Spring Poker Tournaments Close with Over $330 Million in Prize Money
The Spring poker season is over, but it had some interesting results. By only looking at three poker rooms, the overall guaranteed prize pool for the spring season is already over $330 million. GGPoker provided the bulk of that amount with their GGPoker World Festival (GGWF), but PokerStars’ Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) also provided quite a bit. Below, we look at how this spring went and see how the two top poker rooms compare.
Main Spring Poker Tournaments
Spring brought many exciting poker tournaments, but the most significant ones are, without a doubt, GGPoker’s GGWF and PokerStars’ SCOOP. Below, we look at how both of these festivals did this year.
GGPoker’s GGWF Results
GGPoker’s recent World Festival entered the stage with a bang, breaking the previous record with millions to spare. This event had a $200 million guaranteed prize pool, which is almost $70 million more than the next biggest guaranteed prize pool.
PokerStars’ SCOOP Results
PokerStars is the previous record holder of the highest prize money in a tournament. Their SCOOP tournament gave a $75 million guaranteed prize, almost half of its record-winning amount in 2020. However, this festival was still the second most significant one this spring.
888Poker’s XL Spring Series
While 888poker’s XL Spring Series doesn’t come close to the two giants of the poker world, they still offered a significant $2 million in guarantees. This $2 million ended up increasing to almost $3.3 million.
Which is the Better Poker Series?
GGPoker has been steadily rising above PokerStars over the last three years. As PokerStars’ cash game traffic decreases, GGPoker continues growing, boasting more than double PokerStars’s figures in a year. As such, it’s not surprising that GGPoker is the room everyone’s talking about and the main contributor to this season’s success.
GGPoker vs PokerStars
Below, we compare the two main tournaments this season and see who did better. Using this, we can see the GGWF was more successful, even though SCOOP had more entrants.
Five Largest Poker Series
In honor of the record GGPoker broke this past May, we look at the five highest-earning poker tournaments in the last five years. With its continuous growth, it should be no surprise that this poker room dominates this leaderboard.
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