Last summer, PokerStars announced that it would be restructuring PokerStars live events into PokerStars Championships and PokerStars Festivals for the start of 2017.
In a Feb. 22 press release, PokerStars announced that it will be joining forces with London's Hippodrome Casino to create a new festival dubbed the PokerStars London Series with five stops planned for 2017.
The festivals will feature bigger guarantees, deeper stacks, longer blind levels and extended late registration periods when compared to the UKIPT Series and the Hippodrome Classics based off of feedback from players who attended both festivals.