Luke - re the phase, like others have said i think the price point is what makes it struggle.

Who remembers the $27 football fever phase running during the FIFA world cup 2014? This was a huge success.

Why not replace the current phase with a monthly one instead? Make a modest gtee to start with then increase it when it continually smashes it.

I think the $11 phase is fine but like everything else an occasional promotion wouldn't go a miss. Doesn't have to be football fever sized promo but something at the very least that may help participation.

You have missed something. Who said I can't handle? I said: if you don't like it - ok, don't like. I also said: maybe I am idiot and you all are smart.
Anyway it was long time ago. You are late my friend.

Stars changing usernames again. Be aware if you were an opponent of AndreBusato:

We are writing to inform you that a frequent opponent of yours 'AndreBusato' has been granted a Stars ID change to 'satonamotoka'.

Request the HH of that tournament and calculate the value of blinds + antes payed while sitting out. Then mail Stars for compensation. I'm not sure of their response but so many players where disconnected that can't argue the issue wasn't on their end and they have payed compensation in similar cases before.

Any tentative dates on TCOOP? You've already announced a PSF in London in January - is there going to be an overlap between the two?

$55 Red Spade Open at 20:00 WET on December 3rd, $1M Gtd with $100K for first

Decent Idea to reanimate that Red Spade Open, actually. I still hope you realize that this doesn´t replace a proper long overdue Midstakes-Series during Winter ?

The one criticism I have with the Red Spade Open is the start time; 8pm UK time with 3 hours late registration

9pm for most of europe, won't be able to play again, it would be maybe worth it with a payout structure that's not ******ed

I was disconected too ,speak with them ,they must compensate you atleast i wasnt in FT .Red spade open is good but like the other guy said its a bit too late i think 6pm uk time will be good and also to add a bit tourneys to this red spade to make it like little series for middle-low buy in tourneys.

Noticed you replaced the Euro afternoon $1.1 3-stack (4500 chips) with a regular 3000 chip starting stack. Any reason for this?

Since I can't get in to 3000 starting stacks my Stars volume will continue to fall. Shame.

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SM blinds structure and 12 min levels, this is going to take a while ! How about making it start earlier, or making it 2-day, with day 1 ending when 27-18 left.

Why not log on Tuesday as well?

Right now, the $11 Phase 1s average around 80 players per Phase from Monday-Thursday. On Fridays and Saturdays, the pace increases, and then on Sunday, around half of the eventual field joins. If we added a $33 or $55, I think Monday-Thursday would have almost non-existent participation and in the end the tournament would not be able to maintain an attractive guarantee. I agree that the "light at the end of the tunnel", so to speak, needs to be attractive. I think the $10K Payday scratches that itch for $11 players right now, but I don't think a higher stakes version can.

They do work well, but if they begin appearing at too high of a frequency, they won't be as attractive. This is why I was asking about Mega vs. regular speed. To be honest, I think anything we throw at the Bounty Builders would do well.

Thanks for all the feedback you've been providing. We don't plan on bolstering the early morning offering further at this point, but I'm happy to revisit it once we're through the holidays.

Added a $4.40 at 13:40 from Monday. Enjoy!

I'd prefer to target the more immediate Events, but the current plan is to deploy satellites for the whole Series as soon as possible, hopefully tomorrow. It is more difficult to predict demand for these satellites than, say, SCOOP or WCOOP. There will be some learning with this one, so please keep providing feedback.

PCA satellites will tentatively run on Sundays until December 17th, while Prague satellites will likely run until ~December 10th.

Yes, Football Fever did indeed crush. Nice memory you have there!

I think a monthly Phase would suffer much the same fate - there would be very little participation until the final few days. Basically, my inclination is that the longer the qualification period, the more likely it should be a promotion as opposed to a fixture in the weekly schedule.

Nothing has been confirmed, but likely to be later than usual - early February.

It has also been changed to a 2-day event! This was simply an oversight on my part, so thanks to those who pointed it out.

We had a recent mid-stakes series: WCOOP-Low. Still, who said that Red Spade Open is all that mid-stakes players will get to play over the holidays?

Yes, we think it will be more popular as a regular tournament. If that turns out not to be the case, we're happy to revert the change.

It is for better,now the tourney have more player and more prizepool, 3stack ,win the button and a little bit bubble rush are fail formats.

I think the price point of $16.50 - $55 would benefit most

Doesn't affect me at all as I'm on the other side of the globe but gotta agree with my European bros the Red Spade Open starts way too late imo

Day 1 still finishes quite late (between 3-4am) I guess it's not thaaaaaat bad. Definitely more of a chance I'll play it now if I sat in on the cheap

I guess you mean the next Monday, because I can't see it today. And I hope you mean 13:40 ET not CET.

@luke about 11$ phase i was suggesting to make 33$-55$ phase mtt with 30-50k for first INSTEAD of 11$ phase (i for ex. and i will bet a ton of mid-high players never play this 11$ phase 1 but will be playing 33-55$ phase one with 30-50k$ gurantied for #1) and makes sats for those phase one mtt so can low buyin players sat int phase one

any one like the idea of changing all hyper mtts to the 3-stack format? the structure is just that little bit better and just allows for more play as the tourney goes on, avg. stack being 14-18bb rather than 10-14bb in the later stages

ok, so start with a weekday 7 seat guarantee Mega Sat to the 215 BB, double that on sunday and see how it goes

I think the 11$ phase just lost it attraction. It was nice new thing, but now players care less about it. I don't know what is the sat situation there, but you should do something for the 0.50-1$ players, so more could play in this.

Imo a 33-55$ phase would be success only in short term and would suffer really fast to reach a good guarantee.

Maybe you could do every month one 22-55$ phase instead the 11$. Like the second sunday every month( I guess thats when people have more money)

If you do a $33-$55 phase, maybe you don't need that many phase 1s each day in the week, and have a few extra during the weekend. Don't think you would need to remove the $11 phase then either

Keep the $11 weekly phase and introduce a $33-$55 monthly phase with less phase 1s in the weekdays and then extra phases during weekend, and especially during last weekend when phase 2 is

Full tilt had this and it failed miserably. Keep the 11 as is and don’t add another outside of series thanks

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