Pokerstars Scoop 2020
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The Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP)? The Connor Drinan Championship of Online Poker (CDOOP) more like. Allow us to explain…
Schedule and results so far for SCOOP 2020. Bounties.denotes deal NAMEENTRIESPRIZE POOLWINNERCOUNTRYPRIZE 01-L: $2.20 NLHE, Phase Event143,726$281,703kjonesggUK$19,379.27. 01-M: $22 NLHE, Phase Event70,507$1,410,140albert28Romania$84,876.13. 01-H: $215 NLHE, Phase Event11,933$2,386,600ministerborgNorway$225,008.78 02-L. PokerStars NJSCOOP – New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker NJSCOOP 2020 – $1.2M in guaranteed prize money It’s time once again for the New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker (NJSCOOP). Play for your share of $1,200,000 in guaranteed prize money across a packed schedule.
TODAY’S HEADLINES
$2M GTD in the first-ever PASCOOP! It’s time for the first edition of the Pennsylvania Spring Championship of Online Poker (PASCOOP).Play for your share of $2,000,000 in guaranteed prize. The annual spring series from PokerStars will run from April 30 spanning nearly three weeks. Online poker giant, PokerStars, has unveiled the first details of one of its richest online poker tournament series, the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) 2020.
• Drinan at it again: SCOOP hat-trick in a week
• “Corback_fr” wins Sunday Million; “Anjeyyy” takes HR
• “Pimmss” wins Warm-Up Special Edition
• $25K Super High Roller starts today
• More than 1 million entries across all tournaments
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Drinan makes it three in a week: It seems like only yesterday we were anointing Connor “blanconegro” Drinan as the king of online Omaha, but it turns out he wasn’t even done. The very next night, Drinan returned to the scene of his two previous successes and added a third SCOOP Omaha title, this time winning the $215 buy-in NLO8 event for a haul of $28,358.58, including bounties. He beat a field of 1,052 entries to do so. Drinan’s three victories in a week is sure to go down as one of SCOOP’s most remarkable achievements. Before sitting down this week, Drinan had only one SCOOP title, won in a $2,100 NLHE tournament last year. But is now a four-time champ and is one an extraordinary heater.
Titles keep coming for Connor “blanconegro” Drinan
SCOOP Spin & Go’s will run until May 17, 2020. The first entry that a player wins for the SCOOP Main Event, will be non-transferable, non-exchangeable and non-refundable. Players cannot unregister after winning an entry to the SCOOP Main Event.
Is Deeb’s record in sight? With this SCOOP festival only just into its second half, Drinan will have plenty of opportunities to try to go for his fourth title (and fifth overall). The 30-year-old from Chicago is now on par with Jason Mercier, Shawn Buchanan, and “D PitcherAK” who all have taken down three events within a single SCOOP series as well. Shaun Deeb is the only player in history who has managed to go one step further, claiming four trophies in 2012.
“Corback_fr” runs hot for SM success: The Sunday Million on SCOOP’s middle weekend is always one of the most eagerly anticipated tournaments on the calendar, and the most recent renewal offers all the evidence why. It attracted 3,419 players, building a prize pool of more than $1.7 million — ie, 70 percent more than the guarantee. After two days lasting more than nine hours apiece, UK-based player “Corback_fr” emerged as the champion, striking a heads-up deal with “Murashko” from Belarus before closing it out. Corback_fr won $216,617.61 for the victory and his first major PokerStars title.
Ukraine’s “Anjeyyy” binks High Roller: Therme’s victory came at the “medium” price point in SCOOP-44, which was set at $530 for the Special Edition. The “high” event, on the other hand, demanded $5,200 to play, and that brought out 264 players with the deepest pockets. Among them was “Anjeyyy“, who is one of Ukraine’s regulars at the high stakes tournament tables, with final tables in the Sunday Million, WCOOP and SCOOP already to his name, as well as at least one Super Tuesday success. Anjeyyy capped all of those results when he prevailed in last night’s SCOOP final, banking $253,819.24 after beating Sweden’s “Odonkor1” heads up. The low buy-in version of this event, costing $55 to play, went to Germany’s “Durrden”. He picked up $100,536.45, which is a staggering score for the tournament buy-in.
