Hey everyone,

Enjoying Turbo Series? Hasn't been much discussion about it, which from my perspective is not a bad thing! Just a reminder of the promotions:

• Hots below $5 are awarding over $40K worth of Turbo Series Spin & Go tickets. Players on 12 tables will receive a ticket 10 minutes after the tournament begins!
• Every day at 14:30 ET / 20:30 CET, we're running a $2.20 satellite to the $55 Main Event with 20x seats added. So far, these have been ridiculous value.
• Every day at 13:00 ET / 19:00 CET, we're running a Second Chance Freeroll with $5K added for those who played Turbo Series Events and didn't reach the money.
• And while not a promotion, I wanted to mention that the $10K Payday will be replaced this week and next by an $11 Phase with 100 seats guaranteed to the $1,050 Main Event.

I'm sure we have at least a few tournaments that end from 02:00-04:00 CET.

That aside, we still plan to see if any of our biggest tournaments are running longer than is reasonable.

The ABI is around $215 if you exclude the $5,200 High Roller. While I don't think ABI is the ideal way to look at maximizing prize pools, I do think that $215 is probably the best buy-in we have for generating prize pools.

I'm happy to test something like this in the future so please leave specific suggestions, but I'm not optimistic about the outcome. 45 minute Time tournaments are the least popular version we offer.

I'm sure you saw, but we've been scheduling MTT satellites to start a day before the Event runs.

This is the crux of the discussion. A considerable portion of our player base lives outside of the CET time zone. Unfortunately, there's no way to please everyone when it comes to scheduling our biggest tournaments.

Thanks for your feedback. While you see it as a negative that players need to win a satellite to participate, I think the aspirational aspect motivates some players. We're providing many opportunities for players to join this Series and we're always looking for more ideas!

Yep

This came up in the office recently! While I haven't started creating the schedule yet, I'll be looking to see if a traditional heads-up shootout could be successful at a lower buy-in level than offered in years past. There is no intention to stop offering it altogether, but the Zoom version offers much bigger prize pools.

Unfortunately, I think a drastic scheduling change like this would upset far more people than it would please, especially considering we left the Australian market in September. Additionally, we could not offer an attractive guarantee in this hour or those surrounding it.

I wish we had a great solution to this, but we don't. I'm not going to mince words: it will be some time until we have a flexible solution in place.

GL at the tables all.

At the off peak zone around midnight CET

Asian Players ( a growing market with china)/ Russian Players (Russians are a huge part of the market, NZ players even some canadian players on west coast would play them. I don't know how you can say it wouldn't get a big guarantee until you try it.

No one is saying to move an event from the main timezone to this. Just add 2 extra events. We get one tournament a week Pacific Rim Special and this is not a good indicator of the guarantee it might get as most people skip it because they want to play the sunday mtts starting just a few hours later. Sounds like ur mind is made up tho.

Probably a good thing as you'd only get tempted to play and you have such a highly professional and stressful job.....

Hell yeah

So SCOOP is starting on May 6th, is this correct?

+1

I like to play at morning and we always have enough people here, so I don't see any problem why you can't add just a few MTTs here.

Probably not, scoop usually starts other half of may, so probably Sunday 13th and running 2 weeks, can probably expect satellites in lobby around beginning of may

Nothing is confirmed though so chill until the schedule is released around April probably

Well this series is not really for me since I am firstly not a turbo expert and secondly the limits are a bit too high, although I have enjoyed a few of the events at least, like event 01 and yesterday's 5-stack

The only thing I don't like so far is that you removed the regular phase tournament for this

Will probably play some more events like #23 and some satellites though

Based on history it will start on the 6th

ermagherd you are right! Hmm i wonder what series I was thinking of..

LOL

+1 to normal HU shootout tournaments! I miss the old $10.50 SKO HU and $11 Hyper HU and of course the normal Saturday Duel.

+1

Could we get some more $27-$82 hyper speed NLO8 PKO MTTs?

That format is literally only one I have enjoyed to play lately, as it's super intensive and don't take long. I know there's quite few of them already in the schedule, but as they last ~1 hour there really could be more (like 1-2/hour during more busy time) without fear of cannibalization. They've been very popular MTT-formats.

low and mid stakes hypers could use some satellites

Luke, Could you please add $3.30r,2.2r normal speed right around the same time as hot 11?
The Old 3.30r normal speed was an extremely good tournament for low stakes players to increase their bankroll.


Thanks

+1 or $4.40 1R1A / $8.80 1R1A

What??? for real? Where did you find this?

Main lobby.

I'm seeing this since yesterday... thought it might be visible to everybody but saw no comment about it in this thread so decided to post the screenshot of that banner here in case nobody has seen that yet. Could be a mistake but get it confirmed with Luke.

havent played a lot of MTTs the past few years in place of cash, but over the past month im seeing how soft the 109 saturday KO and the 162 bounty builder fields are. why is this? out of all the MTTs i'm playing it seems to easily be the worst fields

also i totally agree with the users asking for the HUs tourneys, those were the good old days! bring em back!

Hey everyone,

Just announcements today.

• The Turbo Series Main Events are this SUNDAY! We've got satellites. Go play them.
• On a similar note, the Sunday Million and Mini Sunday Million will have their start times pushed back 15 minutes to 14:15 ET / 20:15 CET this week.
• High Rollers is scheduled to return March 18th-26th. The Series will have five additional Events, including five $530 buy-ins. The schedule will be in the client in the next week.
• We'll soon begin testing new functionality that we call Early Payouts. It is very simple: if you're in an Early Payouts eligible tournament, you'll receive your min-cash immediately upon reaching the money. When you either win the tournament or are eliminated, you'll receive the difference between your final payout and the early payout. The test will be very limited in scope. The current plan is to roll it out to Bigs tomorrow and only for players on the .COM, .EU, and .UK licenses.
• The $10K Payday has been discontinued. Participation has dwindled steadily over the past year or so and as far as I can tell, it has not been sorely missed over the past week. We'll cook something else up as soon as we have the opportunity.
• The current tentative dates for SCOOP are May 6th-21st.

hahahaha ERarly Payouts LMAO ahahaha

What is even funny or strange about this? It's the most mundane change he's ever suggested. In fact, it actually makes sense for players who don't keep a bankroll online. They cash, and they receive the minimum immediately, but are still playing, they are more likely to fire off another event with that money while they finish the tourney they're in than if they have to wait until they are eliminated or win the event to have more funds. Seems relatively logical and doesn't really harm anyone and WSOP Main already did that for November 9 players before the break too, so it isn't without precedent.

why is it exactly hilarious?