How is there no SCOOP Thread yet? The fact that no Stars rep has posted here in what, 4 weeks? Is seriously a disgrace. Also not even a proper announcement about SCOOP.

Also the fact that not only was the schedule posted this late, but that we didn't have a chance to give any feedback at all on it this time, as we usually can, is awful. It's incredibly annoying and disheartening how little they care about their customers these days.

Well said! +1

As many others have already said and asked, how is there no NL Single Draw? It's more popular than some of the other variants in the schedule. As well as just being a great game and one of my favourite SCOOP events. And
Also 5-card draw high (NL) being left out of this year's schedule too is really bad. Two serious glaring oversights.
And it's such a shame because the schedule is actually pretty good other than that.

This. I thought last time it was great when it was in the final weekend.
Also this.
Particularly with the absurdly massive gap between 1st prizes and 2nd in the Overall Leaderboard, I thought this would have been an obvious route to take for individual tier Leaderboards.

Hey all,

Life got hectic for a minute, but I'm back. At least my range in response time is well-balanced…

It is indeed too late - from this coming Sunday, both the NLO8 Supersonic Last Chance Hypers will have slight structure and start time changes. See the lobby for details.

When I started my training here, one of my tasks was to look at my account to find my way around the different tools. When looking at my transactions, I had discovered that I received numerous TLB credits that I hadn't worked for and wasn't aware of. I'm sure you can see where this is going, but I'll continue anyways! I'm generally not a fan of deep-paying leader boards. I do not believe players are motivated to achieve 20th place for a paltry sum of money. When it comes to SCOOP Player of the Series, we tend to lean toward bigger prizes at the top and fewer prizes overall because of the small number of players who can actually compete. That said, in both Medium and Low, we're awarding more prizes (and $) than last year.

SCOOP is meant to be a bit of a test - I'm curious to see how the $2.20 and $22 Phases do.

The number of complaints and comments we've received about this functionality has trailed off considerably. The ones we are still receiving are primarily from players who use audits to track their results.

The FR/ES poker room managers post on ClubPoker (FR) and PokerRed (ES).

Good shout on this - they'll be changed to five minutes after the hour starting Friday.

As I said in a previous post, sometimes I'll be unavailable simply because this is not a core part of my job and therefore it gets passed over in favour of other immediate responsibilities. Before this last hiatus, I was responding very frequently and will continue to do so as time permits. If everyone would prefer that I come in and say "hey, too busy right now", I can certainly do that, but I do not like to come to the thread and say no to all of the suggestions due to workload. Despite what you may think, when I spend time here, I'm engaged and listening to what you're saying. It shapes how I think, and in due course, what we offer.

Have you experienced this since? If so, please save log files and send them to Support along with a detailed description of the issue.

BRB replacing all the vanilla stuff with All-in Shootouts.

Come on now, have you really been disappointed with the Series over the past year?

They were $27 for such a long time because there were a great many Step 2 tickets in circulation. That’s no longer the case, so we’ve made the decision to make SCOOP slightly more accessible. The recent rake change does not affect tournaments >$20.

Changes to the main schedule will be few and far between at the moment, especially additions. We have some other projects we want to spend time on, such as removing underperforming tournaments, keeping an eye on overall tournament length, and so on.

Hello old friend! We've decided to offer an additional 8-Game, HORSE, and Stud Event in lieu of Single Draw/5-Card Draw. I understand that some will say "just add more Events", but there is a limit to how large our Series can be at any given time. For now, we're going to rotate some of the less popular formats in and out of Series to see how it impacts participation.

Series provide a unique opportunity to try new formats, so we usually try to have one or two that we haven't done before to see what happens. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

NL Draw and Single Draw are two of the least popular formats we offer in SCOOP/WCOOP. For this reason, they were offered in Turbo Series and will take a seat on the bench for SCOOP. I do not see this as a glaring oversight considering it allows room to offer additional 8-Game and HORSE Events at different buy-ins, making those more popular games accessible for additional players.

As for the announcement, I'm not sure what could be more proper than our Blog, linked to via our Twitter accounts and Discord as well.

Lastly, a reminder that there is a $10M guaranteed Sunday Million on April 22nd. SCOOP satellites likely to begin the day after.