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Cool Pimmss: The Dutch player “Pimmss” first came to our attention for a near miss. He was runner up to Gianluca “Tankanza” Speranza in a Super Tuesday Special Edition in 2017. But since then, it’s been nothing but hits, including winning two High Rollers series events last December — and now a major SCOOP title. The most recent result, in the $2,100 Sunday Warm-Up special edition earned Pimmss a total $190,243.18, which included $101,398.42 in bounties — further evidence that the PKO format really favours the brave. The UK’s “caIcuIer_”, who was second, took the same amount as Pimmss from the main prize pool ($88,844.49), but “only” $13,078.13 in bounties.
Let it Floesoe: The Netherlands’ fine SCOOP continued last night with a victory in the $530 buy-in Sunday Kickoff equivalent for “Floesoe“, which was worth $75,183.24. In order to clinch the victory, Floesoe had to overcome Ognjan “cocojamb0” Dimov heads up, which is not easily done. Dimov is a former EPT and WSOP champion and knows how to close tournaments out. The pair struck a deal after “Tyrion2205” was knocked out in third, and Floesoe completed the job at the end of a marathon tournament, with 965 entries. Both the low and medium buy-in tournaments went to players from Brazil, “Rgreick” and “FellipeD”, who took $10,921.59 and $49,740.12, respectively.“pruttzz12” bags a big one for Sweden: In all, there were four tournaments finishing yesterday with prize pools of more than $1 million, the last of which resulted in a maiden major title for Sweden’s “pruttzz12“. The event in question was the $1,050 buy-in SCOOP-46-H, a straight NLHE 8-Max, and some of the game’s titans made it to the late stages: Igor “lechuckpoker” Kurganov was eighth, Conor “1_conor_b_1” Beresford was sixth and Dzmitry “Colisea” Urbanovich was fifth. However, the heads-up battle came down to “pruttzz12” and Kazakhstan’s “Lavrik-mastr”, with the Swede coming out on top. That meant a $176,202 prize and a job very well done.
TODAY’S RESULTS
| Tournament | Entries | Prize pool | Winner | Country | Prize |
| 42-L: $5.50 NLHE, Mini Sunday Kickoff SE | 21,639 | $106,031 | Rgreick | Brazil | $10,921.59 |
| 42-M: $55 NLHE, Sunday Kickoff SE | 6,152 | $350,000 | FellipeD | Brazil | $49,740.12 |
| 42-H: $530 NLHE | 965 | $500,000 | Floesoe | Netherlands | $75,183.24* |
| 43-L: $22 NLHE, PKO | 20,601 | $412,020 | plsc0meagain | Lithuania | $25,091.52† |
| 43-M: $215 NLHE, PKO, Sunday Warm-Up SE | 4,769 | $953,800 | AfRoBiZzLe! | UK | $87,143.03† |
| 43-H: $2,100 NLHE, PKO, Sunday Warm-Up SE | 578 | $1,156,000 | Pimmss | Netherlands | $190,243.18† |
| 44-L: $55 NLHE, Mini Sunday Million SE | 19,368 | $968,400 | Durrden | Germany | $100,536.45 |
| 44-M: $530 NLHE, Sunday Million SE | 3,419 | $1,709,500 | Corback_fr | UK | $216,617.61* |
| 44-H: $5,200 NLHE, Sunday HR SE | 264 | $1,320,000 | Anjeyyy | Ukraine | $253,819.24 |
| 45-L: $22 NLO8, 6-Max, PKO | 6,527 | $130,540 | Jab0c0 | UK | $12,898.59† |
| 45-M: $215 NLO8, 6-Max, PKO | 1,052 | $210,400 | blanconegro | Mexico | $28,358.58† |
| 45-H: $2,100 NLO8, 6-Max, PKO | 144 | $288,000 | Darth Vder58 | Sweden | $74,245.13† |
| 46-L: $11 NLHE, 8-Max | 23,944 | $234,651 | Nicoverlast | Canada | $23,991.27 |
| 46-M: $109 NLHE, 8-Max | 8,141 | $814,100 | Ronin_go | Canada | $114,303.32 |
| 46-H: $1,050 NLHE, 8-Max | 1,079 | $1,079,000 | pruttzz12 | Sweden | $176,202.87 |
| Daily totals | 118,642 | $10,232,442.30 | $1,439,295.74 |
†inc. bounties
*denotes deal
STAT TRACKER
Tournaments completed: 138
Tournaments ongoing: 15
Starting today: 9
Entries so far: 1,014,190
Prize pools so far: $66,323,624
First-place prizes awarded: $9,236,224.95
Totals refer to completed tournaments only
INTERVIEWS! INTERVIEWS! INTERVIEWS!
