Pretty much

Too many cancelled tournaments..... not happy about the 6 minimum rule - thumbs down

luke you said you want to do something with the Big162 to increase numbers, instead you kept lowering the guarantee. Now we are at 7,5k gtd and today it had 58 entrants. Is that really worth the label "Big" ?
Change it to the Big82 with a 20k guarantee and see how it goes

Not that I play it, but the 27$ Mega Sat to the Daily500 is cancelled almost every day. Why not try a 11$ Mega Sat to the Big215 with 3 seats gtd instead?!

Thanks for the reply Luke Only been 10 days now....

Are you kidding me stars?? You promoted these football chests as special prizes....

I got 2 chests, 1 for $1.75 and 1 for 100 stars coins???? That's significantly less than I get from your normal ****ty chests??
I guess I'll add this to the list of over-hyped disappointments you've given me over the last couple years.
Serious question: Are you trying to kill your business?

Yes, a very crappy promotion indeed. Nothing to get excited about.
If you do this, better do nothing.

You guys act surprised

I wonder how come general public isn't insulted or pissed off at these 50c EV Amaya promos. Since they keep doing it I have feeling it might be working as an incentive to play anyway? Or people are being naive every time? It's mind boggling.

Consider that the average chest is worth far less than $1. For the majority of players these are actually way better than average rewards, sad as that is.

Hello Luke,

I always enjoyed playing regular heads up mtt's in the past.
They were always filled with people and were enjoyed by loads of people.
What is the reason that these are not in the schedule at all anymore?

They are on the schedule, type in Heads Up.

They are zoom PKOs, but if you have an edge HU, you'll still have it playing those.

decided to delete

Your level of happiness is often the inverse of your expectations. I expected to get like 15cts per chest so I was happy to get 85cts and a dollar. I'm being semi-sarcastic of course, but by now if you still get upset that stars gives you terrible rakeback it's kind of your own fault. Just give up on it and assume max 10% but probably <5% rakeback

I got 4.50$. Now I die happy

Hey everyone,

This will be a long one.

There is nothing in particular to announce. We're all grinding away at preparations for upcoming promotions, including WCOOP.

Received this feedback in a few places. Will ensure it doesn't happen again going forward. Thanks for dropping a note here.

The $215 isn't a terribly popular tournament, so I am not too excited about the prospects of increasing the buy-in further. I think the $22 is pretty well-participated, though.

Thanks Josh. Anyone else want to chime in on the idea of having more Progressive KO Majors? There are no imminent changes planned, but I'd like to receive more feedback.

Thanks for the feedback. Since we've increased the amount of NLO8 we offer in our big Series, we can probably get away with running an Event with shorter level times. We'll consider it for WCOOP.

Thanks for the feedback. I agree on the idea of a heads-up during peak time, but I think we are reaching critical mass in terms of how much Zoom the schedule can support. I'd like to give this some more thought..

You’ve convinced me. It will be $109/$10K GTD from Monday, June 18th. Please support it!

I handed in my resignation for this unforgiveable decision. Unfortunately, it was rejected.

I wanted to try some different buy-ins during SCOOP (and may do the same during WCOOP), but I still don't have an optimistic outlook when it comes to weekly Phase tournaments. People just want to qualify to a big tournament on Sunday. The higher the buy-in, the weaker the participation will be on Monday-Friday. This is why if we were to add a new weekly Phase, I'd lean toward a lower buy-in to make sure Monday through Saturday Phase 1s are well-participated.

It looks like this tournament cancelled on the 13th and 20th of May, but not since. Still, we'll reduce the minimum entrants required to start to five players instead of six. Other tournaments will be changed as well, so please keep your eyes peeled.

This format was just a longshot attempt to breathe some life into the Bubble Rush format. It hasn't been terribly successful and is more likely to be removed than expanded. We are trying to be a bit more careful with the complexity of the schedule. To overgeneralize, think about how players find a game in the Spin & Go tab compared to the Tourney tab. The Tourney tab is not pretty, and we're trying to be more conscious about creating additional clutter.

1 - Why? Anyone else agree/disagree?

2 - I don't think finishing second in this tournament and not winning a prize is particularly common as you'd have to win your round of four against someone who also got to that point without winning a prize, but I take your point. The problem is that we don't want to create situations in this format where players are incentivized to stall. What would you think about a prize structure where a certain percent of players just receive 2x or 3x their buy-in, regardless of their finishing position?

3 - This tournament seems to be well-participated. What do you like about it?

Adding a PSKO element to a shootout would almost certainly increase participation, but what would it add? Assuming all tables are full, won't the knockout money move around in a completely predictable manner? I guess the upside is that you could win a couple bounties and not be upset if you finish in second place at your table.

The daily Mega is at three seats guaranteed right now. Its popularity increases and decreases based on whether or not we're running a Spin & Go satellite (because they award $11 satellite tickets). I do not think the benefit would be big enough to warrant changing the tournament on a constant basis due to the Spin & Go.

Generic ticket satellites? I'd be all for it, but unfortunately satellites tend to be better participated if they show up in the tournament lobby of a specific tournament. Since a ticket satellite isn't directly linked to another tournament, players have a hard time finding them.

