SCOOP-02-H: $2,100 NLHE [8-Max, PKO, Thursday Thrill SE], $1M Gtd Day 1 | PokerStars SCOOP 2020

04-30-2020 16:20 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniil "Dancer King" Kiselev	786,785 20,535	20,535
Pablo “pabritz” Brito	782,526 503,183	503,183
danechka1991	606,394 179,284	179,284
Antoine "A.Saout" Saout	571,015 212,906	212,906
Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph	546,224 446,024	446,024
Guillaume "Nolet20" Nolet	545,410 545,410	545,410
Fabiano "Kovalski1" Kovalski	525,749 525,749	525,749
Andras "probirs" Nemeth	478,837 364,403	364,403
Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes	463,626 22,439	22,439
Charlie “Epiphany77” Carrel	447,260 447,260	447,260
"BrigaDatada"	Busted
Shawn "buck21" Buchanan	Busted
Tomi "Daenarys T" Vogelsang	Busted
"dartazzzz"	Busted

Game Over for Reeves

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Eventually, Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves succumbed to the grind with an below-average stack when he got it in with the and faced of "soleej".

The kicker played a crucial role as the board came to eliminate Reeves.

Player	Chips	Progress
"soleej"	377,941 377,941	377,941
Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves	Busted

Tags: Bit2Easy soleej

Level: 13

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 625

04-30-2020 16:37 UTC-5

Fireworks Between Mattsson and Brito

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 2,500/5,000, 625 ante

Four big names in the online and live poker scene share the same table and in fact sit next to each other in Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson, Niklas "Lena900" Astedt, Pablo "pabritz" Brito and Juan “Malaka$tyle” Pardo.

Astedt raised the small blind to 17,500 and subsequently bet the flop for 15,000, the turn for 58,640 and and jammed the river for his last 253,969. Brito called the first two barrels and succumbed to the final jam.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pablo “pabritz” Brito	655,622 126,904	126,904
Niklas "Lena900" Astedt	435,010 126,842	126,842
Juan “Malaka$tyle” Pardo	353,949 221,279	221,279
Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson	33,095 73,101	73,101

Tags: Lena900 pabritz C. Darwin2 Malaka$tyle

04-30-2020 16:44 UTC-5

More Notables Fall

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 2,500/5,000, 625 ante

There are 193 players out of 575 entries remaining as the big blind has increased to one twentieth of the starting stack and all players below came up short as of recently.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tyler "Wonderboy222" Goatcher	Busted
Julian "HealTheWorld" Thomas	Busted
Vicente "vicenfish" Delgado	Busted
Pedro "PaDiLhA SP" Padilha	Busted
Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza	Busted
Andy "BowieEffect" Wilson	Busted
Dietrich "2pacnrw16" Fast	Busted
Chun Lei "samrostan" Zhou	Busted
Ignat "0human0" Liviu	Busted

Level: 14

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 750

04-30-2020 16:53 UTC-5

Matsson Falls; Benitez Doubles

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 3,000/6,000, 750 ante

In the late stages of the last level, the currently ranked fourth player on Pocket Fives fell while another big name of the online poker circuit doubled.

"busto_soon" jammed the button into two shorter stacks including Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson, who called as second-shortest stack with the in the big blind. "Ldd2911" stuck around from the small blind with . "busto_soon" was flipping with and scored one bounty on the board as Mattsson was done for the event, Ldd2911 tripled up.

It wouldn't take long for the next fireworks on the same table. Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez raised to 10,000 and Pablo "pabritz" Brito called. Juan “Malaka$tyle” Pardo three-bet to 45,000 and Benitez was the only caller.

On the flop, Pardo bet small and was called, then checked the turn. Benitez jammed and the Spaniard used up most of his time bank before making the call with . Benitez had outs with the and got there thanks to the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pablo "pabritz" Brito	629,997 629,997	629,997
Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez	467,002 218,818	218,818
Johan "busto_soon" van Til	404,925 404,925	404,925
Juan “Malaka$tyle” Pardo	142,948 211,001	211,001
Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson	Busted

Tags: busto_soon C. Darwin2 Malaka$tyle pabritz Tomatee

04-30-2020 16:53 UTC-5

Moraes Back on Track

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 3,000/6,000, 750 ante

Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes kept bleeding chips for a while as he dropped out of the top spots but he has just scored a knockout to move back up. It was a flip with the for the Brazilian and for "DaryaSt".

Thanks to a board of , Moraes got there with two pair.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes	428,970 34,656	34,656
"DaryaSt"	Busted

Tags: DaryaSt GM_VALTER

04-30-2020 17:01 UTC-5

Once Upon a Break

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 3,000/6,000, 750 ante

The registration has already closed with 575 total entries, creating a prize pool of $1,150,000, and the remaining 174 players are grabbing some late night motivation in the next 5-minute break.

04-30-2020 17:09 UTC-5

Payout Information

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 3,000/6,000, 750 ante

On top of the bounty prize for each eliminated player, the remaining participants also fight for the remaining 50% of the prize pool. The top 71 spots are taking home the following cash prizes:

Place	Prize (in USD)
1	$88,383.68
2	$88,383.36
3	$55,810.36
4	$41,384.36
5	$30,687.23
6	$22,755.10
7	$16,873.31
8	$12,511.82
9	$9,796.67
10-12	$7,670.61
13-15	$6,006.04
16-23	$4,702.63
24-31	$3,682.12
32-47	$2,883.05
48-71	$2,257.39