What did the guarantees used to be on Pokerstars?
I knew the gtds are abysmal low but what I saw this Sunday made me rethink everything about poker being profitable.
A tournament I shipped in 2016 (The Hotter $33) gave me $10k when I chopped heads up.
Now in 2025, 9 years later - The GUARANTEE for the same effin tournament is €7.5k.........
Does anyone somehow have access to the old GTDs like 10 years ago - 5 years ago etc somehow?
I am very curious because although I am not considering quitting (mama raised no quitter - lol) I really wanna know when or how it all started dipping so hard.
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I tried to look it up too, couldn't find anything. As far as i can remember there was either $1 or $3 mtt with 60K gtd, possible it was a DAILY tournament but that's just what i can pull up from my memory and i could be wrong in some minor details. There were also decent satellites to Sunday Millions (worth $215) which you could cash in as tournament dollar and later exchange that for actual cash which was really good because players weren't that good and as a micro player that decent way to take a shot or just increase you br. Games were running pretty much constantly as far as i can remember. 2.2 180 man sng-s popped up so quickly you couldn't keep up, you could fire up many tables real quick (compare it to now- often the satellites are not filling up even, sng-s take forever to fill up too). Sunday hundred grand- for $11 i believe was pretty good way for a micro player to satellite into - again - players weren't amazing and there was plenty of satties. Current state of guarantees in the micros is an absolute joke and a waste of time and money though IMO.
Tonkaa streamed binked the tuesday thursday whatever thrilla like five to seven years a go and it was 200k or something. Now it's probably ten percent from that. Stars have fallen so hard.
Managed to find the video from his youtube and it was 400k quaranteed.
I was living in a Poker house and grinding full time in 2012. Some wins from that year:
Won a daily $1 rebuy 3x-turbo in January 2012. It had 13602 runners and I won $13.2k.
Won the "Bigger $22" on a Sunday in September 2012. It had 8225 runners and I won $22.3k.
Won a daily $82 hyper. It had 534 runners and I won $8.2k.
I was living in a Poker house and grinding full time in 2012. Some wins from that year:
Won a daily $1 rebuy 3x-turbo in January 2012. It had 13602 runners and I won $13.2k.
Won the "Bigger $22" on a Sunday in September 2012. It had 8225 runners and I won $22.3k.
Won a daily $82 hyper. It had 534 runners and I won $8.2k.
Damn man these were the ****ing times.
Nowadays thats so ****ing lone gone.
