With more than 300 tournaments and over $78 million in guaranteed prize pools, the 14th edition of PokerStars SCOOP is set to kick off on Sunday, May 8. The massive spring tournament season is nearly upon us, and tournament poker players of all levels have a lot to look forward to, with one of the leading online poker operators, PokerStars , bringing back its traditional Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) for the fourteenth consecutive year.
As always, the Series will feature tournaments in three separate orbits, with Low, Medium, and High tournaments running simultaneously for players playing at different buy-in levels.
This year, SCOOP is guaranteeing $78.5 million in prizes over 318 tournaments, with the High orbit accounting for 107 of them.
This number is likely to be shattered and reach as high as $100 million, which will only add to the $1.1 billion in prizes already paid out to the 11 million entrants who competed in SCOOP tournaments over the years .
SCOOP is one of the most exciting online poker series of the year, and players now have just days to prepare for it, with the first events launching on Sunday, May 8. Last verified: April 2022 PokerStars SCOOP 2022 Highlights
This year’s SCOOP is set to run until Wednesday, June 1, which will see it end just in time for players to head over to Las Vegas and play in the upcoming World Series of Poker .
The month of May will be loaded with action, with plenty of events across all three levels. Yet, some events are more interesting than the others and will surely attract more attention.
The Hold’em Main Events will be, by far, the most lucrative tournaments of the series, with these three running on Sunday, May 29: Low Orbit Main Event: $109 buy-in, $2.5 million guaranteed
Medium Orbit Main Event: $1,050 buy-in, $4 million guaranteed High Orbit Main Event: $10,500 buy-in, $5 million guaranteed Along with the Hold’em Main Events, this year’s SCOOP will also feature PLO Main Events on May 29, with the $109, $1050, and $10,500 buy-in events offering $250k, $600k, and $800k in […]
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