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".