Be fair... there is 9k added so the less players the better off from a players POV.

Yeah, it's not horrible? A bit too much effort but the added prize makes it tempting. And you'll fire side games if you advance too. Good for people working with just 3 hour days ending around midnight CET.

yeah, that is strange. but anyway - i'm looking for this kind of tournaments - multi day events!

are there more on stars or other rooms?

because beside family and job i rarely can't afford to play those regular marathon tourneys

exactly! that's it! i wanna play MTTs online, but not 10 hours long

i think the rooms should offer such tournaments more and more, because it will attract more recreational players (like me) which also is good for the regs (like you)

I like it, but still 5 days seems to be too long.

They should definetly add more of those rake free MTTs with added money. I really like the idea, wp Stars.

Yeah 5 days is a joke. 3 hours a day is pretty stupid as well. Just start it earlier and make it 5-6 hours per day.

Love the idea, but execution is horrible.

Completely agree with 3 days and I wish there was another one for those of us not in the west.

I don't think it really makes any difference whether you go beyond 3 hours into the 4-5 range, I think where it starts getting dicy for people is 6-8+ hours.

Imo a better way to do it would be to have it as a 3 day thing, start it on Thursday, one in the morning and one in the evening, same thing on Friday and then merge the player pools in a Saturday tournament around 9-11am ET.

Same here!

i started recently with a own thread for multi day tournaments
(https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/6...neral-1732518/)

First Problem:

I didn't notice about this tournament, it was just a coincidence.

First of all, pokerstars would have to start a proper client and online marketing campaign for such new tournaments, to attract ordinary and enough players.

Since most have to combine jobs and families with their poker hobby, three days in a row is actually the maximum. I would rather tend to two day tournaments.

As an example of a test phase, I would suggest the following:

Every evening
at 8 a 3.30$ MTT
at 7 a 11$ MTT
by 8 a 22$ MTT

(maybe even with satellites - 0.33+R, 1.11+R, 2.20+R- to increase the number of participants)

Micro and low level makes the most sense here, because the target group are the recreational players.

The advantages are obvious:

If tournament phase 1 lasts a maximum of 4 hours, I know that I'll go to bed around midnight (lately), which is just fine.
If tournament phase 2 takes longer the next day, it's ok, because you're already deeper in the money, and so the lack of sleep is a little better to bear.

So far it is very frustrating to sit at a tournament for 7 hours and then to have on place 25 hardly anything from the prize pool.

I am sure that two day tournaments with guaranteed prize money, which are well promoted, will attract a large number of players.

not to forget, multi day tournaments are very appealing for amateur players, as you can feel a bit like a pro, because these tournaments over several days are usually only known from television or 5k buyin tournaments like the recent one millions online on partypoker.

There should be more offers for ordinary players, and I am of the opinion: Pokerstars should do justice to its pioneering role also in this field!

Why not putting a 100k guarantee on it and announce it early enough? cause its stars and they never make much sense.

but its a great idea in general and stretching it to 5 hours a day and make it a nice monthly/weekly 3-day great structured tournament with a mid and highstakes version would (!) be amazing.
You could also continue running these during the EPT main events.

Agree cool idea on short multi day tournaments. Has potential.

Agreed

https://youtu.be/-cdcCNB2bxk?t=228

hmm..

@Luke

Any chance to add Winter Low/Medium Phase 1 in the AM EST time ?

Thanks

Nice initiative, this multi day tournament. Stop whining.
You can latereg in the second day with plenty stack and last day is only final table.
My problem is the Tuesday but I will be on the lookout for the next one

I didn't hear about this until now. Great idea, a real tournament with 20 minute levels, wow. Just late-regged, 0nly 2060 entrants though.

I must say promotion of this Mini PSPC tournament was one of the worsts I saw. I saw it was mentioned few times in PSPC live stream, but there was zero information about it besides that. I even wouldnt know about it if not this thread. And I am pretty sure it is same people responsible who implemented this horrible payout structure. And since I have 10 years of business management experience in different fields(but well.. not poker) either there will be some heads rolling or the downfall is inevitable.

I have to jump through hoops to bring up my SNG tables. If I late reg, the tables dont auto pop up.

Anyone else having issues?

Just a small suggestion for the 5-Day event if this stuff will return. We had a 5 minute break with only 5 minutes of playtime left. It would be better to cut those 5 minutes after the break so the first 3 days are each 10 minutes shorter.

+ 1

3 hours plays out ridiculously

75 dollar 5 hours a day
2-3 day max
may be 9 Handed rather than 8, with the slower structure

Some good feedback in here but there legit has not been anyone from Pokerstars to speak or acknowledge anything in here for many months. It is a real shame because the players will play more if they see events they like but Stars does not seem to care.

lol, good for roleplaying as a live poker player

Has anyone else noticed that most tournament fields are ~10-20% bigger recently?

For example the $22 Tripple Threat which usually has around 1300-1450 players had 1757 players today. Maybe because of the PCS streams on twitch?

For future mini PSPC need to add some blind levels so structure is similar to marathon/deep stacks. There were some big jumps there that almost negated the whole point of 20 min blinds and a 5 day event.

What on earth are you thinking with the payout structures in some of the mid stakes MTTs?

It's absurd and nobody at all likes it. I assume you think the fish will find tournaments more appealing when they see a huge first place, but wait and see how they feel when they get 2nd for 50% of the 1st place payout. Terrible for the ecosystem, terrible for individuals and consequently terrible for the game as a whole.

Yes, new payouts are really bad, but i guess until it doesnt apply to high buyins there will not be enough complain to make it back..

If stars want to win more money, make all the tournament reentry.