Hey everyone,

Hope you're all enjoying SCOOP! We're in the final stretch now, but I have a couple immediate changes to catch you up on:

• The Sunday Million/Mini-Million and Sunday Storm will be trading start times beginning next week. Satellites will be adjusted to reflect this change, and some minor tweaks have been made to the Sunday Storm structure to ensure it does not run too long.
• From Monday, the minimum entrants required in some tournaments will be reduced to four. This will not include changes to big bet games.
• Guarantees will be reduced from Monday. I am sure this is expected with World Cup approaching, but I do not want anyone here to be surprised!

The bolded is an important factor. For those players who are interested in receiving more advanced notice, see the post just below this one!

Yep, this post!

This was a gradual change and one we'll continue to implement. Please continue to provide feedback.

There's no plans to implement custom deals into the tool going forward. We chose equal split and ICM because they represented an overwhelming majority of deals in PokerStars tournaments, and can be clearly presented on mobile devices.

The satellite schedule is driven by the players, not our stupidity. The overwhelming majority of satellite play occurs on the day of the Event. When it comes to a complex mix of tournaments such as SCOOP, it isn't feasible to have satellites for a week leading up to each Event. This would cause an extraordinary amount of clutter and might simply be a detriment to the player experience.

We're more than willing to try new things, but the results day in and day out dictate that what we're doing is suiting most players' needs.

Not only is the average guarantee much higher, but the average clearance is much smaller! We have not been risk averse in SCOOP, and there's no clearer evidence of that than the fact that today, a Friday, we're running a $1,000,000 gtd tournament...

Thanks for the feedback. I'm hoping we can take a look at main schedule tournament length over the summer and make some necessary adjustments.

Please contact Support for this type of question!

Thanks for this post. We were not aware of the issue until you brought it to our attention. We've since fixed it.

This server restart was planned on short notice and that is clearly reflected in how it was communicated. Apologies!

The date was fixed around 15 minutes after it was put up, but if you never left the tab, you'd see the same date.

The PLO Events were pretty big!

We've been adding them incrementally based on past participation. Although I'm sure you've noticed, we also added a $1.10 Phase to the Low with 100 seats gtd, an $11 Phase to the Medium with 50 seats gtd, and a $109 Phase to the High with 15 seats gtd in order to make the Events a bit more accessible. We'll continue to pump out satellites over the next couple days.

Your criticism here is valid. We added more satellites beginning on Friday, but we should have had at least a handful each day of the week. This was an oversight.

Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for the feedback, perhaps something we can try in busier periods like December or January.

I do not see you in any of the Phase 2 satellites, so get to it!

YES

I am sure you understand why we do not have a lot of Events at off-peak times, but we do try to accommodate players with a couple of Events if we can.

We've been giving it some thought. I don't think it would be ideal to add something in the summer, but perhaps in the fall...

This is our thought process as well.

Yep, as soon as we saw that the Low and Medium would cap well ahead of their start times, we thought the players would enjoy a quick $55 version.

Yep, Phase 2 will be ITM.

If we did that, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday would all have knockout 'Main Events'. Do you think we should go in that direction?

If I take a nap at the wrong time on Sunday, only one place will be paid.

These messages are created by us and used sparingly. We try to only use them when we are 100% sure we'll miss the guarantee. I don't foresee us creating these messages during a typical week. SCOOP is the exception, not the rule.

I apologize for the poor experience, but it happens from time to time, whether it is because of subpar scheduling, players stalling, or some other factor. When it happens, you're still awarded your prize in T$.

How the F did Badugi get an event when 2-7 Single Draw did not? Someone should be fired for that!

Yes, that is clearly a fair and appropriate reaction.

-BD

It is when you add it to the long list of other terrible decisions they have made with these COOP series. Like removing trophies, giving away PSCP seats on all-in shootouts instead of each leaderboard tier, higher rake with no rakeback; the list goes on.

Weekly phase has been badly missed since the demise of the 10k payday.

Ideal one would be 22/27/33 ish sort of buyin, 150k gtd. Phase 2 starting around 5/6pm WET on a Sunday.

Badugi and PLO SCOOPs on the same day is a big mistake

Any chance of making the triple threat 33/320 or 5.50/55/530 daily? The 55 was an amazing mtt would love more of that but 22 and 215 both are exactly not what I wanna play at that point in sessions

Thanks Luke, for all responses. Nice work.

