With breaks will still be around 9 hours (The sunday events anyway)

+1 - thought I was going crazy

Yeah, same here. But I'd say it's 30-40 sec for me.

What will happen to tourney tickets that I won for specific SCOOP event and do not use all of them? Like if I win 3 thickets and with the first one i cash, what will happen to other two?

It is not cool at all that sats for event 03-L starts -8h before the event. Why there is not sats right now or today? If I want to play this event and the 06 event I have to get up and start to play around early afternoon and most likely will miss most of the sats.

Please review the data and put more sat to -L events even if that event starts 2/3 day after the satty.

I think after the first one you get tickets that are valid for a few years. I got some tickets from spin sats they are valid for 5 years.

Just made a deal without waiting the usual 10+ mins for a rep to show up, which was nice.

However, the only options available were ICM or equal split! Would really appreciate a custom deal option like Full Tilt had or an option to wait for a rep to do it manually.

Not all deals are that straight forward.

Like this:

Plus One.
I don't make deals every day, but I think PartyPoker has one too.

This is seriously terrible for the mixed game tournaments. It actually makes a big difference, and so many more will be cancelled now.
You should really change it back, at least for the mixed game tournaments, both the weekly and daily ones. Or some just won't run.

(But it seems like you don't care about mixed games any more, so that would fit.)

No. You don't have to "mix up your play", that's jokey nonsense. Like you're not going to mix it up by just not having a Main event for example.
As so many people here have already said, it's really bad that you don't have either 2-7 NL Single Draw or 5-card draw high this year. You should at least have one of the two.
Many people love them, especially for SCOOP. It's one of the only two times in the year that people can actually play those games in a proper tournament field. (Seeing as the weekly schedule for those games is also terribly sparse.)
It's really disappointing that you don't communicate or ask the players about them anymore, but you just take them out.

Also ante up has been a COOP staple for a while, it's not as gimmicky as some of the other formats from the past. I still think that should be included also. Arguably moreso than some others.

+1
This was great. It's clear, easy and transparent. Stars don't need to employ people to facilitate the deals, and players don't have to wait ages for a moderator to arrive.
"Even split" as one of two deal options is just lol absurd. At least if only two options then the two options should be ICM and chip chop.

Hmm too bad no phases on this sunday it seems, would've been nice to fill the screens a little with (well except the one starting in about 2½ hours from now, 00:30 CEST)

This SCOOP SM barely has the same payouts that the regular SM used to have every week. Keep up the great work Stars!

Yes The golden days of SCOOP numbers are well and truly over. I remember the first $11 SCOOP event ever got like 80,000 people.

It's not only Stars fault. There are no Americans, no Australians, no French, no Spaniards, etc.

Not sure if you guys have any idea how many people SCOOP events would have if every major country could play on .com

All of the nations are gone for a few years now, wtf is that reasoning?

The reason is the ****ing satellite system.

Stars is still too stupid run feeder tournaments (must-plays) a couple of weeks in advance for people to fill their schedule "for cheap" to plan around and then fill the sattied-in schedule with direct buy-ins. Instead, you get like 8 satellites the day the tournament runs. I'm sure there are many people who would like to play events and would be willing to play more satties, but aren't home that early that day or play them and don't satty in and don't get more opportunities.

When Stars killed their satellites, they killed the tournament series aswell.

People are trying to compare SCOOP 2010 and now that's why...

Pretty amazing not to see over 200k for the $215 mill during scoop, those ****ty payouts working a treat

The same event in 2015 had only 600 more players and paid 990 players.Yesterdays one paid 989 players.

What is wrong with the payouts, mincash is 2x, uptop is almost 200k, 15% itm

More like it was top heavy with low mincash before ?

I didn't say anything beforehand in the hope that the mixed games weren't included in "most" as games that regularly start with 3-4 and always make their guarantee.

If this isn't just an oversight, then its RIP mixed games.

Daily HORSE just cancelled with 4 entrants.

You guys are forgetting the fact that back in 2010, there were 69 events fewer than what we have in this year's edition.

To make a comparison:

2010 SCOOP
Total Gtd - $36M
No. of tourneys - 114
Avg Gtd - $315,789.47

2018 SCOOP
Total Gtd - $65M
No. of tourneys - 183
Avg Gtd - $355,191.26

SCOOP since its inception has always put lower guarantees then they could reach. The reason being not fear of overlays but marketing.
Every year they can go from 25mil for a few years then a couple at 30 mil and so on so they can claim that each year itd getting bigger and bigger.
If they had an 80 million prizepool guarantee and had to frop it till 70 mil they'd look weak.

Pretty much this. It's like dividend aristocrats among public companies. And it is working pretty well. Winamax has same kind of tendency too for what I have been looking for their gtds for last few years.

It will become quite hard for PokerStars to keep this up if they plan to continue this trend forward. They probably can add one more week to the schedule or about one more daily tournament, but after that they actually gotta grow (or prevent diminishing) prize pools organically.

GREAT idea to increase min players from 3 to 6, you god damn gibbon. All of those would have ran AND reached their guarantee otherwise.

Yeah, annoying, I always latereg and did not realize that this many tourneys could be impacted. Going to prereg a few times, but afraid that's not really something for me ...............