I know where I’ll be May 8-22: PokerStars is guaranteeing $45 million in prizes over the course of two weeks in the third annual Spring Championship of Online Poker. They’ve released the schedule, and just looking at it gets my adrenaline rushing. There are so many tournaments that will be both fun and very profitable, and there’s also the opportunity to blow through $50,000 or so in buy-ins if things don’t go well.
I love the SCOOP. It’s my favorite tournament series of the year, by far. Not only are there some unique and creative formats (Antes Up, 4-Max), but the range of buy-in options lets everyone get in on the fun. Even players with small bankrolls can participate in a major tournament series. Plus, it’s a better solution to letting regulars multi-table a major series than allowing multiple entries. The big buy-in events will be reg-infested, but the small and medium ones won’t end up as saturated with professionals as I understand many events were in a certain other tournament series that ran recently and allowed multi-entries.
A very welcome development this year is an increase in the number of 2-day events. The one thing I dread about these series is that the structures are SO good that it’s easy to spend 10 hours playing a tournament, stay up until 3AM, and still bubble or win double your buy-in or something stupid. Especially for an early to bed, early to rise sort of guy like me, calling it a night and starting over fresh the next day is vastly preferable to playing 18 hours straight to get to the final table.
But hey, there are worse problems to have… like busting my bankroll on this enticing series!
I’m excited about the SCOOP. I only got to play a few events because I was on vacation with family the first week of the series, but it was so soft in the Low buyin tournaments. Interestingly, I found your poker blog as a result of your appearance on 2p2 pokercast while you were playing the SCOOP 4-max event live last year.
For health reasons, I hardly ever play tournaments these days, but I played the $11 PL 5CD last year. The field looked a lot like this.
I intend to play it again this year. I love the smell of a huge overlay in the morning.
Can I borrow 50k :D?
Tone down the infomercial slightly imo.. true or not