Zona de Azar U.K. – Spring Championship of Online Poker Kicks off this Weekend

U.K.- May 07, 2018 www.zonadeazar.com PokerStars Communications Team bringing you further details about the tenth annual Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP).

SCOOP 2018 kicks off this Sunday on PokerStars for an action packed 15-day event and boasts the biggest ever series guarantee for any PokerStars series with a $65 million overall guarantee as well as $150,000 in coveted Platinum Passes to the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC) in The Bahamas. Five ways players can win a Platinum Pass during the series can be found here.

The popular series will incorporate lots of events, formats, buy-ins and prize pools designed to suit all bankrolls with at least one $1 million guaranteed tournament per day. Once again, the series will run with three levels (Low, Medium and High), with buy-ins ranging from $2.20 to $25,000.

A video of PokerStars Ambassadors Lex Veldhuis and Benjamin Spragg talking about the series can be watched here.

Various PokerStars Ambassadors will be playing at the SCOOP tables as well as streaming the events. Members confirmed to play during the series include Lex Veldhuis, Felix Schneiders, Jaime Staples, Kevin Martin, Benjamin Spragg, Fintan Hand and Randy Lew. Bets can be placed on the odds of these PokerStars ambassadors going on to win a Platinum Pass in a SCOOP Main Event on BetStars.

“My favourite thing about SCOOP is the huge lifechanging prizes, even in small buy-in tournaments, which are a great way for people to jumpstart their poker careers. It is always nice to dream of winning big,” said PokerStars Ambassador Mikhail Shalamov.

Special SCOOP Offers

To celebrate ten years of SCOOP, PokerStars will automatically credit all previous SCOOP players with a ticket to the ’10 Years of SCOOP’ Freeroll which will award $50,000 in SCOOP tickets. The freeroll is set to take place tomorrow at 12:00 ET.

There are plenty more exciting offers and promotions on offer for this year’s SCOOP including;

• The Player of the Series Leader Board where the most successful players across all three stakes –  low, medium and high – will be rewarded with great cash prizes and a trophy for their achievements. The overall Leader Board winner will also receive a Platinum Pass
• Exclusive Spin & Go tournaments will run until May 20, awarding SCOOP seats and tickets worth up to $25,000
• Everyone who plays a SCOOP event will receive a ticket to an All-in Shootout on May 23 at 15:00 ET where the winner will take home a Platinum Pass
• Online qualifiers to all the events with satellites starting from less than $1

Further information about these promotions can be found on the PokerStars SCOOP webpage here.

To check out the full SCOOP 2018 schedule, head to PokerStars Blog or the PokerStars SCOOP homepage.

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