Updated SCOOP Schedule + New Promotion

With the recent Poker Black Friday, PokerStars has been forced to adjust the guarantees and tinker with the schedule a bit. Here are the tournament I plan to play and possibly play:
Sunday May-08 Event 02 NL Hold’em Low: $22 Med: $215
Monday May-09 Event 05 NL Hold’em [Turbo, Rebuys] Low: $11
Tuesday May-10 Event 08 NL Hold’em [Turbo] Low: $11 Med: $109
Friday May-13 Event 15 NL Hold’em [2X Chance, Turbo] Low: $16.50
Sunday May-15 Event 19 NL Hold’em Low: $22 Med: $215
Sunday May-15 Event 20 NL Hold’em Low: $22 Med: $215
Tuesday May-17 Event 26 NL Hold’em [Turbo] Low: $11 Med: $109
Sunday May-22 Event 38 NLHE Main Event Low: $109

Possibly
Monday May-09 Event 04 FL Badugi Low: $16.50
Monday May-16 Event 23 PL Omaha [Turbo, 1 Rebuy, 1 Add-on] Low: $11
Sunday May-20 Event 31 NL Hold’em [1 Rebuy, 1 Add-on] Low: $22

That would be over $500 in buy-ins

PokerStars is also running a 50% Reload this bonus up until the start of SCOOP which clears at a 20x rate and will expire at the end of May.

They have also reformatted some of their daily guarantees into The Daily Bigs. To promote this name change, if you play one of the buy-in types 3 times, you will be credited for a SCOOP ticket worth that buy-in value. Not too shabby if you get the $11 + $22 + $55 + $109 SCOOP tickets, thats a $197 value!
See here for more info - http://www.pokerstars.eu/poker/promotions/the-daily-bigs/

Hopefully I have some run good going my way :) I Need it!

SCOOP Schedule Released

Wow, what a sick schedule. Really motivates me to play. And its a great tune up for the WSOP!

As I'm not ballin enough for the High Stakes, I'll be stick with the L and M stakes.

Potential Schedule

Sunday, 8 May 2011
17:00 ET, Ev 02-L*: $22 NL Hold'em, $300,000 Guaranteed
17:00 ET, Ev 02-M*: $215 NL Hold'em, $1,500,000 Guaranteed

Monday, 9 May 2011
20:00 ET, Ev 05-L: $11+R NL Hold'em (Turbo), $250,000 Guaranteed
20:00 ET, Ev 05-M: $109+R NL Hold'em (Turbo), $500,000 Guaranteed

Tuesday, 10 May 2011
20:00 ET, Ev 08-L*: $11 NL Hold'em, $100,000 Guaranteed
20:00 ET, Ev 08-M*: $109 NL Hold'em, $300,000 Guaranteed

Thursday, 12 May 2011
17:00 ET, Ev 12-L*: $27 NL Hold'em (Knockout), $200,000 Guaranteed

Friday, 13 May 2011
20:00 ET, Ev 15-L: $16.50 NL Hold'em (2X Chance, Turbo), $150,000 Guaranteed
20:00 ET, Ev 15-M: $162 NL Hold'em (2X Chance, Turbo), $400,000 Guaranteed

Sunday, 15 May 2011
13:00 ET, Ev 19-L*: $22 NL Hold'em, $300,000 Guaranteed
13:00 ET, Ev 19-M*: $215 NL Hold'em, $1,000,000 Guaranteed

17:00 ET, Ev 20-L*: $22 NL Hold'em, $350,000 Guaranteed
17:00 ET, Ev 20-M*: $215 NL Hold'em, $2,000,000 Guaranteed

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
20:00 ET, Ev 26-L*: $11 NL Hold'em, $100,000 Guaranteed
20:00 ET, Ev 26-M*: $109 NL Hold'em, $300,000 Guaranteed

Sunday, 22 May 2011
17:00 ET, Ev 38-L*: $109 NLHE Main Event - L, $1,000,000 Guaranteed
* - 2-Day Event

Total Buyins: $1385.50 + Rebuys

Luckily I have the $11 SCOOP ticket I won via WBCOOP :) Robusto time!

PokerStars introduces new Turbo Fifty50 SNG with a Promo

PokerStars is currently running a promotion for introducing their new type of Sit & Go tourney, called the 'Fifty50'! This tourney is similar to the 'Double or Nothing' style except half the prizepool is a standard payout and the other half is divided among the remaining players via chip count. They want everyone to try this new format. so if you deposit at least $50 using the code FIFTY50 they will instantly credit you with a '$5.24 Turbo Fifty50 Sit & Go' entry - for free! Just deposit before January 30th!

I did my deposit today and played my ticket. Took 18 minutes to complete. ICM has a huge implication near the bubble. Otherwise, keep trying to chip up on the bubble to gain that extra equity. GL at the tables!

WBCOOP - Day 1 PLO

Today was Day 1 of the WBCOOP 2011. This year, instead of having everyone qualify for the finals, they run 6 preliminary tournaments from Monday to Saturday where the top 200 finishers in each win a seat to the Sunday Final which has a prizepool over $30K in SCOOP prizes.

Each priminary tournament has a prizepool close to $5000 in SCOOP tickets.

In the first WBCOOP Prelinary Tournament, I came 122/540 and received a free SCOOP - $11 Entry! Time to robusto it up! Thanks PokerStars!

2011 PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP) is back

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

Registration code: XXXXXX 202685

A PokerStars Promotion that Delivered

I'm a man who likes his equity, so when PokerStars offered up their new Micro Mania promotion, being the equity no that I am, I jumped on it.

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/micromania-north-america/

This promotion entailed the player to make a Deposit or Reload. In my case, I made a $10 reload using the promotional code 'Mania' and received a $1.10 ticket to the weekly ‘MicroMania: Sunday Million $1.10’ qualifier which has 25 seats guaranteed each week.

I finally got around to playing it this weekend after prior commitments for the past 2 weeks. I sat out the first 3-4 levels as I ran errands earlier in the day. The structure is one of my favourites, the 10-minute fast structure blind levels. All in all, it took 4.5 hours of grinding, 2000 players eliminating each other until 25 remained, a bit of luck and I was eventually one of the lucky 25 to win my $215 seat.

So while small, the promotion still worked out :) Thanks PokerStars

Congrats to ACHEN for the shippage!

I'd like to give a shoutout to my friend's brother, Andrew Chen aka achen, who took down the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $5K Bounty Shootout. It worked as a triple 6-max shootout and achen made it to a tough final table against the likes of Shaun Deeb and Nick Binger. In the end, it was a beautiful AhJh on a Jxx (2 heart board) where he got them all in 3 ways and made the flush on the turn to lock up the tourney win! In total he won $10K (winning first table) + $40K (winning second table) + $213K (winning final table and tourney) + 6K (for 6 KO Bounties) for a grand total of $269K! What a sweet way to kick off the new year! Congrats Andrew, best of luck to yah!