not sure what you meant here

yeah, this bug exists forever, maybe they'll fix it someday

unlikely to stop doing it, they want to promote certain stuff and avoid overlays, which makes sense to be fair.
i only know a way if you want to hide something, use the search bar, minus sign followed by whatever you want to hide,
eg. -million will hide all Sunday Million, mini Million and their satellites

From what I can see Luke is gone.
Yes, the rakeback options are pretty much gone. Thanks though.

That underlined blue colour for certain highlightes tournaments it increcibly annoying

^oh to be in your timezone. Every flippin decent mtt on stars starts between 1am and 5am here.

anyone got a refund recently?

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i mainly play cash with some mtt on sundays /weekdays

So what is the deal exactly with the Stadium Series promo??
The banner says $1.1M+ added in heats.
T&C and on the website it says that whatever info on top positions awarding seats (if any) will be displayed at the lobby.
Searched most heat lobbies, nothing is mentioned anywhere about added seats.

Contacted support, they seem to think the promo is discontinued and just not communicated but not 100% sure, they said they escalated this.

But I also saw some people from the FT of the $5.5 weekly final registered in the $5k final and someone mentioned it on twitch they got the ticket from the ft.

So what is happening? Is it an error of omission from whoever is setting up the lobbies or is the promo discontinued?
If the promo is still on, where can we find info if there's nothing at the lobbies?
kind of important if there is a bubble mid-ways of the tour for a ticket 10x the buy-in.

It displays at the top of mtt lobby, this week top 100 from the $11 gets $109 ticket to final of this week, top 20 from $109 stadium gets $1050 ticket.
Tickets will be credited by chests.

http://prntscr.com/tjgb14

I have a poor wifi at my house so I often have to switch between my home wifi and using my mobile date via hotspot to my computer to be able to play. Could this cause any problems and red flags at pokerstars if they look into me as a mobile data has different IP and location than my home wifi?

@cr1s5t1 thanks for the screenshot

I didn't see the banner this week (did see it-noted for last week) and hadn't received a ticket for a deep finish so I contacted support but they couldn't find info on top finishes and said x tournaments don't offer added tickets (was asking for the one I was playing atm too)

resolved it with a second attempt today

the promo is on but still a bit messy to not have that info somewhere more handy/visible, eg. individual lobbies and/or website
(at least more handy to find for your support :sigh)

edit: it's also a bit sick making f2t of the weekly finals and not knowing you are playing for an extra $5.2k ticket that is awarded to the ft, since it's not displayed at the lobby

There is a $76,522.40 overlay in the Stadium Series Freezeout Weekly Final - Low: $11 NLHE[8-Max], $500K Gtd.

They finally moved the day 2 start times to the same time as day 1!

does anyone see a banner for this week's heats top finishes awarding tickets?
which top places?

I don't see anything in my client and support "doesn't have access in this information"
"we can escalate your query, however, it will take a few days for the relevant department to review it" :sigh

I could not find anything this week, sorry.

I think this series is costing Stars over 1 million in overlays.

Good, pleased to hear it.

RIP Stars

more rake is coming .

$1.4 million overlay till now in Stadium Series and over $500,000 in Partypoker's first week of the WPT series.

It's just the begining of the crysis.I saw the drop from the start of june and some users told me that it's because it's summer time,people go on holidays.The truth is that most of the players dont have money anymore.At least recs.
The only viable solution at this moment is to come with a good promo to atract players and to release some bonuses for old players.
I see these issues on the casinos i play..they barely get 5-10 customers per day and even those spend low amounts of money.Few days ago they opened the promotions,50-60 customers came to play and the whales as well

If someone from pokerstars see this,think about a good promotion.you'll get new depositors and more rake,rather than lose on overlays

They are starting the series too late in the day. If they started earlier they may get more punters.

This you got it wrong. 8pm (EET) is the actual peak atm.
You can compare the numbers of bigs/bounty builders that run all day long.
even on Sundays that people don't work, numbers are still low for eg the Kickoff/miniKickoff vs the same buy-in events later in the day

edit: you can also compare the numbers of users online, the traffic of the sngs, etc

Perhaps I'm wrong, but not wrong for me. I am well into my daily grind before the Stadium Series MTTs start. If they started earlier I would be more apt to play them.

Having only one tier of events in a single day is not smart. Especially from 2nd week onwards the vast majority of recs are not firing $100 mtts so they only have one event per day to play so a lot just won't bother.

Haha, you can come and join me here, stay couple of days. Always nice to have another grinder around

And dont forget, WCOOP is coming also soon...

Wouldn't hold my breath for a lot of WCOOP overlays now lol. If any.

Poker currently has the highest google search traffic since 9 years since black friday back in 2011.
Poker also had the highest viewer count ever last weekend on Twitch.
Pokerstars has also started to give content creators who usually dont stream Poker, free 1-2k$ Tickets. All these content creators had between 3-25k viewers while streaming these events.

"TheRealKnossi" (German), one of the top 3 biggest streamers (in terms of viewers) on Twitch atm, also said recently that Pokerstars plans to give him more tournament tickets in the future.

I think Pokerstars will promote this years WCOOP very aggressive on twitch.
There might be another big pokerboom in the next 1-2 years.