Which?

Late registration in this tournament will be reduced from 80 minutes to 60 minutes going forward. It should solve the issue. Thank you very much for the feedback - these types of issues are difficult to spot without your help.

I'm not a fan of the first two options. I'm not sure how happy players would be with a slower structure in a Zoom tournament and bigger starting stacks are mostly reserved for special tournaments. I don't think a shorter registration period will hurt this tournament in particular. Players can change their registration habits and there's no re-entry.

Thank you for this. It is a pretty crappy player experience to have these listed, so I'm going to see what can be done to have them removed. In the meantime, I've expired yours so they should no longer be in your menu.

Yes, though they will also be changed to five entrants starting next week.

I understand this could be problematic in a tournament where you only win money if you knock someone out, but in a normal tournament, this would massively incentivize stalling. This is a roundabout way of saying that the price of development would simply be too high for such a niche case.

This is also a great backup, though not if you have a lot of tables!

Unfortunately, they're just not well-participated.

What dates would you suggest?

I believe there will be some promotional activity, but I'm fairly certain there will not be ultra-satellites.

Wow, people remember Common Cents?!

Which ones, exactly? This weekend's Bigger $22 and Bigger $11 both lasted around 11 hours.

I think removing re-entry would hurt rather than help these tournaments. The problem with off-peak is that it's off-peak: the player pool is very limited, so offering re-entry allows us to reduce the buy-in and still generate prize pools.

It will be the 5 minimum rule starting Monday!

The Big $162 will change from Monday - see above. You are correct that the Daily 500 Mega is underperforming. We'll change the minimum entrants in these tournaments to see if we can breathe some life into them. We've had the discussion about the pink sats to the Bigs a few times by now and my position hasn't changed.

Hey, we use these quiet periods to our advantage, planning the next promotions and changes to the schedule. But now that you've summoned me, I'm here!

Please make it a BIG 109 10k otherwise it’s already destined to die

Against. Many players is good, but variation is good as well. Current majors strike a good balance.

Maybe switch the timeslot for the current big109 with the big162?

Hope not, b109 is good where it is

The big109 at 6pm (cet) is fine, but the majority of the players in it nowaday is regs. Therefor I figured upping the buyin to 162 wouldn't make that much of a diffence. If they play the 109, they'll play the 162 and you'd be able to make a bigger gtd.

Am I able to pull WCOOP highlights with cards up?

I am from the USA, if that gives me any restrictions..

My big concern was the HU PKO zoom during 12-2, if you could make that happen that would be great. I would love the Saturday structure at $22 say 10k guaranteed, which you guys should hit ez considering your Saturdays hit that ez.

Personally I find the $3.30 8:20 ET zoom format fun AF and think a more expensive one in the $16-25 range would be great for you guys and I think there are tournies around that time frame that don't do as well that could be removed. You might have better data on this though, I just think that it's one of the funner formats out there and seeing the success in the 3max zoom or the $3.30, I think it could do very well with a higher buyin.

I just hope you add the HU during the day, I think that's something that's really missing and it would improve my schedule a ton. The other suggestion would be gravy.

I'm gonna disagree with that other guy btw, I've played 100s of these tournies and this is my worst finish to money ratio:

35/650 for $26 in the $11 HU zoom
91/600 for $5 in the $11 HU zoom
100/600 for $10 in the $11 HU zoom
110/750 for $0 in the $22 HU zoom

I also play the $33 where I've never finished top 10 (13 times) and had $0 in bounties. I think this occurance happens where the person is totally clueless about how wide one needs to be hunting, for example 72o v a 20 bb call range is a profitable shove as it wins 30% of the time and they fold 70%+ of their range meaning you're leaving as a winner 80%+ of the time.

Now should you always do it? Ofc not, let's say you're very late (final 10) and blinds are 600/1200 and you have 25 bb (30k) and the other guy has 20bb (24k) (starting stack was 3k), there are all sorts of bounty levels that can give you different solutions:

Min bounty (.5 BI), fold as I can find better spots and the chips are only worth 1.5k
5x min bounty (2.5x BI), fold as I can find better spots and the chips are only worth 7.5k
10x min bounty (5x BI), close either way as the chips are worth 15k so it can't be TOO bad, it would depend on the player and other bounty sizes
15x min bounty (7.5x BI), smashing this in there as if it were AA, fold equity is great and the chips are worth around 23k, we are printing making this decision

Personally I've seen so many bad plays HU, I can say that if it is a common occurrence of running deep and not making any money or a very small amount, it's because the player is awful. I've seen people shoving A3o for 50+ bb to hunt min bounty, I've seen people folding 4bb at 25/50 for 2x min bounty, I've seen people shoving 100bb w a8o. This format exposes people in all sorts of ways.

Personally, I would keep it the way it is or only pay 5% of people. Stalling would be a HUGE issue with payouts, so if payouts were on the table, I'd say to make em small and make em for the very best.

case and point: next regular chest was $10 and 350 coins

Thanks Luke for such an extensive feedback. Keep it up.

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Micro Millions straight after the world cup finishes would be great.

I live in hope
What dates would you suggest?

I'd suggest last week from july till 15 august .