SCOOP 2010 is made up of thirty-three events and boasts a $36,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. Unlike the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (or WCOOP), the PokerStars SCOOP has a tiered buy-in structure with 3 different levels of buy-ins (and respective prize money) for each of the thirty-three events in the series. That makes for 99 events in all, and it gives players of any income the chance to get in on the fun.

PokerStars SCOOP 2010 buy-ins run as high as $10,300 for the high-rollers event down to $5.50 on the low end. Satellite buy-ins run even lower, including many freeroll opportunities to win a shot at a free seat in a 2010 PokerStars SCOOP event.

This will be the first time that PokerStars will be hosting a live poker tournament in a Las Vegas, Nevada casino. The NAPT Venetian Deep Stack Main Event will be an NL Holdem event with a $5,000 buy-in.

PokerStars has been running Super Satellites for $200 and $500 into the NAPT Venetian for the past couple of months, ever since the inaugural NAPT event, the always-successful PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in the Bahamas. Now, with the Deep Stack Extravaganza right around the corner, PokerStars is next offering Super Satellites into the next, and only other, scheduled North American Poker Tour event, the NAPT Mohegan Sun in Connecticut.

Stay tuned for more PokerStars North American Poker dates in both the United States and Canada as Poker Stars schedules them.

There has long been a Germany event in every season’s European Poker Tour schedule, but in recent years it’s always been held in Dortmund, where last year, Sandra Naukjos, herself a Berliner, took down the main event. But now it’s Germany’s capital that will host this 2010 EPT Germany event. And, as always, it will be Poker Stars hosting the low-cost satellites awarding free seats into the EPT Berlin Main Event. And this year the winner gets a guaranteed €1 million.

Satellites are running for the upcoming EPT Deauville, France and EPT Copenhagen, Denmark over at PokerStars as well.

For example, every day at Aced Poker there are four $5 Sunday Guaranteed Satellites with 1 rebuy and 1 add-on awarding seats in the weekly Sunday Guaranteed Tournament, two $10 WSOP satellites, and one $50,000 Guaranteed VIP satellite.

That last one, the $50,000 Guaranteed VIP satellite costs 500 VIP point to enter, and does not allow any cash buy-ins. The only way you can enter this tournament is by accumulating VIP points, and one of the best ways to do that is with the remaining slew of daily satellites over at Aced Poker awarding VIP points as their top prizes.

Win a trip to the Bahamas where you’ll stay at the Atlantis Resort and Casino and bathe in the lap of luxury in between playing alongside some of poker’s finest female players, including PokerStars Pros Katja Thater, Vicky Coren, and Vanessa Rousso. You’ll even get a $250 spa voucher to get you in the right headspace for the game. You also get $900 spending cash and, of course, the $1,000 buy-in to the PCA Ladies Weekend Main Event. The total prize package is worth $3,500.

PCA Ladies Weekend Qualifiers start for buy-ins as low as $2.20.

There are three ways to enter the Dream Job USA competition:

• * through freerolls running daily at 8 pm and 11 pm, each awarding 18 seats in the finals
• through Frequent Player Point events costing 10 FPPs to buy-in, each awarding 45 seats in the finals; plus 3 special events costing 1,000 FPPs to buy-in, each awarding 9 seats in the finals
• and of course, through cash qualifiers, twice daily for $1.10 and twice daily for $11, each awarding 1 seat in the finals

Satellites for the Dream Job USA run through November 28 with the winner decided in a November 29 finals at 7 pm ET. You can skip all the satellite options altogether and enter the finals directly for a buy-in of $109.

There is also a Dream Job Canada contest running simultaneously at PokerStars too.

Now if you want to get nitpicky about it, you could argue that the PokerStars Passport is not a satellite or satellite series at all, since victory depends not on one’s performance in a specific event or “STEP”-like series of events, but a Leader Board that tracks players’ performance in all PokerStars real money tournaments throughout the year.

Depending on your ranking you can win a passport with a certain number of stamps, each stamp good for a prize package to one live event, of your choice. The list of possibilities includes any of the PokerStars Tour events in the European Poker Tour, Latin American Poker Tour, Asia Pacific Poker Tour, Russian Poker Tour, and Australia New Zealand Poker Tour.

The 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is made up of fifty different poker events, including the World Cup of Poker, a popular high-roller’s event (won last year by the young poker upstart known as ElkY), two Battleship events (one Head-Up and one Multi-Table), a Mixed 8-Game Championship, and more.

Satellites into the PokerStars 2010 EPT Caribbean Adventure are happening right now and running through the end of the year. Buy-ins start at 111 FFPs and $2.22 and go up to 500 FPPs and $7.50. PokerStars also has live qualifiers intot the 2010 PCA Main Event taking place at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino in the lovely Bahamas during the Jan 4-15 period, however most at-home players will probably want to secure their seat long beforeNew Year’s.

Year-round, Aced runs daily satellites for whatever World Series of Poker is next (even if it’s 11 months away); these take place at 1:10, 3:10, and 5:10 pm “Aced Time” and have a $10 + $1 buy-in. Current $10 WSOP satellites are for the 2010 WSOP.

Aced also runs $5 Sunday Guaranteed satellites several times daily, as well as ongoing $2 Sit-n-Go’s into a $15,000 guaranteed finals. For Aced VIPs (which is all Aced Poker players enrolled in the site’s loyalty and rewards program), there are Daily VIP Satellites and a $50,000 Guaranteed VIP Satellite every day at 6:50 pm “Aced Time”. And among Aced.com’s Daily Sit ‘n Go Satellite Tournaments are 10-seated, 6-seated, and heads-up tourneys with VIP points for buy-ins.

Hollywood Poker has a satellite structure scheme awarding free seats in the GSOP III main event, otherwise known as the Grand Slam Final which happens on October 18. From September 27 to October 11, Hollywood Poker is running GSOP III Leaderboard Tournaments and GSOP III Grand Slam Qualifiers for getting into the big event at low cost (as low as $11). There’s also one Last Chance Qualifier taking place the day of the big event itself.

There’s also a GSOP side-bet going on over at HollywoodPoker, for any player wishing to pay an extra $1,000 into the pot for a chance at some higher-stakes action on top of the $3 million guaranteed prize pool.