Neil Johnson, Head of Everything Live, PokerStars, has confirmed in a blog post on the ‘Live’ section of the company website that the payout structure used in EPT13 Malta will be used throughout 2017 and beyond.

Professional poker players will moan and groan, and recreational poker players will go blindly about their business as PokerStars Head of all Things Live, Neil Johnson, confirmed that the 2017 payout structure will remain the same at they did at the recent European Poker Tour (EPT) Malta.

You may recall that PokerStars set Twitter ablaze in the summer when they announced plans to expand their payouts from 15% of the field to 20% in a bid to ensure more recreational players left with money they could then reinvest in more tournaments or buy their partner a new dog for Christmas.

The PokerStars Live team, spearheaded by Johnson, also changed the minimum buy-in to 1x-1.2x.