{"id":34677,"date":"2020-04-09T13:55:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=34677"},"modified":"2020-04-10T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T14:08:00","slug":"wsop-com-announces-spring-online-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/wsop-com-announces-spring-online-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"WSOP.com Announces Spring Online Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spring Online Championships<\/strong> at WSOP.com are underway for poker players in Nevada<\/strong>, New Jersey, and Delaware. The online poker tournament for the World Series of Poker website started on April 1 and will run through May 3, 2020.<\/p>\n

The Spring Online Championships at WSOP.com feature over $4 million in guaranteed prizes<\/strong>. There will be more than 100 events, daily tournaments, and a 12-event warmup series throughout the month. WSOP.com is making the tournament accessible for poker players regardless of their bankroll. The buy-ins for tournaments range from $10 all the way up to $1,000.<\/p>\n

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Warm-Up Tournaments<\/span><\/h2>\n

The first four days (April 1-4) featured 12 warm-up events with buy-ins ranging from $30 to $100. Seth Palansky<\/strong>, vice president of corporate communications for Caesars Interactive Entertainment told PlayNevada<\/strong><\/em> that the Spring Online Championships are \u201coff to a strong start\u2026those in Nevada and New Jersey continue to play on WSOP.com in record numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poker players staying quarantined are heading to the website in droves. The tournaments are seeing more action than expected. Palansky shares that \u201cthrough the first 5 days of April and this new series we put together, we\u2019ve seen terrific user engagement, with our guarantees on our warm-up events (12 events) awarding $634,408 in prize money, when the guarantees for those events totaled $247,500.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says that the guaranteed prizes are 256% greater than anticipated<\/strong>. Not a bad start, indeed.<\/p>\n

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Spring Online Championship Highlights<\/span><\/h2>\n

Every Sunday of the Spring Online Championships through April 26, WSOP.com will host the Sunday Special Edition. These No-Limit Hold\u2019em events with a $215 or $320 buy-in always carry a guarantee of at least $100,000. The final Sunday of the series, May 3, is the Main Event<\/strong>. This is a $525 buy-in tourney with a $300,000 guarantee.<\/p>\n

One of the highlights of the Spring Online Championships is two Player Appreciation tournaments. held April 26 and May 3 at 1:00 pm PT. These tournaments are being billed as \u201c$100 for $100K\u201d events. Each will have a $100 buy-in and both tournaments have a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000.<\/p>\n

WSOP.com is also adding prizes that will be randomly awarded to players who participate. Players are entered into a drawing for one of the following:<\/p>\n