It’s that time of the year once again. PokerStars just announced the schedule for the 2010 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) , starting the 2nd of May 2010 and ending on May 16th.
With SCOOP Poker Tournament, being one of the biggest online tournaments with millions of guaranteed prize money, this could be your chance to win big.
This year, there’s a total guaranteed prize pool of $45,000,000 to be divided over 38 events. With a lowest buy-in of $11 and a highest buy-in of $10,300 there’s a play for every bankroll. Every event is divided into 3 different buy-in levels, low, medium and high with their own prize money.

As always, there’s the possibility to qualify for big events like SCOOP with satellites that are running right now. Click on the Events section in your PokerStars client and then select SCOOP to see the full list of satellites.

And to top it off, PokerStars.tv will be covering the SCOOP series, with articles and tweets from Team PokerStars Pro. Wouldn’t it be cool that a pro player like Daniel Negreanu or Joe Hachem could be commentating your play?

Here are some stats from last year’s SCOOP series, the first ever.
49,029 unique players (199,958 Buy-ins) played in 22 different events, totaling a total prize money pool of $38,324,830. The SCOOP 2009 Series played in 163 different countries, with 118 countries who cashed.
In total there were 33,639 players (not unique) who cashed and the United States was the country with the most cashes (13,418), followed by Germany (3852 cashes) and Canada. Belgium, my home county had 238 cashes and ended on place 20. This year, I’m going to make sure I’m one of those cashes and hopefully more than once

Are there any particular events in the SCOOP series you’re looking forward to?