The inaugural PokerStars Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker is just over a week away, and for the first time ever, online poker players in Pennsylvania will get the chance to go head-to-head over the course of 17 days.

The schedule features 50 events and comes with exactly $1 million guaranteed. Players will have choices every day as to which tournaments they want to take a shot in, but PocketFives has identified the five must-play events.

Somebody Gets to Be the First Champ

Things kick off on November 30 with Event #1, the $100 buy-in NLHE PACOOP Warm-Up, which replaces the regularly scheduled ‘Nightly Stars’ event. The $20,000 guarantee is 2.66 times higher than the normally scheduled Saturday nightly tournament. This event will need to draw 218 players if PokerStars is hoping to avoid an overlay (before fees).

Along with having a shot at the seventh-largest guaranteed prize pool, winning this particular event means you’ll forever get to call yourself the first-ever PACOOP Champ.

The structure gives players a 10,000-chip starting stack and 10-minute levels, with antes kicking in from the beginning. Players can re-enter up to three times anytime in the first two hours and 50 minutes.

Little Buy-in, Big Reward

Event #12, the $30 buy-in NLHE Mini Super Tuesday, is a value-seekers dream. This is the lowest buy-in event on the schedule and comes with a $10,000 guarantee. It’s likely going to have little trouble hitting that number as it runs 30 minutes after Event #11, the $250 Super Tuesday Special Edition, begins so you can count on a big prize pool for just $30.

The levels are 10 minutes long and players get a 20,000 starting stack. There’s a maximum of three re-entries available in the first 2.5 hours of play.

Mixing It Up

Most of the schedule is No Limit Hold’em – 41 events to be exact. So those who like other games might be hard-pressed to find some action. The one event that mixed game players can’t afford to pass up is Event #20. It’s a $300 buy-in 8-game mixed event with $15,000 guaranteed.

The game rotation includes Limit Deuce-to-Seven, Limit Hold’em, Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, Limit Razz, Limit Stud, Limit Stud Hi-Lo, NLHE, and Pot Limit Omaha.

Players get a 5,000-chip stack to start and the game changes every eight minutes. Players can re-enter up to a maximum of three times in the first three hours.

Possible Overlay Alert

If you’re looking for a potential overlay to take advantage of, then you may want to brush up on how to play some No Limit Omaha Hi-Lo. Event #33 is a $100 buy-in No Limit Omaha Hi-Lo event with an $8,000 guarantee. It’ll need 88 entries to meet that guarantee which might not be possible given that this will be the first NLO8 tournament in Pennsylvania history. The same event drew 71 runners during the 2019 New Jersey Championship of Online Poker.

The event features a 10,000 starting stack and 10-minute levels and players can re-enter up to three times during the three-hour late registration window.

This Is the Main Event

The marquee event on any series schedule should always be the Main Event and PACOOP is no different. It has a $300 buy-in and the largest guaranteed prize pool of the series at $100,000. The NJCOOP Main Event had an identical buy-in, guarantee, and structure and drew 373 runners for a $104,440 total prize pool. There’s a good chance a number of the top New Jersey online poker players make the drive into Pennsylvania to jump into this one.

Players can re-enter up to five times during the 5.5-hour late registration window.