The 2025 WSOP is hurtling into view but before that kicks off, there are COOPs to be won. SCOOPs to be precise, and PokerStars has just announced that its 2025 Spring Championship of Online Poker will play out from May 11 to June 2. That's 23 days of full-on tournament madness on PokerStars, with the flagship Main Events starting on May 25.
PokerStars has promised a wide array of poker formats and game variants, and the usual three buy-in tiers – low, medium and high – which means there'll be something for all bankrolls. The daily schedule is still being worked out but we'll bring you that as soon as it's released.
What we do know is that the 2025 SCOOP will be shorter than last year's by two days. The 2024 SCOOP guaranteed $75 million across all tournaments and smashed that, paying out over $90 million in winnings, with over $11 million paid out across the three Main Events.
Fakhish won the 2024 SCOOP-H $10,000 Main Event for $948,433, beating out Mark 'AceSpades11' Radoja into second place. He was joined on the winners' podium by Paulo 'Paulohpmoraes' Moraes, who took $493,965 for the SCOOP-M Main Event and greatness_m, who won $241,169 in the SCOOP-L Main Event for just a $109 buy-in.
How many SCOOPs will Benny Glaser scoop this year?Will Glaser run GodLike?
Benny 'RunGodlike' Glaser won his 11th SCOOP title last year in the $55 NLHE Turbo event. Add those to the 15 WCOOP (World Championsip of Online Poker) titles he's got and he's far and away the most successful player in COOP history. We fully expect to see Glaser back and battling at the top of the SCOOP leaderboards come May.
Another player who will be there is Patrick Leonard, who has eight SCOOP titles in his own trophy cabinet, including one from last year. He also topped the High Leaderboard last year to complete another magnificent series.
With full details still to come, we're expecting well over 100 events despite the shorter schedule, some juicy mystery bounty events, and the return of the SCOOP league with ambassadors like Lex Veldhuis and Ben 'Spraggy' Spragg battling for banter rights. Veldhuis ended top of the PokerStars pile last year.
We'll bring you the full schedule as soon as it drops in April.
