PokerStars PA Upping The PACOOP Ante With An Additional $125K In Guarantees

The PokerStars PA Championship of Online Poker (PACOOP) is hardly underway, but the site is already upping the ante, at least when it comes to guaranteed prize pools.

Originally the site promised $1 million in guarantees across the 50 PACOOP events. That number is now up to $1.125,000. The biggest boost in the prize pools is for the Main Event. The MTT had a $100,000 guarantee, but that number is now up to $125,000.

All told, 19 of the remaining 41 events now boast bigger guarantees. The PACOOP action started this weekend and continues through Monday, Dec. 16. There are at least two tournaments a day to choose from. Buy-ins range from $50 to $500. Most tournaments are variations on No-Limit Hold’em, but Omaha and other games like Stud Hi/Lo and Eight-Game are available as well.

Updated PACOOP tournament schedule

Here is a look at the remaining PACOOP schedule and which of the tournaments now feature bigger guarantees:

Event Date Tournament Old Guarantee New Guarantee
9 Dec. 2 $50 NL Hold’em [Battle Royale SE Progressive KO] $10,000
10 Dec. 2 $75+R PL Omaha Hi/Lo [8-Max] $10,000
11 Dec. 3 $250 NL Hold’em [Super Tuesday SE] $40,000
12 Dec. 3 $30 NL Hold’em [Mini Super Tuesday] $10,000
13 Dec. 3 $150 NL Hold’em [Escalating Antes] $20,000
14 Dec. 4 $100 NL Holdem [DeepStack] $20,000 $25,000
15 Dec. 4 $750 NL Hold’em [High-Roller, 6-Max] $40,000
16 Dec. 4 $150 NL Hold’Em $12,000
17 Dec. 5 $200 NL Hold’em [Thursday Thrill SE] $25,000 $30,000
18 Dec. 5 $50+R NL Hold’em $15,000
19 Dec. 5 $100 NL Hold’em [BigStack Turbo] $12,000 $15,000
20 Dec. 6 $300 Eight-Game [6-Max] $15,000
21 Dec. 6 $150 NL Hold’em [Turbo, 6-Max] $12,000 $15,000
22 Dec. 7 $100 NL Hold’em [Deepstack, 8-Max] $12,000 $20,000
23 Dec. 7 $150 NL Hold’em [Saturday Speedway SE] $12,000 $15,000
24 Dec. 8 $100 NL Hold’em [Marathon] $10,000 $25,000
25 Dec. 8 $100 PL Omaha [8-Max] $10,000
26 Dec. 8 $150 NL Hold’em [6-Max, Big Antes] $20,000 $25,000
27 Dec. 8 $300 NL Hold’em [Sunday Special SE] $55,000 $60,000
28 Dec. 8 $200 NL Hold’em [Progressive KO] $30,000 $35,000
29 Dec. 8 $100 NL Hold’em [Sunday SuperSonic SE, Hyper-Turbo] $10,000 $12,000
30 Dec. 9 $300 NL Hold’em [4-Max] $30,000
31 Dec. 9 $500 PL Omaha [High-Roller, 6-max] $20,000
32 Dec. 10 $200 NL Hold’em [Super Tuesday SE] $40,000 $50,000
33 Dec. 10 $100 No Limit Omaha Hi/Lo [8-Max] $8,000
34 Dec. 11 $30+R NL Holdem [6-Max] $10,000
35 Dec. 11 $200 NL Hold’em $20,000
36 Dec. 11 $100 Stud Hi/Lo $8,000
37 Dec. 12 $250 NL Hold’em [Thursday Thrill SE] $30,000
38 Dec. 12 $150 NL Hold’em [Turbo] $15,000 $20,000
39 Dec. 13 $200 FL Holdem [6-Max] $10,000
40 Dec. 13 $200 NL Hold’em [Deep, Hyper-Turbo] $10,000
41 Dec. 14 $300 NL Hold’em [6-Max] $30,000
42 Dec. 14 $75 NL Hold’em [Zoom] $12,000 $15,000
43 Dec. 15 $100 NL Hold’em [Big Antes] $12,000 $15,000
44 Dec. 15 $300 NL Holdem [Main Event, 2-Day Event] $100,000 $125,000
45 Dec. 15 $50 NL Hold’em [Main Event Structure] $20,000 $25,000
46 Dec. 15 $100 NL Hold’em [Progressive KO] $15,000 $20,000
47 Dec. 15 $100 PL Omaha [6-Max] $10,000
48 Dec. 15 $75 NL Hold’em [Sunday SuperSonic SE, Hyper-Turbo] $10,000
49 Dec. 16 $150 NL Hold’em [Nightly Stars SE – PACOOP Wrap-Up] $20,000 $25,000
50 Dec. 16 $100 NL Hold’em [Deep, Hyper-Turbo, 6-Max] $10,000

First weekend of PACOOP a big success

Given the amount of traffic on PokerStars PA, it isn’t surprising the PA online poker site is willing to promise bigger prize pools. The series got underway on Nov. 30 and the fields of the opening events smashed the guarantees.

The first event, a $100 No-Limit Hold’em event with three rebuys had a guarantee of $20,000. It more than doubled that with a prize pool in excess of $50,000. Event 3, which ran on Sunday had a similar result, with the $15,000 GTD tournament ending up with a nearly $35,000 prize pool.

The largest event of the opening weekend, the $200 buy-in Sunday Special, had a $50,000 guarantee. The final prize pool was $63,426 after 247 players entered and 94 re-entered. The top prize went to JustBlaze324, who pocketed nearly $12,000.

The mid-week PACOOP events get underway today. While the weekend easily surpassed expectations, it is possible that the weekday evening crowd could be a little more sparse. Nonetheless, it does not seem like overlays are going to be much of a worry for PokerStars PA this online tournament series.

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