SCOOP 2025: Time to warm up…

April 8, 2025

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by Jack Stanton

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It’s a date: The Spring Championship of Online Poker is back for another epic series. Here, you’ll find all the info for SCOOP 2025, plus our coverage when the series begins.

It’s time to clear schedules and stock up on supplies as PokerStars’ Spring Championship of Online Poker has confirmed its dates for 2025. The series will take place from May 11 – June 2, giving players a fresh chance to win one of the most sought-after titles in online poker.

The series will encompass multiple formats and game variants with most events offered at low, medium and high tiers. The flagship Main Event tournaments will take place from May 25.

More SCOOP 2025 details to follow soon…

SCOOP WARM-UP: APRIL 20-28

When gearing up for a big concert tour, Beyoncé and the rest of Destiny’s Child didn’t just hit the studio, they hit the track. Yep, they’d run laps while singing their songs (true story – we saw it in a documentary once).

It didn’t just warm up their vocal cords. It also ensured they were in survivor mode and could go the distance, performing well every night and never running out of steam.

Now, we wouldn’t recommend running laps while playing poker tournaments on your phone or laptop. But we would recommend a warm-up for a big series like the Spring Championship of Online Poker, where millions of dollars are up for grabs, not to mention the prestige of becoming a SCOOP champion.

It will help you get into shape and perform your best when the lights shine brightest.

So, here’s your chance to prepare (and win SCOOP tickets for free with the Ticket Machine — more info on that below the schedule).

SCOOP Warm Up series

Series Dates: April 20 – 28
Guarantee: $6M
Buy-in range: $2.20 to $1,050
Number of events: 39 High & Low (78 tournaments total)

Main Events on April 27

• $109 Main Event with $1M Gtd
• $1,050 Main Event with $400K Gtd

SCOOP Warm Up Ticket Machine

The SCOOP Warm Up Ticket Machine will be handing out $50,000 worth of SCOOP 2025 tickets throughout the Warm Up Series.

To be in with a chance of winning tickets, here’s what you have to do:

• Opt-in via your Challenges Window from April 14. You only need to do this once.
• Play three SCOOP Warm Up tournaments (from April 20) to score your first SCOOP Warm Up Ticket Machine entry.
• Play a total of six SCOOP Warm Up tourneys to grab another SCOOP Warm Up Ticket Machine entry.
• Play a total of 10 SCOOP Warm Up tournaments and you’ll get a third SCOOP Warm Up Ticket Machine entry.
• Check back after 00:00 ET on April 29 to see if you’ve won a SCOOP ticket worth up to $1,050!

SCOOP 2025 SCHEDULE

The schedule is still being finalised, but we’ll post it here as soon as it’s confirmed.

In the meantime, here’s a play-by-play of how the SCOOP schedule is put together, from its initial planning stages through to any last-minute amendments.

WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR?

The Spring Championship of Online Poker never disappoints. The 2024 series had everything: huge tournaments and prizes, the debut SCOOP League, and an epic Player of the Series race.

In the SCOOP Main Events, Mexico’s “Fakhish” defeated Canada’s Mark “AceSpades11” Radoja heads-up to win the $10K for $948,434 and their first SCOOP title. Meanwhile, Paulo “Pauilohpmoraes” Moraes of Brazil was triumphant in the $1K for $493,965, and “greatness_m” finished top in the $109 for $241,169.

Strebkov: 4 titles and Player of the Series in 2024

The leader boards went down to the wire before Thailand-based Russian crusher Denis “aDrENalin710” Strebkov clinched the overall top spot. He’s phenomenal every year, but in 2024 Strebkov was something else. He won an incredible four titles and managed four min-cashes on the final night of play to defeat his countryman (and student) “Fal1st” by just five points. Those five points were worth $25,000, as that’s what Strebkov has earned for being the best player across the series.

Popular English pro Patrick “pads1161” Leonard is no stranger to leader board success and added a new feather to his cap by winning the 2024 SCOOP ‘High’ tier for $15,000. The Medium table was won by Brazil’s “tgrigoletti” for $10,000, while “king153246” topped the Low tier for $5,000.

WHICH PLAYERS HAVE THE MOST TITLES?

There were lots of movers and shakers throughout the 2024 series, but even Strebkov’s four wins couldn’t bring him close to the top of the all-time titles list.

Find out which poker players have won the most SCOOP titles here.

ALL-TIME SCOOP STATS

Here’s a look at our all-time Spring Championship of Online Poker stat tracker, covering every SCOOP event played from the very first series in 2009 up to and including the 2024 edition.

Events: 1,101
Tournaments: 3,300
Total entries: 143,730,535
Total prize pools: $1,415,047,303
Total first-place prizes: $216,459,908

Yep, you read that right.

Across the 3,300 SCOOP tournaments played, we’ve seen a staggering one billion, 415 million, 47 thousand and 303 dollars in prizes awarded.

Plus, more than 216 million dollars in first-place prizes.

MORE ABOUT SCOOP:

SCOOP 2024 COVERAGE HUB
WHICH POKER PLAYERS HAVE THE MOST SCOOP TITLES?
HOW THE SCOOP SCHEDULE IS BUILT