I'm not sure pal. I don't mind to wait little bit and play some sngs in the middle of SCOOPs or WCOOPs.

But, yes, zoom fields can bring lots of recs to the field and I enjoy the fast structures most of the time.

I'll play heads-up in this series anyway.

Big $11 down to $25k gtd. Sad how much they've managed to ruin the site. I'm sure more great changes are on the way though to try claw back the money they've lost from the players they've driven away.

The main reason why its gtd went down is because the popularity of bounty builders. The traffic is just shifting away from "Bigs" to bounty tournaments. Beacuse a lot of recreationals who usually only have a limited amount of money to spent on poker tournaments, prefer to play BB over normal tournaments.

Honestly I wouldn't be opposed to bounties taking over totally if that's what recs like, but at the very minimum they need to fix the payouts. So much money already gets spread out thanks to bounties that adding a deep and flat payout system on top of it doesn't make any sense.

Bounties should be top 10% make the money with decent pay jumps all the way to 3 handed. 1st and 2nd should be equal prize money. I'd have zero issue with bounties if they used a structure like this.

So is "knockout sunday" a permanent fixture now?

most probably will change in future, just a matter of time

btw nice job on running two hot 33s yesterday and missing it completely today. please sack whoever is running this lol

Not even a MTT reg but I am sick to death of these bounty tournaments and now the Sunday Mill has $50 going to the main prize pool, jesus christ. Please make it stop.

Lol the Sunday million is a 109 pko now? Wtf

1) FFS the mil is going to smash the guarantee today and they're going to keep it as a pko forever obv.

2) I sattied into the mill when it was in late reg. Before, I would just get seated right after the satellite concluded, but this time I was awarded a "tournament ticket" and had to register for the mill manually.

Does this mean Tournament Dollars are a thing of the past? Is every satellite winner whether it be from an MTT satellite or SNG satellite now just going to be awarded a tournament ticket? Because if so, you've just completely screwed over another group of players - hyper sat grinders specifically/but also anyone else who grinds satellites for $$$ instead of tournament seats.

These guy are bottom ass shethead company .I also played satty but cuz of stalling i reg the milly before satty end (i had enough chips for ticket) and i dont want to play bounty shortstack) after satty my br doesnt move up i check tickets and....get hella angry i got ticket for 109 million ....nice you force me for last time to play some tournament u rigged piece of greed ,withdraw and go to party completely .Scammy bastards and almost to forget ,the guys working in support are total monkeys which i guess (most of them) never played poker since they cant understand 1 question for 3 emails ,on 4th i get right answer so 25% ot your people arent shet.

Or maybe some people are finally sick of being shafted, I've noticed the micro GTDs have dropped in the last few weeks too.

Look at the buyins, you've got the usual $2.20, $3.30, $4.40 etc

You'd be forgiven for thinking the number after the decimal point is the fee, but only once you've opened the lobby and then clicked the very last tab do you then discover, buried away, that those tournaments are actually $1.96 + 24c, $2.94 + 36c, $3.92 + 48c etc... right up to $16.50 being $14.70 + $1.80.

Then they more than halve the reward points for tournaments down to 45 points per $1 fee. Not that it matters as the chests are an insult anyway.

Maybe the tipping point for many people has been reached.

Bounty Builders are the more popular format than normal regular speed freezeouts but they aren't the longer term solution in my opinion. Eventually they will lose their appeal for the same reason that many regular online speed tournaments lose their appeal. Especially the daily tournaments. Online poker just isn't as popular as it once was and many people with limited leisure time are simply choosing to do something else rather than invest it into these daily online tournaments that can last up to 5+ hours.

I think sites should be looking for more innovative ways run these regular speed freezeouts over the course of the week. Fewer tourneys but make them better and more enticing to play.

Bubble Rush tournaments were a great idea but they have faults and weren't marketed enough. Phase and/or variable buyin structures should become more common imo. They are more exciting, guarantees are higher and they don't commit players to long sessions for playing the initial phase. Once players reach the final phase they will be closer to the money to start and playing for much greater prize pools up top. There should be some way to develop phase offerings which make sense for all player types.

