Sunday 12th April saw the beginning of Event 22 of SCOOP, the long awaited Main Event. There were 3 events, low, medium and high as normal. Event #22 low certainly drew a crowd with 18,747 players entering. Those thousands created a massive prize pool of $1,874,700 with a first-place prize of $187,470.01. Day 1 play [...]

21-L SCOOP event 21-L can easily be cataloged as a who’s who in online HU play. 1550 of the very best players online duked it out in this HU shootout tournament. The field was large, but this was definitely not an indication of an easy ride for tough players within. Instead, wherever they turned there [...]

The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker is down to its final day after the completion of Event 20.  This event was a fixed limit, 6-max Hold’em tournament, with starting stack sizes of 5,000 chips and 15 minute blinds.  Once again there were three separate tournaments with a low, medium, and high buy-in. The SCOOP [...]

The first ever Poker Stars Spring Championships of Online Poker is drawing close to its triumphant conclusion. The series has been very well attended so far, and that continued to be true of Event #17, which concluded early this morning. It was a No Limit Hold ‘em tournament which allowed for one rebuy and one [...]

April 8th saw a huge turnout for PokerStars’ Event 14 of the Spring Championship of Online Poker.  Event 14 was set up as a No-Limit Hold’em tournament with 6-max tables.  In accordance with all other events for SCOOP, three tournaments made up the event  – a low, medium, and high stakes tournament – each with [...]

Event 10 of the Spring Championship of Online Poker, known as SCOOP, has concluded.  This event was NL Hold’em Heads Up Match Play. There were 3 events with different buy-ins. Low, Medium and High. $16.50, $162 and $1,575 respectively. All events passed their guarantees by Pokerstars so there was no overlay. PokerStars set a cap [...]

Event 11 of the Spring Championship of Online Poker, known as SCOOP, has concluded.  This special Mixed-Hold’em 6max Event alternated between Limit Hold’em and No-Limit Hold’em on each blind/level change.  For those unaware, the SCOOP is a special series which offers three different buy-in levels for each event.  Event 11 buy-ins were $33, $320, and [...]

The last two days saw the first 2 day event of the SCOOP series. Event 10 was a single freezeout. The small event eclipsed the $250,000 garanteed by PokerStars. 20,353 entered making a massive $610,590.00 prize pool. 4,500 players walked away with some money for their troubles. But, it was the final nine that took [...]

Okay guys, here I am presenting you a tournament recap for all 3 SCOOP Event 5s, both in the low buy-in spectrum, medium buy-in spectrum, and high buy-in spectrum. Event 5 is special, because it was a shootout event. A shootout event is just like a SNG, where the winner of a SNG advances to [...]

The first ever PokerStars Summer Championships of Online Poker began on Thursday with the first of its innovative three-tier tournaments. In an attempt to make these large online festivals accessible to everyone, every event has three versions at three different buy-ins. Each of these doppelgangers are identical, except for the buy-in and the level of [...]