agree with the above, merge 33 big and monsoon and add a 44 turbo big fish somewhere around the 55 6max 11ßm time

Too lazy to analyze the schedule but as I understand - tables in the Big Fish tournaments have their own specific background. I would prefer if I could opt out from this under the settings and have all my tournaments on 888 look the same.

Currently the evening fishes finish too late for me personally, but the $33 one is worth staying up for because of the prize.The other issue i think is having the 5,16,33 run so close together so its hard not to avoid overlays.

Id change it to this

1pm replace $5 blowfish with $5 1r1a Big fish
2pm $11 big fish
3pm $5.50 big fish
4.30pm $33 big fish
6pm swap the 7.30pm big fish with the $5 blowfish turbo (the current 7.30 bigfish finishes too late for such a low buyin)
7pm $16.50 big fish
7.30pm $33 big fish (change to $55 on sundays maybe)
8.30pm replace $5 challenge with $11ko turbo fish
10pm replace $30 swordfish with $22 big fish turbo

This is just a view from a player who plays low stakes.I wont comment on what to add for $44+ but seems you have difficulties adding these stakes to the schedule without them having bowl size fields apart from sundays.

One tournament i think you could bring back somewhere is the old 3r turbo you use to have at 7pm, was 12k gtd at one point i think but then you changed it to $5 and it ruled out a load of players cus of cost.
I think if you ran one of these 3r or 2r turbos somewhere in the evening it would work well.

+1

It's a hassle for those of us who have customized the theme.

11r or 12r fish please. Maybe 22 1r1a too.

- better replace the Thunder with Big Fish $55 and keep the Monsoon and Big Fish 33.
- Big fish $12 R&A : 19:30 GMT

Big Fish tournaments are great. Good job on keeping the guarantees despite overlays .
I think it's worth it - party poker proved it does in the last few years. The smaller tournaments will certainly need support in order to survive the summer.

Sorry if this has been asked before: why don't you show the real number of entrants in tournament lobbies?

guess because you can't re-enter, you can only rebuy. If you don't rebuy you can't re-enter like 5 minutes later or so. Also payout table is based on unique entrants, not re-entries.

Today all GTD's were lowered because of champions league final. back to normal tomorrow.

No answer eh?

If you guys ever wonder why Stars are king, this is why, this is the sort of ignore/hope it goes away treatment you get from other sites. Stars regularly implements changes based on suggestions, even relatively big ones.

You can't even get "no, we're not doing that." As they say, in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king

Comical. This is so true. I have answers from PS support in hours and 888 will sometimes answer in a week when it has been resolved or non relevant nine out of ten times. I don't advocate PS but 888 knows how to pmo frequently. A big reason why I prefer playing other sites. I have used live chat also but most times they will tell me they will email me later since they can't help me directly.

It's the same thing with party.

What's staggering to me is that they think minor tweaks like small level, gtds or blind changes are what will somehow make things better for them.

Where is the creativity? Where is the innovation? Or is everyone just happy to follow Stars?

As you said, say what you will about Stars, but they make changes all the time and they get back to you very quickly. Sure other areas are awful, but on the interaction level, they are still BY FAR the industry leader.

just saw you added 0.5$ 18man turbo today, any higher BI to be expected? thx

Any chance of changing the BigFish 33$ at 20:30cet with the 16,5 BF @ 20:00cet?

the 16,5 BF with 900 runner took till 3:50cet while the BF33 lasted till almost 6cet

would be very nice if you could reduce the clock in the BF 33 a bit too. 12min would be completly fine...

I recently was fortunate to win the BF 33 (humblebrag I know) and I think just the FT itself took two, two and a half hours. Since I specialize in turbos I don't know how normal this is, but it does feel a bit long to me, so I echo the call for 12 min levels.

What's wrong with 15 min structure? Structure isn't even slow. It plays like ~30BB if I recall. If you change to 12 min it will just get withered and you will have to reduce guarantee.

2$ to 22$ Starfish @ 9 CET gets cancelled everytime. Could you lower entrants, make it 3-4 seats gtd instead and put up a 0.1$ R/A to 2$ Sub-Sat (2 seats gtd min) at 7:00 pls? thanks - same for 2$ to 12$ Catfish 8max

Bring back the mega dozen please, would do well at 6pm with 12 min blinds

Any thoughts on reducing the $33 30k to a 20k gtd with 12 min levels ?
It will hit lvl 40 2 hrs sooner which means it's a lot more playable for europeans .

ATM the 30k is at least a 3rd overlay which isn't really sustainable for 888 .

I would add that during the past month, I also fted the PS $33 bounty builder which starts at the same time as the BF $33. That PS tourney finished 2 hours earlier even though it had 1500 more runners. I didn't feel there was too much pressure from the blinds, whereas I felt that there was too much play on the BF $33.

Again, I would like to hear other people's opinions on this, but I do think that shortening the blind levels wouldn't be detrimental to the tourney but make it more fun to play.

Shoot, did not play for a while on 888, but this morning some cash and had this problem again -- anyone any ideas or suggestions ?

Hey guys,

Thanks for the suggestions regarding the Big Fish tournaments, we will review everything and make changes in the near future.

Starting tomorrow we have replaced the $5 1k turbo blowfish at 17:00 GMT with the $12 2.5k turbo R&A Catfish.

The betslider is high priority, hopefully will be ready this year.

At the moment its just this one.

Lowered both to 2 seats gtd and 6 players minimum.

Please don't destroy the decent structures. That's what makes your site worthwhile. Don't turn 33$ Fishes into ~20BB shove-fest.

Agree. Don't touch the big fish structures, they are great. One of the most valuable tournaments nowadays in the all online poker rooms.

Thank you for the new $12R+ Turbo catfish too.

Can you add some sats for the Great 8 $88? Seems that there isn't available sats for this tournament.

A good idea too, its to add some sats for 55$ and 109$ at the late night schedule, after the Turbo Swordfish for example. Its a good complement to add some sats when you have a few deep runs.

Keep the good work guys!

Why not slightly rebalance the guarantees of the $5.5 Big Fish?

3pm GMT edition is now beating its 5k GTD while the 7:30pm 15k is significantly overlaying. If there is a 20k budget would have thought it makes sense to up the 3pm to ~7.5k to induce more growth and take 2.5k off the 7:30pm which may have peaked and would still overlay.