I agree. Or make the levels 20-25 minutes, that would make a big diffence.

Personally, I know with my job, I wont be able to play the main event if something dosent change.

I <3 the structure!

I emailed stars and they are not going to change this year. It is just wrong. I will sign the petition. I think the levels should be 20 minutes or the events 2 days with a 12 hour first day cap.

mrrain

100% cosign

great structure, players need a 12th hour break until the next day

the reason i am not going to play a lot of WCOOP events is bc it is too much to expect someone to sit there for 20+ hours

its unhealthy and unsafe and if stars actually cared about the safety of their players then they wouldnt force them to play 20+ hours

so if the main event is expected to take 36 hours, that is 6 hours longer than this guy....

<span>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TE</span><wbr> <span>CH/09/17/internet.death.ap</span><wbr> <span>/index.html?iref=mpstoryvi</span><wbr> ew

lol cmoney, 72 hours is a hell of a long longer than 36...

I love the structure and don't hate playing that long but agree 2 day events would be better. Keep the structure because these things only come around once a year.

So Im signing on having 12 hour break after 12 hours of play and please no 30 minute break.

Totally agree with Menlo... obv its the biggest event of the year online and people say deal with it?? Umm you know the WSOP Main is the biggest event of the year and they dont just say deal with it. Normally look to play 12-15hrs day 1 of the WSOP main and I dont see why something similiar can be done with the WCOOP Main. Half the tournament or so will be through and they can come back and finish in a much more reasonable manner after a reasonable break.

Not to mention playing live in the Main Event for 12 hrs is much different than sitting infront of a computer screen for the same amount of time. It makes more than perfect sense to have a 2 day tournament when it can potentially be running 30 hours.

I AGREE!

Even though I probably won't be playing in this tournament, I, as a poker player, can't help but whole-heartedly agree. I can't even believe that stars would expect players to play for >/= 30 hrs. straight in their biggest, most reputable tournament of the year...Stars is awesome, don't get me wrong, they're obviously the best in online poker, hands down...this is just completely absurd though! Seriously, I'm scratching my head and searching for a viable reason as to how they CAN'T see that this is defies all logic, common sense, and good business practice (<-- if anything)?

Stars, this is your biggest f'in tournament of the year, the one that draws the best players in the WORLD, both online and live!! Make it such that the challenge lies in playing poker against the best of the best, not in trying to keep your eyes open as you reach the point in the tournament where the importance of good decision-making is paramount...SFOBV!!

if pokerstars doesnt change this it will be a huge mistake, for being the best site out there and taking into consideration all of the other changes that theyve made bc of their players speaking up, id hope theyd step up once again and show why they are the #1 site out there

havent they learned, they finally updated their structure to catch up with ftp and they should mimic ftp in this instance to and make the 1k and 2500 2 day events, or i guess just the 2500 or really this isnt some "special" elite series of tourneys

plzzzzzzzz change this for us immed, ftp got it right

I agree and I am not even going to playing in this event!

k thanks.

Snap, I agree I don't want to change the structure but to be perfectly honest I would even accept a slight hit in the structure if it meant not having to play for 36 hours. I mean think about it, you and I were struggling last night and we only played about half (if that) of the time it would take to complete the WCOOP main.

<SPAN>�Honey, I am playing in a major poker tournament and I will not be able to help with dinner, or help bath the kids or read the kids bedtime stories or get the kids ready for school, or pick the kids up from school or help with dinner. sorry �</SPAN>

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<SPAN>Yeah right </SPAN>

Someone needs to talk to Negreanu. Didn't he get stars to put up deep stack 100/200 games within an hour or so of the other high stakes players asking him about it?

And also it really shouldnt matter whether you are playing or not to have an opinion on this. It affects all poker players in general. I say this to the responses you get well if you playing for xxx$$ deal with it. Well guess what there is such a thing as a rail too. Not to mention in the ME you could play 20+ hrs potentially and really not have that "big" a payday. But plenty of people like to watch these tournaments just like any other tournament. Esp is there are some great players still left. I for one ended up crashin last night probably around 3am even though the tournament still had around 100 players left. I knew this shit was gonna take till proably atleast 9am and thats ridiculous to think im gonna stay up n watch that. Im one who plays late at night myself and dont really give a shit about late hrs but past 6am is getting ridiculous.

pokerstars obviously has a vested interest in the narcotic and amphetamine industry