This was a mistake. It has been fixed for the next iteration of all the monthly VIP tournaments. Sorry!



I am a betting man, and I'll go with higher. The ball is in your court, Bryan!

I recently did some end of year research on the changes to Sunday Million, Sunday Warm-Up, and Sunday Storm satellites. Some of my findings:



This comparison is over a significant sample. It is also worth noting that total entries in main schedule MTT satellites have increased year on year while the number of satellites has been reduced.

There is no TLB in 2016. We're still in the planning stages of a new promotion to celebrate tournament winners. Matthew will have more on this in the future.

I wish more people liked to play ante-up! I don't think it is a bad format and encourages some critical thinking about strategy. The future of this format in the main schedule is unclear.

I'll pass along the feedback about the SNG satellites.

My inclination is less, purely because of the implementation of dynamic structures. It is likely that more tournaments start with 5-minute levels but end with longer levels.

You'll probably have less MTTs, but the goal is that they're all unmissable.

They will not be replaced by TCOOPs.

The Big $7.50 was actually at $10K. It will be increased to $12K beginning Monday. The Bigger $7.50 will stay at $15K.

The team put a significant effort into mitigating the lag this weekend. It seems as though there was some relief, but it is clear the problem hasn't been solved. If you're able to point to specific time slots which are noticeably bad, I can make an effort this weekend to do more of the same.

All of the major structures will be reevaluated this year.

Sadly, this isn't technically possible in the way that you mean. The "Live Events" tab in PS7 is pretty handy. Any chance I can convince you to play some online satellites? Some of them are pink and guarantee lots of seats!

The issue with these high stakes tournaments is that this group of players is much more fickle than the rest of our player base. They travel to live events and generally do not have 9-5s. This results in the field sizes fluctuating significantly from week to week.

My first post in this thread describes some functionality that I could see being useful for this tournament:

I do not think that moving the time slot would significantly help the size of the field, but the above functionality could mitigate the times you're sitting there one-tabling the Sunday 500. Thoughts?

I'll give this a look to see if it is consistent with other deadline structures.

OOPS

I posted above regarding a test being conducted starting today:

We'll keep an eye on the results.

In addition to what I've already said regarding minis, I will add that I'm not comfortable adding tournaments to Sunday until the lag issue has been wholly resolved.

I like how you forgot to put MicroMillions in that list I may sound like I'm a big fan of MicroMillions, but the reason I like MicroMillions is I get to play all variants with bigger guarantees which we normally don't get.

Anyway what I meant was I want to see more mtt promotions like giveaways, half-price Sunday majors, occasional mini-majors with giveaways, sunday storm - 1M GTD, etc.

What changes are you looking for? Imo the ones that are doing already well or okish, shouldn’t be changed. I can’t tell about Razz, Stud, and other mixed games as I don’t play them. I was talking about Badugi, Triple Draw, NL 2-7 Single Draw schedule. Last year you removed many tournaments - I understand they needed cleaning but you could have slightly modified few of them. There are only 2 triple draws tourneys yet there are more triple draw cash players than single draw which has got 4 daily tournaments.

Now regarding the Daily/Weekly schedule – As of now there are 11 Non-NLHE Daily tourneys. All had started with $1K GTDs. HORSE, 8-game, PL 5-Card draw, Stud H/L, FL Omaha H/L haven’t got their GTDs reduced yet so I can assume they are doing good. Stud, Badugi, NL 2-7 Single Draw haven’t been doing very well. NL 2-7SD most of the time got overlay because of bubble effect but still they are only getting 30-35 entrants which is below avg. Imo you should move Badugi, NL 2-7 SD couple of hours back. Razz, Triple Draw, FL holdem has got $750 gtd which is also below avg. I believe Daily-Weekly needs a promotional support. Last year you had a Draw week but it wasn’t very well executed. You could have taken advantage of that promotion and could have doubled their guarantees for that week.

I think you should come up with a promotion maybe for 1 month like:

1) i) Win 3 Dailies in a day and get a chance to win

40% $250 + 3 $27 Daily Tickets
20% $500 + 5 $27 Daily tickets
5% $2500 + 10 Daily tickets
2.5% $5000 + 10 tickets
etc etc Similarily for Weeklies

ii) Cash 3 dailies in a day and get 3 $27 tickets
iii) Play 3 dailies in a day and get 1 $27 ticket

Obviously this is just an example, I don’t know what should the numbers be or how much would you spend on this promotion. BUT IT DEFINITELY NEEDS A PROMOTIONAL SUPPORT.

2) Daily/Weekly separate Leaderboard (Permanent thing)

3) New Badges – All team pros have got this red spade thing, and players who have hit 1M vpp or 5M vpp– I think you should introduce more badges. Like the winner of daily/weekly leaderboard should get a badge which he can use it for a week or a month. Badges are super attractive to recs

4) All-rounder/Mixed game player of the week – Introduce something like player of the week. You decide what the criteria should be.


I have already suggested that to PokerStars Matthew in promotions thread, I thought I should also let you know about this. I don’t want to see it run only during promotions, I want it to be a regular thing so by the end of the month I can spend my 1k stars coin on a zoom tourney rather than buy $11 tournament ticket and play big 11 or Sunday storm which I find super boring when I have to single table. There aren’t many zoom tourneys and there is not a single special zoom tourney.

Anyway, what was the $5K winner take-all promotion?

