PokerStars pumps up guaranteed tour

PokerStars pumps up guaranteed tournaments
By Brad "Otis" Willis on July 31, 2008 9:08 AM | Permalink

PokerStars has upped the guarantees on most of its guaranteed tournaments. Overall, the site is now hosting 483 guaranteed prize pool tournaments per week, up from 199 just last week. The overall guaranteed prize pool? That’s going up by quite a bit as well, from approximately $7.5 million to more than $13 million.

Starting this Sunday, the PokerStars Sunday Million will now have a $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool. That’s not just a one-week promotion. That’s the way it’s going to be all the time.

The Sunday Million is not the only big tournament getting a boost. Also starting this Sunday, the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up will see its $500,000 guarantee increased to $750,000. The Super Tuesday, held each Tuesday night at 19:55 ET, is changing from a $250,000 guarantee to a $300,000 guarantee.

Finally, if you missed the news, there is now a weekly $530 No-Limit Hold’em tournament on Sundays with a $250,000 guarantee. At the end of each month, this tournament will have a $1,050 buy-in.

So, there you have it. It’s not the kind of news you see very often, but when it happens, it’s big. The guarantee increases have already started, so go forth and get your share.

Det er for vildt siger jeg bare, men det er jo også det bedste sted for pokerspillere.

det bare inflationskorrigering.

tjah.. Altså det er jo ikke fordi der kommer noget overlay fordi de har sat deres gtd's op... Prize-pool'en bliver jo ikke større i nogle af de turneringer end den plejer at være, kun det tal der står i deres lobby...

- Hvorfor bliver prize-pool'en ikke større?

Tror da bare det skaber større spillefelte, hvorfor at der nok ikk bliver overlay, men derimod en endnu større price-pool en d den garanterede.

@pokerdonky, det er sku ikke ret ofte at warmup kommer op på 750k...

Som madsmk siger ændrer det i langt de fleste tilfælde udelukkende at der er flere deltagere og derfor støre prizepool. Men har da oplevet en 4-5 gange inden for den sidste tid at der har været et mindre overlay.