We’re catching up with a lot of SCOOP winners this year, all happy to share their experiences of winning big. Click through to hear more from our long list of happy champions:
Previous winner interviews:
Catalina “catam18” Marmureanu”: A result for all women in poker
Paul “pistolp999” Kroezen: A triumph of perseverence
Adam “adamyid” Owen: Defeating end-boss “veeea”
Matt “MUSTAFABET” Ashton: Tournaments are practice for cash games
Antanas “Nr1InEurope” Bakaitis: “I’m no good at Texas Hold’em!
“MarkBang”: First out to last man standing
“thegodfisher”: Busy broker finds time to win SCOOP title
Oleg “Fukuruku” Vasylchenko: Poor student becomes richer
Michael “Malicious20” Cottier: $9.5K from a $2.20 buy-in tournament!
Dimitrios “papadatos69” Papadatos: Making most of downturn in tourism
William “Williaml666” Barbosa: Best feeling ever!
Last hand double-KO gives ‘PufuMiu’ win in Event #11-L
TWITCH WATCH
It was a relatively quiet night in the poker streaming world last night but Fintan “easywithaces” Hand was still happily crossing swords with the very best. Here’s a hand he played against the “hottest player in the world at the moment”, aka Connor “1_conor_b_1” Beresford. But who is the “pathetic nit”?
Meanwhile, here’s your daily reminder that when you think it only happens to you, it doesn’t only happen to you. Rough run-outs happen to everyone. “Yikes.”
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TOP TWEETS
Nick Walsh of OP-Poker has a decent contest running at the moment through his Twitter account. It needs you to be a bit creative and funny, and it could earn you some tournament tickets for the SCOOP action coming up.
@Pokerstars#SCOOP#GIVEAWAY 20 x $22 SCOOP tickets // FOLLOW my twitter account + RETWEET this tweet + REPLY your answer to the following question: “What’s the best way to manage tilt” (FUNNY ANSWERS ONLY!) // T&Cs here: https://t.co/GiwkJI8zfHpic.twitter.com/AQdTYp9UWl
— Nicholas Walsh (@OP_Poker_Nick) May 11, 2020
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Our friends at Poker News are offering live coverage of a ton of SCOOP events and last night went wire-to-wire as the big Sunday events wrapped up.
They followed Pimmss all the way to the $2,100 NLHE PKO title and were watching as “Anjeyyy” won the $5,200 Sunday High Roller. There was also full coverage of “Corback_fr”‘s magnificent SCOOP Sunday Million success.
Click the links above to read how it all played out, and check back tonight for the start of the $25K Super High Roller.
LEADER BOARD LATEST
Can anyone catch Rui “RuiNF” Ferreira?
We are now into Week 2 of SCOOP, which means three fresh leader boards and another race to pick up some major bonus prizes. The new leader boards began with tournaments that started on May 10 and later, which means winners of all of the major Sundays head the early standings — except in one case. That’s the “overall” leader board, which runs through the duration of the festival, and where we find Rui “RuiNF” Ferreira still with a commanding lead.
Overall
1 – Rui “RuiNF” Ferreira, Netherlands, 650 points
2 – aleksandrs10, Latvia, 515
3 – Talal “raidalot” Shakerchi, UK, 505
4 – krakukra, Russia, 495
5 – Ti0373, Russia, 460
Overall leader board runs through entirety of SCOOP.
Low (Week 2)
1 – Jab0c0, United Kingdom, 110 points
=2 – Aldo1913, Germany, 100
=2 – Flavio32125, Brazil, 100
=2 – plsc0meagain, Lithuania, 100
=2 – RGreick, Brazil
Week 2 prizes: 1st – Trophy and $5,000; 2nd – $2,500; 3rd – $1,500. Top 25 win prizes.
Medium (Week 1)
1 – AfRoBiZzLe!, UK, 120 points
=2 – Corback_fr, UK, 110
=2 – Ronin_go, Canada, 110
=4 – Chapex, Peru, 105
=4 – gloupwths, Greece, 105
Week 2 prizes: 1st – Trophy and $7,500; 2nd – $5,000; 3rd – $2,500. Top 10 win prizes.
