Fans of online poker games residing in the state of New Jersey will be extremely excited to hear that the NJSCOOP or the New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker will start very soon. The online poker championship is held by PokerStars which has already released the festival’s schedule which features a total of ninety-six amazing poker events with a staggering prize pool of $1.2 million offered up for grabs.

Interested players can compete in forty-eight poker tournaments during the New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker with both high-end and low buy-in options on the table. The event’s organizer revealed that buy-ins will range from only $5 to $1,000. When it comes to the festival’s guaranteed prize pool of $1.2 million, it will be spread across those tournaments which means that participating players will have loads of chances to scoops generous prizes.

New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker Details

As revealed by the festival’s organizer PokerStars, the poker tournaments during the New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker will take place in many different formats including No Limit Hold’em, Mixed Games, Seven-Card Stud, Omaha and many others. Participating players will choose to play in the high or low tier based on their budget. The very first event of this year’s New Jersey Spring Championship of Online poker is a Warm Up event with a $100 buy-in which will offer $20,000 up for grabs in prize money.

The festival’s most anticipated poker event is its Main Event. As revealed, the NJSCOOP Main Event that is on the schedule will come with a $50 buy-in on its low end. This event will offer $30,000 up for grabs in prize money. The Main Event’s high end will feature a $300 buy-in while participating players will compete for their share of the guaranteed prize money of $100,000.

The NJSCOOP Main Event Depositor Freeroll

The New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker will also include a Depositor Freeroll event for the festival’s Main Event which is scheduled for the 26th of April. This is a $9k prize-pool event that will offer thirty seats to the NJSCOOP Main Event. Alongside this event, the festival’s organizer PokerStars will also offer great Second Chance All-In Shootout Freerolls.

Those players who participate in the Main Event’s Depositor Freeroll event and fail to earn their spot in the Main Event will automatically enter the Second Chance All-In Shootout Freeroll. According to the organizer, participating players do not have to be online to win from the Shootout tournament which is a huge plus for those with an unstable Internet connection. It is also revealed that PokerStars will be offering great Spin and Go’s tournaments that as expected allow interested players to win their spot for the New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker events.

As one of the most prominent names in the iGaming industry, PokerStars is home to loads of excellent online poker tournaments that cater to all players regardless of their skills, preferences, and bankrolls. One of the bigger poker tournaments at PokerStars is its NJSCOOP which starts on the 11th of April and lasts until the 27th of April. However, registered PokerStars players can participate in a number of weekly tournaments such as the operator’s Sunday tournaments including its Sunday Million with a guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,00 and a buy-in of $215.

As reported recently, the owners of PokerStars and Paddy Power Betfair have agreed to merge the businesses with a brand-new business deal which will see the establishment of the biggest online gambling and betting company by gross gaming revenues in the world. What is even more, this merged company also plans on taking advantage of the rapidly-growing United States-based iGaming markets.

Paddy Power is definitely one of the most popular, leading bookmakers which emerged on the scene in 1988 in the capital city of Ireland, Dublin. The firm conducts its business through a large chain of gambling shops located in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company also operates the largest Ireland-based telephone gambling service while on the Internet, Paddy Power offers online poker, sports betting, online casino, and online bingo games.

Two iGaming Behemoths Merging

Paddy Power merged with another premier betting company Betfair back in February of 2016 to create what we know today as Flutter Entertainment or Paddy Power Betfair. When it comes to the Poker Stars brand, it is definitely among the leading online poker rooms in the industry owned and operated by The Stars Group. The brand was founded almost twenty years ago on the 11^th of September 2001.

Back in 2003, one of the Poker Stars online satellite poker tournaments produced the 2003 WSOP champion. This was Chris Moneymaker who became the very first person to become a WSOP champion by qualifying at an online poker room. Chris Moneymaker’s win from 2003 was among the most important factors which later on led to the massive poker boom and consequently to Poker Stars becoming the world’s biggest online poker site which today controls significantly over two-thirds of the entire online poker gaming world.

