Overview
- The Spring Championship of Online Poker shifts roughly two months earlier than its traditional May slot.
- PokerStars has not yet released the full 2026 schedule or prize-pool guarantees, with details due in the new year.
- The series retains its three-tier buy-in format and is billed to deliver the same festival experience despite the new timing.
- PokerStars says the change is intended to create a more streamlined sequence of events across the year, while any effect on WCOOP remains unclear.
- Since debuting in 2009, SCOOP has awarded about $1.4 billion across more than 3,300 tournaments, and Sweden’s Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson holds a record 14 titles.