Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

Major changes to the PokerStars tournament schedule

There has been a big overhaul in the PokerStars tournament lobby after extensive consultations with the players.





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Starting this Monday, PokerStars players will have noticed some significant changes to the tournament lobby, as the weekly regular tournament schedule has been revamped for the first time in over a year. 

After consulting with a Players Advisory Council a number of changes have been made to tournaments of all buy-in levels, although perhaps the headline grabber will be the addition of a weekly $2,100 High Roller on Sundays. 

Below are a number of the many changes to the weekly schedule:

  • Tiered Majors will now share a start time. This means that Regular, Mini, and Micro will share start times.
  • All $320 tournaments have had their buy-ins changed to $215.
  • A new $530 buy-in Major has been added at 15:00 ET daily.
  • A new daily 3-Max Progressive KO Zoom Major will run daily at 16:45 ET with buy-ins of $215/$22/$2.20.
  • A new $2,100 High Roller has been added on Sundays at 13:30 ET.
  • A $2.20 Micro Saturday Scuffle has been added.
  • A $2.20 Micro Saturday KO has been added.
  • A $27/$2.20 4-Max PKO Major has been added on Saturday & Sunday at 07:00 ET.
  • The Saturday Duel will change to Heads-Up TKO Zoom with buy-ins of $215/$22/$2.20.
  • A new “Daily Deep Stacks” Major at $55/$5.50 buy-ins has been added at 09:30 ET daily.

You can see a document with all the schedule changes right here

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Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.