With the main completed & the final registration numbers in, Pokerstars announced on Monday that this year’s Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) has broken new records & can be classed as a major success.
The amazing performance was achieved despite the difficult economic situation and the absence of the US market following Black Friday.
Pokerstars claimed a new record, with funds paid out to players across 40 events, each with three levels of stakes, totaling $65,332,179, besting the previous SCOOP record of $64,230,010 set in 2010.
SCOOP 2012 also broke the record for the highest participation ever in a PokerStars Championship of Online Poker series (SCOOP, WCOOP, TCOOP), with a total of 526,154 entries, easily surpassing the previous best of 461,936 in SCOOP 2010.
The inaugural PokerStars MicroMillions tournament festival, which took place in March this year, holds the all-time record with a total of 1,294,883 entries, and still no US players.
“The fact that this year’s figures have now eclipsed the amount of participants & prize money awarded from before the US market exit, shows the continued growth of poker throughout the world, with 156 countries represented in SCOOP 2012,” a Pokerstars spokesman declared.
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