No lag, tyty

How about trialing new blind structure for s500 during TCOOP? Tourney really takes a miserable amount of time early on

no lag

no lag here good job

Good job changing the rebuy structures for tomorrow, Luke. Just a heads up in case you didn't intend this but the first $2.20-R 4k only has a 2500 chip add-on whereas the other ones you changed have the full 4k.

Also, no lag here.

Also, get rid of the $109 "packages" entirely. The $7.50 BB is much better without them and the prize pools are clearly not suffering. Plus, the $109 comes from the pool anyway, basically you are forcing the winners to use some of their winnings on your site by limiting them to a ticket. If they were a Stars added bonus then it would be different, but as I understand it they're not. So I vote for them to be removed and let the prize pool just be cash/bounties.

I'm one of the few people in here who hasn't experienced much lag in the past, but today at exactly 3:30pm EST all my tables froze for about 8-10 seconds. I really don't think it was my internet connection, but I'm not positive.

Everything went very smoothly for me yesterday wrt lag, thanks for that

No lag here. We got there!

Also here, 0 zero yesterday and i dont hear about it in any skyper groups.

Think its time for sunday minis

So what was causing the lag?

Too much rake weighing the servers down

I got a tiny lag when the milly popped but it was hardly noticeable and a another small one a hour later. I classed that as no lag as it caused me zero pain and suffering.

Yeah, it was pretty minimal. I didn't timeout and miss any hands, even though I had about 16 tables going, but it was a mad scramble to make all my actions when I was reconnected. Close call but no damage done.

more SKOs please!!

From what I've gathered from other threads they moved the lags to spins so we're safe for now boys

lol why?

SKO seems like a completly outdated format, the KOs are completly irrelevant in the deep phase of the tournament, which shouldnt be the case for any format, the general idea of the format should be present in any phase of the tourney imo.

no.

Thank you for changing the 5$ plo8 rebuy to a 10$ rebuy. I had stopped playing it. I will now play it again after this change.

hey i think you should change the 109r to start 1 hour later, lot of regs miss it because the schedule for hsregs at that time of day is pretty bad and recently its either had v bad guarantees or not ran at all.

I was sceptical at first. But bigger prize money for 1st today.
However, I did notice there were less recs or curious players playing and it was very reggy.
Overall, happy with the change.

Anyone got a rough idea of how long tcoop phase 3 will take on thurs?

i have a suggestion to merge the 4.40 13:00ET and 3.30 14:00ET PSKOs into a 11 one than switch the h11 with h16 and flick a nice peaktime promo "have it all in a hour: bb11, h11, b11"

I think an Omania test has been running since their inception. It doesn't seem to have been a success in growing Omaha tournaments. It is possible that I'll run some test tournaments for the new structure in the coming months. Unless the results are much worse than expected, chances are we'll still make Omania 6-max to differentiate the experience from our NLHE umbrella brands.

As far as the NLO8 hyper-turbos go, I'm of the opinion that the buy-in and format are not the best combination. If we want these games to grow, why offer a high buy-in game with extremely short late registration? What tournament would perform better in the long term: $44 NLO8 turbo or $82 NLO8 hyper-turbo? I think the answer is the former. These tournaments will not change in the immediate future, but I currently do not view them as particularly successful or growing the format.

The decrease in traffic of the 35s was inevitable once $60 and $100 Spin & Gos were added. Changing them to PSKO could certainly provide some differentiation. I'll pass the suggestion along to Baard.

I do not believe their red status has made these tournaments any better off in the long term. They would have benefited from more attention in the past, though.

I'm open to the idea of a rotating suite of tournaments, but am worried that if the days don't line up with a player's preference, we'll continually receive requests to change the days. Any ideas?

As far as red tournaments go, they'll be changing with the reformat which I've finally started work on!

This would be a very interesting issue. I'll test a couple tournaments myself.

I'll be looking into the NLO8 hypers when I have some time to focus on it. Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for mentioning the bolded. I'm going to play some NLO8 myself since it has been awhile. No, not on PokerStars!

It’s true that 180s liquidity at higher buy-ins isn’t what it used to be, but overall the format is far from dead.

I'll ask Baard for his opinion. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the above. The question is: would changing them to hyper-turbo grow the category, or is their current speed a nice differentiation for our players?

My personal mobile is...

If you PM me your user ID, I will make Support management aware of your displeasure so that they can look into how your case has been handled.

In response to the bolded, because they'll all overlay! Very, very few tournaments are reliant on satellites. I'd much rather have 1x three seat guaranteed satellite than 3x one seat.

Triple Stud has been removed. You're right, it is still in the filter. I'll see about having it removed in the future.

It is much, much easier for me to keep track of one thread. I'd prefer to keep all of the MTT discussion to this thread.

I'll discuss this with the team. Thanks for the suggestion!

I don't think increasing the pace at the beginning of this tournament would make it turbo. Regardless, this type of change is some time off!

We used to run shootout satellites to the Sunday Warm-Up and Storm. They cancelled constantly because having a min and max entrants that are the same, which is necessary for shootouts, requires all players to be registered at the start. We are consistently trending toward players joining during late registration, which makes it very unlikely that we'd be able to run scheduled shootouts.

I don't think I'll get too many opportunities to do this, so I'm just going to bask in it.

The other $2.20+R structure will be updated beginning Monday, 25 January. Good catch!

We've now run a full week of $1.10 and $7.50 Bounty Builders without hybridization. Their participation increased 8.1% and 6.8% respectively. We'll likely be removing the hybridization from Bounty Builders until we are able to control how they are visible in the client. This change will take some time due to requiring an update to web content and all of the tournament scripts.

Can you let me know if this happens next week?

This was resolved.

I tend to agree with this line of thought, but I'm not sure regular/super knockouts will be removed.

HSMTTs just do not do well on Monday/Wednesday/Friday. I would not want to move a $109 tournament to clash with the Big $109.

The number of entrants week on week was reduced by 40%, but the prize pool increased 16%. I'm lukewarm on this change but we'll continue to monitor the results.

Just a guess, but I'll go with 4.5-5.5 hours.

I can't even imagine the volume of emails if I did this.

The issue has now been fully resolved, thanks for the follow up.

more 08 MTT hypers please