Hey everyone,

The freeroll has been posted. Its ID is 1916592126. We decided to add another $10.9K worth of $109 SCOOP tickets as well.

I've not seen more than a handful of complaints about time banks. Since we're most of the way through the Series and it doesn't appear to be a hot topic, I do not plan to change it for the remaining Events; however, this is something that I'm happy to discuss between Series.

The $1,050 tickets are for Event-01-H, the $1,050 Phase 1s. The $109 tickets can be used in any SCOOP Event or satellite with the same buy-in.

In all non-shootout Events, yes.

I have no words for how ridiculous and ******ed this is.

1st ~160k
2nd 12k
3rd 11k
4th 20k
5th 17k
6th 12k
7th -1k

Cool format.

Imagine playing ~16 hours over 2 days, coming 7th in a 1k SCOOP and being down 1k. Life tilt.

Sigh I never understood why stars is pushing this format so hard. The Saturday KO overlays like 90% of the weeks since inception. The old super knockout format was doing well better but they refuse to reverse it.

I get that there are reasons the community is not a fan of Total KO's - but its just 1 event out of the series; you don't have to play it...I actually didn't play it because it didn't award LB points. But it's pretty fun - different - different is good - variety is fun
And so is Chance!!

he won 1k?

i think this guy who finished 15th is more tilted tho

such a **** format

+1 , how many ppl have to complain about it before they get rid of it?

He bought in twice for a total of 2k, and he won 1k in bounties. He's down 1k overall.

It's good for the poker economy!1

fwiw, i also find time banks and time to act too short

+1 me too

Of course you haven't seen more than a handful of complaints cos there is just a handful of people affected by this during the series and those are the ones actually being deep in a SCOOP as time bank is obviously decreasing throughout the tournament. What do you expect? A mail from some random rec who busts in 500th place? Maybe some of your data specialists can check the average time bank left at each event so far with <4-5 tables left. Also saying this isn't a hot topic is ridiculous with the biggest events yet to come and thousand of dollars on the line. I generally wouldn't make such a fuss about it if it actually would take a lot of time to implement or many things speaking against it but that just doesn't seem to be take case imo.

Imagine being told on day 5 of the WSOP main that you from now on only have 20 seconds left to act (but hey, we won't change this cause there weren't any complains on the prior days).

Complaints:

1) No watches. Lol, wut?

2) No FT reports on the M's and L's. More proof they are cutting cost. They can't even be arsed to write the entire results, just the winner. Imagine if people bet with a smart contract based on the official pokerstars results...now it wouldn't be able to resolve. The official stats page also is broken.

3) Time bank is a joke.

4) No stud. Lack of demand? Like there's a demand for NL 5 card draw?

5) Stupid formats added without thought to testing or asking anyone who understands game theory. WTB NLO...yea. Let's make a game where you can't do anything ever because of icm, and make the main villain someone on your right. WTB is a fine concept, just not combined with a no limit game of very close preflop equities.

6) No one day tournaments. It could be quite annoying to have to come back for a lone day 2 of a $5 tournament being guaranteed $8 when you have other plans.

Appreciations:

1) Replays up very quickly.

2) Better selection of buyin choices.

3) Different max-seating for NLO8.

4) Higher rake. Everyone likes more rake and less promotions.

complete garbage format ffs get rid of it one time please for the love of god

More rake is better though.

The timebank and time to act was introduced last April with the new "improved" schedule. Essentially turbos post new schedule had the same amount of time to act as hypers previously and so on and so forth.

Mentioned it then and Luke suggested i played less tables. If in one swoop you cut the time available per action by 25-30% and never acknowledge it you are going to notice it. Just another little nudge to reducing edges and recycling the deposits over and over so only amaya wins.

I would like to play a lot of deep/normal speed, deep/normal structure stats to 109 Main Event. Like 11,16.5,22$ and to run at the weekend by 15/30min from each other.
Or at least consider deploying 11$ deep/deep that runs every hour.

If you have a plans - don't reg 2-day tournament... By following your logic, you can say: Hey Luke, please make all MTTs hyper-turbo because I have a plans in 2 hours, so I can't play reg speed MTTs.
Personally, I am very happy that there is $5.50 2-day event. I'd like to play more of them and even 4-5 days events (marathon). But I will not register if I have a plans tomorrow because it's just silly.

+1

Pls increase the time bank. It's too short at the moment. And pls bury the 100% prsko. It has been a failure since it's inception.

This.

And any1 dumb enough to play a 100% psko deserves to get 2nd and get 0 KOs.

Did you find the freeroll? Can't find it even with the id.

in SCOOP-46-L it says ''rebuys cost $11'' without specifying rake , does this mean $11 goes into the prize pool or are rebuys/addons raked?

Need to strategize this phase.

35k chips, 160/320/32. 11 levels remaining.

Dont think I can mostly fold yet.

No. Always raked on stars.