Colette, is there a blog or some partypoker news thread that
tells of the larger SPINS winners? Has anyone won the $1 million from the $5 games?
I haven't played any but have considered it... knowing that many newer/ bad players are attracted to them. But one of the problems I have with them is that you really don't have any idea how big the pool of players is in the lobby for them. I mean is it 25 players playing the $5's, with 15 of them each 10-tabling, or what? You can't tell.
I read about players missing the old SNG format games via Fulltilt poker days. Sites have lost traffic from those games due to all of these newer formats (hypers, spins, etc.). Personally I think there could be a resurgence to SNG's and I think Partypoker could grab another piece of the player pool pie if they were to jump on it.
ie why not bring back the 45 man & 27 man SNG's, reg. speed blind structure but to initiate it, why not offer '1/2 rake' SNG's (have a 5% fee instead of 10). And maybe include some leaderboards as well (or some other promos... maybe a deposit bonus where if customer rakes a certain amount from playing SNG's they receive tickets to play in more SNG's).
Those games had a HUGE following back in the day... I'm sure they'd take off again if they were promoted well.