Little question: binked a satelite for the Sunday Million earlier today. But i see there is an 215 TCOOP event also tomorrow night, same buyin as the million.

Would you guys think its the best value for me to play the million or to unregister and play the TCOOP event instead?

I have played the milly before and know its good structure and big starting stack. But maybe the field is even softer in the TCOOP tourney?

million ainec

+1

That tournament is terrible. Make it a $55 turbo Super KO with no re-entry.

Hi Luke,

Thanks for being so on top of things in this thread.

I like narrowing the schedule down and getting rid of MTTs that don't have good draws or that are not popular, it makes the lobby less crowded and can help you focus on improving current tournament structures and creating a few new tournaments that can be very successful.

I really like the idea of the variable tournaments and think you should definitely be implementing this into all turbos at the very least the hots. We pay the same in rake for turbo tournaments and if you aren't going to consider lowering the rake in a tournament that takes 1/3rd to 1/4th of the time of a regular tournament and takes up less resources on your servers than I don't think it's too much to ask you make the structure towards the end of these tournaments a bit better without changing the 5 minute levels at the beginning.

I have a few suggestions that may or may not be popular that include changing the big $100 rebuy on Sunday to 1 hour later as I think it would attract a few more people and the daily 100 rebuys during the week could be moved back an hour later as well. I'd like to see some tournaments for midstakes guys that usually play up to $215s and want to make that next jump have some opportunities to play some tourneys that are not 4x their highest buy in during the week. I'd love to see a tournament like the Sunday 500 turned into the Sunday 1k as the vast majority of people that play this tournament on a Sunday would be fine with it being a 1k and many midstakes guys would prefer to take a shot in a bigger tournament during the week when they don't have 12-16 tables running. Maybe turning that Sunday tourney into a 1k and making one of the midweek tourneys a $500 would be an option?

Also is there anyway to make the Wednesday $320 an earlier tournament, even replacing the Big 162 with it and just keeping the nightly $162. I think most players would like to play that tournament but it's at a time where a lot of players just aren't going to keep playing just to play it in the late evening or middle of the night.

Any updates on if you are going to run a Daily Big $215? And I know Amaya is all about that rake but we can we please bring back some rebuy options in between $10 and $100. Start with like a weekly $20 or $50 rebuy and throw it in red to promote it and see what kind of turn out it gets. I am pretty sure you could make this a great tournament. And that $50 turbo rebuy big antes is kind of a joke so let's not use that as an example of why rebuys are not doing well, just change this time to way earlier and make it a decent GTD with a variable structure or something.

Can you please tell us exact dates for scoop?

Bryan left this role to Luke so he could focus on tcoop/scoop/WCOOP. Surely if he's devoting his entire time to this we should be able to get dates ASAP?

Agree with all of this. So many players I know are playing substantial volume away from stars. Party having a daily $109 50k speaks volumes I think. There's 4 $109s on party, bunch of 55s on 888. People don't want to play on these sites, they'd love to play everything in one site, it's a lot easier that way but there's just very limited options for mid-high stakes. Making b162 the Wednesday 320 sounds good, literally no reason to open stars/grind on Wednesdays right now.

Really think the 109r would be way better hour later too. You said you don't want two 109s in the lobby at the same time. Make it 1 hour 15 minutes later then if that's really an issue. Or potentially make it $90

timebanks too short in turbo mtts

only 15 seconds bank for 2r x2 turbo for example

lag today horrendous for me. anybody else?

Yep - 1st Sunday I've played in months and lag has hit hard in the last 30 mins or so

Yes.

Didnt face any lag till now

almost every decision lagging 2-3 minimum seconds for me

yeap, lagging hard for me too.

and both my lobbies were stuck for several minutes, not showing the players' number & ranks right (the left part of the lobby with avg stack, break time etc was working)

my lobby won't show running tournaments or those late regging?

nevermind, sorted

no lags at all for me today

1. More good touranments around big 162, it gets pretty airish around that time.

2. WHY NO MINIS?? just a joke such an easy layup

3. Six max Bounty builders. This is an easy layup.

Can we get more timebank for people who live in 3rd world countries?

