diff --git a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/variantrecalibration/VariantRecalibratorArgumentCollection.java b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/variantrecalibration/VariantRecalibratorArgumentCollection.java
index a0920113b..df396b714 100755
--- a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/variantrecalibration/VariantRecalibratorArgumentCollection.java
+++ b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/variantrecalibration/VariantRecalibratorArgumentCollection.java
@@ -62,5 +62,5 @@ public class VariantRecalibratorArgumentCollection {
     @Argument(fullName="percentBadVariants", shortName="percentBad", doc="What percentage of the worst scoring variants to use when building the Gaussian mixture model of bad variants. 0.07 means bottom 7 percent.", required=false)
     public double PERCENT_BAD_VARIANTS = 0.03;
     @Argument(fullName="minNumBadVariants", shortName="minNumBad", doc="The minimum amount of worst scoring variants to use when building the Gaussian mixture model of bad variants. Will override -percentBad argument if necessary.", required=false)
-    public int MIN_NUM_BAD_VARIANTS = 2000;
+    public int MIN_NUM_BAD_VARIANTS = 2500;
 }