Hey everyone,
A few announcements first…
- We experienced a bug with the Spin & Go satellites to the Anniversary tournaments. At some point last night, tickets started expiring instantly. We've corrected the issue and credited all affected players with new tickets. Sorry!
- Last week, we experienced our first site crash since June. While we dislike site crashes as much as you do, the silver lining this time around is that some development completed last year kicked in and paused all tournaments and registrations near-instantaneously. In practical terms, this means that the number of players materially affected and requiring refunds was miniscule. Of course, not all site crashes are the same, but the point is that we're trying to make progress and reduce the frustration caused by site crashes as much as we can.
- We're focused on getting Turbo Series ready for launch. The schedule will be revealed once it hits the client, but until then, there is an article on the PokerStars Blog with some details.
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Originally Posted by Colin_Piddle
Yeah need something for asia/oceania/russian grinders around midnight ET. There have been no micro millions events at that time for many years its always at least 3-4 hours after that which is too late imo.
Thanks for the feedback - I think early/late time slots in Series like MicroMillions makes more sense from our perspective than SCOOP Events in the middle of the night. I'd recommend bringing this up again as summer approaches (in the northern hemisphere!).
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Originally Posted by Re8uZ
@luke abour transferring $ isue
The way it is if you deposit/receive $$$ on your account you can't transfer to other player or withdraw them without playing them first right
So what i am suggesting is implementing option to buy some kind of vaucher or T$ frim pokerstars store and be able to send transfer that vaucher/T$ to other player so he will be abke to play ( he wont be abke to withdraw the money)
For ex.
I personally after black friday never keep more the 5k on my stars account (10k during series) so what is the problem i have:
Those 5k are like buy ins for 2-3sesions(if i brick), so very often is happening that in middle of session i am short with $$ but have some deep mtts in and i want to fire other mtts too ( and dont want to deposit... fees etc) so i borrow $$ from my friends... if i dont cash in tornaments i play for ammount i borrow from my friends i cant give their $$ back even if i have more money on my account then $$ i borrow ( they are not planing to cash out those $$$ they need those $$$ for playing)
for ex i have like mtts in play some deep and i tell them to send me 2k ,i for some reason ( deep in mtts on other sides or w/e) dont fire more the 500$ of those 2k i got from them and at the end of the session i cash for 1k in those mtts i had played => i have 2.5$ on my account but can only send back 1k
so the way now is only option to give them $$ on stars is to deposit win $ and send them or send the via skrill bank or w/e so they can deposit
If there was option to buy vaucher or T$ and send them to other player i would do that and save me and my friends a lot of trouble and some fees ( $$ will be still in the sistem and they still will need to be wagered one time before cashing out) i imagine this will save a lot of trouble for guys that are stacked too and constantly transfering/receiving funds
The play-through requirement is an anti-money laundering effort. Any system like the one you propose which removes the play-through requirement for the person who made the deposit or received the transfer does not achieve the goal of combatting money laundering at the individual account level, and is not being considered.
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Originally Posted by Pokerchu
Well I disagree completely! It's still its own format and is almost an entirely different type of poker game where skill still exists but in a different way than in a slow(er) tournament. It is a serious format and a serious set of events.
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Also, I think we should bring back trophies/bracelets/medals for event winners of any of the 4 series in a year. I used to admire PokerStars so much because it was a serious site. It was the place to play and become a champion at. If you wanted recognition as a World Champion or a Turbo/SCOOP/Winter Champion, you would go to Stars and win one of the 4 "Grand Slams" there. If you won a tournament from a series on 888, Party or some other network, it would be more like a winning an "ATP 250/500/1000" title. Slowly though, Stars is losing its value, its reputation and its level as the highest honour. Now I cringe when I find myself opening chests filled with coins like I'm playing Zelda or playing memory card games for bonus coins or tournament tickets.
I think I need to clear something up. The rebranding of TCOOP to Turbo Series is not so much about the Events on offer, but the way the Series is marketed. I think a new player is much more likely to give Turbo Series a try than TCOOP. It is entirely possible this line of thinking is completely off the mark, but this year it will be Turbo Series. Don't worry, the schedule is somewhat similar to previous years.
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Originally Posted by Grudina90
Dude, getting medals, trophies or bracelets would be cool.
Maybe it's silly vanity, but I'd like to have a tangible memory of my Winter Series achievement, for example.
PM me your UserID and I'll see if I can find something lying around. One time offer!
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Originally Posted by CJAcesRule
Whenever you have a technical issue, it is best practice to take screenshots, save logs (via the Help widget), and send it all to Support with a description of whats occurred. It will make its way to tech specialists who can either help you or raise a bug report.
