So this last week pokerstars has been running their first annual scoop series. Scoop can be an extremely stressful time for a lot of online players with how high the buyins are and how big the variance can be. And its even more stressful for people who back a lot of players. So far the guys that I back havent had any big scores but have had a few close calls and a couple cashes so my guys are definitely down for scoop but not getting completely destroyed.
So far during the scoop I have played the 500r, 1500 2x turbo, 1500 shootout, 10k horsem, 3k nl, 1500 nl hu, and 3k mixed holdem along with the medium events for all of those and the 215 plo 1r1a and 215 triple draw. The only event I have cashed in so far was the 1500 turbo which I got 13th in. So pretty disappointing scoop so far. For the rest of scoop I think iam going to be playing the 2k razz, 4175 8 game, 5k nl, 2100 nl 1r1a, and 10k main event. I may play the 5k plo, 5k fl 08 and 3k stud but those are maybes.
Overall I think the scoop has pretty good but I do have some complaints. Structure wise so far the nl scoops have been really really good however I thought the 10k horse structure was pretty bad and some of the plo events played a bit too fast early on. Also the payouts have been pretty garbage. Stars has been paying out way too many spots and for a couple of the medium events if you min cashed you didnt even get your buyin back. And while I havent played many of the satellites I have heard a lot of people complain that stars hasnt done a very good job setting up satellites that will actually run and I think the field sizes have been hurt by this.
Other than scoop I won a 100r on ftp a few days ago for like 27k so thats nice helps to pay for most of scoop that I have bricked at least. And some of the biggest events are still to come so still have a few good chances at getting a nice score.
