Summary:
- The Spring Championship of Online Poker will start on May 5.
- The highly-anticipated event will run for 25 days.
- The SCOOP schedule has not been revealed yet.
The Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP) will be returning between May 5 and May 29.
While the full schedule is yet to be revealed, PokerStars has announced that the 16th edition of one of the highest-anticipated online poker tournament events of the year will be covering all the bases.
The event will also feature multiple poker variants, tournament formats, as well as three different buy-in tiers for each event.
“SCOOP 2024 Is Going to Be Big”
In a post on X (former Twitter), PokerStars suggested poker aficionados “Mark those calendars” arguing ”#SCOOP 2024 is going to be big” and added that more details are coming soon.
Mark those calendars…#SCOOP 2024 is going to be big, and it'll take place May 5-29.
More details coming soon. pic.twitter.com/gBPJDKPr6G
— PokerStars (@PokerStars) March 18, 2024
While waiting for all the hot details to arrive, we can only anticipate that the new event will be just as successful as the 2023 edition which counted no less than 121 events, a three-tier buy-in structure, and 363 total tournaments that gathered a massive number of entries (1,277,595).
Together, participants generated a total prize pool of $91,906,701. The biggest tournament was the “Low” buy-in $2.20 No-Limit Hold’em event that featured a $125,000 guarantee with 65,731 entries.
Event #14: $1,050 No-Limit 5-Card Draw, Six-Max, Progressive Knockout with its $30,000 guarantee, on the other hand, only managed to attract 33 participants.
Brazilian Felipe Boianovsky scooped up the Main Event title and took home the largest first prize of the series at $1,036,199.
Regional SCOOP Tournament Details
The 2024 SCOOP tournament for players in Spain, France, and Portugal that will take place between April 7-28 will feature a guaranteed prize pool of over $10 million.
The opening event will be a $1 million guaranteed Sunday Million Mystery Bounty with just a €100 buy-in.
The €500,000 guaranteed Main Event that will take place on the last day of SCOOP will be a mystery bounty tournament.
North American players from Ontario, Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania can register for the North America SCOOP series that will take place between April 5-22.
They will compete for a $7 million guaranteed prize pool with$2.25 million guarantees in Pennsylvania, $3 million in Michigan/New Jersey, and $1.7 million in Ontario.
In the past decade and a half, PokerStars has organized 2,917 SCOOP tournaments that gathered 13,573,790 entries in total and $1,324,455,144 in total prize money.
