https://www.pokerstars.com/en/blog/c...1-159457.shtml
We are happy to announce plans to hold four $1 million freeroll tournaments in 2016 on PokerStars. These tournaments will surely create buzz and generate excitement among players at all skill and experience levels and the injection of $4 million into the economy will help many players' bankrolls.
We're doing everything we can to make 2016 an exciting year for poker, but recognize that 2015 has been tough for many of our players.
Of course that doesn't mean it went unnoticed by us.
We care very deeply about what players say and what they expect of us. And we strive to live up to their
expectations. (((---------- LLOOOOOOLLL
Although we did not publicize it at the time, we did recognize that players might not be expecting as severe a decrease in awards, so we provided a higher level of reward in 2016 than originally planned and
delayed implementing the full decrease in rewards until 2017
The funds that previously went to these rewards will be placed in more and bigger online promotions, more consumer marketing campaigns to attract new players and research and development of innovative new products and features. We have mass consumer marketing campaigns featuring Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar Jr; we're launching innovative new poker variants that take advantage of mobile platforms, social gaming and the popularity of other card-based strategy games and e-Sports; and levelling the playing field for recreational and new players
by restricting the use of third party software and data mining that give an unfair edge to professionals.