One thing Luke mentioned was a problem with these were that many of the players that qualify from the initial phase fail to show up to the final phase. I think there should also be some sort of flexibility as to the final phase as to also not commit players to an exact date/time. There should be some way to give players of all types the ability to play a regular speed structure but not have to commit to the long hours.

So far, tickets are awarded in (most) sats to Sunday Million, Sunday Storm and seasonal series; sats to other MTTs still award seats that can be redeemed for T$ if won before the start of the target or when you've already entered it.

That said, the majority of the 2nd kind of sats end when the target is already running, so the T$ grind now consists in entering the target (usually a BB, sometimes a Hot or a Big) and then loading as many sats to it as possible (incl. 16-player hyper shootouts if you're good at them) to compensate for the variance of the target.

Easier to rebrand all your series on FRESPT to KO given the ridiculous disparity between the two formats.

Hi guys sm is gonna be pko from now. Players love it. We have data for proof. :/

When will scoop schedule be released? So i can wince in disgust

I agree to most of what you have said. We definetly need more weekly events and more innovation.

They should add ~1-3 test slots in their schedule where they try out different new formats (for example a tournament which starts with 2 rounds of heads up and then shifts to a normal 9max tournament), which get replaced by new ones every week. Right now their only test phase for tournaments are event series like Scoop.

I would also love to see different weekly events (instead of randomly appearing ones). We already have leaderboards so why not use them more frequently? They could for example run a leaderboard for the most "KOs" during a week. Or the most final tables / or wins in MTTs during a week (small field tournaments like 8game etc. would benefit a lot from that). Possibilities are endless. Creating those events on a weekly basis (starting on mondays) would also increase the traffic on the lowest traffic day and it would create hype and also drive up viewer numbers on twitch and give content creators more stuff to talk about. Which is basically free advertisement for Pokerstars. Games like Fortnite have proven how important and how effective it is to keep a game fresh on a frequently basis.

Phase tournaments were great & I agree, people should be able to decide when to play Phase 2.

I see great leader board for the 0.00001% of the players (high roller series) which they are trying to boost since they cannot reach their guarantie half of the time even after reducing it so many times

Oh okay. I havent seen that yet. Well at least they start to use their leaderboard function more often. They should also include leaderboards from SCOOP etc. in the client instead of showing them on a seperate website.

I still remember the days of the Daily Eighty Grand and the Nightly Seventy Grand. Wednesday Quarter Million. Nothing but a distance memory now.

Ahhh the good old days...

You guys are overly optimistic

This is actually kind of a good gesture, didn't see they anounced it they are giving away to the top 40 on the high roller tourney leaderboard at least a $530 scoop ticket+





Now after some compliments pls release scoop schedule stars?? Please let it be good even without asking for any community advice or feedback <3

Optimistic about their statement or what ? Stars is quite utter trash and u can see it by guaranties i check them everyday almost and they lower them week after week ,still some of them doesnt met by a little or met by a little which lets be honest is poor for PS since in the past their guaranties was met by 15-25% more than the guarantie.Sad times for poker with huge rake,**** payouts,poor promotions and being treated like human scum by PS ,even their support became so trash lately,must send 4 emails until they understand what im asking them which wasnt too complicated at all.Obv they dont want to pay for ppl with good IQ but for some low paid monkeys or ppl which never played poker and doesnt have idea at all.

The only thing that could revive online poker and poker stars would be if the Americans were allowed to play again. If it were to be legalized in the states again it would be the poker boom 2.0, until then poker will struggle to gain traction again and attract new players. And unfortunately we will see a decline in gaurentees, popularity, and participation. #OneDay

For the life of me I can't figure out the reason why the BB530 is moved to a late timeslot? It's one of the most succesful tournaments out there and it runs for a really long time. Also people will be much less willing to start the WU 1k now.

Edit: back in the original timeslot again, nevermind.