I cannot begin to tell you how jealous I am of those of you living in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan (and Nevada and Delaware, but those aren’t totally relevant for our purposes right now). I used to play online poker every day. I wasn’t that good – probably break even at micro-low stakes before bonuses – but it was a fun hobby. But the last ten years have been a poker void where I live and I can only look to your states with longing and sigh. And for all of you with access to PokerStars, you have a big tournament to look forward to later this month.
On October 24, PokerStars PA, PokerStars MI, and PokerStars NJ will all host a two-day event beginning at 5:00pm ET. In Pennsylvania, it’s called Pennsyl-MANIA, while the other two states have the Michigan Classic and New Jersey Classic, respectively. They are all effectively the same tournament, despite the name differences.
Each tournament has a $300 buy-in and have $700,000 in combined guaranteed prize pools: $350,000 for Pennsylvania, $250,000 for Michigan, and $100,000 for New Jersey.
Satellites have already started for the three tournaments with price points as low as $15 (that would be more my speed). The PokerStars sites are also running special $3 Spin & Go’s that give players the chance to win entries into the events.
That’s really about it. None of these are a tournament series, just a single event, so there is not much analysis necessary. Play a little No-Limit Hold’em with some healthy guaranteed prize pools for US-based PokerStars sites.
It was just a couple weeks ago that Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New Jersey wrapped up their PokerStars Championships of Online Poker (COOPs). Across all three COOPs (PACOOP, MICOOP, and NJCOOP), players won $5.27 million, about three-quarters of a million dollars more than the total guarantees.
Almost half of that came from PACOOP, which awarded $2.38m to players. The 69-event series drew more than 25,000 entries. MICOOP attracted over 18,000 entries across 68 events, generating $1.78 million in prize money. NJCOOP awarded $1.1 million in prizes with nearly 10,600 entries over 60 […]
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