Let me post here what I see happening in the PS application and what might cause more issues down the road. I use the replayer quite a bit to understand what happened in prior hands and how opponents play, their ranges, etc. Now, when I play tables in different formats at the same time, such as 6-Max, Omaha, regular deepstack, etc the replayer sometimes comes up with players missing or an incomplete view of the table. Repeat this multiple times and the whole application becomes instable, unresponsive, etc.
This seems to be some faulty programming, memory leak or something like that. I don't recall this from more than 60 days ago.

Anybody has some suggestions around this issue, any resolutions, any ideas ?
Or just confirmation that this is widespread ?

Thanks.

Is there a reason for not having the daily marathon as early/late edition aswell?

this is indeed a problem, and a new problem at that. i often get holdem tables with 9 players being displayed as an omaha table with 6 players, with each 2 cards being equeeezed together as if it was an omaha hand with 2 cards missing.

wdf is going on here?

Hey everyone,

Now that Winter Series is over, it's time to talk about what comes next! Though it won't be "officially" announced for some time, February 4th will mark the return of both the Sunday Million and Sunday Storm Anniversary events on the same day! They'll run at their normal times with $10M and $1M guaranteed, respectively. The satellite offering will not start for a couple weeks, but we'll create some On-Demand SNGs in case a lot of players are looking to qualify early.

Additionally, Turbo Series (a re-imagined version of TCOOP) will tentatively run from February 18th - March 4th. These dates are not set in stone, but if they change, I'll post here. I'm in the process of creating the schedule now, so if there's anything in particular you'd like to see, now is the time!

Nice catch. We haven't yet rolled out the 7-handed final tables for Progressive KOs because it requires us to create a pay table specifically for this purpose. It hasn't been at the top of the to-do list, but we'll get it done as soon as we can. I'm glad that it seems like 7-handed final tables have already become the new normal.

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

• Sure, re-entries added to the 20:20 Zoom Progressive KO. Good suggestion!
• You're right that we don't have anything under $10 outside of the two tournaments at 23:39 and 03:39. The $2.20 PLO at 12:09 ET will become a Progressive KO.
• Another good call! We'll add a $3.30 Heads-Up Total KO at 21:35 ET.
• These changes will go into effect Monday, January 15th

When this happens, I encourage you to send logs and any other useful information you might have to Support. It is very difficult to find intermittent issues affecting small groups of players unless they tell us about it!

As I've discussed a few times in this thread, we're looking into other solutions to provide players more flexibility when it comes to satellite play. For now, I'd urge you to look at the tournament structure and determine whether or not it will end at a suitable point in the target tournament.

See above ^^

Thanks for letting us know about this! It has been corrected.

While I can't speak for Live Events satellites or marketing, we offer as much as we possibly can for our online events where there is demand. If there is something you think is missing for our weekly events or promotions, please provide some additional specific feedback.

I agree. It didn't last an excessive amount of time as is, so there is probably room to make it feel a bit more special.

Luke, do you think that this series was successful with 4 tiers tourneys especially adding micro tier? If so, it will be nice if all series have 4 tiers. Like if i have the money to play micro mtt i can play them and satellite to low editions. There is no way if i do not have the gold to try to satellite to medium events so from my pov they do not cannibalize. Before when there was 3 tier i could play lets say up to 11$ and i had to satellite to 27$ so i missed some events. It is true that very rarely i satellited to 109/215$ and the filling to play big event was nice, but ultimately it is way better to have 4 tier mtt series so all players can play.

+1
So this is not just me. Need attention & technical support.
I don't like to drop my Omaha games.

Glad there will be some version of TCOOP .

Wow thanks for the quick response!

I honestly expected you to say "ok cool, I'll run it by my team" and then for me to bug you about it a month later and you to say "still deciding."

This is fantastic customer service! And I'm not just saying that because you adopted "my" ideas, it's more so the fact that these ideas are obviously very innocuous and in no way can harm anything company related and the fact that you guys are open to harmless and clearly good (ok pumping my tires here a bit) ideas shows why you guys are industry leaders in being able to integrate feedback in real time and not muddling around twiddling your thumbs.

If I may continue:

Not to get greedy, actually **** it I'm a poker player, let's get greedy. Any way that you can add rebuys to the 545 zoom as well? (Same reasoning as above)

In regards to the satellites, is there any way you guys can add voucher satellites i.e $5/10/15/25/55 vouchers? I really am not a fan of the current satellite system as someone who multitables, I cannot play the ones that I really want if I'm going deep in a few tournaments and the satellite (non hyper) is starting. There are lulls in my schedule where I usually end up 2-3 tabling and it would be very easy for me to get in some good extra volume by firing these up and I would love to do it (I'm sure many others feel the same considering the comments ITT), but these tournies do not exist and I do not see why not

Any way you guys can add some hypers or even mega hyper (1 minute blinds) zooms? The "turbo" zoom really acts as a "deep" tournament due to the fact that most can play about 3 hands per minute thus putting them at the same volume as a 15 minute blind table. I would love to see some in the $1-10 range, but I think even your high stakers would love to see some higher ones that can be effectively done for them in 20-30 minutes on average and they can still put in good volume with them.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback.

Since Winter Series was a huge sucess with one of the best schedules ever (except for the fact that we didn't had mixed events), will be too optmistic to think PokerStars will put 4 different tiers in this events?

I mean... High, Medium, Low, Micro for each event?

Please say yes?

+1 should become standard now.

