The last time we did this was early 2017 when we moved the payouts in most tournaments to 18%, or 1 in 5.5 players.”Īnd now, the payout structures are being widen once again. “We want more people to have more fun by winning more often, so we’ve continued to make changes big and small: we moved from 10% to 11.1% to 12.5% to 14.2% to 16.6% gradually across the years. When more players make money, Jones noted, stating the obvious, more people walk away happy (or least not pissed off). We eventually decided that we didn’t want 90% of the field walking away with nothing and we paid more places.” Anyone remember when 10th-18th all received the same prize? That used to be a thing. We introduced even more granularity to the pay tiers. We moved money away from the final table.
“Over the years there was further evolution,” he added. Summary: the payouts were extraordinarily top heavy, something that was only good for the winner.Īs the years went on, Jones he and his team at PokerStars worked on spreading out the payments within the 10 percent so that there wasn’t such a drop off after the first couple prizes. There were some serious flaws though: there was often significant deviation from the 10% target a huge portion of the money went to the final table first place received too much, the jumps in final table prizes were too severe the pay tiers were often very large, meaning that large swaths of finishing positions received the same prize most importantly, nine out of every 10 people who played walked away with nothing to show for their investment of time and money. Jones, continued, pointing out the array of problems with this organization:
“Providing a smooth transition from live to online poker was one of the most important considerations back then, and 10% payouts helped to facilitate that transition,” he wrote. Jones hearkened back to 2002-2006, the years just before and during the online poker boom, when tournaments typically paid out to 10 percent of the field. In a blog post from late last week, Mike Jones, Poker Operations Manager for PokerStars, took readers through the online poker room’s history with tourney payouts and explained the reason for the changes. In an ongoing effort to satisfy more players, PokerStars is widening the pay structure of many of its tournaments today.
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