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PokerStars Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP)

Posted on February 23, 2009 
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The world’s largest online poker room, PokerStars.com, has released the schedule for the first annual Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). From April 2nd to the 10th, 2009, members of PokerStars will be able to participate in the 10-day All-Stakes Tournament Series, competing for massive guaranteed prize pools.

Featuring 22 events, with at least 2 events per day, the PokerStars.com SCOOP series will offer three buy-in levels to accommodate online poker players of all skill levels and bankroll sizes. Every participant will have a chance to earn major cash prizes with an overall guaranteed prize pool of $30 million up for grabs.

PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker will be hosting two High Rollers events throughout the online poker tournament series, including a $25,500 Heads-Up NL Hold’em tournament and a $10,300 High-Roller H.O.R.S.E. event. Other unique events along the series are an 8-Game Mixed Tournament, 6-Max NL Hold’em, Mixed Hold’em and 6-Max PL Omaha with 1 Re-buy and 1 Add-on.

Set t be the largest online poker series of the year thus far, with $30 million guaranteed, PokerStars expects to attract a multitude of online poker fans from around the world. Buy-ins range from as little as $5.50 to as high as $25,500 in the Heads-Up challenge, with most prize pools starting at a minimum of $500k.

“Tournament series events such as the PokerStars.com WCOOP and now SCOOP,” proclaimed 2005 WSOP Champion and Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem, “are the ultimate way to improve your game and experience the excitement of big tournament play.”

Satellites and Sit’n’Go Qualifiers are already on the tournament roster at PokerStars, giving online poker players a chance to enter all SCOOP events at a much more cost-effective rate. The SCOOP Main Event, with a massive guarantee of $5,000,000, will take place on April 12th, 2009 at PokerStars.

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