After the indictments by the United States Department of Justice on April 15, PokerStars has tweaked its Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), which starts on May 8.
In order to accommodate European players, all events have been moved up three hours. In addition, with the absence of the American market, the online site has slashed the guarantees, dropping the total from $45 million to $25 million. The culminating $10,300 no-limit hold’em main event originally had a $5 million guarantee, but has seen that figure cut in half.
To see how each individual tournament was affected by the prize pool cuts, you can compare the old schedule with the new one.
The series, which will end May 22, will consist of three buy-in levels for every one of its 38 events: low, medium, and high — and players are not restricted to only one level. Satellites for SCOOP events are running now with buy-ins as low as $0.25.
