Check out our brand new Local Poker Communities! Get updates and interact with poker players in your area.
Visit the United States Poker Community | Visit the California Poker Community | Read more about the Launch of P5s Local

Hmmmm. Pokerstars cancelling a satellite with overlay?

Reply to Thread
  1. thearthurdog thearthurdog is offline

    Posts: 1,839
    Joined: Jan 08

    Oct 1st, 2011 (10/1/2011 10:54am)

    Was thinking about taking a shot in the Million tomorrow so signed up for one of those $11.70 shootout satellites (says quite clearly 1 seat guaranteed). It was cancelled due to 'insufficient numbers'. I think (?) there may have been 10-12 people in it. Is this right? Should they be doing this if there is a guaranteed seat?
    Edited By: thearthurdog Oct 1st, 2011 at 10:57 AM
  2. wackyJaxon wackyJaxon is offline Admin X

    Vilnius
    Lithuania

    Posts: 12,260
    Joined: Apr 06

    Oct 1st, 2011 (10/1/2011 10:57am) in reply to thearthurdog

    These tournaments normally require 20 players in order not to be cancelled. The figure is listed in the lobby. Alot of sites will set a minimum number of players needed at the tourney start for it to run.
      1 
  3. thearthurdog thearthurdog is offline

    Posts: 1,839
    Joined: Jan 08

    Oct 1st, 2011 (10/1/2011 10:59am) in reply to wackyJaxon

    Thanks. Maybe they have started doing this recently because I am sure I remember playing them with less than 20 a while back.
    Thread Starter
  4. wackyJaxon wackyJaxon is offline Admin X

    Vilnius
    Lithuania

    Posts: 12,260
    Joined: Apr 06

    Oct 1st, 2011 (10/1/2011 11:06am) in reply to thearthurdog

    Its possible, I noticed this when a friend of mine had his cancelled last week and was wondering why. So, its definitely possible they increased the minimum players needed and when saying 1 seat guar, they aren't the ones guar'ing it, they are basically saying we will only run it if we collect over $215 in the prize pool to run it.
      1 
  5. mcandrews3rd mcandrews3rd is offline

    United Kingdom

    Posts: 1,170
    Joined: Apr 09

    Oct 1st, 2011 (10/1/2011 11:27am) in reply to wackyJaxon

    There will be better sattelites with more seats 2moro, I Wudnt bother till then if I were u
    183 1
  6. racer racer is offline

    Gananoque
    Canada

    Posts: 994
    Joined: Oct 08

    Oct 1st, 2011 (10/1/2011 4:39pm) in reply to mcandrews3rd

    hmm, the #1 site is false advertising now? I agree with you arthur, regardless of what it says in the lobby, they need to drop that guaranteed tag.
    FWIW, they should drop any tournament with a 'GTD' attached, its essentially meaningless, but I understand its attractive to MTTers and its good marketing, and at least thats not false advertising.
  7. famous5ives famous5ives is offline

    Elkhart, IN
    United States

    Posts: 1,564
    Joined: Jun 07

    Oct 1st, 2011 (10/1/2011 5:18pm) in reply to racer

    this isnt anything new. they have always listed their sattys as seats guaranteed, but if i remember correctly, theres a note on the right side of the lobby saying the minimum players required
  8. nw25th nw25th is offline

    Daejeon
    Korea, Republic of

    Posts: 1,386
    Joined: Jun 07

    Oct 2nd, 2011 (10/2/2011 3:47am) in reply to famous5ives

    There used to be overlays when they had the 2 seat guaranteed shootouts. They were a pretty good value. I noticed after April 15th, they took those away, and then put a min reg on them on the 1 seat shootouts. It is kinda like false advertising, but, whatcha gonna do?
  9. ApesAreFun ApesAreFun is offline Moderator/Euro Donk

    Norway

    Posts: 6,245
    Joined: Aug 07

    Oct 2nd, 2011 (10/2/2011 4:44pm) in reply to nw25th

    stars are the biggest nits when it comes to guaranteeing things.
     906 
Reply to Thread