Thanks, Luke. I know this. And sometimes it works.
With this issue support seems to be caught in the middle. All they can report is that it is reported. I am assuming that this means there is a bug report, but as you may understand we (I) are more interested in progress or timelines.
I hate to say it, but this in my opinion is an area where Pokerstars is far weaker than some of the other sites.
I understand your frustration here, and I'll pass it on. Unfortunately I'm not positioned to provide such progress as my area is strictly tournaments.
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Originally Posted by K123K
Luke, my main request for the turbo series would be to include as much mixed games tournaments as possible. Both in the individual games of limit omaha8, razz, stud, stud8, badugi, 2-7 triple draw and as horse and 8game. Preferably in the 50-80dollar range for the individual games and around 100-300dollar range for the horse and 8game. Every game you offer in the software should be represented with a tournament in your series. The winter series ignorance of mixed games was a sad thing all together.
Since this series is running from 18th of february, the series would follow the Us.poker open mixed event streaming at the 6th and 7th of february on pokergo. Hopefully, together with substantial garantuees for the turbo mixed events, this could create some additional interest. And why not bring Daniel Negreanu in and actually promote the mixed tournamnets? He represents stars and loves the mixed games. Make him work and promote them with videos on youtube with clearly displayed links on the stars web and in the stars software.
Another request would be to slow down the levels to ordinary speed on the final table and bring back the trophies etcetera.
And concerning the ordinary schedule, atleast one mixed event with a higher buy-in/gaurantee 55d or 82d during the week days would be something.
And/or perhaps add a mixed version of "omahania" like mixedmania every other week with the whole range of games from stud, razz, stud8, badugi, and horse 8game etc with buy ins around 55d.
To summarize, promote the hell out of mixed games, and start doing it with the turbo series, and allude to the mixed event on pokergo, and let Daniel negreanu be the pokerstars face for the beauty of mixed events!
There will be a non-NLHE Event every day except the first!
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Originally Posted by Grudina90
Make sense man.
But is nice to crush 20k players. I recommend.
That said, you are not wrong. It would be nice and fair to give the winners of the main events or non-NLHE WCOOP championships some bracelets and trophies too. About SCOOP i'm not sure, maybe only for MEs.
But after all, why are we talking about it? The chances are zero to happen.
While bracelets/watches are gone for WCOOP and SCOOP, it should be noted that we're awarding a substantial number of $30K PSPC packages to players throughout the year. $30K per package adds up quickly...
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Originally Posted by PaulyJames200x
What about the tournaments that already registered that doesn't start for a few hours or later on tonight etc? So we have to wait until stars connects back and then assuming the tournament hasn't started yet, we would just unregister? And what about tournaments that started before this happened but it still shows the table? Because there is a table that even though table showed up... it said this tournament will be cancelled. But other tournaments that started when this happened... doesn't have this message.
So here what happens then?
Players were not unregistered from future tournaments. Tournaments that started before the issues were paused and cancelled. If you feel you were materially affected, please contact Support.
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Originally Posted by laufhouse
you should consider to run the sunday stack as another dailly major as pardon to the marathon, wouldnt really cannabilize anything aroun that timeslot, same goes for 2nd b55 at 2am cet running. This could easily run aside of the b7.5. Maybe another bb109 instead of withered 109 3k at 14.30 cet?
Thanks for the feedback. Of course, I'm always required to mention that the more special tournaments you have, the less special they are. There's no planned expansion to the red brands, and we're pleased with most of the Majors at the moment. Our focus right now is on tweaking guarantees and preparing for the Anniversaries and Turbo Series!
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Originally Posted by Overklig
relaunch the winter series replays please
Unfortunately these replays were removed after the site crash. We're still investigating the cause, but the Winter Series replays will not return. Apologies for this, we'll do our best to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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Originally Posted by Shtopol'
I seriously hate that you never announced that turbo series will run in February instead of late January like in previous years. And you have never told it before the winter series ended. So if you are really planning something ahead that would be nice to know the dates at least.
I mean if you decide to re-brand SCOOP or have any other brilliant idea we would appreciate that you let us know in advance.
I first mentioned it in
this post on December 21st.
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Originally Posted by cleisonmp
Luke any chance we get the following:
Turbo deadline and last chance hyper satellite for Builder 55(actually all builders lack this structure)
Last chance hyper satellite for Hot 44
One mid stakes Hot from 4:15 to 8:15
More hyper KOs of all stakes all day long
More mid stakes bubble rush if possible(blue ) with good gtd (miss the old 33 blue rush)
As discussed a couple times, we don't plan on altering the pink satellites or branded tournaments in the near term.