High (Week 2)
1 – Anjeyyy, Ukraine, 105 points
=2 – Darth Vder58, Sweden, 100
=2 – Floesoe, Netherlands, 100
=2 – pruttzz12, Sweden, 100
=2 – PikkuHUMPPA, Finland, 100
=2 – Pimmss, Netherlands, 100
Week 2 prizes: 1st – Trophy and $10,000; 2nd – $7,500; $5,000.
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Although Brazil, Sweden, Canada and the Netherlands picked up two titles apiece in tournaments ending on Monday, players based in the UK managed to snag three. That further extended the Brits’ leader board dominance, especially with Russia drawing a blank.
Meanwhile, Connor Drinan continues to haul Mexico up the leader board, all but single handed. The other Mexican victory came thanks to Adam “adamyid” Owen, which means an American and a Brit are doing their adopted nation proud.
Latest standings:
21: UK
17: Russia
14: Brazil
10: Germany, Netherlands
Five: Austria, Ukraine, Sweden
Four: Greece, Belarus, Norway, Mexico, Canada
Three: Hungary, Poland, Ireland, Finland
Two: Romania, Argentina, Peru, Malta, Lithuania
One: Japan, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Denmark, Belgium, Uruguay, China, Bulgaria, North Macedonia
STARTING TODAY
Day 13: Tuesday, May 12
What’s the next step up from Super Tuesday? That’s right, it’s a SCOOP Super Tuesday, or maybe Super Super Tuesday, where the buy-ins go through the roof. Event 52, which starts today, has a low buy-in of $215 and a high buy-in of $25,000. That makes it our Super High Roller, with a $2 million guarantee.
Elsewhere on today’s schedule we find a 2-7 Single Draw event, with a buy-in starting at $11, and a 6-Max PLO8 event too. Everything winds down with three chaotic PKO tournaments.
12.05pm ET – Event 51: 2-7 Single Draw
Buy-ins: $11, $109, $1,050
Guarantees: $25,000, $35,000, $75,000
1pm ET – Event 52: NLHE 8-Max Super High Roller
Buy-ins: $215, $2,100, $25,000
Guarantees: $650,000, $750,000, $2 million
2.15pm ET – Event 53: PLO8 6-Max
Buy-ins: $22, $215, $2,100
Guarantees: $50,000, $120,000, $200,000
3.30pm ET – Event 54: NLHE
Buy-ins: $11, $109, $1,050
Guarantees: $150,000, $350,000, $500,000
6pm ET – Event 55: NLHE 8-Max Progressive KO
Buy-ins: $5.50, $55, $530
Guarantees: $60,000, $250,000, $350,000
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The opening week of the 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is coming to its conclusion. And what better way to get there than with a hugely familiar champion. Here’s today’s latest news…
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
• Four titles for British players, including Talal “raidalot” Shakerchi
• Carrel leads High Roller; Leah in front in Super Tuesday
• Welshman Carey wins biggest prize of night
• Guarantees increased on numerous events
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Another successful raid for “raidalot”: Not so long ago, we used to talk about Talal “raidalot” Shakerchi as being a hedge fund manager who sometimes dabbled in poker. But we have also known for a long time that this “dabbling” is a good deal more expert than almost any other “recreational” player on the planet. Shakerchi won his first SCOOP title in 2012, his second in 2014 and two years later won the SCOOP Main Event. Last night, Shakerchi was at it again, winning the $2,100 2-7 Triple Draw, denying a galaxy of superstars their shot at glory. Joao “Naza114” Vieira was second, Elior “Crazy Elior” Sion was third, Matthew “MUSTAFABET” Ashton was fourth, “RaúlGonzalez” (a former SCOOP champion) was fifth, Luke “lb6121” Schwartz was sixth and Rory “mafews” Matthews was ninth. Shakerchi banked $42,645.76 and continued his exceptional run in SCOOP.
Another great success for Talal “raidalot” Shakerchi
Schwartz and Glaser beaten: Luke “lb6121” Schwartz has five SCOOP titles to his name already, but it’s been a series of near misses this time — at least so far. Schwartz finished third in the $55 buy-in NLO8 last night, which was then chopped between eventual winner “Zadavljugada“, from Russia, and the UK’s “barry_dread”, for close to $13K apiece. The high buy-in version of that event went to Brazil’s “teruliro“, who added a SCOOP title to his two WCOOP victories. teruliro has previously won a NLHE WCOOP title in 2019 and a 5-Card Omaha event in 2016 (and also came runner up in a SCOOP Sunday Warm-Up in 2017), so this was no surprise. Benny “RunGodlike” Glaser made yet another final table but finished fifth.
