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  1. Donkey5layer Donkey5layer is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 1:43pm)

    Why would you make your premier events of the year all start in the afternoon during weekdays. They have to understand that most of the people playing in these events work for a living and are not going to take time off of work to play poker. Just stuns me from an organization that usually is ahead of the curve.
     
  2. Anbessa Anbessa is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 1:45pm) in reply to Donkey5layer

    when would you suggest it start, and how should it structured?

    edit: im sure they spent a lot of time trying to figure out how it could best work for everyone
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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 1:59pm) in reply to Donkey5layer

    Well yeah....would it be better for working people if they started at 8 pm and finished at 7 in the morning?

    sheets
     
  4. SpadeSkillz SpadeSkillz is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:00pm) in reply to sheets

    @ least they could still play outside of work doing it that ^^^^^ way sheets
     
  5. sharkusmanly sharkusmanly is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:03pm) in reply to SpadeSkillz

    they shoudlve schedualed those events that start on the same day at different times. make it fit everyones scheduale. few are going to play every single event in either case.
     
  6. Crazy Cypriot Crazy Cypriot is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:09pm) in reply to sharkusmanly

    and what about Europeans! The 9p.m. starts for Full tilt is 02:00-04:00 AM Europe time. I assure you thats very very convenient for us^o)
     
  7. Zpaceman Zpaceman is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:10pm) in reply to Donkey5layer

    and as for the rest of the world, in europe we get to start most events late evening and play until early morning (which is ok for me as this is my normal playing schedule, but working europeans are put in a tough spot too), the middle east gets to start most events around midnight, the far east starts in the wee hours and antipodeans get to start with their breakfast

    will people who live in one time zone ever stop thinking the whole world revolves around them?
     
  8. nowapowa nowapowa is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:14pm) in reply to Zpaceman

    "will people who live in one time zone ever stop thinking the whole world revolves around them?"

    I'd like to think so but superpowers have incredible egos.
  9. mhoddi mhoddi is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:19pm) in reply to Zpaceman

    will people who live in one time zone ever stop thinking the whole world revolves around them?

    oh the ironing
     
  10. Chipsteela Chipsteela is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:19pm) in reply to Anbessa

    plus im sure the tourneys are going to last at least 10 hours so... unless u wanna be playing until 5 am everyday u can thank stars
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  11. Donkey5layer Donkey5layer is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:22pm) in reply to sheets

    one or 2 that would fall in that time frame would be great. at least it would give us more than a couple shots.. and playing until 7 in the morning wouldnt be that bad... it means you went deep and would be worth the sleepless night, late start to work the next day. But to only be able to play on the weekend sucks.
     
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  12. SCTrojans SCTrojans is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:25pm) in reply to Zpaceman

    Actually, online poker sites strategic business decisions ARE revolved around the United States... so................................
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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:27pm) in reply to Donkey5layer

    stars did make the schedule so that the larger NLHE tournies were on Sundays, so most everyone can play those. I actually think having their "smaller" events start in the afternoon makes a lot of sense. If there is some event you want to play real bad, just take a half day from work or something.
     
  14. Zpaceman Zpaceman is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:27pm) in reply to SCTrojans

    yeah, so true, i guess that MUST be the reason that pokerstars sponsors the european poker tour and recently the asia pacific poker tour, how could i have misunderstood that until now?

    **stars has been STRATEGICALLY diversifying its marketing focus / player base away from the US for some time now. at the wsop they didn't even dare have a single employee in the country and we stars qualifiers were handled by third party agents**
     
  15. Donkey5layer Donkey5layer is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:29pm) in reply to sandler1860

    why not vary so there are just 1 or 2 events each week during the week that start at 8pm... not saying all of them but a couple would be nice
     
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  16. SCTrojans SCTrojans is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:30pm) in reply to Zpaceman

    I don't think anyone ever said that stars doesn't support anyone else?
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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:34pm) in reply to Donkey5layer

    8PM WHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????????? ?

    (such ignorance of the world)

    **donkeyslayer meet miss teen carolina your female equivalent**
     
  18. Oscar Levant Oscar Levant is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:34pm) in reply to Donkey5layer

    I've never understood why the Sunday Million isn't the Saturday Million. Because of family and employment commitments, I will never be able to play a Sunday Million.

    stars is terrible for MTT's if you live in the Eastern time zone of the USA.
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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:36pm) in reply to Zpaceman

    Zpaceman, you need to realize that europeans are not equals on pokerstars, for the same reason that Americans are not equals on partypoker (or any heavily European dominated site). Its not ignorance at all, I dunno what you are talking about.
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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:36pm) in reply to Donkey5layer

    if they ran the second chance events it would certainly help with this problem.

    also im pretty sure that part of the reason that they run EPT and APPT (and others) is because of the fact that 18 and up can play there....obv. there are lots of other reasons, but im sure this has something to do with it as well
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  21. Zpaceman Zpaceman is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:38pm) in reply to SCTrojans

    1) i know you are just saying this to wind me up

    2) i fully realise we are superior
     
  22. Llama88 Llama88 is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:38pm) in reply to Donkey5layer

    they start them at these times so everyone around the world can play, an 8pm EST start would mean something like a 12:00am start for europe, and even something like a 5pm start EST would mean a 1 or 2pm start on the westcoast, which does not accomplish anything
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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:40pm) in reply to Oscar Levant

    There is no good time to accomodate everyone.
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  24. warden warden is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:47pm) in reply to Oscar Levant

    "stars is terrible for MTT's if you live in the Eastern time zone of the USA."

    LOL YOU'RE KIDDING RIGHT?
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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:48pm) in reply to Crazyhorse76

    Zpaceman if u want a good time for Eurpoeans then stick to playing on non-american poker sites....
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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:50pm) in reply to Zpaceman

    Wow I never really had it out for you Zpaceman, I just kinda followed the bandwagon of everyone else in the world... but after that post, I think I'm officially part of the Zpaceman hate train.
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  27. Trent55 Trent55 is offline can i have a title now

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:52pm) in reply to warden

    USE VACATION TIME IF YOU HAVE A NORMAL JOB!!!
  28. Donkey5layer Donkey5layer is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:54pm) in reply to Zpaceman

    8pm est... is that the best for me no because im west coast but i could make it work... id have no problem with starting a few at 10am either and vary it... i just think variety in this would be good and give some people who are not full time players more opportunity....

    have you read my replies where i said a few at this time (not all) and a few options for all would be nice...

    and i could easily say --- zpaceman meet Chris Moneymaker... for a while everyone thought he was great then we learned... hes just not that good --
     
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  29. Ariganello Ariganello is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 2:56pm) in reply to Crazyhorse76

    I dont play many MTT anymore but I have to say Hawaii has the best time zone for playing MTT's. We are 6 hours behind EST.
  30. chicagocards1 chicagocards1 is offline

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    Sep 13th, 2007 (9/13/2007 3:03pm) in reply to Trent55

    Thank you stars for making the wcoop schedule convenient for people like me. There is no set time that would accommodate everyone. Its a simple fact Americans > the rest of the world.
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