Since you removed money from the final table and added larger post bubble pay jumps as well as increased the increments between these pay jumps it's creating alot more stalling during these portions of the tournament.

There is no hand for hand in play in this area of the tournament and it's making the playing experience much worse for the average player.

Smaller increments, decreased % pay jumps at least until the final few table where you can implement hand for hand is much preferred for if not you'll always incentivize stalling which isn't much fun for anyone playing a poker tournament.

If you are diehard set on the new payout structure please at least consider lowering the preflop "shot clock" time. Players would still have their timebank for more difficult decisions but stalling would lessen.

i cant wait for the winter series, get to play some proper poker, 8 game, lots of mixed,,, oh wait is there something wrong with the filters i can only see nlh/nlo and some plo mtts :S

Hold Em Mtts have bigger fields -> more rake for Stars.

the stalling is becoming absurd yeah. I guess that's what happens when you have 1.5x+ buy in pay jumps as your initial pay jump in the tournament after getting ITM.

think stalling is becoming more of a common strat anyways. for example Big 33 money bubble literally lasted like 20 minutes last night lol. no idea why people care so much about min cashing when it's like 1.5x buy in...the real money is in the first pay jump

everyone abusing their thin edges because that appears to be all thats left on stars

$33 is the top of a lot of people's buyins as well. If your having a bad day you really want to get at least a min cash. Esp as theres no money on the FT

We need more Zoom HU PSKO MTTs. All them clearly outperform their GTDs. Especially between 10:40 and 17:05 there is basically none except an Omaha one at 16:09 CET.

And we still have that 3h 20m gap between 11:10 - 14:30 CET where no Zoom MTT takes place. Its the perfect spot to place at least one more HU PSKO Zoom.

So if youre still alive luke, check it out & take a look at increasing the GTDs for most of those HU Zoom PSKOs.

Agreed, they should add two more of each at around 12-1PM ET and 7-8PM ET in the $22-44 range. A $33 12k guaranteed PKO HU Zoom at 12pm ET and $44 20k PKO 9-Max Zoom at 1PM ET would be awesome there.

I kept telling him about other ones and so far they've done very well for Stars, but it takes forever to get him to listen.

So I was wrong.. It is possible to **** up payout structures in PS even more.
I think we should brace ourselves before they will force this payout structure on Sunday majors.

The Winter Series isn't showing up on my Tourney tab. The only way I can see them is if I enable Satellites on the filter, which I don't want to do because it clutters it too much. This is a huge ****up as rec players may not even know about it. Please fix this Pokerstars.

U blind ? Its implemented month ago allready

Yea same here. I think that happened already during other event series and its still not fixed.

is there no longer an option to uncheck "dim players not in hand"?

its gone from my client but theres an option still in the user.ini . it had a value of 0 and changing it to 1 didnt help.

kind of annoying in sng spots near the bubble to see how many are left, thanks.

They are showing up now. maybe they were hidden until the start of the series?

Friendly warning to winter series grinders, you probably want to skip the later reg speed ones if you value your own sanity, or unless you are sadistic and like playing 2 day tournaments in 1 day

Yea the first Event is still running. Already for 11 hours and not even on the final table yet.

Everyone loves to play a 14h+ tournament on christmas.

it's funny because it has been talked about and it seemed like the feedback has been noted. The same with turbos/hypers making 0 sense being implemented at exact timeslots every day since they start late so they last late also anyway. They have only turbos at decent times on 24th and 31st... It's just hard to grasp the rationale of this company and management. At whom are they aiming their offering with tournaments which last 13 hours and last just one day?

Definitely an advantage for non-euros who don't end up playing into the wee hours. But yeah they need day 2s

Easy solution would be to implement more zooms as you can play more hands in shorter periods of time, but nah that's too obvious. I actually cannot get over how there are ZERO zooms, wtf were you guys thinking?????

Way to remove a majority of the Omaha schedule today morons.

Just to follow up on this, I followed the suggestion in this thread and disabled all pop ups, but AFAIK, there were no prompts to re-enter if you busted out.

Iif you want to reenter, you can only do it by reregistering at the tournament lobby once you bust out. The only way to know if the MTT is a re-entry is to check that MTT's lobby structure tab.

Essentially, there's no easy way to know if an MTT is a re-entry and once you do, you have to remember to do it yourself by going to the lobby.

I would say this is utterly insane, but OTOH, I don't feel that bad, because re-entries aren't good for the health of the ecosystem. Maybe that was guiding their logic and they were trying to be underhanded about it, but I doubt it.

I was always reticent about blaming Pokerstars, but all the squeezing every inch so as to make a profit is starting to show its results: a once greatly run company is performing more and more erratically even to the detriment of her own bottom line.

It's sad and infuriating at the same time.

I don't get re-entry popups either. I believe it might have something to do with local legislation.

On another note Stars is obviously doing just fine if you look at their earnings reports. I believe they are doing a decent enough job. The reality is that the main culprits for the sad state of affairs in today's MTT climate are governments. It's hard to do much as a company when every year more and more countries get segregated out. Just imagine the sorts of fields and prize pools we would have with the likes of Spain, France, Italy, Australia etc in the world pool.

I actually think that on the whole poker is as popular as ever. Like if you put back together all the countries that were segregated from black friday onwards you'd probably get even bigger fields than in 2010.

I'm in Thailand and I get the re-entry popups. They popup right over the table after you bust.

Check your privilege. Runner up clearly sat back and watched while our champion street-sweeped the final table.

ICM freerollers, you are yesterday's men.

Is the re-entry on the Hot and Big tournaments permanent or just for the vacation period?

In some tournaments like the sunday biggers/hotters I receive the reentry popups but in satellites for example I dont (the pink mega sats for example) and always have to check if theres the option to reenter, pretty annoying.