Thursday night’s PokerStars PA SCOOP schedule was highlighted by a pair of fast and furious head-up, progressive total KO tournaments.

Just six weeks after the conclusion of the first full-scale tournament series in Pennsylvania online poker history, the Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker, PokerStars PA is ready to do it again.

Regulated online poker in the US made some leaps in 2019, and if the market can have a similar legislative year in 2020 as it did in 2019, things will be moving along quite nicely. In 2019, Pennsylvania online poker went live, West Virginia entered the regulated arena, and Michigan redeemed itself.

As we move into 2020, PocketFives takes a look back at the year that was in poker news, going month-by-month through the biggest and most important stories of 2019. December saw one of the largest online poker tournaments ever, a new state regulating online poker, and Pennsylvania players getting their first taste of COOP action.

The inaugural Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker may have helped establish PokerStars in Pennsylvania, but thanks to strong consistent results over the course of the 50-tournament schedule, it also helped establish some newfound poker stars in Pennsylvania.

That’s a wrap, Pennsylvania. The inaugural Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker is officially done and dusted. Late Tuesday night, ‘Gyea08‘ beat out the final 75 players who made Day 2 of the PACOOP Main Event to pick up a record-setting cash. That win was actually one of three events that brought the 50-tournament PACOOP to… Continue reading PACOOP: ‘Gyea0’ Wraps Up Series with Main Event Win for $31K

When PokerStars PA first released the schedule for the inaugural Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker, the $300 Main Event was set to have a $100,000 guarantee. Strong returns in the first week of PACOOP forced PokerStars to up the guarantee to $125,000. Turns out, that wasn’t big enough.

The two events on Saturday’s PokerStars Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker scheduled blitzed right past the guarantee giving Pennsylvania online poker players a reason to be excited for the Main Event which begins on Sunday and carries the largest guarantee of the series.

The past seven days of the PokerStars Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker has seen three different players each win themselves a second title. On Friday night, Pennsylvania poker history was on the line as one of the most dominant MTT players in the state had a shot at becoming the first to pick up a… Continue reading PACOOP: ‘keithsutton302’ Denies ‘NeolithicFarmer’ Record Third Title

It took until the mid-way point of the second week of the PokerStars Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker before players started winning multiple titles. ‘NeolithicFarmer’ did it on Monday and ‘wolfofbrdst’ won their second title on Tuesday. On Thursday however, a player did something nobody else from Pennsylvania has done yet: won back-to-back PACOOP titles.

After seeing players win a second PokerStars Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker title on both Monday and Tuesday, the Wednesday slate featured three Pennsylvania players working their way into the winner’s circle for the first time.

The PokerStars Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker continued Tuesday with two more events featuring two of the series’ most active players picking up wins. ‘ButtonM@sher‘, who already has a runner-up finish and four other PACOOP cashes, took down their first title while ‘wolfofbrdst‘ became the second Pennsylvania player to win a second title.

Poker players in Pennsylvania have been flocking to the PokerStars Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker events so much so that PokerStars has twice upped the guarantees on a number of the events to meet the demand. Sunday’s six-event schedule was the first time since PACOOP started that a majority of the events failed to meet… Continue reading PACOOP: Overlays Dominate Sunday, ‘soccerdad29’ Wins Sunday Special SE

While a lot of people might have been had their attention on the college football Conference Championships on Saturday, some of the best online poker players in Pennsylvania were chasing a championship of their own. Day 8 of the PokerStars Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker featured two events, both No Limit Hold’em, with over $50,000… Continue reading PACOOP: ‘ChasingDonkeys’ and ‘An0ldLady’ Each Pick Up Titles

Thursday’s schedule for the inaugural PokerStars Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker included three events with the Thursday Thrill SE PKO taking the top position on the marquee. That event drew 249 entries from within Pennsylvania borders with the final two players chopping up nearly $9,000 in prize money while one of the other events fell… Continue reading PACOOP: ‘ATCJKoff’ Chops Thursday Thrill SE PKO for $10K Score