PokerStars has reduced many/most of their Guaranteed Tournaments

I dont have a complete list--but many of the daily Guaranteed Tournaments that Stars runs daily have had their Guaranted Prize Pools reduced in the last couple days.

I just happened to notice the $2.75 $10K reduced to $7500, as well as the 3 5 and 10 rebuys with pretty dramatic reductions. Hopefully, they will move back up after the WSOP and/or these processor problems are hashed out.

$11 40k-25k
3r 50k-40k
5r 50k-40k
10 70k-50k (down from 80k)
11pm 109 40k-25k
Super Tuesday 300k-250k (at one time was 400K)

Feeling the recession?

Yeah I was gonna mention this myself. This, plus simply the fact that it's summer and there's inherently gonna be less people on the site. I don't think it's anything to worry about. As soon as we get round to September/October I'd expect to see the guarantees re-increase.

There's also the current processor issue to consider. A lot of US players who might be entering the bigger guar. games may be cautious now about a way to withdraw without losing their winnings, and won't be registering for the games.

There's 27,000 accounts impounded right now for over 30 million $$. Would be just my luck to play 9+ hours, win ~$112,000 and have it frozen by the US Gooberment. ...

Yea my guess is the main reason for the lowering of the stakes is because of the processing issue since a lot of us players are probably not continue to play while they are unable to get their money out of their account if they hit it big

Interesting thing....I haven't noticed Full Tilt reducing their guarantees yet. But I certainly could have missed it if they did. I can't remember a time when FTP wasn't behind PS. Holding guarantees is a positive in my mind for Full Tilt. And that doesnt happen too often, although they have improved several things in last 6 months since I took them off my personal recommended list and then put them back on.

Hope they keep moving up and making gains.

expected. happens annuallly