@luke i have one idea about transferring funds...

can you add option for people to buy T$ with real $(even with those real $ that one cant withdraw) and then transfer those T$ to other player/s ??

You don't say...

played yesterday and the 11+ which starts alongside the Big109 was gone. Is there a specific reason?

Received one of these „Pokerstars Winning Moments“-Videos and I kinda liked it (and I‘m sure recs do too). The choice of hands shown seems pretty random though!

Regarding Tcoop and other Series:
Please at least consider giving back the winners of each event some kind of additional prize.
Bracelets and watches have been nice, or do a Tournament of Champions that awards Platinum Passes/Live or Online Event entries.
Receiving a bottle of Champagne like on Winamax is just a nice gesture and makes the winners experience even better!

+ 1 to tiered tcoop

Also after a successful winter series could u not do like a golf/tennis 4 majors a year, tcoop (if it has to be turbo) scoop, wcoop and winter series all with 3 levels low medium high or 4 if can include micro. Give out rings/bracelet/ live event package to people that complete a grand slam (win an event in each series, not the same year that would be ridic difficult) Players would know what was happening at the same rough dates and all stakes would get at least 4 major series to play each year?

Ahh my favourite thread is still running? Good to be back

How can you run such a big event like the Winter Series and not include any Mixed Games? Not even PLO8!?
You really must hate variety.

update working well https://gyazo.com/c98f4f0d19725f77d2cf5f52c21a1616

(it shows 109 in lobby so must be error when bringing side lobby up) probably for software thread

Does this have a separate software thread ? Love to find and post.

+ 1 to tiered tcoop

Returned from a large break and liquidity in steps SnG's is even lower than it was in the past.

Is there anything to lose by making these 6 max?

Nope,sng is dying everywhere not only steps-no rakeback,weak traffic.

Luke,
A small one, but a bit annoying.
Couple months back they changed the latereg time for the Bigs to two hours instead of like a 130 minutes. This is fine, but it is still showing the messages of the old ending time.. For example I am just getting the message that latereg for Big 16.5 is closing while it closed about 10 minutes ago. Can you pass this on to the right people to fix it.
Thanks.

Hey everyone,

Not all of the passes are awarded to winners of tournaments. For instance, any player who played a Winter Series Event was eligible to join an all-in shootout for a package (yes, technically a tournament, but not really!). There's a lot of different ways to win a package, ranging from doing very little, to cashing in two tournaments on the same day and winning a freeroll, to winning a tournament with 60K+ entrants. We've created a tab in the Events lobby so that players can keep track of what promotions are on for PSPC at the moment.

Majors fatigue! I think it works in its current timeslot since it is available for our biggest markets and it also helped filled a gap in the schedule. There's no plans to change the Majors schedule at the moment.

Overall, Winter Series went pretty well, but I want to mention up front that Turbo Series will not be tiered. With that in mind, if you wanted to satellite into the Turbo Series Main Event, what would you be looking for?

It was always the plan!

Thanks for the kind words. I'm sure I'll do something in the future to make you wish you could edit your post.

On a more serious note, it is important to realize that my (and any other site representative's) day-to-day varies considerably. If I go silent for a week or more, it could mean there is not much to say, that I'm out of the office, or that my attention is required elsewhere. It may seem like things only happen in short bursts, and in a way that's true, but it is because we have many responsibilities not visible here, not because of a lack of caring.

Anyways, back to poker! As for your three suggestions:

• Let's see how the other change to the Zoom MTT works out first.
• I've mentioned here a few times that satellites are difficult. We want the money to go into the target, but we also want players to have flexibility in terms of when they get to play. Since we typically do not have short expiry periods on player-funded tickets, the result is that many players do not feel pressured to use them. That's why, at the moment, we tend to force players to play the target from the start. I'd like to look for a good opportunity to test some type of series-contained satellite system. Any suggestions?
• The issue here is determining what to call them, as silly as that seems. We currently tag 5 to 6 minute blinds as "turbo" in both Zoom and regular tournaments, though clearly more hands are played in Zoom. Perhaps we should start with trying hyper-turbo Zoom tournaments and see how they perform.

Not for Turbo Series, but SCOOP will of course be tiered.

Though I'm not an expert, I don't think regulatory bodies would see this any differently from transferring real money.

Thanks for pointing this out. We'll make sure it doesn't happen next time.

• The $11+R was removed due to poor participation.
• What was random about it? It is actually a pretty cool algorithm that determines which hands are the most exciting. What would you change about the videos?
• Thank you for your feedback.

Well, we're doing a bit of the opposite with TCOOP (by rebranding it Turbo Series). We have other plans later in the year that hopefully explain this a bit more clearly, but to me a suite of turbo tournaments should not be so serious!

Welcome

As I've mentioned, the scope for Winter Series was a bit limited. The next time around, it is possible that a wider range of games is offered.

Actually, this is for my team! Thanks for posting, it has been corrected.

I've passed on your suggestion, thanks.

This is also for my team. We've fixed it as of approximately one hour ago. Thank you very much for this - a bit difficult for us to find but probably also unbelievably frustrating for players.

Hey Luke, how about some series (or at least some tournaments during SCOOP/WCOOP etc) for early grinders? 07:00-10:00 CET time? I understand, there is not so much players (3x lower than at evening), but they want to participate too

What's the reason for reducing gtd prize pool on $109 6-Max PSKO (10:20pm CET) from 10k to 8k? It's been reaching its gtd pretty much every single day, now I'm worried prizepools will go down to like 9k avg on regular days.