“Sngwonder” not bad at MTTs either:Owain Carey‘s best result in live poker is the €102,400 he won for finishing sixth in a particularly tough €2,000 buy-in event at EPT Prague, where the top five were Louis Salter, Dan Shak, Eugene Katchalov, Ben Pollak and Ari Engel. But playing online as “Sngwonder”, Carey last night hit a new high point when he took down the $530 6-Max PKO, winning $80,752 from the main prize pool and a further $69,292 in bounties, for a total $150,044 haul. Carey, from Wales, adds another title to the British pile — and wins the biggest prize of the night. We’ve featured Carey before, including this interview at EPT Deauville.Austrian crusher at it again: “WATnlos“, based in Austria, is one of the most familiar names at the PokerStars MTT tables, with victories in the Sunday Million and Sunday High Roller to his name. Last night he also added a SCOOP title when he won the $55 NLHE Turbo, skittling through a field of more than 9,200 entries in a matter of six hours. His total haul was $40,639.36, including bounties.
Manuel Ruivo doing his thing live
No big deal for “fellatiado”: We last caught up with Manuel “fellatiado” Ruivo when he was winning the Sunday Warm-Up and telling us not to make a big fuss about it. That was about a year ago. Ruivo was back at the top of the standings last night in SCOOP-22-H, in which he beat a field of 403 to win $73,414 and his first SCOOP title. Ruivo, who is a Portuguese player currently based in the Netherlands, defeated the former WCOOP winner Andrés “wisopekeño!” González (a Spaniard based in London, UK) heads up.Two up for Ireland: Ireland’s “Consi11” finished fourth behind “com 157” in a huge $1,050 No Limit Hold’em event earlier this week, but went three crucial steps better last night in SCOOP-22-M: $109 NLHE. Ireland’s second victory of this SCOOP series earned Consi11 $46,226.85 after he arranged a heads-up deal with “FoNZ87” of Canada.
Luke “Bit2Easy” Reeves heavily involved in two events
Million dollar chasers: Two tournaments started on Tuesday with $1 million guarantees, and those guarantees were duly smashed. In the $10,300 buy-in High Roller, Charlie “Epiphany77” Carrel leads the last 15, with $272K on the table for the winner. Others still involved include Adrian “Amadi_017” Mateos (third), Wiktor “limitless” Malinowski (fourth), Luke “Bit2Easy” Reeves (fifth) and Mustapha “lasagnaaammm” Kanit (seventh). Mike “goleafsgoeh” Leah is top of the counts in the $1,050 Super Tuesday, where there’s $199,127 up top. Russia’s “Futti18” is alive in both, placed second in the $10,300 and 36th in the $1,050.Schemion aiming for second: The $2,100 buy-in SCOOP-26-H has also created an enormous prize pool, with 310 entries putting $620,000 in the pot. Ole “wizowizo” Schemion leads the last 41 in that one, which also resumes today. Luke “Bit2Easy” Reeves is in third, meaning he’ll restart today in the top five of two massive tournaments.
