whats the logic behind this **** pay structure?

tbh I kind of disagree because the payouts are posted on what percentage gets paid and how can they advertise what the payouts are going to be ahead of time when there's no way of knowing with certainty how many players are going to join during the late registration period. The only solution would be to post ahead of time what the payout structures would be all the way to the tourney capacity but you they'd have to do that with every MTT... and that would become an eyesore as well.

As for the payout structures... meh I don't like them either. But it's not a scam.

I guess they've figured out that this new structure causes more of the prizepool to be recycled into rake somehow. I'd be really surprised if the guys setting the MTT schedule actually have much control over this.

Stars - You have to realise that if you keep on taking then you are going to kill off the game in the long run. I'd say this is the biggest F up since they scrapped SNE and changed the entire vip system.

Thats exactly the point. They do know how many people will register. The $22 tripple threat for example will never run with only ~250 players. It always has 1250-1450 players and even more on weekends.
Its not a scam, but its misleading how Stars did this and different changes in the past. They try to be sneaky instead of behing honest and transparent.

A few months ago for example there were tournaments where you have been able to win tournament tickets for WCOOP. But no where was written that the money for those tickets was taken away from the overall prizepool. & everyone thought it was added, since it has been always this way that tickets were added and it was never the case that money for tickets was taken away from the pool.

I could point out more examples where stars did their changes in such sneaky ways, most of the time even without saying a single word to their customers.

They announce positive changes, but not negative ones. For example they always announce when a Prizepool of a tournament gets boosted, but never when it gets decreased.

If it keeps going that road, stars will be ruined in a few years.
The payout structure change is another big milestone to get rid of their customers. No matter which regular you ask, everyone will tell you that they moved most of their action to other sites. & recreationals will follow.

They think recs didnt notice payouts bull**** but this isnt exactly like that.Friend of mine which is playing as a rec player few tourneys a week most of them during weekends said to me "what is this bullshet payouts ,its too small on top" for a so many runners ,so recs sees it .Rake increase + payouts make micro stakes so bad for everyone and recs see it also ,they dont protect recs by increasing rake on micros since on every FT on micros have atleast 50% rec or sometimes more when i was on them.On HS recs on FT are much less% close to none,so increase the rake for HS by 300% to help them a?

Same goes for chest ,none of recs are exited after they see what they get for their chest after first 2-3 they get ,im pretty sure they will like much more transparency of the vip system -for X points u get X coins .They dont play for rakeback ofc but theres no point of completing the chest bar when u know u will get 8-40 coins when with the old system u know for sure u will get 45-90 and will not hope to be not scammed

no it's not

borderline a scam is increasing points needed to get chests after your customer accepts deposit promotion

Hey, starting next Sunday you can buy to the Sunday Million for $109!

Well done Stars. You killed your flagship tournament.

This one really stinks. I mean, I don't know how many years I ve been dreaming of winning or maybe fting that tournament. Literally every Sunday people start their play by wishing of winning this tournament. And now it's half the prizepool.

Its still 1m GTD. How they expect to hit that on a regular basis i have no idea.

oh ok. I get it. Change payouts payout more players, smaller payouts on average. everyone turns it in to rake.

215 to 109 means a nice little rake hike. Also there's no payout structure in place yet. Something tells me it's going to a doozy.

Now the only thing left is to make it with the payouts in which 1st take twice 2nd and the money are out of FT + make its faster structure so edge on fun players to be smaller.

: (

this is effectively a 20% rake icrease, or 15000$ more from players' pockets every week nothing else

pretty sure it's gonna be capped @ 10% for first and theyll advertise 100k to first like it means something when it used to be 150k+

Time to try another strike perhaps

Lol yea right

Even Luke gave up the act of trying to pretend like all these changes are positive now it appears. (To be fair he takes a lot of heat for just doing his job I'm sure the changes would be much different if he had the reigns of them).

200k+

I predict it to be in the 90k region for the winner. Well done stars.

I remember 240k first prizes In that mtt back in the day no?

Looking forward to the $215 Special Edition 3x re-entry 1M gtd during Spring Series

750k to be safe

500k for summer

Re-name "Sunday Half Million" incomming.

So Luke now that we've confirmed that you lurk this thread, can you listen to our suggestions

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/n...ply&p=54612099

I told you to add the $11 and $16.5 HU and they've done very well, can we not get some more tournies?

Actually it's more.
At the 109 price point most of the sats will be under $20 therefore it's also a rake increase via sats.

But more recs will qualify because regs who used to play sats might just buy in because it's within their br and not bother playing sats for it freeing up more seats for recs.

I've considered this from a few more angles and I believe it's a good move from Stars perspective and a neutral move for players.

Edit: If Stars was planning on increasing rake for 215 Mtts this next period would be when its introduced.