PokerStars Structured Tournaments - Online Poker

So I'm on the PokerStars website and it says it offers a whole range of sit and go's and step tournaments but on their actual client it only offers traditions big tournaments and heads up sit and go's. Is there a place that normal tournaments and step tourneys and hidden?

Bored at work but can't log into the desktop client here, is there anywhere I can view Stars' tournament schedule online?

Just saw david Tuchman tweet about it last one is at the end of the month. I think this is a bad move unless they plan on moving them to twitch and streaming them.

https://www.highstakesdb.com/8138-pokerstars-makes-changes-to-online-tournament-payouts.aspx
In before they change payouts to 100%. So we can all win everytime! Oh wait, minus rake of course. Well shit, that means we'd just be paying rake. No worries! MoreRakeIsBetter!

I'm aware you don't improve with play money games. But I just want to get familiar and comfortable first before I play with real money. Can you recommend anywhere to play?
Also, any beginner learning resources you want to recommend are always welcome. I'm a stay at home parent and would like to earn a living playing online if possible.

Hi,
I have been a professional poker player for the past 3.5 years and have been following poker and the community for the past 8 years. Also, I am a current ADA holder. After learning about the blockchain, I saw the benefits that could be obtained by running a poker site on one. I think a well done poker website on a blockchain could kill every other kind of poker site and would love to see this come to fruition. However, to create a huge poker site that rivals the likes of PokerStars requires a ton of money, experience and a huge team. Therefore, I am a bit lost at how to proceed. I guess hopefully this post catches the eyes of someone that is looking for an idea and has the expertise, team, and capabilities to pull it off.
Below I have listed the current problems that plague the poker industry, all which can be fixed by the blockchain. After, I list the challenges that would be faced if someone tried this endeavor.
Problems with Current Poker Industry:
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• High Rake: The percentage of money the casino operator takes from each hand, known as rake, is ridiculous across all major poker sites. At the lowest stakes, the games are close to unbeatable because the operator is taking such a large percentage of the money off the table each hand. Additionally, tournaments charge registration fees of up to 10% per tournament!
• Trust: From companies being caught with backdoor super user accounts to companies not being able to play out player to trusting whether or not the RNG is rigged, there is an inherit lack of trust in the online poker community. Especially in the US in states where poker is not legal, there are now many off-shore poker sites that operate a ton of money, yet are not regulated at all by the government. It is only a matter of time before this all goes bad in my opinion.
• Community at odds with Operators: For the last 10 years that I have been in the poker community, there has always been a rivalry and tension between the players and the poker site operators, mainly PokerStars. Essentially, some time paces and PokerStars raises the rake. The players complain, try to boycott and take other measures, all to no avail. Especially 5 years ago, PokerStars had a strangle hold on the industry. Recently, some other big sites like GG Poker, Party Poker, and Run It Once have gained market share. Despite the increased competition, rake is high across all sites and the players feel like the companies only care about profit. With a decentralized poker site, the community can now come together and run the poker site using Voltaire (I think) to create the first ever poker site for the players, something the community is longing for badly in my opinion.

Challenges:
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• Building the site: For a site to truly steal market share and compete, the software has to be elite. Run It Once is a recently launched poker operator, and they built their software by scratch and it took multiple years, overshooting all their deadlines and they still have only realized maybe 25% of what they plan to release. I am not sure how to solve this problem.
• USA Market: Poker is not legal in the US except in a handful of states.
• Licenses and Regulation: Would need many licenses to operate and would take a lot of time and money I assume
• Bots: Players using software in real time and/or using bots that actually play for them is one of the biggest issues facing the poker industry today. If somehow Cardano could alleviate this problem in any way that would be huge. But if not, then a decent amount of money and effort would need to be allocated toward security of the site regarding bots. Who would pay for this now and moving forward? Treasury? Seems like this is the biggest expense that would be tough to manage as a decentralized community. Especially with new companies like Poker King coming out that are using their security team against bots as their competitive advantage.
• A lot of competition: It seems like in the last 5 years, many new companies have gained market share. Additionally, there are some other blockchain based poker companies already in the works for a while now (Virtue Poker https://virtue.poke).

