PokerStars to Pay Out More Tournament Places
This was published 10-09-2017PokerStars will be making a small change to tournament payouts and will be increasing the number of players who get paid in multi table tournaments in an endeavor to enhance the experience for recreational players on their site.
As from Monday, 11th September 2017, PokerStars will be making the payments of most of their tournaments deeper in an effort to pay out more players who buy in.
Mike Jones, the Operations Manager at PokerStars explained the reason for the change on the PokerStars blog saying that it is clear to them that paying more places has a direct benefit to most of their players.
Jones went on to say that the changes will be subtle and most players will only notice when they realize that they are experiencing the thrill of cashing a little more often. He added that it has been years of tinkering to get to this point and they will keep working in order to create the best overall playing experience.
Jones also confirmed that tourneys that have been paying 12% will change to 14%; 14% will change to 16%; 16% will change to 18%, and 18% will change to 20%. Not every tournament is affected and there is no change to approximately 30% of the weekly recurring schedule with Progressive Knockouts, a number of high buy-ins and tournaments being unaffected as they are already paying 20% of the field.
According to Jones they would like more people to have more fun by winning more often and that while traditional live tournament payouts used to be only for 10 percent of the field, with nine out of ten players in a tournament walking away with nothing, the number in both the live and online arenas has gradually increased. He added that PokerStars has been one of the main proponents of increasing the percentage of players to cash in tournaments, as well as smoothing out payments so that more than just the top few finishers can get a good payday.
