Poker room changes coming in January 2020

The year 2020 will be a big one for Replay Poker, as we’ll soon have fresh, updated tables on our site! But first, we wanted to let you know what we have in store for our poker room at the beginning of the year.

Regular Ring Game Leaderboards – Coming Soon

While we’ve had permanent MTT and SnG leaderboards for quite some time, we’ll be adding something new for ring games in the coming year. We plan to test this with a promotion early next year, so keep an eye out and let us know what you think.

The following poker room changes will take place on January 1:

New 500k Events

We’re adding two new 500,000 entry tournaments to our MTT schedule:

• Ruthie’s Round-up is increasing from 250k to 500k entry. This tournament runs at 8pm ET.
• Half Mil Thrill will run at 5pm ET.

Stake Changes

MTTs with buy-ins of 50,000 chips will begin to count toward the Medium Stake MTT leaderboards instead of the High Stake MTT leaderboards.

The average MTT buy-in has increased, and 50k is no longer considered to be a high buy-in. This will align MTTs with SnG stake tiers, which have already placed 50k entries in medium stakes.

Gemstone Diamond MTTs will still count toward Gemstone Diamond Leaderboards as normal.

Blind Changes

Based on player suggestions, we’re increasing our blind levels in 1 million entry tournaments from eight to ten minutes.

Regional MTT Buy-in Update

Our eight daily regional MTTs will all have an increase in buy-ins:

• All 5,000 entry tournaments will become 7,500 and begin to count toward the Medium Stake leaderboards (monthly and yearly) instead of the Low Stake leaderboards.
• All 15,000 entry tournaments will become 20,000.

Guarantee Changes

We’ve made some adjustments to our poker room as we’ve analyzed our chip economy over the past year, and that will continue in 2020. After reviewing the popularity of our tournaments, we’ve noticed that some have lacked participants and guarantees have not consistently attracted new players. The following games will have their guarantees reduced:

Sapphire Gemstone Increases

Our two Sapphire Gemstone leaderboards (First 7 and Best 7) will each increase from 500,000 chips each week to 750,000. Each will continue to pay the top 30 finishers.

Astral SnG Buy-in Update

There will be two decreases in the following Astral SnGs:

• The Astral Ursa Minor SnG buy-in will change from 10,000 to 7,500.
• The Astral Ursa Major SnG buy-in will change from 25,000 to 20,000.

To provide tickets for entry to these new buy-ins, there will be more satellites paying out 7.5k and 20k tickets.

New Satellite Schedule

Our updated satellite schedule is as follows:

We’ll update our forum thread regularly as we make more changes to our poker room, so be sure to keep an eye on this post.