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PokerStars Adjusts EPT Payouts Again
- Updated: September 27, 2016
Back in August, PokerStars announced that its European Poker Tour events would begin to use a revised payout structure that paid out 20 percent of the field with minimum cashes of 1x-1.2x the original buy-in. That decision elicited considerable rancor from some of the poker-playing community, particularly high-stakes regulars. In the wake of the unrest, PokerStars has announced some new revisions to the payout structures.
For the upcoming EPT Malta and EPT Prague stops, events with buy-ins €10,000 or more will return to the old payout structure of 12 to 15 percent paid, while lower buy-ins will be capped at 20 percent of the field paid out with min-cashes in the neighborhood of 1.5x the original buy-in.
“We’re very passionate about creating a player experience that players look forward to coming back to again and again and making our events the best that they can be,” PokerStars Head of Live Poker Operations Neil Johnson wrote on the PokerStars blog. “We’d like to think that we’ve got a lot more things right than not, and we’re proud to say that we will keep …
