with above about low-stakes and Micro MTTSNG. Would happily move from Stars...

Although there are lots of good ideas here it already started again with regs just looking for themselves. Asking for turbo mtt-sng just serves the purpose so that turbo/sng-regs get their volume. Everyone saying they would move their action is probably a reg anyway.
You need recs to fill these ones. Recs playing in the 3$ range probably have fixed amount of what they can spend each month. So they either spend it in few mtts that start in a certain timeframe each day or they blow their whole spending money in one evening on turbo-sng/mtt-sng. That would probably reduce the numbers in other mtts as well which is counterproductive when you want to grow these games.
I rather see partypoker steadily growing their offerings with a healthy playerbase then rush all the things regs want and in the end the numbers will go down again. Lobby should be the number 1 priority right now.

+1

Although from what the rep says it seems Marketing is running damn near everything at partypoker now. Really wouldn't be surprised if they're behind a lot of the dumb changes. They're prob getting a lot of credit for party's growth this year and are branching out into the card-room itself.
I mean they're now doing a private jet for CPP and European events.

I think having 2 levels of bb300 and then bb350 is actually quite brilliant. Much more fun to just start playing with 100bb and in this way you dont have to hop in much shallower when you late reg a bit.

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+1love the new strucs

loving these 0.01$ KO pop-ups

Well done Bryan! Monster series looking nice!