[CharlieDontSurf]

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I don't think there's any chance of #5 happening.
If you want to encourage the top-notch pros to continue to play in them then giving them T$ instead is a good to do that.

I don't know how I feel about #4. If you do that then a lot of people will just play a bunch of step 2's as Sunday-qualifiers. If enough of these people take themselves out of the cycle via that option then wouldn't it become somewhat harder to get Step 3's and higher to run?
Probably wouldn't make that big a difference. Just something that occured to me though.
If they did this then I would very seriously consider playing them as a Sunday-ticket satellite instead and I'm not sure they want people using them for such a purpose.

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I imagine two of the main headaches with introducing the STEPS is

1. Players are going to want Cash STEPS not just PCA/WSOP STEPS.

I know people have been asking Stars for this for awhile but they have never done it which leads me to believe that for whatever reason...they don't want to do it. Probably to much clutter unless they create a seperate STEPS category in the lobby.

*Personally I don't even really want to go to the PCA given I'm not sure I even could work wise...but I loved playing the STEPS on Party so I'm gonna play these a ton if only to try and win multiple packages and hopefully they implement some of my suggestions thus making it more worthwhile. I'd prefer cash STEPS but don't see that happening, so $T for multiple wins would be nice cuz in my opinion $W is pretty useless given I want to play my MTTs online on Stars...not live.

Offering $T for multiple wins essentially turns the PCA/WSOP STEPS into quasi cash STEPS after you accomplish what the STEPS are intended for(winning a ticket to PCA/WSOP/etc). It also allows them to run nonstop...though they would probably slow down during the week/month gap between events..PCA/WSOP/EURO etc etc.

2. The other problem is what to do with the leftover tickets.

Seeing that a level 4 ticket = the buy-in for Stars Millions/Second chance...it makes all tickets for Level 4 and lower useable 24/7 year round. Maybe when there is a gap between 12K events u simply only go up to Step 4 and people can hold onto their Step 5 and Step 6 tickets until the STEP 5/6 come back during WSOP/PCA/all other 12K events etc.

And every month during the last week you can create a special STEP 5 for the $530 and $1060 Sunday Million.


-In regards to the sit n go pro's. Making Step 5 and 6 ticket only and not allowing direct buy-ins is enough in my view no matter if they offer $T for multiple wins.
If the high rollers are willing to take the time to buy-in at the STEP 4 level and work their way up to STEP 6 then they deserve all the seats they win. You could always be hardcore and only allow direct buy-ins for Level 3 and lower but I think that is being a bit crazy.

I personally think it would be awesome if STEP 4 would = Sunday Millions tickets given you could build up a ton of tickets only having to work up to STEP 4 with an initial buy-in of $7. Also having special STEP 5s for the $530 and $1060 would be sweet too.