If anyone wants to run with this idea it is all yours and would be glad to help. I have been working relentlessly at poker the last 3.5 years to become one of the best in the world. In the process, I know what the players and community desires and lacks. I would love to have a strategic role in a site like this and really just want to solve the problems that I face everyday as a professional poker player.

I'm a student working towards my master's in pure maths with a minor in music. Heading into school, I was looking for something on the side that I could do as a hobby, when my buddy introduced me to the wonderful game of NLHE poker.
Since the beginning of last year, I spent time understanding the rules of poker, and eventually learning basic strategy. I'll hop on a 5NL table and the occasional $2.20 tournament on PokerStars to gain an understanding of the online scene and micro-build my bankroll. Having not been of age before lockdown in my city, I haven't had the chance to play any live games aside from four-handed poker nights with friends that don't really know how to play.
Lately I've been really interested in taking a more technical approach to the game, and understanding more advanced poker concepts in order to apply to and get more comfortable with higher stakes games. I'm wondering what I can do, apart from YouTube videos, forums, and preflop charts, to truly improve my game. How do I go about actually studying poker?
The end goal is to just get better. It would be nice to know what I'm doing if and when I decide to enter the live scene.

Hi there /r Poker, I've been a very casual live recreational Texas Hold'em Tournament player for a little over ten years at my small local casino. I have just under $12,000 in live tournament winnings ($11,374 if it had to be an exact figure), and after tournament buy-ins totaling $6000, I have a total net profit of $5,374, for a 47% ROI (Approximately 100 tournaments played, averaging $60 a tournament buy-in)
Since the beginning of October I have started playing online micro MTT's on Pokerstars (mainly the $0.25 45 and 90 player MTT SNG's they offer. Looking to bankroll 150-250 BI's to $1 versions of these plus the 180 player SNG's by the end of next summer) and have compiled a small sample of tournament data in that time. I would like to get any kind of thought or critique/constructive criticism on how I am doing so far for my online tournament play. I have purchased Poker Copilot, the $7 introductory course on post-flop play on upswing poker, and I'm going to be purchasing a 6 month subscription to the Upswing Lab shortly after new year's. I have a 43k hand sample obtained so far. Between these stats and what my Pokerprolabs player account information has provided me, here are my following stats and I would simply like to know if it possible to tell if I am playing well, or on a really good heater right now.
Hand Total: 43,576
Tournaments played: 617
Total Winnings: $284.89
Total Tournament cost: $147.45
Total Profit: $101.39
Average profit per tournament: $0.16
ROI: 68.74%
First Place: 19
Second Place: 28
Third Place: 13
VPiP: 21%
PFR: 15%
Agg: 48%
3-Bet: 6%
4-Bet: 15%
C-bet: 56%
Check-Raise: 7%
All-In Equity: +7200BB over 43,576 hands
All-In Equity Value: +5400BB over 43,576 hands
Poker Copilot Leak Detectors over 43,576 Hands
Pre-Flop Aggression: Everything is listed as good except Big blind as "passive" at 35%. "Raise more, call less"
Positional Awareness: All listed as "Good"
Blind Stealing: Attempt Rate: 44% (Good) BB won/100 hands from blind steal attempts: 84.94 BB won/overall: 16.55
Based on these statistics, I was thinking of starting to take shots in the $1 tournaments once I get bankrolled above $100 and/or I've played 1000 total $0.25 SNG MTT's. Would I stand a chance, or is this just looking evident of a heater run? I could easily deposit more money into my account, but I am honestly fully embracing the grind of trying to turn my $15 deposit into a proper bankroll (currently sitting at $82.53 this morning) and adhering to strict bankroll management in this regard.

