{"id":8967,"date":"2019-01-22T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/?p=8967"},"modified":"2019-01-22T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:00:28","slug":"pokerstars-slashes-sunday-million-buy-in-by-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/pokerstars-slashes-sunday-million-buy-in-by-half\/","title":{"rendered":"PokerStars Slashes Sunday Million Buy-In by Half"},"content":{"rendered":"

The online poker industry has just gotten even more competitive following an announcement by PokerStars that it was slashing the buy-in for its long-running tournament from $215 to $109. By doing this, the online poker operator will now need to attract at least 10,000 buy-ins every week so as to avoid an overlay. However, the company has expressed a lot of confidence in the expectation that its current player pool is more than sufficient to support the change. It is still too early to ascertain how true this is but the company did break it all down in the official statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The PokerStars Sunday schedule has always had the players in mind. Events like the $22 Mini Million and the $11 Sunday Storm have proven immensely popular. Meanwhile, the new High Roller Club has quickly become a place for high stakes players to play.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite the big change that the operator made, all the other features of the tournament are expected to remain pretty much the same. Here is a brief breakdown of the conditions that are being maintained to ensure that the weekly MTT does not turn into a crapshoot:<\/p>\n