Well Event #1 was basically a 100k$ freeroll. So its still in favour of the players if you played all events imo. I just hope they dont continue to increase the rakes for low buy in tournaments.

They would never do such a thing..



also
0.19+0.03 in 0.22$
0.24+0.03 in 0.27$ hypers
0.29+0.04 in 0.33$
0.39+0.05 in 0.44$
0.49+0.06 in 0.55$ and 0.50+0.05$ in hypers. From 2% rake to 10% rake in hypers is such a **** increase. Are these cigarettes?

is this a joke?

The favourite tab shows the bigs and BBs that are in the same prize range as my other games, even though I don't put them in there since I can't finish them on time. What's that ?? I want to use favourites for games I can actually completely play, not games you might want me to play. How can I get rid of em?

Cannot highlight this enough. So sad what they have done.
No respect for the game or the player.
Their entire policy is to promote gamble and random profit and minimize technique and tactics.
Waiting for a young new PS to arise

I 100 % agree. Raking those 3x Turbos Rebuys was a big mistake. I used to play those too, but I stopped playing them as soon as they got raked, because they dont feel profitable anymore.

& that change hurts Sunday Million and other Major tournaments in a heavy way. I am pretty sure stars would make more money if they stop raking them.

No rake -> more entrys -> more tickets -> bigger pricepools -> more attractive for players -> even more players.


I like the way some other sites do it. A few sites dont even rake sattelites to grow their major tournaments.

I mean pushing those price pools of major tournaments does also increase the interest of people who are not on pokerstars yet.

Imo sattelites should never be raked the same way as normal tournaments. Aswell as draw cash games should never be raked as high as NL Hold Em, but thats another story.

RIP Pokerstars

Alright, just let me take quick note of the great accomplishments that happened over the last year on PokerStars:

- a new reward system that randomly distributes laughable prizes and punishes players that put in a lot of volume CHECK

- increasing the rake for small stakes players since now all the regs are gone CHECK

- flattening the payouts even more and taking away money from the FT to decrease the chance for players of landing a big score and destroy their win rate so they will keep coming back trying to make money CHECK




You should start seeing us as valued customers and not some dumb milk cows because in the long run you only get what you give and with those decisions you are not hurting us but yourself the most.

We are writing to inform you that a frequent opponent of yours 'Easterdamnz' has been granted a Stars ID change to 'Easterdamn'.

We take a very strict stance on changing Stars IDs. In an ideal world, there would be no changing of Stars IDs, just as it is not normally possible to change your identity when playing in live poker games.

That said, we accept that there will, very rarely, be situations where it is reasonable to allow such a Stars ID change. This happened to be one of those instances.


The most pointless namechange ever. WTF is wrong with the trailing Z?

Hahahah hahahah

RIP PokerStars for me anyways....

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...ounts-1716551/

EDIT: Thanks Luke for trying to assist

Does anyone have the JPEG of the comparison between all sites FT payout structures (stars/party/888/winamax/etc)?

thats from 9 months ago btw

stars has gotten even worse while the rest stayed the same

It seems that they now completely ruined Hots and Bigs $16.5 and under with these ******ed payout changes. 2nd place gets 1/2 of the first.

lol rip fokin site

Payouts are just unspeakable and they do everything without telling the players and without telling us the reason behind this.This site is going from bad to worse last years ....mby the real reason is to milk and bancrupt as they make same thing with some game before ,very,very bad for poker popularity and future.If u are on final table and u finish 8-9 u get a almost nothing for beating fields of 2000-3000 players or more .All the time i didnt switch to other site but now i will try party/bwin with 3 times less rake + rakeback program and will cost me only software change ,obviously pokerstars is getting worse and worse,hope is almost gone .

Hey Luke what is up with the Micro Millions? 8 minute blind levels? So we pay MORE rake for LESS quality games?

Hey all,

Apologies for the delayed responses. Our team all takes holiday in the summer and it results in some of us wearing many hats at the same time. This is also an appropriate time to mention that I'll be out of the office from the 14th of July, returning July 30th.

Not much to announce besides the fact that we're going to run the Sunday Million on July 15th despite it sharing a date with the World Cup Final. We're expecting overlay, so if there was ever a day to take a shot, this would be it!

It started as $109/$10K GTD but has been at $8K some days because of World Cup. I am optimistic that this tournament will do well come autumn.

How do you mean?

I deleted the content of the post just due to space, but wanted to mention that the 12:25 ET $22 Bubble Rush has been replaced with an $11 Heads-Up Zoom Progressive Total KO from Monday. Enjoy! Thanks for all the passionate feedback.

You were close.

This seems perfectly reasonable to me. It would be difficult to make this tournament deeper without it lasting far, far too long for the average player.

Not as close! We wanted to align it with the conclusion of the World Cup to get people back into the games!

What I was getting at is that it isn't currently technically possible to do what you've suggested. A generic tournament awarding tickets can only exist in the main lobby, not a specific tournament lobby.

There will not be a mini-WCOOP, but there will be plenty of tournaments in that buy-in range.

Why do you think they need re-entry?

Unfortunately we currently do not have the bandwidth at this time to make such changes. Thanks for the feedback - I do agree that variety is a good thing in the case of our daily brands.



A+

We're not ready to share WCOOP dates just yet. August is typically barren when it comes to MTT promotions because we send an enormous amount of players to Barcelona for EPT.

I chopped this quote up as well.