Sup guys. I'm a Canadian player trying to understand what the poker site meta looks like right now. I am a relatively experienced player, both online and live (I was a live semipro for a little while), but I haven't played online in about 2 years. When I was playing, the only sites that mattered were Pokerstars and Partypoker. Looking at https://www.pokerscout.com/, I see that Partypoker is all but dead and Pokerstars isn't as dominant as it once was. here are my questions:
What is your opinions on GGPoker? I remember I used to play on it and it was very soft, but the player pool still wasn't even on the level of 888. I quit because there was clearly something suspicious about the rakeback system. I will be the first one to call all those people who say the site is rigged every they lose a hand morons, but I did the math and the odds that I get the worse rakeback bracket as many times in a row as I did if the odds were as advertise were worse than the odds of me winning the lottery. Is this still the case? Is the player pool still dogshit? Is the player pool somewhat consistent (I know that it is mostly for Asian players)
Are there any other sites you would recommend right now. What I like is winning. Which means that my priority are, in this order: big enough player base, soft games, good UI, zoom variant available.
I play cash games. Fuck online tournaments!
edit: simple grammar corrections

Namely, IDNPoker isn't a new poker service. In fact, it has been around for over a half-decade now: The Manila- based poker service launched in Indonesia in 1992 and was extremely popular from the beginning, according to IDNPlay's Daniel Alexis. It went through a lot of changes, expansion and mergers along the way. As the years passed, poker online in Indonesia saw the rise of many new players, some of whom were successful enough to open their own poker rooms. This has helped improve the quality of poker online in Indonesia as more players are attracted by the poker rooms that have more successful players.
But what is it about IDNPoker that is so appealing to players who want to play poker online? One reason is that many of its members are successful poker players. Of course, this isn't the only factor that make them attractive clients, but it is surely one of the most important ones. Poker players know that if you want to succeed, you have to stick with good online poker games and this is certainly the case with IDNPoker.
In addition to attracting a good number of successful players, many of the IDNPoker's features and offers appeal to a wider range of players, too. For example, many of its games feature bonus periods that last for several days. While they aren't exactly "free", they do offer a player a substantial advantage over players at the same skill level who don't have them. Some of the best bonus periods include the "aulo" bonus period, which last from mid-July till mid-September; the "peak season" from mid-November to early-March; and the "seasonal reset" from late-February until early-March.
Other features include chat rooms, software, and support for the major networks, such as MSN, Yahoo, and Skype. Some users may also find the fact that the idNPoker allows their players to transfer money to each other online to be highly attractive. The poker rooms themselves use proprietary software to facilitate this feature. It allows the players to make transfers without divulging any information to the poker sites, which means no money, account information or pin numbers will be transmitted or obtained by these means. This feature is great for players who are worried about security when playing poker online.
Of course, one of the attractions of pokerStars Asia, as well as all of the other IDNPoker sites, is that it has an interface that is very easy to use and does not require any knowledge of how online poker works. Even those players who have little or no experience of playing online poker can find the interface easy to navigate and understand. When using the site, you will need to register, either through a web form or a printable application. Once registered, you will be sent a download link to install on your computer, which you will need to confirm. You are now ready to play against other players.
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Hi there /r Poker, I've been a very casual live recreational Texas Hold'em Tournament player for a little over ten years at my small local casino. I have just under $12,000 in live tournament winnings ($11,374 if it had to be an exact figure), and after tournament buy-ins totaling $6000, I have a total net profit of $5,374, for a 47% ROI (Approximately 100 tournaments played, averaging $60 a tournament buy-in)
Since the beginning of October I have started playing online micro MTT's on Pokerstars (mainly the $0.25 45 and 90 player MTT SNG's they offer. Looking to bankroll 150-250 BI's to $1 versions of these plus the 180 player SNG's by the end of next summer) and have compiled a small sample of tournament data in that time. I would like to get any kind of thought or critique/constructive criticism on how I am doing so far for my online tournament play. I have purchased Poker Copilot, the $7 introductory course on post-flop play on upswing poker, and I'm curious to know how my poker book "Mastering Small Stakes No Limit Hold'em Cash Games and Tournaments" by Johnathan Little holds up strategy wise these days. Great information in that book from what I've seen so far, but yeah. I have a 33k hand sample obtained so far. Between these stats and what my Pokerprolabs player account information has provided me, here are my following stats and I would simply like to know if it possible to tell if I am playing well, or on a really good heater right now.
Hand Total: 33,585
Tournaments played: 470
Total Winnings: $186.26
Total Tournament cost: $115.70
Total Profit: $70.56
Average profit per tournament: $0.13
ROI: 61%
First Place: 15
Second Place: 20
Third Place: 11
VPiP: 21%
PFR: 14%
Agg: 47%
3-Bet: 6%
4-Bet: 16%
C-bet: 56%
Check-Raise: 6%
All-In Equity: +4700BB over 33,585 hands
All-In Equity Value: +3400BB over 33,585 hands
Poker Copilot Leak Detectors over 33,585 Hands
Pre-Flop Aggression: Everything is listed as good except Big blind as "passive" at 35%. "Raise more, call less"
Positional Awareness: All listed as "Good"
Blind Stealing: Attempt Rate: 44% (Good) BB won/100 hands from blind steal attempts: 82.12 BB won/overall: 14.05
Pocket Pairs: Everything listed has a positive BB won/100 hands with the exception of pocket 6's at -23.13 BB/100 (Notably, my AA and KK both have +1200BB /100, is this normal?)
Suited Connectors: AK and KQ suited have +172 and +170 BB/100 respectively, everything else is basically canceling each other out. Would like to improve my JTs -75.33 BB/100.
Are these statistics Good? Are they viable, or the result of a massive heater that could be due to run out soon? Any opinions or information would be appreciated.

