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When PokerStars puts the word "turbo" in the title, they are not messing around. The $150 + $12 buy-in NLHE 2x chance turbo, the medium buy-in option of Event 4 of this whirlwind Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), was literally over in about four and a half hours. It...more

After yesterday's marathon of twelve-hour deep-stacked tournaments, the speed and gambool of today's NLHE turbo event was a welcome change of pace for everyone. 552 players turned out for the $1,575 buy-in installment of SCOOP Event #4, creating a prize pool of $1,251,000 after 282 of them exercised their second-chance...more

One of the first events of the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is in the history books, and what a story it told! Players lined up, in theory of course, to play in the first high-level event in the 2009 SCOOP series, and a $500 + $30 buy-in NLHE...more

In penny arcades and on county fair midways as far as the eye can see, there sits a bank of games we know affectionately as Whack-A-Mole. In this practice in apparent futility, one lone player stands before a table of holes. From said holes pop blind, plastic rodents. The popping...more

It's enough of a feat to scratch and claw through a field of thousands and make it to a SCOOP final table. To do it twice in one night is almost unthinkable. But that's exactly what Sdouble accomplished tonight, taking down Event #2, $109 buy-in PLO8 while simultaneously making an...more

It seemed fitting that one of the earliest tournaments on the 2009 SCOOP calendar should be Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo, a split-pot game that requires players to scoop the whole pot if they expect to make any headway against the field. To some, PLO8 (as its known) is the devil's game....more

Finnish player Eetu100 took down the $5.50 plus rebuys 6-max No-Limit Hold'em event that helped usher in PokerStars' Spring Championship of Online Poker on Thursday. The low version of the opening SCOOP event drew a whopping 27,134 entries, who made 45,438 rebuys and 14,434 add-ons, creating a prize pool...more

Often times winning a poker tournament comes down to being in the right place at the time. For PokerStars player thehoffa, the first "right place" of the day was the registration screen for a type of tournament he'd never played before: Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo. There would be plenty of...more

Okay. We knew the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker was going to be popular. With buy-ins for every bankroll, it was bound to draw crowds. Still, until just a couple of hours ago, we just didn't know how popular it was going to be. One word pretty much sums...more

In a little more than 24 hours from now PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker will kick off with its first event. The competition and field sizes are bound to be as tough as any we've seen in a long time. It's not like top professionals to go around seeding...more

The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker kicks off in a little more than 48 hours and it has amateurs and pros alike foaming at the mouth. "Every big player I've talked to has cleared their schedule for the SCOOP," said Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu. With $30 million guaranteed...more

If you're like me (and chances are you're not, because Mama always said I was special and could someday be President), you have longingly looked at the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker and thought, "I wish I could afford to play every event!" And who wouldn't, really? The PokerStars...more