Yeah yesterday the time of mtts starting did have some effect on lag, it was relieved on the 15 30 intervals for me but isn't the best method and we hope to see this resolved asap. Then bring in the minis

make the withered 55t reentry a 55t super ko

Hello Luke

I am o8 high stakes player and i think i have some good ideas how to inprove things.

1. First of all the 530 plo hi/lo on Wednesday very good tournement that hits it guarenteed all the time, imo it does not attract really recreational players but the players who i think are -ev in this toernement are most of the time rich holdem mtt crushers (who play them for fun or ego). So for stars this is also a very good tournament. An idea to try is to make it 1 rebuy when busted ( i know you are business stars, try 1 re-enry then i am happy to give a other 30$ in rake and i guess a lot of rich holdem crushers does not care too what is good for toernement imo also more price money)

2. An other idea too add also a weekly no limit hi/lo highstakes. i think the best format for no limit o8 would be a 109+R (unlimited) (add-on same amount of chips as rebuy pls otherwise to much late regs). It will be way more fun for no limit o8 to make it 109+R then to make it a 320. it will be nice for a friday. there is a lot of cap game no limit o8 cash action those people would join this too.

3.I did see suggestions for a daily 215 psk nl hi/lo hyper ofcourse i love the idea but luke i think starting with a 215 psk o8 hyper late on sunday would be very smart And save choice to begin with (the 82 psk nlhi/lo early in sunday is always booming, no idea why all those holdem people join :P ). i would bet lot of money that when a 215 psk hyper toernement is a little before or after the sunday super sonic it will be booming!!

i have more ideas but the above i think will very likely work!

thanks Luke for the responses, this is what I meant by being more responsive, visible and open in 2016. Just keep it up.

skipping this alot. would fire something different in that timeslot though. +1 to a change here.

Thanks, I hope PS decides to keep the format. I play the $55 from time to time, it always reaches / exceeds it's GNTD any time I played / observed the game. The smaller GNTDS seem to always bust the GNTDS as well. It would be a shame to see the format no longer offered in the main schedule.

I feel as if the satellites would run more often if the format was switched to the previously mentioned format. I registered for one of the sats last week to notice it wasn't an Anti-up structure and was a hyper. I immediately unregistered. I think others done the same as the short time I observed the sats I seen players taking the same action as me.

I look forward to playing TCOOP Event 38.

that tourney needs to go or make it a 33/55 bounty builder

That regfest in nosense. +1 to something instead. And 44t took the same way.

Regarding Ante Up, maybe a nice little promo would help a bit. I guess there are a ****load of recs who never played this game or don't even know it exists. But it is kinda fun and a new twist if you always play standard MTTs.

I don't know if this exactly is the right thread for it but...

How does PokerStars.FR think, really?
The Galactic Main event, with 3 starting days and a concluding Day 2 on Wednesday, is a slow-structured mtt with 20-minute levels.

After Day 1C on Tuesday there will be a total of ~600 runners for Day 2.

Won't this be a ridiculous grind for those 600 runners? There is no Day 3 so we are talking about 14 hours+ to finish.

Thoughts?

standard on .fr in these fcoop/scoop main 1ks day2 also always lasts until 9 a.m. +

I miss .fr so much

Of course the structures are excessively slow (relative to what we've become accustomed to) but they allow for so much play and the recreational players love them.

For PLO the 215 is too early on a Saturday and suffers from the problem of a low guarantee not being enticing enough to a lot of target players to start their grind earlier and reg it.

You need a 6 max rebuy scheduled at a good time, as this is by far the most popular format. No reason it couldn't do very well but it needs to be peak time and not to plug a gap somewhere. Fridays don't really have anything atm.

I would start with something like a 50r 25k gtd on a Friday night, with a Mini 5r 5k or similar in tandem.

Agreed on the turbos front

The 55t 2x, the 44t and even the new 33t feel like they could do better as part of some promotion, same goes for the 22 10k. I play some of the bigger volume schedules of players and I usually skip the lot of them. I remember you changing the 109 2x to psko and it exploded, why not try and spice these up a little? I could get on board with leaving the 33t as it is as its been doing ok the rest is absolute trashy regfests tho.

Plenty of stuff on other sites, always skip those

Perhaps some of these tourneys could be better as 6-max? Or changing the 44t/10k to a 11c turbo (same structure as 109c turbo later)
Also something added to support the late hours around bb82 and h44 would be appreciated.
Thanks, Luke, for being active

I would love to see some tourneys change to 6-max. Is it correct that the only sunday major is the 162 6-max?

Bounty Builders are perfect candidate to become 6-max.

Yupppp

ye but wont happen unfortunately as some rep already saiid Bounty BUilder = 9 max

and ye agree again with above posts that entire hour from 19-20 CET needs some work
22$-10k
55$T -x k
44$T -10k

are completly withered, the turbos are raked 10% and its a complete regfest. I suggest offering MTTs instead that are beatable and huge +1 to more 6max!!!!!!

supersonic

Haha good Point

Actually might u suggest making the Sunday rebuy 6max? Might make that thing actually exciting to play again. That or the Sunday 2nd chance/ Sunday 500. I really love the weekly and Sunday 6max mtts as well as all 6max majors in coops, please add some or convert some

Why is 109r not exciting to play? Probably top 5 best tournaments on a Sunday imo.