I am not even kidding. Life is already hard enough for most folks who live in Asia/Africa/Canada etc.
If you want to grow your market in Africa it is definitely something to consider!!

getting tons of lag every time a new table opens. beyond ridiculous

Definitely need a daily $27 pko zoom 4 max tourney. Seems like a blast

Keep Wednesday 320 where it is. No reason why everything good should only be focused on peak time. If it's too late for you to play then fine, don't play it.
It gets a great field and is at a great time for a lot of Asia pacific players, people who already have so little to look forward to after the b162.

Something wrong with sync break in bounty builder 8.80? Even after 6 mins, Break was showing "Starting soon" ??

Glad to hear! This one was changed back in October according to my notes.

I've just looked at a query for 2015 from when the additional tournaments were added until now. I looked at all NLO8 tournaments for low and medium stakes ($5.00-$99.99). Over the course of the year, these games have increased in size by approximately 10%.

So, I've heard you all loud and clear that you want more NLO8 hyper-turbos. How do you respond to my reasoning that turbo structures, with their longer late registration, would better serve to accelerate the growth of these games?

Just so you all know, I pass all of the SNG feedback on to Baard and give it due consideration myself.

I don't think it would be all that hard to find players on this forum who agree that they prefer this format. If you think that the 3x-turbo structure is lacking some levels or can be improved upon without changing the length of the rebuy period, I'm open to suggestions.

It looks as though the mods have locked the non-NLHE thread. It is up to them whether they lock the 2013 satellite thread as well.

I appreciate the point of the knockouts being more important early in a SKO as opposed to a PKO. This provides some alternative strategy adjustments that may not be as prevalent in PKOs. That said, I'm not sure if we'll have more SKO in the new schedule.

Can you provide more details?

The Super Tuesday will likely have pink satellites in the new schedule.

The issue with Bounty Builders was caused by filters. They were showing up as satellites for many players and thus weren't visible. The Mini-Majors used milestone functionality which did not label them as satellites in the lobby.

Regardless, I think the 900,000+ emails had a lot to do with it as well.

The main schedule reformat that I'm currently planning will give micro-stakes players a better schedule.

I took care of this. Thanks!

It would be possible, but unfortunately a niche feature like this is unlikely to be implemented.

I urge you to respond to my earlier reply in this post regarding turbo speed as opposed to hyper-turbo NLO8 tournaments.

Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully the new schedule has something for everyone!

Will do.

This is a product of the pay table having very wide tiers. I've made a note of this and hopefully I'll be able to make some new pay tables for the non-NLHE games. Creating flexible pay tables for individual tournaments is quite tedious! Thanks for the useful feedback.

No, but you can travel to the Bounty Builders content from each tournament lobby.

We already have variable level times. What we'll be implementing is similar to what you've suggested, but much more flexible.

Feedback noted! I am glad that it doesn't seem like you mind the idea of turbos.

Passed on to Bryan, thanks!

This likely has to do with the fact that the tournament is considered a satellite. I'll make a note of it. Thanks for bringing this up, it is very difficult to find the small edge cases such as this.

Unlikely to be implemented any time soon, I'm afraid.

I agree that it does. We'll get there!

They will be split up in the future.

Hey, thanks for the useful feedback here. Depending on how the dynamic structures are received, I've considered what you're suggesting with regards to the Hots. The Bigs will have 5,000 starting stacks, Bounty Builders are PKO, and the Hots are...just turbos. I think having slightly longer levels near the conclusion of the tournament would provide a better experience. Just a thought for now.

Do you think that the BATTLE ROYALE has made Wednesday a more attractive day? As far as Sunday goes, I do not have much of a plan yet. Any sort of ideas are still in play at this stage, so continue to fire away.

SCOOP is tentatively scheduled for May. Bryan will provide final dates when they're available.

I've been brainstorming with the team about ideas for new majors. Have any suggestions? You seem to be keen on ideas to mix things up for the high stakes players.

This is the first complaint I've received about shorter timebanks since the changes were implemented in late September/early October.

I'm going to follow up with the developers. The amount of detail above is very helpful because I can forward it on directly.

It isn't uncommon for filters to momentarily befuddle us in the office...

Ideas for new majors? #3 isn't going to happen.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I have a feeling this type of tournament would not fare so well as a daily offering.

I haven't received any additional reports of this. Can you let me know if it happens again?

I appreciate the feedback as always, everyone. I'm currently in the very early stages of writing the new schedule, so it is a very good time to provide some pie-in-the-sky type ideas as I wrap my head around the task.

When can we expect this new schedule?

Definitely not late December