Some people need to know their limits. Event #25 offered players three chances to get their short-handed fixed-limit Hold'em game on. The high version of the event featured a $2,100 buy-in and drew 131 entrants, obliterating the $75,000 guarantee by creating a $262,000 prize pool. Jarcon86 came out on top...more

SCOOP is known and loved for its variety and its multiple buy-in levels. Still, some of the best events on the schedule remain no-limit hold'em freezeouts like Event #22-H. A two-day tournament with 30 minute levels, and a slow structure, this event featured plenty of room for post-flop play and...more

Shaun Deeb has five SCOOP titles in his brief professional career. Deeb is like the Tiger Woods of the Spring Championship of Online Poker because he's the master of his own domain and chasing his own ghost. Then again, Deeb has not won any SCOOP events in 2013. Is he...more

Of all 132 tournaments on the 2013 SCOOP schedule, only the three Event #25 tourneys offered limit hold'em players a shot at their favorite game, and the $27 buy-in "low" version proved plenty attractive. By the time late registration concluded there were 3,463 registered for the six-handed event, thus building...more

I'm no detective. If you present me with a locked room mystery, I'm likely to make a few polite inquiries and then, stymied by the apparent unsolvable nature of the mystery and the incomplete information in front of me, throw my hands up in the air and say, "The butler...more

The ups and downs that come with PLO are inevitable, and the mix of that game with NLHE is challenging. MrSax00beat entered final table play with the chip lead and increased it, but ARMEN1US overcame more chip fluctuations to end up in the heads-up battle against MrSax00beat. And the strong...more

Every poker player loves an overlay and today's Event #26-M Courchevel H/L tournament provided $17,000 in additional money to meet the $150,000 guarantee. Courchevel is an interesting tweak to the game of Omaha with players dealt 5 hold cards and one of the flop cards revealed before action is opened....more

Courchevel Hi-Lo was just introduced here at PokerStars a few months back, making this year's SCOOP the first big Stars tournament series to feature the game. If you're an action player and you're not familiar with this Omaha variant, trust me when I say that you're going to fall in...more

Quarter of a million dollars. If you woke up tomorrow with a quarter of a mil in your account what would you do with it? That's approximately how much first place paid out in SCOOP Event #22-M. A mere $215 investment netted the winner a shade under $250,000 for demonstrating...more

For the last year I've been trying hard to improve my online cash games. I'd always played cash games before I got into tournaments, but when I started having tournament success I stopped playing them for a while. When I got back to them I kind of felt stuck. The...more

I didn't have much sleep before going to the EPT Final, because my nephew was born at 5am on day 1a. Obviously I had to stay in London to rail that in. Luckily, I was playing day 1b. So, after an hour's sleep and a dawn hospital visit to meet...more

Before I got into poker I was a professional billiards player. I had quite a bit of success in my home country of Romania and in the rest of Europe. As a professional, I practiced a lot. If a big tournament was coming up, I would practice seven to eight...more

Editor's note: Tomorrow, PokerStars Team Online will release a mini-documentary about Shane "shaniac" Schleger. We asked him to write a little bit about the making of the film. *** I'm not shy about expressing myself, but when it came time to start filming on my PokerStars Team Online short film,...more

Before this SCOOP came along, I decided to take a long poker trip around Europe. My first stop was in Berlin for the EPT. It's a great city and I absolutely loved it. After the tournament ended, I stayed in Berlin for about a week then went straight to Monte...more

Many poker players would answer "competition" when asked about what motivates them most in poker. If I was asked, I would answer it's the game itself - or rather my passion for gaming. I have been playing cards since I was seventeen and there have been no other worlds in...more