PokerStars Introduces Spring Championship of Online Poker
PokerStars has leaked that early next year it will add a brand new tournament to its line up – the Spring Championship of Online Poker (aka SCOOP).
This on the heels of the sweeping success of this past September’s 7th installment of their World Championship of Online Poker, the 2008 WCOOP attracting 2,185 players to the main event who competed for $200k guaranteed, though both the first and second place winners walked away with $1.2 and $1.4 million respectively, thanks to the chop. This will make the Spring Championship of Online Poker an exciting event for many online poker players who wish to try their hand again at pocketing such hefty sums.
Not much is known about the 2009 SCOOP, other than that the buy-in to the main event looks to be $1,500. They’re even hinting that, by the time the new event rolls around, its name may change. But they do know that the 6th place winner of their upcoming World Blogger Championship of Online Poker will win a free seat in the sure-to-be-popular new PokerStars tournament, whatever it ends up being called.