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TODAY’S RESULTS
| Tournament | Entries | Prize pool | Winner | Country | Prize |
| 20-L: $5.50 NLHE, 6-Max, PKO | 40,439 | $198,151 | b0nk3ym0y12 | Denmark | $10,551.00†* |
| 20-M: $55 NLHE, 6-Max, PKO | 17,911 | $895,550 | plens | Netherlands | $61,657.78† |
| 20-H: $530 NLHE, 6-Max, PKO | 2,605 | $1,302,500 | Sngwonder | UK | $150,044.30† |
| 21-L: $5.50 NLO8, 8-Max | 6,852 | $33,575 | warwicktom | UK | $4,774.96 |
| 21-M: $55 NLO8, 8-Max | 1,997 | $99,850 | Zadavljugada | Russia | $12,935.07* |
| 21-H: $530 NLO8, 8-Max | 329 | $164,500 | teruliro | Brazil | $27,074.67* |
| 22-L: $11 NLHE | 13,049 | $127,880 | exmenidi | Greece | $13,320.98* |
| 22-M: $109 NLHE | 3,689 | $368,900 | Consi11 | Ireland | $46,226.85* |
| 22-H: $1,050 NLHE | 403 | $403,000 | fellatiado | Netherlands | $73,414.54 |
| 23-L: $5.50 5-Card PLO, 6-Max, PKO | 10,775 | $52,798 | no ase1815 | UK | $3,988.77†* |
| 23-M: $55 5-Card PLO, 6-Max, PKO | 3,738 | $186,900 | admiralph | Belgium | $20,587.01†* |
| 23-H: $530 5-Card PLO, 6-Max, PKO | 641 | $320,500 | antero69 | Finland | $44,143.24† |
| 25-L: $22 FL 2-7 Triple Draw | 2,003 | $40,060 | Vovan7778 | Russia | $5,989.41 |
| 25-M: $215 FL 2-7 Triple Draw | 425 | $85,000 | Zapahzamazki | Russia | $15,218.28 |
| 25-H: $2,100 FL 2-7 Triple Draw | 79 | $158,000 | raidalot | UK | $42,645.76 |
| 27-L: $5.50 NLHE, Turbo, PKO | 22,406 | $109,789 | megamaster | Ukraine | $6,971.36 |
| 27-M: $55 NLHE, Turbo, PKO | 9,209 | $460,450 | WATnlos | Austria | $40,639.36 |
| 27-H: $530 NLHE, Turbo, PKO | 1,263 | $631,500 | luckyman147 | Poland | $85,777.28 |
| Daily totals | 137,813 | $5,638,903 | $665,960.62 |
†inc. bounties
*denotes deal
STAT TRACKER
Tournaments completed: 72
Tournaments ongoing: 6
Entries so far: 569,226
Prize pools so far: $32,547,583
First-place prizes awarded: $4,350,985.71
Totals refer to completed tournaments only
INTERVIEWS! INTERVIEWS! INTERVIEWS!
We’re catching up with a lot of SCOOP winners this year, all happy to share their experiences of winning big.
How about the story of Hungary’s “MarkBang”, who was the first player out of the 5-Card Draw PKO, but re-entered and was then the last man standing. Then there’s “thegodfisher” from Manchester, in the UK, who says he doesn’t have much time to play poker, but still won nearly $100K in one of the big PKO events.Oleg “Fukuruku” Vasylchenko described himself at the beginning of his career as a “poor student looking for ways to make myself a bit richer” and this week, ten years later, won SCOOP-9-H, for $77,273.17. There was a hefty ROI too for Michael “Malicious20” Cottier, who won $9,444.66 in a $2.20 buy-in re-buy tournament. “There were three occasions when I was down to two or three big blinds,” Cottier said.
Michael “Malicious20” Cottier
Last but not least, there’s Dimitrios “papadatos69” Papadatos, who was the first player to be crowned champion during this SCOOP. He runs his family’s supermarket on the beautiful island of Kelafonia, off the west coast of Greece, and relies on tourism for his well-being. This year is obviously very different, which means Papadatos has had more time to play poker — and he won the $11 low edition of Event 4, a No Limit Hold’em freeze-out with $80K guaranteed. He won $15,084, but said: “I know that poker is a game of skill and if I play bigger buy-in tournaments, the regs are going to eat me alive. So I will try to improve by studying poker theory and climb the stakes slowly.”Previous winner interviews:
William “Williaml666” Barbosa: Best feeling ever!
Last hand double-KO gives ‘PufuMiu’ win in Event #11-L
TWITCH WATCH
Poor Fintan “EasyWithAces” Hand. It’s not been the greatest SCOOP festival for him so far, but it’s only going to take a tiny little adjustment before he starts winning, one suspects. Take the hand in the clip below where he makes a brilliant read but, well, doesn’t quite make the most of it…
As for Lex, well, if you ask nicely, sometimes you get what you’re looking for:TOP TWEETS
Is Benny “RunGodlike” Glaser getting blase? Nope. He’s still as pumped as ever:
Another day, another #SCOOP FT! ?
Let’s close this one out! ?? pic.twitter.com/Ly8OKecYiM
— Benny Glaser (@BennyG444) May 5, 2020
Stapes has a listening suggestion for while you’re playing SCOOP:
The #PokerInTheEars podcast is taking a break for #SCOOP – so now would be a great time to catch up, like Kevin!
(We’re on Stitcher, iTunes, and SoundCloud) https://t.co/4FFLvwxC4F
— Joe Stapleton (@Stapes) May 5, 2020
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Poker News are all over the coverage of the Super Tuesday events, and you can join them for blow-by-blow coverage as the tournaments play to a conclusion tonight.
