Spring Championship of Online Poker – SCOOP
PokerStar.com has announced they will be running a Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). The tournament will run in April starting on the second and finishing on the twelth. PokerStars has guaranteed a prize pool of $30 million dollars.
This will be the largest online poker tournament series of 2009. Beating out FullTiltPoker.org's FTOPS series.
There is an interesting twist for the SCOOP which has three buy-ins per event. They will have a low, medium and high stake poker event. There will be 22 events in total with each event consisting of 3 tournaments so 66 poker tournaments will be played when the Poker Stars SCOOP is finished.
As an example the first event will be a No Limit Hold-em with Rebuys (6-max). The low buy-in will be $5.50 and the guarantee for the tournament is $50k. The medium $55 buy-in with a guarantee of $200k and lastly the high with a $530 buy-in and a guarantee of $500k.
The last event of the SCOOP will consist of 3 million dollar tournaments! The low will have a buy-in of $109 with the guarantee a smooth million. The medium will be $1050 with a guarantee of $3 million. And finally the high event will be $10,300 (similar to the wsop main event) with a $5 million guarantee! The tournament will be played on April 12th at 16:30 and will be a 2-day event. This is for sure to bring out pros with the high buy-in and huge guaranteed prize pool.
