This is my favourite time of the year for poker. I don't play as often as I used to because of my involvement with Crypto but I can never pass up on playing SCOOP. Any serious online poker player is familiar with SCOOP because of the massive prize pools, but what makes SCOOP so interesting to me is the varied buy in levels.
For anyone new to poker SCOOP is held on the biggest poker site in the world, Pokerstars. It has always offered big prizepools for low buy-ins because of the sheer amount of players online at any given time. Regular tournaments with thousands of players run everyday and on any given Sunday its just madness, with tournaments of player counts in excess of 20,000 players. Now SCOOP, well SCOOP is like Sunday, everyday for a solid month and on a SCOOP Sunday, there isn't even words. It's genuinely a sight to behold!
As I said before the thing that makes SCOOP so amazing is the varied buy in levels. The tournaments range from $2.20 to $25,000 yeah! 25k yep... so there is something for everyone and what makes it even better is the colossal amount of satellite tournaments for every single event.
Lowest
Highest
For newbies a satellite is a tournament where the prize is an entry or a seat in a bigger tournament. For example if you wanted to play in an $11 tournament but didn't want to risk all $11 you could play a $1.10 satellite and if you place in the top 10% you would win an entry to the $11 tournament.
So this really makes it amazing, genuinely anyone could be playing for serious money, even life changing money for a small investment.
Small disclaimer alert!
Obviously with all high reward ventures there is a high risk. I would never suggest playing with more than you are perfectly OK to lose but if you want to take a gamble with online poker, this would be the most exciting time of the year to do so, in my opinion but honeslty it should just be seen as an entertainment cost. Any good poker player understands good bankroll management and in doing so understand the risk of playing these insanely high risk tournaments. Be responsible!
If however you decide to have a spin at the tables. Let me know maybe we'll even end up in the same tournaments.
I intend on streaming some of my low to medium events over the next month so stay tuned and please ask me any questions you have.
Thanks for reading, again gamble responsibly!