Hey Luke,

sorry youre too busy for us.

sincerely,

a community who wants 10 minutes of your time a day

Im glad SCOOP schedule got changed that there is at least some vanilla NLH events in the late slot on the weekends. Great job on that.

Guess I should have bet you.

QFT

while i will say scoop sched isnt as terrible as i assumed but i have been disappointed with almost 100% of the decisions made by your employer and by proxy by your posts overall ITT pretty mcuh throughout that very time frame. hard thing to do anything about but at least may wont be not fun so props where its due

lmao amazing

I'm still confused on what is the "green goop" that you win from the chests or it's overall significance. Going from making ~50$ in rb per session with 0 fluctuation ie x$ paid in rake= y$ returned to making ~2$ in rb per session with 2$ std. deviation is lol. However, my grinding efforts and loyalty are very well compensated by the staggering amounts of "green goop" awarded every chest.

To give credit where it's due the SCOOP schedule looks pretty good. Luke I think you/Amaya are vastly overlooking the importance of leaderboards and momentos/prizes for these series. Winning a SCOOP/WCOOP title is something that would be a huge highlight in the poker careers or lives of many players and at the very least they should be having a watch/trophy/bracelet to show for it. It's such a little cost to Stars to provide this/facilitate it and introducing a positive "good-hearted" change would really improve your company image. Why wouldn't you want to show that winning a major tournament is a big accomplishment?

I know that having too many "special" tournaments takes away their appeal and cannibalizes other "special" tournaments but perhaps introducing a once per month or once per quarter tournament would be cool that is a little bit higher of a buy in and guarantee. Make it better structure/possibly 2 days and run a lot of satelites. a 530$ 1m GTD and have a twin 55$ lower version just for an idea.

Thanks

I'm pretty sure the goop is just progression towards your next chest, so you're that much closer to getting another $0.02 and 7 stars coin.

I am a hardcore Pokerstars player only.

Rain or shine, always put voljume on pokerstar.

But for the last one week, this has changed, having been playing on Party solely. Never thought I would ever write that.

Even with less than perfect client, less than perfect user interface. But what I like is the big hearted satties they promoted.

I also got to play there because i am liking the structure of proper games not gimmicky games that I was getting offered and without knowing was getting addicted to.

OMG, what has pokerstars done to the games, make me weep inside as a recreational poker lover/player.

I am not missing:

Chests
Hiked up Rake

Some one needs to help this company charter its course else, once party improves software and another company joins in, this will be really a shadow left.

Shareholders may be enjoying the glory of short term gain before they start shorting this stock and the stock will go down and players would have been leaving.

Can someone else see this vision ?

Kudos to Party for taking my business.

Cross posting on Party thread

Dear Poker_Noob

Give me another status update in 30 days. Love to hear than what u think.

So the ‘green goop’ is points towards your next chest so you can get more green goop towards your next chest in an endless cycle of nothing.

Bet they spend a lot of time laughing about that at Pokerstars HQ

One thing that amazes is me is how Stars continues to reduce guarantees despite the fact they hit them



https://image.ibb.co/n4qRwc/xcz.png

Past 2 weeks



Today, even hit it despite Stars best effort



This was a while back, everything went fine it continued to hit it



Still a 4k despite Stars' best effort

Just amazing, you have tournies that are actually primed for growth and Stars pulls the plug, sad times ahead man.

Stars has most likely an automatic reporting tool both for guarantees and weather.

Regular schedule changes will be on hold til after WCOOP like last year I would expect

I am not sure what your point is.
Yesterday I was actually in a tournament that missed guarantee
It was by a hair and would have made it with the prior rake structure.
That was funny.

More rake is better because it generates more overlay?

Phases will start earlier like last year?

Sad to here that you are so busy....What are you working now? Do you plan to implement some new (hidden) rake/fee changes? I guess that needs a lot of time!

And more goop!

If your successor does that he/she will discover numerous rake amounts they paid and were not aware of.

You're one of many shifting their biz to Party. As players we just need somewhere we can meet up online and play poker. It seems obvious at this point that Party should be the venue for that rather than Greedstars. They treat the players with respect, don't hide rake, give 40% rakeback without those ridiculous coffins/goop and actually seem to care about poker. As more players move over, Party liquidity grows and Stars falls, making Party even more compelling.

I like the word goop, never heard of it before. Thanks.