PokerStars 2020 SCOOP Live Coverage Kicks Off at 1 PM ET with SCOOP-02-M: $215 NLHE
Welcome to the first day of live coverage of the PokerStars 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker by PokerNews. The action kicks off at 1 p.m. Eastern Time with SCOOP-02-M: $215 NLHE which has a maximum of eight players at each table and will feature a progressive knock-out format. It is the special edition of the usual Mini Thursday Thrill.
The first-ever SCOOP took place in 2009 and has been around since then. With buy-ins ranging from $2.20 to a whopping $25,000, there will be something to play for everyone. In 2019, the entire schedule was spread over 16 days but this year it has been increased to 21 days with 80 events and three buy-in levels each to get to a total of 240 tournaments. And all of this comes with a gargantuan prize pool of more than $85,000,000. PokerNews will be all over it with live coverage of no fewer than 30 tournaments!
The first tournament covered has a buy-in of $215 with a guaranteed prize pool of $750,000. Players will receive 50,000 in chips and late registration is possible for the first three hours and thirty minutes. of play Players will start with a time bank of 60 seconds and 10 seconds will be added after every four levels on the first day of play. Play will end after 8 ours and 30 minutes of play with a 5-minute synchronized break every 55 minutes past the hour.
As this is played as a progressive knock-out, $100 will be added to the prize pool, another $100 goes towards the bounty, and $15 is retained by PokerStars. All players start with a bounty of $100 and when a player gets eliminated, 50% of their bounty is awarded to the player who eliminated them while the other 50% will be added to that player's bounty.
With this much action coming up, who will be making their first deep runs towards a win in this series? Following along with the updates as we find out.
, "Manson_rnd" continued with a bet of 5,000 which was called by "Muka82". "STEAMROLL3R" raised to 14,225 and "Manson_rnd" decided to shove for 47,720 in total. "Muka82" called for the exact same amount and so did "STEAMROLL3R". 
on the turn and the 
on the river for "Muka82" to hold with the trip queens to eliminate both of his opponents to collect $50 each for their bounties.
, "Gwinhard" continued with a bet of 13,498 which was called.
and "Gwinhard" shoved enough for "wek339" to put their tournament life at risk for his remaining 36,792 which they did.
on the river for "Gwinhard" to hold with their rockets to collect a bounty.
for "KufDrahepus" to hold with the higher pocket pair and scoop the pot, bounty and take the chip lead.
for "oRezidenTo" to turn the straight to eliminate the last remaining PokerStars Team Pro in 1,806th place.
come on the turn. "rememberFL bet 68,904 which "Imgeneticist" called.
for the turned pair of nines. "rememberFL" had 
, "aviator2014" continued with a bet of 56,000 and "adkaf" was the only one to make the call.
, "aviator2014" bet 107,287 this time and "adkaf" responded with a shove of 298,050 which was enough to get "aviator2014" out of the way. 
