It’s been a strange year for poker especially online poker with the industry turned upside down on Black Friday. Online poker traffic has decrease by 31% as a result of an unstable US market.

Not all online poker rooms suffered a loss in traffic, CarbonPoker and Merge Gaming Network experienced an increase of traffic up to 76%.

Notable Poker players for 2011 include: Erik Seidel new leader on the poker all time money list, Phil Hellmuth, Ben Lamb (Player of the Year) and Pius Heinz (2011 World Series Of Poker Main Event Champion)

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PokerStars have released the 2011 SCOOP schedule; the Poker Stars Spring Championship of Online Poker is set to take place from May 8 until May 22 2011

The SCOOP 2011 is set to be one of the biggest online poker events of the year, offering $45 million in a wide spread of guaranteed events suiting bankrolls of all sizes and game preferences.

The SCOOP at PokerStars offers players a choice of three different buyin levels for each scheduled event.

The 2010 SCOOP was a huge success that awarded in excess of $63 million in prize money over 38 events with each event offering 3 buy in levels the main event final – high buyin was won by toetagU who took home $1,162,350 for his efforts.

Be sure to enter this year’s  2011 Spring Championship of Online Poker, who knows you may become the next champ, for the full SCOOP 2011 schedule see below.

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It’s that time of year again where players can start planing for the WSOP 2011, players can win prize packages to the World Series of Poker events by playing daily qualifying online poker tournaments.

UWinPoker have prize packages up for grabs which covers buy-in, accommodation and travel costs from as low as $3 + $0.30.

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