Hi,

For anyone that has any cash chips, please cash them in by 23:30, Saturday the 20th. If you come any later, we will likely have the cash desk flat packed into a box on its way to its home in a garage somewhere, and all the cash in the bank. Which will mean, as much as we may want to change your chips for cash, we won't be able to, such are the problems of this travelling circus. Give all your forgetful friends a nudge for me please

Much appreciated,

Toby

any clues for ept season 13 stops yet. thanks. i know, im early, need to book dates off work mate ;-)

Could you consider paying less than the usual 15% in the Bounty Tournaments?

Fri 6 May at 12.00 pm € 10,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Turbo 6Max #76

Fri 6 May at 4.00 pm € 10,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Turbo Super Knockout 8Max #79

Not really sure how deep we get after 4 hours in a live turbo but these 2 events seem too close together to me, given the field will be made up of mainly the same players. It is not desirable for me to late-reg a SKO. There is also a 2k 6max at 2pm that day so it would be nice if more people that bust that one early have the chance to play. Around 6pm start seems much better than 4pm to me.

+1 to paying less of the field on bounty tournaments, 5-7% of the field would be good

is there free parking at the venue for players?

Are barcelona dates to be announced during the grand final or can we hope to have them before? Thanks

Hey Neil (and/or Toby).
Do you know if there will be any non-NLHE/PLO cash games in Monte Carlo? As last year you thought that there would be, and how it's hailed as the cash game stop on the tour, but apparently there weren't any at all.
Cheers.

Hi all,

Greetings from Manila! Scrolling back to catch some that have been missed.

OMG - 1442 - I agree, I miss HU in some form and I don't like having anything not at least get a spin at one EPT or another. I'll talk with the Team and we'll get it thrown in somewhere in EPT13. If we have room for Shootouts, we have room for HU or Mix/Max.

Double - 1444 - At this time we have no intention of changing the clock on H4H as it is not the tournament staff creating any delays (real or perceived). There are rules in place that players can use to protect themselves (Call the clock!) and a new solution does not need to be applied to this problem. I know you felt the TV interfered in the Main Event at the PCA (and we agree to disagree on that), but we ran H4H on 77 out of 104 events at the PCA (no Flipout H4H) and there is no need to time clock all of those tourneys.

Rocco - 1446 - Without sugarcoating it, we just don't have the time to follow them as consistently as they require. We have a bunch of great staff manning our Twitter, Support@, Facebook, Registrations@, EPTGuide App, etc... and the vast majority of questions that come up about hotels, venue, Reg, etc... we were always asking them for the answers anyways. All of those questions get faster (thus better) customer service and answers by using our traditional support channels of EPT@, Reg@, @PokerStarsEPT, EPTGuide App and EPT Facebook. Plus, none of the official threads in 2015 even got to 80 posts including our posts. This thread is staying open and all three of us (Toby, Thomas and myself) will keep an eye on it so please keep posting. We aren't leaving 2+2 by any stretch, just trying to manage it better.

Urhappy - 1452 - Can't say anything about 2017, but we'll confirm the end of 2016 in Monaco, don't expect any changes from 2015 in the announcement (is that subtle enough )

Isid - 1453 - We'll talk about it, interesting idea.

Nation - 1454 - We copied the PCA which got 65 and 71 in those events (2K got 108). We won't change for Monaco, but we'll definitely look at the data and see how it will impact EPT13 schedules. We don't want to go later with those events because we need to start tearing down and getting packed up.

King - 1456 - I'm not sure sorry, email EPT@ or tweet @pokerstarsept they'll have all that info.

King - 1457 - Schedule will announce in Monaco. Still falls in the last half of August though.

Hero - 1458 - I have higher hopes now this year as we (finally) had some O8 in Dublin (pretty sure it was PL, Toby will remember). We will absolutely run them, we just need people who want to play them ?

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Understand that you cannot have a late start time on the final day of the tour. I think it would be great if you could just switch the start times of event #76 and event #79. SKO's are not good to late-reg, where as for the 10k 6max its not nearly as important. I do not think there is any downside to this for anyone and expect it to increase the combined field-size of the 2 events.

Also, a Hyper turbo satellite in the afternoon/evening on May 4th to qualify into day2 of the 25k please

Hi Nation,

Thanks for your follow up thoughts. I like the logic you lay out there, it does make sense for people to reg earlier into the PSKO. I'll talk to our team on our call tomorrow about it and see what everyone thinks. We'll talk about the hyper also, but we need to see if we have enough tables and what time it would fit.

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Cheers Neil

Hope it gets changed

Will there be a Grand Final thread?

how many stops are planned for next season?

Wich structure the 10k on tuesday 26th gonna have? Starting at, 18 i suspect the 50k one with day1 stopping after 6 level , but would be worth knowing before choosing wich day to fly in(and day1 being on a tuesday).

The 10k on the 26th is the normal HR Rocco. It says on the 2nd one that it's the "one day HR".

Hi all,

Nation - 1460/1461 - Still talking about the Hyper on Day 1 of the 25K as that day is table tight. But we did decide to flip the 10K turbos on Day 6 as per your recommendation, thanks! The schedule hasn't been updated on the website yet as there are two or three other small things to change, but we will flip them.

Never - 1464 - No. Any questions you have you can toss in here or in the EPT Misc thread started by Hero Value (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/65...hread-1575081/). The best way for fast answers to most questions though is through our normal info channels. Twitter (@PokerStarsEPT), FB (https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanPokerTour/?fref=ts) as well as emailing Registrations@pslive.com and EPT@PSLive.com and info@ept-travel.com. Also the EPTGuide App (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ept-...549121555?mt=8 and https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...guide&hl=en_GB) or the website (http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tou...ts/grandfinal/) - that ends the commercial

Isid - 1465 - Can't answer sorry. We will have an EPT13 announcement in Monaco though.

Rocco - 1466 - Same as the standard 3 day 10K you see in normal EPT's with one exception. The Day 1 has to be 40 minute levels due to the late start instead of 60 minutes. But Day 2/3 will have 60 minute levels.

Ase - 1467 - Thanks!

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

yea i just wrote very badly while grinding. I just wanted to know if it had any difference from the "normal" hr we usually have later in the trip; Neil answered me with the 40 min day1 difference.

Thanks Neil!

Neil, obviously not your "fault/responsibility" but you should pass on that this is really, really annoying:



Obv there was no indication in the lobby of the satellite about the package including a different hotel.

To others who haven't been to EPT MC: the "normal" Stars hotel (Monte Carlo Bay) that has been awarded in every EPT MC package now for several years is literally a one-minute walk from the tournament venue and is obviously the preferred place to stay, especially if you're going to be paying Monte Carlo prices.

^ Yeah seems pretty ridic to bump you to the fairmont, a mix of MC Bay/Le Meridien has been used in the past (I think also with some money back if you arent in bay?) which at least is still very close to the venue.

Hi Rdrr,

Agreed and apologies. The Comms were out of sync for a short time as we switched over to Fairmont from MCB.

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Hi all,

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Neil
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