The US Championship of Online Poker (USCOOP) is back on PokerStars this September, with the latest edition set to award $4.5 million in guaranteed prizes across the online poker operator’s three US markets.
$2M on Offer in Championship Events
The series kicks off on September 9 and runs through September 26 in New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, featuring at least 60 events for each state. More than a dozen of those events come with the prestigious “Championship” label with almost $2.2 million in combined guarantees up for grabs.
The Pennsylvania series offers the biggest guarantee of $2 million, followed by Michigan ($1.5 million), and New Jersey ($1 million). Buy-ins throughout the festival range from $20 to $1,000. For the Championship events, players can get in for as low as $50 (Pennsylvania), $25 (New Jersey), and $100 (Michigan).
Biggest-Value Events
You might be interested to know what events carry the biggest value in each state. As expected, they come from the Championship events and there are at least two of them in each US market.
In Pennsylvania, there’s the $100 buy-in, $100K GTD Sunday Championship and the $50 buy-in, $35K GTD Mini Main Event Championship. The Michigan series also has a $100 buy-in, $70K GTD Sunday Championship, and a $200 buy-in $80K GTD Sunday Special Championship. The New Jersey schedule includes a $25 buy-in, $7,500 GTD Mini NJ Championship, as well as a $100 buy-in, $25K GTD NJ Open Championship.