All - Recently we have made some major changes to our regular schedule following player feedback - here is a quick summary below:

We simplified our naming conventions and decluttered the lobby - improved filters coming soon!

We improved our micro stake offering - we added games with the following buy-ins - $1.10, $2.20 and $5.50 running regularly

We also added to our Turbo offering - creating turbo versions of our main games for those players seeking for a quick fix

The Title Fight sats we reverted to a regular sat system following feedback from players who disliked the auto feed phased structures
The tree now runs as follows $1.10> $8.80> $44> $215
All tickets have a 7-day expiry, the $215 has 30 days

Finally - we changed our Sunday headliners - the Main and the Title Fight MTTS into phased events with multiple starting days

Check out the lobby NOW!
All feedback welcome

Thanks

Colette

some good changes, like that the 1 day majors moved to an earlier timeslot and the multiday tourneys are a nice addition

Is there something special coming this next Sunday, or why did you decrease the Title Fight guarantee to 300K ? It gained 200 players this week compared to the previous one and, if you include the rake, you almost hit the guarantee (~497k). You might even have gone into the black on next one Quite a drastic reduction in gtd too, that was unexpected.

I would expect guaranteeds are lowered because of Caribbean Poker Party.

Which leads me to wonder if there's good wi-fi in the hotel?

The guarantees are indeed decreased due to the CPP event 16th-26th inclusive with the Title Fight’s and Main Events running both 19th-21st and 26th-28th reduced.

Not so thinly veiled brag


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Still no answer on this. Can someone clarify?

The online $5k, think you should change the rake to $5,100 +200.

This will reduce the chance of overlay by slightly increasing participation, so could actually save you money. Also your main rival has a highroller series with some $5,000+200 tournaments at the same time, and obv would be bad for Party to have 50% higher tournament fee than that joke site. In fact it would prob be a great move to undercut them and go $5,150 +150.

U heading over Colette? Btw make sure you guys get plenty of photos of the jet from london - outstanding PR move if done correctly.

Thanks for these positive changes... though as I mentioned before I can't see any satellites for the Title Fight Warm Up, so I just want to check that we can use a ticket won for the Title Fight in the 5pm Warm Up?

The Title Fight tickets seem to work only with the Title Fight, not the Warm-up. Would be nice to be usable for both.

Three daily PKO's at 10am, 12pm, 2pm UK time. Then absolutely none after that on the high stakes tab.

Think PKOs work better with large fields, if anything I would revert those three to vanilla and bring back a couple of 109+ PKO's in the evening.

Apologies - I thought I had responded to this - I will also follow up as these should be live

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I am flying Saturday, however, I am travelling from Madrid
I don't believe the jet is branded this year


Title Fight tickets are specifically for the Title Fight and will not work for the warm-up


Thanks

Colette

We have today announced our players will no longer be charged inactivity fees on accounts following player feedback

All details can be found in the blog>
https://goo.gl/qYW3Ne

Some nice improvements of late. Well Done.

any decisions been made on this? would like to see other time slots used. As the tournaments are 1 hour apart, i have noticed a few problems personally;

I find it hard to keep registering tournaments, part of this is because of the long late reg but also because of scheduling, if i reg a tourney at 5 pm then reg another at say 9pm, then i will be up all night. Personally i don't like to keep registering for that long and prefer shorter sessions, but right now i can only play a few mtts with the current set up. Also, if i load up a few mtts at say 6 or 7pm, then some will just be starting while others will be at least 1 or 2 hours into the late reg period, and if i bust a tournament early, i have to wait for another hour to play. This leaves me with low table count then not really wanting to register for any longer. Having more time slots will solve these issues, hope this all made sense.

Thx on clarifying.

Those happy hour announcements and marketing are getting little annoying, since they offer nothing for MTT players. One would hope you would use some of that marketing space to promote your new MTT schedule.

Also +1 for Title Fight tickets being usable to other Title Fight (warmup/turbo). Especially now as you've made original Title Fight 2-day event with multiple day1s, I really don't like playing poker on Tuesdays and it requires some preparation to make sure one can play on Tuesday when start playing Title Fight on Sunday. Give us a chance to use our 215$ tickets on 1-day events and we are more likely to play satellites.

Nice change back to old satellite system in Title Fights too. One would hope that you would make same change to live satellite system. Maybe keep the semi-finals for high buy-in events which cost 109$, but no 5,5$ "quarterfinals". These phases usually run out with too few people to really work out and end up with just one player qualifying to the final round.

Some thoughts to old LG questions:

1) How many different timeslots should we use in an hour?

Up to 54. No need to start :55-:59 though. Once you get other formats (NLO8, rebuys, any other format you decide to implement) you should give them their own slot (:05 / :35 or :10 / :40) so one can find them easier. Let's say Party implements same amount of even more games than PokerStars, then some daily fixed limit 7 card stud could start at :43 with satellite starting exactly at 1 hour earlier.

Satellites (especially turbo and hyper speed) should also use far more time slots than now.

2) By how much time should we spread those buy ins?

Depends. Prime time less, deadzone more. Low buy-in less, high buy-in more.

There's some tournaments like those (live) satellites which all start at :00, have their latereg running the same time and surely cannibalize each other a lot at each level. Week ago I actually was planning to play them on my mobile (was visiting in Twitch stream), but with each of them closing late reg at the same time it usually ended up having like 5 min session. If you would have three satellite trees running at :00, :20, :40 they wouldn't cannibalize each other that much.

3) How should we group those buy ins they have the least chance of cannibalizing each other? We basically have 1/2/5/11/22/55/109/215/530 as buy ins now.

Something like not having each buy-in started at :00 would help. Make it like 1/5/22/109/530 start at :00 and 2/11/55/215 at :30. It's more about variety than buy-ins truly, some 109$ PLO isn't likely to cannibalize 109$ PKO Texas as much, while 55 and 109 PKO starting at the same time will do that much more.

There's also the long-standing question that does every tournament have to be so super big? One of the main reasons I have never liked Stars is that their fields are so super huge and variance is super awful. Flagship tournaments should of course be as big as they can, but there really needs to be some bread- and butter-typer of tournaments for us who don't like playing just 500+ players fields.

You have added great tournaments like kickoffs that are doing great.Are there plans to do the same for the morning schedule and make things more interesting at these times?

Having a few morning majors could really bring the schedule to life instead of the current copy and paste hourly tournaments that we see run from morning till 3pm.

Personally I'd like to see buyins between the biggest 2.5x jumps, so we'd need $3, $33 and $320.

+1

agree.

change 109 psko to either 55fo or 109fo and add some variety like a 33/55 6 max as well.
Bring back or do something in what was kangeroo slot.
At 11am stars has a early special you could do something similar like a early special of your flagship mtt.

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+1 for the morning/early schedule, would be nice to have a good 55fo
At least for 1100 or 1200 CET you should do something what you did the late schedule.

+1 for better morning schedule- i think party is working on this tho

All - please be aware for the next week I will be attending the Caribbean event and my response here will be delayed

Should any of the forum members be at the event - please feel free to find me or the management team to discuss/highlight any issue or concerns you may have regarding thread topics or partypoker in general

Thanks

Colette