I think it's fine. In my mind, anything that gets higher participation, especially among recs, is a great thing and the schedule should lean more towards that. Obviously can't lean super ridiculously unfavorably in one direction or another, but this is still well within what's reasonable and I think this would be a good change for this tournament. Summer time (between SCOOP/WCOOP) seems a perfect time to trial it out

Recs in general definitely love PKOs. Many examples that are proof of higher participation between PKO and regular FO at the $100+ stakes (where I'm more familiar)
-$109 Mini Thurs Thrill always gets much larger field than $109 Mini Super Tues
-COOP $109 and $215 Mini Thurs Thrill always much larger field than COOP $109 and $215 Mini Super Tues
-Bounty 109 every day gets a much larger field than Big 109 and they start 1.5 hours apart. Big 109 reggier field, Bounty 109 def has many more fun players splashing around

I think Friday being the 'fast' day that a 6m psko with 'fast' structure or some sort of variable level time is perfect for the theme of the day.

Great SCOOP series, I had a lot of fun grinding!

0 tournaments @ SCOOP first time since 2011. Reason: ridiculously bad structures.

For instance tonight, starting time 23:30 EET NLO8, 20 min / 30 min blinds (action game meets mega deep grind), 2-day event but both days probably end around 9 AM (hard to say about Sunday though). Can't satellite either, because autoregistration. Otherwise might consider satellite -> latereg near the end of latereg for a "quick" shot (5 hours late registration period is a bit of an overkill).

Next time make them start many hours earlier or make it 10 min blinds if you decide to go with European midnight starting time.

Yep, this was the nut worst 2 games to play at the same time.

Why did you change the min entrants from 3 to 6?

I didn't get a e mail about this as stated either fwiw.

Today's Pacific rim got cancelled because it was 1 player short or starting. It always hits gtd despite you reducing the gtd over time from 25k (which is hit) all the way down to 12k gtd even though it was hitting 17-20k every week.

I get that it's a coop Sunday so won't be a popular but it's been played and hit gtd all through the series until this change.

It's not just this tournament there is a history of just reducing gtd even though the tournament hit (unless it's psko which never get reduced).

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This was changed maybe two weeks ago; I actually got an email warning me since I had played one of these risky ones in the past weeks multiple times.

Is it just me or players country doesn't show up anymore since last update?

No that is a bug indeed - it is mentioned in the Software Improvement Thread and many users have noticed. As soon as you fold your hand it is no longer working.

Also today I noticed the PLO-22 from 5:30 is no longer running; I guess it is taken out of schedule although it was always easily hitting its guarantee (?)

Seems gtds already took a dive again.

Luke already posted GTDs will be reduced from today

Well I overlooked that but I think this explanation is bs anyway. World cup is still 3,5 weeks away. Can we expect a raise in gtds 3.5 weeks before summer ends? Probably not. Makes even less sense to slash the micros as well. Stars really doesnt want to spill any dollar in eventual overlays.

WSOP is probably another factor

Since SCOOP is coming to an end, here are some thoughts on the current schedule and where an addition can be made:

1.In terms of the heads up, you guys got a good deal of them at night ET and a decent one in the morning for those in Europe at 4:45AM ET, however I believe you guys could add one similar one in the day. There are HU currently at 6:30 ET, 9:30 ET, 11:15 ET, 4:45AM ET, one sometime around 12-2 ET in the afternoon would be money.

Personally I would love to see a similar to Saturday format at around $15-20, maybe 12-15k guaranteed (Saturdays usually hit 20k without much problem) with the same starting stack and blind levels

2.A more expensive $3.30 8:20 ET PKO Zoom would also be nice, maybe in the $15-33 range just like you guys do with the 3max zoom at 4:45, so you could essentially have two levels of buyins for that zoom structure (10k starting stack, 9 max) running in the evening as I know your $3.30 is very popular. As far as the guarantee, you guys can start with 10kish and I'm sure you'll have no problem hitting it, I think it would be very money as the current one is popular as hell and SCOOP showed us just how well they do in general.

Let me know what your thoughts are

This "players party" is an excellent troll, wp. You got me

Lots of O8 tournaments cancelling because of required players were brought to 6. Like 44$ PLO8 Omania had 5 players and got cancelled. I guess more niche formats are even more affected.

I understand that you don't want to see some 3-way splits resulting of loss because of guaranteed prize pools, but increasing required players from 3 to 4 (instead of overkill to 6) should've eliminated most of the problem without lots of tournaments ending up cancelled (which would've met guaranteed with ease).

The percentage of people going to the WSOP from outside America and more specifically from Europe is not very high and certainly wouldn't affect micro to mid mtts at all.

lmao +1