Hi there /r Poker, I've been a very casual live recreational Texas Hold'em Tournament player for a little over ten years at my small local casino. I have just under $12,000 in live tournament winnings ($11,374 if it had to be an exact figure), and after tournament buy-ins totaling $6000, I have a total net profit of $5,374, for a 47% ROI (Approximately 100 tournaments played, averaging $60 a tournament buy-in)
Since the beginning of October I have started playing online micro MTT's on Pokerstars (mainly the $0.25 45 player MTT and the $0.10 360 player Turbo MTT) and have compiled a small sample of tournament data in that time, and was wondering if I could get any kind of thought or critique/constructive criticism on how I am doing so far for my online tournament play. I purchased Poker Copilot and have a 22k hand sample obtained so far. Between these stats and what my Pokerprolabs player account information has provided me, here are my following stats and I would simply like to know if it possible to tell if I am playing well, or on a really good heater right now.
Hand Total: 22,975
Tournaments played: 325
Total Winnings: $127.16
Total Tournament cost: $79.60
Total Profit: $46.66
Average profit per tournament: $0.14
ROI: 58%
First Place: 10
Second Place: 16
Third Place: 10
VPiP: 20%
PFR: 14%
Agg: 45%
C-Bet: 58%
3-Bet: 5%
4-Bet: 17%
Check Raise: 5%
Went to Showdown: 42%
Won at Showdown: 59%
Won Without Showdown: 18%
All-In Equity: +2900BB over 22,975 hands
All-In Equity Value: +1900BB over 22,975 hands
Poker Copilot Leak Detectors over 22,975 Hands
Pre-Flop Aggression: Everything is listed as good except Big blind as "passive" at 37%. "Raise more, call less"
Positional Awareness: All listed as "Good"
Blind Stealing: Attempt Rate: 44% (Good) BB won/100 hands from blind steal attempts: 72.68 BB won/overall: 12.71
Pocket Pairs: Everything listed has a positive BB won/100 hands
Suited Connectors: AK and KQ suited have +284 and +220 respectively, everything else is basically canceling each other out. Would like to improve my JTs -91.33 BB/100 soon.
Are these statistics Good? Are they viable, or the result of a massive heater that could be due to run out soon? Any opinions or information would be appreciated.