Getting The Poop On SCOOP

Pokerstars releases information on its 2010 Spring Championship Of Online Poker Online poker provider Pokerstars has released details of the next SCOOP (Spring Championship Of Online Poker) tournament, which is scheduled for May 3 and is to run for two weeks with guaranteed prize-pools totaling $36 million. The 33 events planned will embrace almost every form of poker, and will each have a choice of three buy-in levels and guaranteed prize pools. A NLHE six-max competition kicks off the tournament on May 3 with buy-ins of $5.50, $55 and $530. This will be followed three hours later by a fixed-limit Badugi event. The big money will be in the main event, scheduled for the last two days of SCOOP and guaranteeing prize pools of one, three and five million dollars respectively.