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PokerStars NJSCOOP – New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker NJSCOOP 2020 – $1.2M in guaranteed prize money It’s time once again for the New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker (NJSCOOP). Play for your share of $1,200,000 in guaranteed prize money across a packed schedule. On Thursday, PokerStars unveiled the complete schedule for their marquee online poker series, the 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker. This year SCOOP will take place from April 30 to May 19 and feature $85 million in total guaranteed prize money spread out over 80 events.

Artur 'mararthur1' Martirosyan made his way through a star-studded 124-entry field in Event #17-H: $10,300 NLHE High Roller of the 2020 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) to claim his first SCOOP title and the top prize of $271,790 after denying Fedor 'CrownUpGuy' Holz another victory heads-up.

Martirosyan came into the final day with the upper hand and didn’t take long to further extend his lead. He bursts the final table bubble within the second level of the day after eliminating Jason 'JASON.MAC100' McConnon, putting himself in an even more comfortable spot at the final table.

Between using his lead to apply pressure and getting the right hands at the right time, Martirosyan stayed in control throughout most of the final day and was responsible for half of the eliminations.

The Russian is no stranger to high roller tournaments. In fact, he appeared at the final table of multiple high roller events recently. His experience was evident as he had to outlast top players to make it to the finish line and he managed to defeat crusher Fedor Holz as his last opponent, depriving him from another SCOOP title to claim his own.

Final Results 2020 SCOOP Event #17-H: $10,300 NLHE [8-Max, High Roller]

Final Day Action

Day 2 of the event saw 11 players already in the money return to action and the final table was reached almost immediately with the elimination of Charlie “Epiphany77” Carrel and 'JASON.MAC100' McConnon within the first thirty minutes.

The action remained fast-paced at the final table and the first one to drop out was Daniel 'Oxota' Dvoress when he moved all in with ace-queen suited against Martirosyan’s king-ten but couldn’t stayed ahead as the board gave Martirosyan a full house.

Andras “probirs” Nemeth was Martirosyan’s next victim after he four-bet jammed with eights only to get snap-called by Martirosyan’s ace-king. The river brought a king ending Nemeth's tournament run in eighth place.

Falling shortly after was Ryhor “Grisha813” Karapanau in seventh place. After losing a big pot against Jorryt 'TheCleaner11' van Hoof, Karapanau shoved his last crumbs with queen-ten into Rui “RuiNF” Ferreira’s jacks and found no help.

He was quickly joined by Ferreira who ran his jacks into “allin2bluff”' s ace-king. The river came a king and that was it for Ferreira’s tournament life.

The next casualty of the final table was Vicente 'vicenfish' Delgado. He shoved his last eight big blinds with king-three into “allin2bluff' 's ace-jack in a blind versus blind situation to take fifth place.

Next up was 'allin2bluff' in fourth place when he three-bet jammed with fours and saw a call from Martirosyan who held ace-king. Martirosyan rivered a backdoor flush, ending “allin2bluff”’s run.

Van Hoof was eliminated in third place after he shoved from the button with ace-five and found himself in bad shape against Holz’s jacks.

This set up a heads-up match between Martirosyan and Holz for the title. Martirosyan had a 2 to 1 chip advantage going into the final battle. Holz put up a good fight and came close to evening up the playing field at some point but he couldn’t keep up with a comeback and it was all over when he check-raised all in on the flop with mid-pair and a gutshot only to get called by Martirosyan who had an open-ended straight draw. Martirosyan made a backdoor flush to win it all, claiming his first SCOOP title and the top prize of $271,790.

Online poker giant, PokerStars, has unveiled the first details of one of its richest online poker tournament series, the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) 2020.

And once again, it promises to be the operator’s most ambitious online tournament series in its 19-year history with guarantees totaling a staggering $85 million in prize money. The series guarantee is up $5 million from last year as SCOOP 2019 initially had $75 million guaranteed but was later increased to $80 million following the addition of new events.

No other online poker room has hosted a tournament series of this magnitude.

The first SCOOP 2020 events take place on April 30. The series runs for 20 days until May 19.

“SCOOP is something we look forward to each year, and hope our players do too,” said Severin Rasset, Managing Director & Commercial Officer, Poker, Product and Innovation at PokerStars. “We take pride in planning a series that gives every player in the poker community something to enjoy.”

