These changes are being made after careful consideration of all information available, including feedback provided by players. PokerStars would like to thank all players who made suggestions about ring game buy-ins this past year for their input.

Time players must wait prior to rejoining the same table with less money
Currently players must wait 1 hour after leaving a NL or PL table before rejoining the same table with a smaller stack than they had when they left. On March 1st, this waiting period will be doubled to 2 hours.

NLHE and PLO Heads-up
Heads-up tables will continue to be offered with buy-in ranges of 20-50bb and 40-100bb. $2/$4 and $0.25/$0.50 NLHE had been offering only 20-100bb tables for several months to test a possible change. These 20-100bb tables will be removed at these stakes and replaced by 20-50bb and 40-100bb tables.
40-100bb tables will no longer have a buy-in label. 20-50bb tables will be labelled ‘short’ instead of 20-50bb. Tooltips describing exact buy-in details will remain.
High stakes ($5/$10 and up) heads-up tables will be changed from ‘fast’ speed to ‘normal’ speed.

PLO and PLO/8
20-50bb and 40-100bb tables will no longer be offered at Pot Limit Omaha or Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo. They will be replaced by unlabelled 30-100bb tables.
Euro PLO tables will change from 35-100bb to 30-100bb and remain unlabelled.
100-250bb tables will now be labelled as ‘deep’.

NLO/8
No changes are being made to No-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo tables at this time.

Implementation
All of the above changes will be implemented on Tuesday, March 1st. Any new tables created after the change will be of the new table types. Existing tables of the old types will be removed as they become empty but some may remain until the next server restart.
Lobby Filters and Auto Buy-in Options will be changed in the next client release to reflect the new range of Hold’em and Omaha offerings.

Thanks
PokerStars would like to thank all players for their patience in waiting for these changes. It is important that PokerStars consider all options and opinions before making decisions about ring game buy-ins.