PokerStars to increase rake
The changes, which amount to an overall increase of 4%, come into effect starting next week.
On their corporate blog PokerStars have announced that as of March 28 they will be increasing their rake across several games, on the main shared liquidity platform.
There will be an overall increase of 4%, and the main changes will be as follows:
- Spin & Go rake will be increased by one percentage point for buy-ins from $1 to $30 (two percentage points in $3 buy-in). $0.25, $60 and $100 buy-ins will not change.
- In multi-table tournaments, PokerStars will match the practices deployed in closed liquidity markets where rebuys and add-ons incur fees similar to the original entry. These tournaments represent approximately 12% of the current main schedule.
- MTT hyper-turbo rake will be increased to 5%.
- Cap and percentage of rake will be increased in some no limit and pot limit ring games, mainly heads-up. Some rake caps will be lowered. Limit games will not be affected.
PokerStars pointed out that under their new structure, they still have the lowest rake overall of any major poker operator. In the graph below they used a sample of one million hands played at PokerStars and how they would have been raked on rival networks.
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