What to Expect from SCOOP 2020?

Although the full schedule has not been set in stone, as per the presser, SCOOP 2020 will feature an expanded schedule, comprising more than 80 events split into three different buy-in categories— Low, Medium, and High. This makes a total of at least 240 tournaments.

Last year, there were 219 tournaments in total, so the number of events has been increased by at least 21 tournaments for now.

SCOOP 2020 Main Events to Feature Combined Guarantees of $13 Million

The operator has also unveiled the buy-ins and guarantees for the three Main Events with total combined guarantees of $13 million — the most ever.

The Low tier Main Event with a buy-in of $109 will guarantee $3 million — a slight bump on the $2.5 million from last year; the Medium tier $1050 buy-in will guarantee $5 million — an increase of $1 million, and the High tier $10,300 buy-in will retain the same $5 million guarantee as last year.

In total, the Main Events will represent over 15% of the overall series guarantee.

Another event that has been showcased by the operator is the Three Phase tournaments with buy-ins of $2.20, $22 and $215. They will have total guarantees of over $3 million.

SCOOP 2020 Promotions

In addition to the $85 million guaranteed tournaments, PokerStars will be promoting the series with special offers that provide players the opportunity to pad their bankrolls and win their way into SCOOP events.

Pokerstars Scoop 2020 Leaderboard

SCOOP Freerolls

Every day PokerStars is hosting Daily $5000 Second Chance Freerolls. Qualifying for these freerolls is pretty simple, just bust out of a SCOOP tournament without reaching the money.

In addition, the upcoming Sunday Storm Anniversary will give away 50,000 tickets to a special SCOOP Freeroll, where players can win seats to the Medium Main Event worth $1050.

SCOOP Leaderboard

Scoop Pokerstars 2020 Dates

A Player of the Series Leaderboard will also be part of SCOOP 2020. As usual, the leaderboard will reward players based on their participation and success; however, the awarding of prizes will be slightly different this year.

As per the presser, during the first half of SCOOP, the prizes for the leaderboard will be tickets to upcoming SCOOP events. During the second half of the series, players will be awarded cash prizes.

The leaderboard will also be used to determine the SCOOP Player of the Series. The player that finishes atop the leaderboard will receive $20,000 as well as a SCOOP Trophy.

Special SCOOP Spin & Gos

To help players qualify for the SCOOP events, PokerStars will be offering three Special SCOOP Spin & Gos with buy-ins of $0.75, $3 and $22. Each of them will award cash prizes as well as SCOOP tickets including entries to the Main Events.

These Special SCOOP Spin & Gos will run in addition to the satellites and qualifiers for SCOOP events.

Key Information for SCOOP 2020

• Takes place April 30 – May 19
• $85 million in guaranteed prize money
• More than 80 events split into three tiers for a total of at least 240 online poker tournaments
• Three Main Events with combined guarantees of $13 million
• Special SCOOP Spin & Gos with buy-ins of $0.75, $3 and $22 will award SCOOP tickets
• Daily Second Chance Freerolls offer $5000 to those that bust a SCOOP event without making the money
• Player of the Series Leaderboard awards SCOOP tickets and cash prizes

History of PokerStars’ SCOOP Series

PokerStars’ Spring Championship series has always been a staple of the online poker calendar. The upcoming SCOOP 2020 will be the twelfth edition as the first edition of SCOOP was held in 2009.

SCOOP has grown incredibly over the past few years. From 2013 to 2016, the guarantees were held at $40 million, but starting in 2017, it has grown $5 to $10 million every year.

Last year’s SCOOP featured 73 events with combined guarantees of $80 million in prizes, an amount it easily surpassed. It ended up paying over $105 million — a record in the online poker industry for the biggest payout for a single series. Even WCOOP 2019, which is considered more prestigious, awarded $104 million — a million shy from breaking SCOOP’s record.

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This is very likely to be repeated for the 2020 edition, which runs April 30 to May 19.

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Until then, PokerStars will be running its ultra-popular low-stakes series, MicroMillions with total guarantees of $2.67 million. It kicks off this Sunday, April 19 and runs through April 26, culminating with the $1 million guaranteed Sunday Storm Anniversary edition, serving as the MicroMillions Main Event.