PokerStars Password Release Issue

So here's the issue.

Right now you get 115 seconds to register after I release the password here..

I agree, that's too long.. I shaved it down to 100 seconds today as a test run.

Why is it so long?

If I dont give you ENOUGH time, and NOT enough people register, then PokerStars thinks not enough people will register and they close the tournament.

So it's a VERY fine line giving you enough time to get enough players in the game, and too much time for the password to get released.

So let me know today (Sunday) if 100 seconds helped




If you think of another solution let me know.. Keep in mind they won't let me issue tickets

Excellent, this is a good start and that fine line kinda sucks, but I do remember PS cancelling games.

I think in 100seconds password will be leaked anyway so we have to play against non pokerowned members again try to cut it to 40sec its enaught time for all optedin players to register.

Well how did it go today?

We need to take more time off. The 2nd game had 72ish, the third game had 99, and oddly enough the last game had only 32 or 33.

I say go back to banning countries which are clearly leaking. Will you get complaints? Maybe... but how much do those who complain contribute to the site?

Blocking countries like Romania, Portugal, Kazakhstan seemingly had the situation under control at one point. PO did not suffer for it.

I shaved off 5 more seconds

but why its everyday that the first freerole on the day on facebook added is funny but pokerownd freerole is from pokerownd for 1point???
i diont get it

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Originally Posted by antoine024

but why its everyday that the first freerole on the day on facebook added is funny but pokerownd freerole is from pokerownd for 1point???
i diont get it

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1 point is basically free.. You just got 5 points for making that post you know :)

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Originally Posted by Zab

So here's the issue.

Why is it so long?

If I dont give you ENOUGH time, and NOT enough people register, then PokerStars thinks not enough people will register and they close the tournament.

So it's a VERY fine line giving you enough time to get enough players in the game, and too much time for the password to get released.

So let me know today (Sunday) if 100 seconds helped




If you think of another solution let me know.. Keep in mind they won't let me issue tickets

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I don't know anything about ps rules as i'm from usa but if there is a min number needed by a certain time, why not find that min number of po members that have been here awhile and you trust (somewhat anyway) that you could give the pw too early so min number is reached then release like 60 secs before, or even less if necessary. Just an idea to get around cancelled tournament for no entrants early enough.

If I don?t miss it, I will try to play the one starting in 1 hour and see how it works and how many players are in it (wgainst the number who opted in)

that has an easy and obvious solution..make them $40 freerolls with a 120 points buy in.... i bet no one will share 120 points passwords...and we will all be happy with only decent people playing them .... :D

We need to take more time off there are a couple still sharing it and when it does get posted, these guys are having no issue with time posting it and their friends getting in.

I'm happy to see, that you try to fix leak issue. That is the only reason I do not bother to play them (fighting 100 opponents to get hands on couple of cents seems to be wasting of time). I remember tournaments where only 20-30 players involved -> real PO members !

I keep my fingers crossed that time will help solve this pain.

The 1pm and 6pm went off great yesterday, low 30s, the 3pm game though had over 60. There is something about that game, must be at a peak time over the lake.

81 entries, about 35 were opted in...

We are averaging 100 players in the games today, they are maxing at 99.
I think we need to take off more time.

I agree with Poof

got to watch how much time is taken off .. there was problems before with PS cancelling .. Also just having the door auto close at 50 might help ( based on the average amount of Opt-ins )

so heres my opinion:

dont we have a list of "experienced" members? they should get the pw ~90 sec before the freeroll starts, so that at least 3 ppl are registered at the 1 min mark.

all others should get the pw just 20 sec before mtt starts (as in the old days), thats still prolly enough to get registered in time, but to prevent much leaking due to pw posting.

also the suggestion to set a limit of 50 players sounds great, as i havent seen more than 30-40 being registered through the site nowadays.

this should help a lot to get these freerolls back to the great level, which they had in the early days :)

we had it capping at 27 last week, I am not sure if it was a timing issue, or a ps screw up

can we see how many of each country are registered for the PS freerolls?

comparing that list to the players list on PS who is now sortable on countries, would give an idea which players might be leaking.

i would volunteer myself to make a list of #entries per country and compare that to the PS players list

doing that for a week with all freerolls should give an insight look of the leaking players

what a joke..., 27 opted in incl. me and it has 432 entries...
I won?t use my points again to opt in another PS tourney until these will be real private tourneys for PO members.

of course in this tournament theres people who is not member of pokerowned

Hello there,
is there any news about solving of this 'issue'. I had a look on couple of last tournaments and there were about 127 entrants ... so how this could be solved (probably next year) ?

ello everybody, Im a novice on the Forum. How can we get the password for the freerol, Promess I dont play like a shit :P

Yes totally agree with your statement.

Haven't been around here in over a year. No more Carbon tournies? thanks for any updates anyone can provide.

So it looks like PokerStars tournaments have been managed fairly well :-) Good job to you all guys!