What do you think about Hyper-Turbo 6-Max Progressive Total KO as a part of the normal schedule?
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Originally Posted by the sauce man
Can we see an ante-up event in the turbo series
Unfortunately, Ante Up did not make the cut.
While I could find out what has changed, it would require hours of compiling information about development items I'm not involved with. I think this would be a great feature in the client, though. I'll pass on the feedback.
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Originally Posted by anuj22
Luke, if we are going to be seeing mixed/draw games in this series than I think NLSD event should be a pko format. There's no point to offer this game non pko anymore as all the mtts in the daily schedule are pko and majority of sd players are now used to this format. Of course for SCOOP/WCOOP, you can offer this variant as non-pko.
You're not wrong about the main schedule, but there's also nothing wrong with offering a traditional tournament, either.
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Originally Posted by Pokerchu
I'm honestly excited for the re-branded Turbo Series and I think the dates are even better than the previous ones of late-January. Couple of suggestions/wishes:
1. Can we have one $1,050 or at least $530 Progressive KO Hyper 8 or 9-max tournament?
2. What about a $109, $215 or $530 Shootout that starts with 8-max*, 2nd round 6-max, 3rd round 4-max, 4th round Heads-Up and 1 final table of 8?
Round 1 (8-max)*
The way this would work is have a max entrants limit of 1,536.
Whether it sells out or not, round 1 is 8-max. Let's assume it does. So we'll have 192 tables of 8 players each. The top 2 from each table advance to round 2. That gives us 384 players advancing to Round 2.
Round 2 (6-max)
384 players spread out across 64 tables of 6 each. The top 2 from each table advance to Round 3.
You are in the money once you've reached the top 3 on each table.
Round 3 (4-max)
The final 128 players will be spread out across 32 tables of 4 each. The winner from each table advances to Round 4.
Round 4 (Heads-Up)
The final 32 players will play 2 rounds of Best-of-3 Heads-Up matches. You have to win 2 heads-up rounds to make the final table.
Final Table (8-max)
The final table consists of the 8 Quarter-Finalists from the Heads-Up Round.
This tournament could be called 'The Grind', 'Ironman Challenge' or 'The Challenge'.
*Round 1 could start with either 8-max or 9-max, if it's 9-max you just start with a max entrants limit of 1,728 instead of 1,536.
It'd be nice if you could try something like this out for the Turbo Series, see how it goes and perfect it by the time the WCOOP rolls around.
1. One of the Supersonic SEs is a Progressive KO, but it is 6-Max.
2. We've had a lot of issues around Mixed-Max in past Series. It won't return without some development, which I do not foresee coming any time soon.
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Originally Posted by Mimicry
Midday schedule for CET dont have Big which are low stakes 5-19$ range ,only one 16.5,but dont have with less money .Is it possible to add 5.5$ or 8.8$ after lunch time.Also i played today some zoom 4 max satelite but i didnt see same on other red tournaments it was fun.Still waiting for some diffrent tournaments like PKO buble rush,8 max PKO low buy ins,some marathon PKO 15 min blind levels like the reg marathon but 11 and 109 versions.
So you're saying you want more everything.
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Originally Posted by MilanMilanovic
Please fix blinds when two-handed in 3max zoom (triple threat). Big blind is button apparently and it makes for an infuriating experience playing OOP small blinds.
Has no one ever noticed this?!
It has been raised here a handful of times. Unfortunately, it requires development, but during Turbo Series, we're going to try this type of tournament as 4-Max. The thinking is that we can run it as Zoom until six players remain, then go to a normal final table at five players. It just might do the trick!
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Originally Posted by 7OAD
Shorter blind structure in the 12 $2 PLO PKO would be much better.
I've final tabled twice at that tourny and it takes like 7+ hours to finish, it's absolutely insane. I think 8 minutes you still get tons of deep play, but you're not sitting around forever either.
Thanks for the feedback - we'll take a look when we get a chance, though we'd be looking at a large number of tournaments, not just this one in a vacuum.
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Originally Posted by Afteryastack
So many whiners in here even when luke has been responding more often than before. Get a grip
Sounds like I deserve a six week posting holiday!
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Originally Posted by SlowlyMovin
How about a tripple-M? Monthly Morning Million, for the early risers in europe and grinders in asia? Could be a cool promo maybe..
This would require a serious financial investment. There's another reason this would be difficult to do, though. Niche promotions reach a much smaller group of players, but require the same amount of effort on the part of the numerous teams that are required to execute it. With three verticals and a pretty stuffed calendar, it is difficult to justify the use of resources. For this reason, I think the better discussion to have is "how can we include these players better in what we're already doing?"