Kinda funny how people still adress 'Luke' directly in here, as if he gave a ****... does he even still work for Stars? Does Stars even still need a rep on a forum? They don't care about feedback anyways...

I was looking to the tournaments today and my jaw droppep, i literally was scroling with my mouth open and couldn`t comprehend what i was seeing all the tournaments have the FT payouts so fked now, all vanilas, all reds and blues... i`m totally shocked honestly...

solution: stop playing on their site

Quite alot people allready stopped when u see the guaranties and participans dropped for only 1 year i dont even mention the number difference before 2-3 years

Once they keep lowering the ft payouts and when lesser people play, they would have created a mud hole

It would be diffiicult to come back from it. Logged in to play Big 55 and a few, but skipped and went to enjoy a movie.

motivation is not there to play, how rarely you come first so I look at 2nd through 9th to play, just puke and move on

Stock has dived from 62 in last 6 months to 22, obviously stock market knows something we done, huge shorts coming. This is being done on purpose market forces at play, bears dictating policy down to below 5$



pokerstars is a thing of past, next

What has happened to stars tournaments? Basically every tournament is where 1st is double 2nd place?


Also got a question on final table deal discussion. It seems like there is option to check discuss a deal. So example say there are 6 players left and there is 3/6 check for discuss deal. Then as another player is busted, then say it shows 2/5. That would mean the player that busted wanted to discuss a deal. So it would show how many players want to discuss a deal but it doesn't tell you who. So say its down to 3 players and it shows 2/3. That would mean the one person who did not check that would know the other 2 players want to discuss a deal, but the other 2 players... they don't know who is the other player that wants to discuss a deal right?


So what are the exact payout percentages for hots, bigs, bounty builders now? Also the other freezeout tournaments, it seems like they done the same thing as well? Back then wasn't it standard where 1st was like 17 percent, 2nd was like 12.5 percent and 3rd like 8 percent? Also are they paying out the same percentage of players for hots, bigs, bounty builders and other tournaments regardless? Back then it use to be 15 percent i recalled. I noticed its even higher now?

read like 5 posts above

Yes PaulyJames has done this time and time again. Gets annoying

Ya, it's really pathetic but actually I'm not sure how many people have stopped as you can get a spin and go or spin and go max to kick off at reasonable stakes almost any time of day.

I think it's more that Star's is filtering their traffic to these higher variance/higher raked games by creating less appeal in their other games but those games are also just more popular amongst the masses.

Guarantees have dropped drastically on almost every site in MTTs, regardless of what the sites have done but I still see a ton of fish jumping into these higher variance/faster games.

That is just sort of the state online poker is in at the moment. it's competing with candy crush, etc more than it is anything else and these games translate to greater mobile fun for most.

As someone mentioned already it's so much easier to decide not to play now even if you planned a session. It started for me by playing Sundays only some time ago, now I have more stuff IRL and I have skipped most Sundays this year. Even when I planned one recently due to holiday and day off on the next day - I was slightly tired that day and had no problem cancelling my poker session. When you log in and see how barren things are it's an easy decision.

What I'm surprised about is how does that actually work? They already ran ongame to the ground, it seems like they're doing the same with P*. That share price tank seems a huge blow to them, are they really this stupid or they simply don't care? Is it a business model to milk a business dry and move on to something else? Is long term sustainable model inferior now to short term maximized profits? All this time I thought maybe these changes show actually good numbers in reporting - but it seems it finally backfired after crossing some line.

I also fail to see how people who were excited to play tournaments would want to switch to spin'n'goes and whanot. The difference between these types of games is huge and it seems to be marketed toward some other share of poker players.

And to people who say just don't play on the site if you don't like it - that's what I'm doing actually. It shouldn't prevent us from voicing our opinion and criticizing the site. Plus some countries might not have that many options on other sites, so it's sometimes either play on Pokerstars or don't play at all.

anyone noticed similar problem with re-entering that the tournament doesn't pop-up sometimes? I blinded out of my 2nd bullet of Sunday Million because of this bug. I guess stars will just say it's your internet connection to avoid paying?

Problems like this exist from a lot of time and they know about it .The responce was: We will pass it out to the it specialist.But in real they dont care this is happening everytime if i reg on demand satelite .Billion dollars company dont have money to fix it what a trash

How come the last chance satty starts after tournament begins? Today there were 10 Registered for 215TT (11 needed) but the last chance satty was running...

One benefit of this nonsensical payout system is I can schedule sessions to finish earlier provided I don't get 3-way/heads up v bums.

Will Stars enjoy the farce of many tournaments ending in a three way split?

Triple threat 3 max 215 cancelled half ur rake on pkos ala party poker. Less take take take. More give give give

So sad rake 11 cents more on ur $11s and under. Not good for the ecology . Oh nvm.... i will shut up

I can confidently say soon stars will roll out multientries on more if not all their tournaments.

Wait and see.

Okay?

Minimum entrants on highrollers needs reducing to 4. Also the original structures were much better, and i think its fine to have the earlier ones go on a little longer. Maybe switching to 15 min levels after 5 levels, rather than 10, leaving late reg open for an extra 15 minutes. Also bb9k and 90k please.

Suggestion to PS: rake reduction or elimination for pre-reg to these high stakes tournaments so they actually run.

Id bet lukes answer will be.

"This would require further developement which costs too much." Kappa

Where is better value between the two satties ?



or

Stars is scared to guarantee only 5 seats where as the seats get to 9

Party is bold to add 20 * 109 seats

Stars, see the competition, Party has such a good satty structure that it is ready to take the high stakes market

Is it me or has the Storm moved back an hour for next week. (18:00 UK as opposed to 19:00 last week)?

So no Winter series?

^ Who would know. We will know about a week out from the start date.