According to the business deal’s agreement, Paddy Power Betfair also known as Flutter Entertainment, will merge with The Stars Group which owns and operates Poker Stars. As revealed, Flutter Entertainment’s shareholders will own slightly over 54.64% of the new entity while shareholders of the other company will have a smaller percentage of around 45.3.

Huge Customer Base

As things stand now, the newly formed group will have more than 13 million active customers with a presence in over 100 markets around the globe. This will give them a huge advantage in the competitive iGaming industry and create new opportunities to further boost their already hugely successful individual businesses.

It will be particularly interesting to see what the new group’s plans might be for the booming US market. With the sports betting becoming legal in the States, two gaming giants will certainly look to make their presence known in the US as well.

The Stars Group already has a significant footprint in the United States and combining forces with Paddy Power Betfair will make it possible for them to tackle even more areas of the market, especially when it comes to sports betting, something for which Paddy Power is famous for. Both companies agree that the opening of the US betting market is one of the most exciting events in the history of the iGaming industry and it’s an opportunity they’ll certainly be looking to seize as much as possible.

PokerStars has recently reached its 200^th billionth dealt hand which is certainly the news worthy of celebration. This is one of the greatest accomplishments a poker domain was able to fulfill, and PokerStars has decided to properly celebrate such occasion. Furthermore, the poker operator, in ownership of the Stars Group, came up with an idea to share their success with players who helped them in getting to this impressive number by offering $2 million in total via giveaways, merchandise, and other promos.

A Big Thanks to Poker Community

By dealing 200^th billionth poker hand, PokerStars has managed to do something truly memorable. Especially when considering that, in June 2013, they’ve had a chance to get to 100^th billionth hand, and fast-forward to their 200^th billionth in a six-year time-frame. As a thank you to this unbelievable achievement, PokerStars has enabled multiple rewards to their customers.

According to PokerStars officials, they’ve just been waiting for this moment, and thankfully, it’s finally arrived, a chance for the company to once again give back to the community as it has done on previous milestone hand celebrations.

Six players who on May 4 participated in 8c/16c No Limit Hold’em cash game, reaching that highly-anticipated digit, were each rewarded with $10,000 while ‘KeySssi” went with the pot. In addition, after 200^th billionth number, celebrations commenced, handing out all kinds of prizes to players who had their part in making it all happen. Prizes included promos such as Star Reward Chests, more than $400,000 worth of ‘free tournament ticket drops, Mega Freeroll tournament, worth $200,000, merchandise from the Stars Store as well as giveaways.

Also, for all players who had a chance to play poker on their site, even one hand since the time poker was opened for players in December 2001, an opportunity to spin 200 Billion Hands Celebration Wheel for free was allowed with an every-day prize, set up to $2,000. During this celebratory period, over 6 million spins were granted.

Séverin Rasset, director of Poker Innovation and Operations for The Stars Group, on this particular occasion, stated that it’s truly remarkable they’ve been able to get to this number. In fact, it’s almost hard to believe. Two hundred billion has been their goal for quite some time, and finally, succeeding deserves celebration in a manner which will show how grateful they’re towards those who made it happen. Their team is more than happy about everything that’s happened and they’re in anticipation for what comes next. In the end, Séverin Rasset passed his congratulations to the team behind this enormous achievement.

Pokerstars Still Going Strong

From the moment it was founded in 2001 and up till now, PokerStars has turned into the most sought-out online poker site. Being number one in the gaming community when it comes to poker, this operator provides optimum conditions for its customers which include numerous daily tournaments as well as high-level online security. The fact they’ve succeeded getting to that impressive two hundred billion figure speaks for itself, especially since they’re the first site ever to do it. Also, their ability to get from 100^th billionth to 200^th billionth hand in such a short time is another achievement worth admiring.