1. Do you think more players will join if it had longer blind levels? My concern is that many of these players might not want a "deeper" experience, but enjoy the games as they currently stand.
2. This would require development. Without the shootout functionality kicking in, matches would start immediately as players are eliminated. For instance, once 16th and 15th are knocked out, the winners of those matches will be paired together. The reason why we chose four players is because it mimics the shootout functionality. Once fourth place is eliminated, third place waits until the other table is finished before they're matched for the round of two.
3. Thanks for the feedback. We'll start with the Heads-Up Zoom during peak time to see what happens before exploring a further expansion.

I'm really not a fan of the shootout format in the daily schedule, and when it came to the Saturday Duel, that tournament was not exactly flourishing as a weekly offering, either. I think for now we'll continue with the Zoom format while iterating as needed.

There's some improvements planned for this functionality. Hopefully they're in place sooner rather than later as I agree it is not a great player experience at the moment.

You could late register the Sunday $22 Double Deuce until almost 7PM UK time. Last week's tournament took just about six hours to finish and it has a $100K guarantee.

Thanks for the feedback. When it comes to blue tournaments, I'm a bit more particular with changes. I'd rather take a big-picture look at what we're doing and make decisions than make changes to individual tournaments. This is less important when looking at the non-special tournaments. That said, your suggestion about hypers gave me an idea. What about a set of daily tournaments that awards tickets (from the prize pool, not added), to the Sunday version of that tournament? For instance, a $22 Daily Sonic at 18:00 ET where the final seven finishers all receive a $215 ticket to the Sunday Supersonic. Over time, this will help support the big weekly tournament guarantees. So long as this is properly communicated, I think players might like it. Thoughts?

Just wanted to mention that I appreciate your feedback. I've cut down the text to make my post a bit more readable.

You are correct that there's no hyper-turbo Zoom in the schedule. Interesting!

No changes have been made to pay tables in Progressive KOs.

Is there not an option in the pop-up itself?

In the past, I've said that tickets weren't optimal to award in Series satellites because we can't be sure that they'll be used, but in our flagship tournaments I think it is a reasonable solution. This removes the ability to grind for T$ and over time will put more money in the targets themselves and support healthy guarantees.

This is not technically possible and seems like it would be extremely confusing for players…

I PM'd you about this - we cannot replicate it and nobody else has reported it, so we would need log files to investigate.

If the satellites are moved earlier, they'll award fewer seats and will have lower guarantees. I think most players would prefer to keep them where they are.

Wanted to mention a few things about these pay tables:

• We're currently testing them in all Bigs & Hots below $20. A previous test was conducted in five daily Bigs for over a month.
• Compared to the old pay tables, the differences are 2nd place being fixed as half of 1st place, and 1st place being at most 23x bigger than 9th place, compared to 15x-20x.
• The goal is that the money moves down the final table and into the middle spots while still maintaining an attractive first prize. First prize has not seen a reduction.
• In the case of field sizes <1,000, players will start receiving more money at the lower end of the final table (~5th place onward), while in the case of larger field sizes, prizes may not start to increase until the 4th or 5th table compared to the previous pay tables.

This is just a test for now.

I'm not sure what you mean. These tournaments have been $14.70+$1.80 since March 26th.

Could you send me some more information via PM? It should be such that if you add the 13:00 ET Big $22, only that tournament is added to your favourites, not the 04:00 ET version as well.

They were deployed with 8 minute levels and then 10 minute levels once 25% of the field remained. This was not a final structure, so they're in the process of being changed to 8 minute levels during late registration with 10 minute levels thereafter, which is the same as last year.

It's ok guys everything is just a "test"

stars business strategy in a nutshell

How about maintaining an attractive first prize by paying 12-15% field instead of 20%?

Oh wait, better to steal 30% of payouts from the 2-9 place and give it to 10-xxx places. Great idea!

It's just laughable at this point. I stopped playing this bull**** and everyone who got at least some common sense should. This is just pure milking at this point.

And obviously you don't bother to inform anyone in any way about this, right? Because off-course this is just a test!
NO need to inform anyone about very important changes to the prize structures.

Oh wait, maybe you didn't inform anyone because these changes are ****ing stupid and laughable and you know it so better not tell others because you know... people... people actually have brainpower to analyze what a utter piece of **** this is... but if we don't tell them...

Oh and I almost forget Luke, brilliant hypocrisy when answering questions and suggestions, pretending that you care while implementing mostly exact opposite people want must be truly difficult and draining.

I hope you will take a proper vacation after this extreme dose of hypocrisy.
Maybe better if you will not come back from it.
At least people who can actually use brain wouldn't throw up after reading your brainwashed propagandist ****ting.

I have experienced this issue as well and its annoying button raise i jam sb and bb sitting out calls

have a screenshot i think

it was zoom triple threat

No reason to jam, just limp and they auto fold.

And yes this happens to EVERYONE Luke, it happens daily to me too.

pretty tough to limp after a btn raise.

ive experienced it a lot as well, only in zoom mtts i believe though.

btw payout structures are ridiculous. double or nothing mtts arent fun. if you do offer those ridiculous payouts across the board how about having a few super top heavy ones as well?

I'll quote you on the shorter blindlevels in the draw games

" Do you think more players will join if it had longer blind levels? My concern is that many of these players might not want a "deeper" experience, but enjoy the games as they currently stand."

What is this based on?

Isn't this why we have turbo and regular speed?
U did a good job adding a lot of low stakes non-holdem mtts, but the blind levels kind of ruin the experience for me.