POKERSTARS change blind structures and rakes (Fulltilt-ish)

Not sure if this going to be for all games, but for S&G´s the change are there already.

blinds changes from 5minutes turbo to 3 minutes, 10 minutes regular to 6 minutes (exactly like fulltilt)



Sit & Go Tournament Changes


Sit & Go Changes – May 2011

PokerStars Sit & Go offerings have changed! The lobby display, blind structures, variety offered, and buy-in/rake have changed for many Sit & Go Tournaments. New Hyper-Turbo cash Sit & Go’s are also being tested at the $5 buy-in level.
These changes as a whole are made in response to player feedback over the past months. Thanks to all players who offered their thoughts and suggestions.
Details about these changes affecting cash (non-satellite) Sit & Go tournaments follows.
Lobby Display

There are two new columns in the Sit & Go lobby: “Speed” and “Type”.
The Speed column tells you if the tournament has a faster blind structure, either Turbo or Hyper-Turbo.
The Type column identifies Fifty50, Knockout, Heads-up, Satellite and other special tournament types. The Type column also includes icons identifying tournaments with fewer than seven seats per table.
Improved Variety

A wider variety of buy-ins are now available for many popular tournament types. A few new combinations of tournament type and game speed are also available. Tournaments that were rarely or never played in the past have been removed from the lobby to help players find opponents more easily.
Hyper-Turbos

In direct response to player requests, PokerStars is introducing $5 Hyper-Turbo Sit & Go Tournaments for a trial period. The new Hyper-Turbos feature 500 chip starting stacks and 2-minute levels. These extremely short tournaments are a good match for players who have limited time or like a lot of all-in action. For now, these tournaments are available in 6 -handed, 9-handed, and Heads-up formats for both No-Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha.
Buy-Ins

All non-satellite Sit & Go’s now have standardized buy-ins. Players can choose from $1, $3, $5, $10, $20, $30, $50, $100, $200, $300, $500, $1000, $2000, and $5000 buy-in tournaments. Not every Sit & Go type is available at every buy-in, but the buy-ins offered match player demand for each tournament type.
Rake Consistency

Rake for Sit & Go tournaments has been re-evaluated and set to be more consistent. Variations between the rake charged at various tournament/game types have been eliminated. Now, single table Sit & Go’s reliably charge less rake for tournaments with fewer entrants and tournaments with faster blinds structures. Some rakes have increased and others decreased, but taken as a whole the rake for Sit & Go Tournaments is very slightly decreased.



Improved and Standardized Blind Structures

Blind structures for No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha have been improved and standardized. A few NLHE and PLO tournaments that were deployed with unique blind structures in the past have now been brought into line. All NLHE and PLO Sit & Go structures now have shorter blind levels and smaller blind increases per level. All Turbo speed single-table tournaments have three minute levels while all regular speed tournaments now have six minute levels. Despite the shorter levels, the tournaments will last a similar amount of time overall, as the blinds will increase by a smaller amount than previously (the new blind structure has no levels where the blinds double). The table below shows an example of the change, with the old and new levels side-by-side.


Minutes Old Structure New Structure
change in stars.jpg (http://www.cardschat.com/attachment.php?s=73c9aba454b4dba2bfc23e34e4c56a64&attachmentid=37852&d=1304697386)

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No more 10c/360 games, now are 12c.

1.10 45´s are now 1.15

3.40 9men i think now are 3.33 or something like that

and so on.

Thanks mate, explains my topic

25c/ 45´s are now 30c
55c/ 45´s are now 59c
1.10/45´s are now 1.15
no more $2/180´s now 3.32/180´s turbo (3.38 regular).

i don´t see $6.50 9 men, only 5.43

I wondered what on earth happened to the lobby.

Usually the turbos are in bold but not no more. A hell of a lot more SnG's on the go though which is a good thing.

As for the hyper turbos, I can't see those $5.00 ones.

Just looked at my normal games I play which are the $1.00..They range for standard speed a massive 18% rake and 15% rake for the turbos.

It's nearly double for the standard, this sucks.

In the case of the $0.25 45 player tournaments, which have gone from 0% rake to 20% rake, it makes the difference between them being worth playing and not being worth playing, from my point of view.

I tried a $1 + .10 satellite instead, at least it is "only" 10% rake...

I like the look of the new changes & also like the rake changes as well (it's a bit less in some than previous).
The structure of the two 'reg.' speed SNG's are very similiar now. I never really liked the structure for sng's on Stars before (or just wasn't that used to it).

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I hated those 6 minute blind levels at FT - but I guess my opinion no longer matters lol.

At the lower stakes it now feels to me as if you are paying Full Tilt rake, but without the benefit of rakeback.

Well ty for explaining this all, cuz I seriously noticed this Issue today, and was about to make a thread about it, now I don't need to

thanks mate ;-)
I'm very unhappy about the high rakes in the lower stakes. if u want to play a 1$ 9pl sng the rake is 0,20$ -> that's a fith!

Cant change progress unfortunaltey.

I kinda liked the "jump-y" 30-50-100 BB levels, but am getting used to the new style. Don't like the multible KO sng lobbies, as that always seemed like a more "casual" game. Haven't tried the turbo KOs yet...
I do find it strange that what used to be "prime time" is now the off time, and vice versa. Not sure if this affects game play any, but tourneys take a lot longer to fill than in the good old days...
Has traffic bumped up noticably at Bodog and/or Carbon??

It's gone up quite a bit at Carbon. Not sure the exact '%', but heard something like a 60% increase.

these are the worst changes in the history of changes

Was considering playing a few 'late in the day' MTTs on Stars (ie. the 21:00'ish' $10+1) & just noticed that they've changed the blind structures in these too. Instead of 10-15blind levels, some of them are now 8min. levels. What a huge sigh imo.
Noticed in the past that it didn't matter much if you had 10min. blinds or 15min. blinds on Stars (in MTT) because in the 15min. ones the had less levels so you'd still be at 50/100 at 1st break & 150/300 at 2nd break. Now with the new setup for some of these, we're actually at 300/600 at 2nd break. Umm... Pokerstars, this sucks!!

Stars have changed 180 man buyins, now $2.50, $3.50r, $8 and $15 with original structures

lol they changed everything, then put it all back to normal

Less rake on 180s as a relative % and slightly higher buyins <3

Yeah I'm so glad I can grind them again..