Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

Results of the PSPC player survey

Find out what the players voted for in terms of payouts, structure, min cashes, shot clocks, big blind antes and much more.





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You voted for shot clocks, flat payouts and 300 big blinds

Last month PokerStars invited their players to vote on what the first ever PokerStars Players No Limit Hold'em Championship should look like, with everything from the payouts all the way to things like shot clocks. 

The results are in and with not many surprises.

The tournament will start nine handed with a view to possibly changing to eight handed on Day 2. Each day will be eight hours long and players start with 300 big blinds. 

The players voted for 15% of the field getting paid, but because the event is rake free, the actual number that makes the money will be higher than that.

The min cash will be $25,000, the size of the buy-in, which when you consider the fact that so many of the field got there for free, this will still be a massive score. 

The first prize will be between 17 and 19% of the money collected, before the added $1 million from PokerStars is included. 

The event will use a shot clock when the players are in the money, and will use the Big Blind Ante throughout. 

If all that has wet your appetite, direct qualifiers have finally begun for this event.

Did you cast your vote? How close was it to the final outcome? Let us know in the comments:


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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.