The air is crisp, the sky is blue, and the birds are chirping. It's springtime within the northern hemisphere, and there's no better time to be outside.

Now, forget all of that stuff about being outside, because there's something more important: the Spring Championship of Online Poker begins Sunday!

Once Sunday comes, poker players have every reason to attract the curtains, turn off all distractions, and concentrate on greater than 160 tournaments over the process two weeks. Running May 8-22, SCOOP would be the biggest and richest tournament festival you'll discover online. All of the the events has a low, medium, and high buy-in tournament. You'll be able to play one level or play them all.

Before those weeks are finished, PokerStars pays out greater than $40,000,000 in guaranteed prize money including a minimum of $7,000,000 within the three Main Events on May 22.

Need a PokerStars account to play SCOOP? Click here to get one.

If you're in for the entire two weeks, you should have an excellent chance to compete for the Player of the Series race. The entire buy-in levels could have their very own contests with cash and tournament ticket prizes. What's more, the entire winner gets $20,000 in cash and a Player of the Series trophy.

You won't be the one one fighting for a leaderboard prize. Team PokerStars Pro goes to be battling one another through the festival. BetStars has Jason Mercier because the favorite, but there are many people able to unseat last year's overall leader board winner.

We have assembled an enormous team to hide every final table for the PokerStars Blog. Along the way, we'll also look in on the superior champion stories we will be able to find.

You still have time to start out qualifying for SCOOP tournaments at the cheap. There are SCOOP satellites running at all times starting for as low as $0.11 or 1 StarsCoin. Also keep an eye fixed out for special VIP events. You'll read more about the entire above on the SCOOP Commonly asked Questions page.

For all you must find out about SCOOP, its schedule, and its player of the series race, visit the 2016 Spring Championship of Online Poker home page.

Happy springtime!

Need a PokerStars account to play SCOOP? Click here to get one. Brad Willis is the PokerStars Head of Blogging.

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