European prime time NLO8 hypers / turbos would be appreciated. Also, if you would shorter those 13:35 ET PLO8 11+r blind levels from 15 mins to 10 mins I would play it every day when having poker evening, but now it lasts far too long for such a small tournament.

Especially some 11$-27$ NLO8 hypers would be appreciated. Only one in 15:35 ET is crushing it quite regularly, and adding some more would give us who like MTTs to be full of action instead of "let's play tight for X hours and then flip for the win with 15-25bb avg. stacks"-donkfests.

If there's demand for some kind of week-long MTT-promotion it could easily be O8. It's popular variant which has more room to expand, if just given a fair chance. Or maybe with Full Tilt merging you could bring us some kind of "no for texas hold'em"-tournament week?

Also still +1 for the weekly 82$ NLO8 hyper in Sunday around 16-18 ET.

This sucks Bad payouts

^ Very odd. Bigger $33 pays 12.6% but big $33 16% ??

Would guess the players involved hit close to the minimum for the next pay out structure. 16% seems too many though.

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Thats not the point, i know that sometimes this will happen. But look the payjumps, 63rd= 65$, 62nd 84$. Isnt supposed to jump when one table is closed? Same happens in f2t, the money jump is from 18th to 17th.

Also, the jump isnt every each 9 players when deep ( like 99 left ), in all bigs is that way, but not today in the b33.

Just point it out to luke.

People been asking for this for a while- just means all tables have equal players during bubble/pay jumps

Just wanted to say this applies to the $5.50 5-Card PLO Hi/Lo MTT as well.

I think there is a buyin gap for games like 8game, Razz, Stud, Badugi etc.

You either have to play some small mtt for 2.2 or 3.3 dollar or play the daily 27.

I think there are a lot of players who would like to see Mtts for those games with buyins like 8,8 or 11.

I agree. I think $2.20 and $11 daily would succeed better. Then run $27/$109 weekly events.

Thank you.

Please! Deff need these during non peak hours

pleasepleaseplease would be great

Indeed, the problem with the buy-ins now is that players can't really move up. For example winning a 2.2 dollar 8game mtts equals 2 or 3 buyins for the 27 daily. I know there are some turbo satts but if you dont like turbo you are pretty much forced to keep playing low stakes or 'take shots' at the 27 daily.
Offering buyins at 8.8 or 11 dollar could fix this and make the games more popular imo

I've reduced it to 12K for M/W/F and increased it to 20K on Saturdays. This tournament will be addressed in the new schedule.

Great spot, thanks for this! I have updated it effective immediately.

I've passed this feedback on to my colleague who is managing the Sunday Million Anniversary satellites.

We're testing a new pay table in the Big $27/$33/$16.50. It pays a larger percentage of the field, reduces the gap between 1st and 9th place, and introduces even bubble pay jumps. It can only handle a maximum of 2,000 players for now, so it has been introduced in the "Big" versions of those tournaments and not the "Bigger".

I agree with this, but I have to ask the non-NLHE players to be patient. I'm prioritizing the NLHE schedule. It is possible that I release the NLHE schedule first, tweak it for a short time, then begin work on the non-NLHE schedule to ensure it receives my full attention.

Additionally, I'd like to mention that we're tentatively running a short series from April 7-10. It will consist of 10 tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $11 to the main event which is $2,100. Two of the tournaments are slated to be 6-max PLO while the rest are NLHE.

fully support the other changes but 15% paid is already very high, any more is pushing it too far.

I am patient. Poker is a game of patience.

Genuinely why trial or test this? What feedback/reason do you have to believe this would improve the bigs or the playing experience of everyone?

There is nothing wrong with the % of the field payed already.

A while back party tried to spread payouts and it was a disaster nobody wants that redic flat payouts which reduces the prizes for top 3 players.
It killed a bunch of their tournaments and they made the switch back not too long after.

the idea for stars is straightfwd, dilute the winnings uptop so less is withdrawn and spread the cheddar so it is available to be raked again

ORLY-Owl...

Appreciate the lower variance and no more deals , I say

A move like this can only help boost party and 888 traffic, im all for it

You don't speak for everyone. Not everyone is against this payout structure. I would imagine there are many recs who don't mind it. Just saying.

I was asking what data stars was using to trial a different structure. Because on the surface at least there doesn't seem to be any reason for the change. It's not something I have ever heard people ask for either


Also based on what happened at party when they made a big % of the field getting paid. It would seem that lots of recs and regs alike disliked it because they ran away in droves.

absolutely terrible idea, as buffy said party did it and it personaly was a huge put off for me i stopped playing there not long after that was a huge part of it, if anything u should make them more top heavy, when i see the withered big $55 with $10k uptop it pains me $22k on a sunday? grow up, it used to be $18k+ midweek and 35-50k sundays. people want the big win when they get there, 888 payout strucs are the best imo, they were better when no deals were allowed also imo but not alot agree

ur just making terrible changes one after another why not just shut down mtts all together and be a spin and go site 25c - 1k buy ins 1k 10 mil spin would pull in the punters :|

I would like to see the return of CAP tournaments as well. I'm kinda sick of 2000+ MTT fields, too much variance.

And no, 180m SNG isn't the same thing as CAP MTT.