There are three all-in tournaments which take place on the 4th August, players can qualify for their entry by making a deposit of at least $10 and earning the required amount of VPPs.
The tournament will be purely luck-based as players are all-in every hand, it’s like getting a ticket into the lottery. Use one of the latest PokerStars bonus codes to qualify for one, two or all of the tourneys, qualify before 31st July, 2014.
Players from around the World can qualify online at PokerStars in the first stage heads-up qualifiers for only $2.20. Earn points for your country by finishing in the highest position in any of the four qualifying Heads-up Super Knockout tournaments.
Get a 100% first deposit bonus up to a maximum of $600 on PokerStars.
The SCOOP 2012 (Spring Championship of Online Poker) is a yearly event held by Pokerstars that attracts players from varying bankroll limits as they run each event in Low, Medium and High buy-ins.
For example Event #38 is the main event for the Pokerstars SCOOP 2012 it starts at 14:30 ET on Sunday, May 20th 2012 and players can buy-in for Low $82, Medium $700 or High $7500 versions of the tournament, the same is true for all the events in that the same event number starts at the same time and only the buy-in amount varies meaning each event will have three final winners based on buy in amount.
The SCOOP is one of the major events held throughout the tear at PokerStars and always attracts large player fields, last year’s SCOOP awarded $43,165,800 in prize money with the 2011 SCOOP Main Event (High) winner ‘Lrslzk’ Sami Kelopuro getting paid $505,000 for his efforts after a five way deal was reached at the final table.
PokerStars have made several changes to their preliminary schedule for the SCOOP with 6 more events being added as well as several date changes to the finalized version.
Updated 2014: added PokerStars Bulgaria
In the ever changing world of online poker with the challenges it presents in terms of licenses and each country’s unique laws and legislation regarding online poker, Pokerstars the current world leader in poker traffic have needed to adapt their approach to retain their coveted crown of busiest poker room online.
We suspect 2012 will continue to bring out new laws and legal requirements for poker rooms to adhere to.PokerStars have done remarkably well despite being closed to the USA which was for many years was their main source of revenue.
In order to accommodate the changes and comply with local legislation, PokerStars have obtained licenses in those regions permitting them to do so and have opened several foreign domains to cater for the demand. In doing so, PokerStars now offer several new bonus codes which are region specific.
On the downside it can be a bit tricky for players not knowing where they can or are meant to play at this article will cover the basic information about PokerStars worldwide and the bonus codes they offer per region and respective domain suffix.
The up side of covering so many regions is that PokerStars now supports many languages by default and by doing so is making online poker truly global.
