FWIW pretty sure Luke was a high stakes MTT reg before he started working for pokerstars. Any reasonable suggestions I think he will strongly consider. I know Sunday will never change to Saturday but WOW would that be nice. Would be great to play from am to middle of the night on Saturday and take Sunday off to watch sports instead of vice versa.

Luke is it unreasonable to try some of the suggestions JD has suggested and just axe them if they don't work? I think that's where there is a bit of hesitation from you in that you don't think they will meet the GTDs or won't be as successful as JD thinks. I'd personally guess for most of the tournaments he is suggesting they will crush most the GTDs you put on them. Like the 50r example will your higher ups even allow you to add this to the schedule or do they think it doesn't generate enough rake to warrant putting on the schedule? How much flexibility do you actually have with making the schedule if you don't mind answering?

yup, clearly targeting mug punters

Has anyone run numbers on 75% pskos yet? Seem fairly outrageous even by stars' standards

Rake in 75% PSKOs is kinda like turbo MTT rake in 2009. It's really high but currently isn't a problem since your average player is so bad in them.

This will change as people start learning the format.

There's a possibility (however slight ) that Luke knows people will come to play HS tournaments and that's just not good for Stars's percentage made off of deposits.

This is why Luke is focusing on formats such as Bountybuilders/PSKO's and since he's feeling ambitious why not "timebombs". These formats all recycle rake whereas a 1k is $ going into the pockets of "winning" players and raked at a discount to boot.

listen to this lad stars u total pigeons

Thinking a little more about the BIG day being on Sunday is there data that shows that is the best day other than that is when you offer the best tournaments and has been the norm for a long time? Kind of thinking from a recreational players perspective who has work on Monday, many players would not be inclined to play on Sunday as much as they would on Saturday as most tourneys will go through the middle of the night for them. Sunday is also a day that people have family obligations and is the biggest day for sports as well which is definitely a demographic of people that plays poker. Have you ever considered having a special month where you run the Milly on both Saturday and Sunday and promote the weekend to see which one gets a better turnout?

Luke how do u feel about moving the $530 8game to a Tuesday or Thursday?

I agree with this. Luckily I have a job where I start at 4pm so staying up for tournaments isn't a problem. But if I had a 9-5 like a lot of people do, I probably would have to skip the Sunday majors as I know a deep run would mean no sleep!

Here's an idea that ya'll might like. Jason's posts got me thinking. How about we take the black font Sunday edition and add this to a couple of high stakes birds on Tuesday's. Pump up the guarantee 150% of a regular weekday, black font Tuesday edition, no additional tournaments to the schedule needed. 320 6max, 55r, one of the 215 turbos, etc. 10-15 of these would definitely entice more people to log on and chase the glory mid week. As the Tuesday editions grow, raise the guarantees, other comps around them will grow, raise these, everyones a winner.

#lukepls

Make peak hour Tuesday unskippable.

More ways to get in the super tues. phases, mega paths, more affordable freezeout sats with big guarantees. A huge deadline turbo. A huge last minute hyper.

never understood why sunday is the biggest day either, at least with packed peaktime. overall it makes sense as most ppl go out on friday/saturday and you can almost guarantee that most are gonna sit around at home on sunday, for me personally it's pretty much the worst day of the week if I don't start super early.

I noticed you increased ss of vip tourneys from 1500 to 3000, but you forgot to increase late reg I think. Please make it 30 mins late reg.

Luke, are you considering changes to the structure of the HU hyper MTTs? The blinds double on the first level jump. I understand these are mostly push/fold and I enjoy them that way, but there needs to be a 30/60 level inbetween. I don't even think it would increase runtime all that much, but if it did you could try reducing starting stack to 800 (from 1000), might even work better.
In any event, doubling the blinds is just wrong imo.

online poker was a US-thing originally and the SM would start there at 15:00, when the game peaked though noone really minded the late times as a huge tourney started every half an hour almost (3/5r's, many FOs identical to b11/b22 etc).
altought currently only the majors+ a few one offer multiple hundred BIs uptop so its understandable most recs not bricking their working week for the chance of turning $10 into $800 and registering for storm/SM the latest than maybe the midnight hots if they last until there

plz recheck the guarantees and put some guarantee boost signs on it! Didn't see one of them last weeks at all.

Yeah many of the gtds are just dying because they were never adjusted during even extended times of being beaten by 30-50%+, but I have a feeling nothing will change and Luke will introduce a new schedule and be happy with it. Although I'm worried the gtds there will suck as well for the most part.

+ the Tuesday edition font these are actually great ideas and should be considered.

Regarding the SM on Saturday promo - there was a double vision week, where you guys did it with both SM and WU and it was successful, so pls do it. There's huge potential!

Watch as freeze out guarantees stay conservative but PKO's, and soon ultra PKO's, will be set more aggressively

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He gets it.

Little risk, lots of reward for trying this. Could be successful easily.

I expect nothing to happen.

At least Amaya/PS downfall is karmic retribution for their unethical behavior.

So I can happily watch it and laugh...

(Google Amaya stock. Tis just a fleah wound.)

http://m.nasdaq.com/article/amaya-be...d-aya-cm570074 someone with stock markets tell me what this means

Amaya stock has pretty much 0 to do with the MTT schedule. The stock price getting hammered has mostly to do with the massive debt they have from the Stars sale and the feeling among investors about re-entry into markets (like the USA).

Dragging this off topic not gonna get us anywhere.

I think the easiest solution to all these problems would just be to get the Yanks back, sigh

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/30...nce-investing/

i have no idea, but someone over here can probably explain it for you