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Originally Posted by dastinger
Yup. I absolutely love playing rebuys. Yes, they are long but it's exactly the deep aspect of those games that I enjoy. As stated above, I just wish the prizes were higher. I know we can't really compare but I remember the 5R being like 30k for first pre black friday (I'm sorry if it wasn't that much but you get my point). Did poker really change that much to the point where the same tournament is only 8k GTD now? I'm pretty sure Stars could do something about it.
The reason that happened isn't so much the reduced playerpool as it is the addition of infinity other tournaments. There's a big or hot mtt every half hour now, that gives no chance for any rebuy to thrive. Few casual players will choose the 3r over the big11. Or the 55r over the big162. I absolutely loved the 3r with over 10k up top, but I'd be curious to take a look at what the schedule was like back then. I'm pretty sure much fewer mtts and way fewer mtts with a specific promo on them.
So the thing stars can do about it is delete a bunch of tournaments, but I doubt they're gonna delete the big11 to revive the 3r. The only really successful tournament that I can think of that isn't labelled in any way is the 1r 3xt at 8:15 cet, but even that one has shrunk a lot lately.