PokerStars Catering Towards the European Market With New Start Times

Given the catastrophic loss of the US market it was fairly inevitable that many of the major online poker houses were going to start courting the European markets more heavily and so sees the announcement from PokerStars that they are to move the start times of all of their regular major tournaments to earlier times in the day. This is a smart move by PokerStars and one that will inevitably snare more casual players to tourney play. We all know that a decent finish will see an investment in time of several hours so the earlier start times will be welcome to most in Europe.

A round up of many of the tournaments and start times are –

  • Sunday Kick-Off – 17:00 GMT
  • Sunday Warm-Up – 19:00 GMT
  • Sunday Rebuy – 20:00 GMT
  • Sunday Storm – 21:30 GMT
  • Sunday Million – 22:30 GMT
  • Sunday 500 – 23:30 GMT
  • Sunday Second Chance – 00:30 GMT
  • Sunday Supersonic – 02:30 GMT

These new tournament start times begin on Sunday 5th June and as a kicker PokerStars are adding more than $200,000 worth of entries to a selection of daily satellites. Check out the lobby at PokerStars for details on the satellites if you are interested in getting a cheap entry.