SCOOP-24-M: $1,050 NLHE 8-Max, Super Tuesday SE
SCOOP-24-H: $10,300 NLHE 8-Max High Roller
LEADER BOARD LATEST
It’s kind of a miracle that Rui “RuiNF” Ferreira hasn’t won a title in this year’s SCOOP. We’re six days in after all. But Ferreira has certainly been playing a ton and, as of this time yesterday (the latest figures available), Ferreira had cashed 19 times from 74 entries, banking $169,363.48. That is enough to keep him atop the current Player of the Series overall leader board.
Remember, this year there are two phases to the leader board race, one for the first half of SCOOP and one for the second week. Players can win SCOOP tickets from the first part and then cash prizes for the second, specifically $5,000 for the low, $7,500 for the medium and $10,000 for the high. The overall Player of the Series takes an additional $25,000 and a trophy.
Here’s how we currently stand:
Overall
1 – Rui “RuiNF” Ferreira, Netherlands, 495 points
2 – krakukra, Russia, 435
3 – Jorryt “TheCleaner11” van Hoof, UK, 395
4 – Adam “Adamyid” Owen, Mexico, 375
4 – Senkel92, Norway, 360
Low (Week 1)
1 – Senkel92, Norway, 205 points
2 – Rui “RuiNF” Ferreira, Netherlands, 200
=3 – Ca$haholic, Netherlands, 195
=3 – Oudendijk42, Netherlands, 195
5 – 888GOSHA888, Russia, 190
Medium (Week 1)
1 – Adam “Adamyid” Owen, Mexico, 235 points
2 – Luke “lb6121” Schwartz, UK, 205
3 – SuperPoep, Netherlands, 190
4 – Perrymejsen, Sweden, 185
5 – fish_san, Japan, 180
High (Week 1)
1 – Jorryt “TheCleaner11” van Hoof, UK, 295 points
2 – Alexander “joiso” Kostritsyn, Russia, 255
3 – Rui “RuiNF” Ferreira, Netherlands, 250
4 – Körrinho, Austria, 205
5 – PaGaOVelhinho, Brazil, 190
COUNTRIES LEADER BOARD
SCOOP 2020 – The Biggest One Yet! - PokerStars
There were first titles on Monday for players from Finland, Belgium and Denmark, with tournament wins spread among 12 different countries on a single day. Four of those titles went to players in the UK, however, which meant Brits extended their lead at the top of the leader board.
Ten titles have gone to Russia, but only six so far to Brazil. They need to pull their socks up. Brazilians have been near the top of every leader board in major series over the past few years, but they’re lagging this time.
Latest standings:
13: UK
10: Russia
Six: Brazil, Netherlands
Five: Germany
Four: Ukraine
Three: Hungary, Greece, Austria
Two: Romania, Poland, Ireland
One: Japan, Peru, Mexico, Canada, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Belarus, Norway, Sweden, Argentina, Denmark, Belgium, Finland
STARTING TODAY
Day 7: Wednesday, May 6
Two of the big hits from the earlier days of SCOOP combine into one tournament today as the ever-popular PLO is given extra spice by the addition of rebuys. Those with deep pockets have a $300K guarantee attached to the $530 buy-in edition, while you can dip your toe for $5.50 at the lower end. Prior to that, and kicking off the day, is an intriguing Stud Hi/Lo event. There’s a terrific Stud Hi/Lo tutorial on the game available at PokerStars School.
Guarantees have also now been raised on a heap of events across the festival, so there’s even more money certain to be on the line. Of course, buy-ins have not been touched. It’s just more bang for your buck.
12.05pm ET – Event 28: Stud Hi/Lo
Buy-ins: $11, $109, $1,050
Guarantees: $20,000, $50,000, $80,000
1pm ET – Event 29: NLHE 8-Max Midweek Freeze
Buy-ins: $55, $530, $5,200
Guarantees: $400,000, $500,000, $750,000
2.15pm ET – Event 30: PLO with rebuys 6-Max
Buy-ins: $5.50, $55, $530
Guarantees: $50,000, $150,000, $350,000
3.30pm ET – Event 31: NLHE PKO
Buy-ins: $11, $109, $1,050
Guarantees: $100,000, $350,000, $500,000
Pokerstars Scoop 2020
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