Carrel Tops 15 Survivors on Day 1 of Event-24-H: $10,300 NLHE; Mateos and Kanit in Contention
Another exciting day of High Roller action has finished during the 2020 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) and the money bubble has burst to determine the 15 finalists in Event SCOOP Event-24-H: $10,300 NLHE High Roller. They are all guaranteed a portion of the $1,240,000 prize pool after beating the majority of the 124-entry strong field and have $22,662.11 locked up for the efforts.
Two-time SCOOP champion Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel will lead the charge for the top prize of $271,790.44 with a stack of 5,630,571 when the action resumes the following day at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard time and the Brit was also responsible for the money bubble to burst. However, especially early on, things didn't look as good as Carrel was on the verge of re-entry but managed to spin up a shorter stack before turning on the heat in the late stages.
Second in chips is Russian player "Futti18" with 4,727,954 and third-placed Adrian "Amadi_017" Mateos (3,191,654) also already has a SCOOP title under his belt. The remaining field is not shy of big names and High Roller regulars either. Wiktor "limitless" Malinowski sits in fourth with 2,777,856 followed by Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves (2,505,299), Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit advanced with 1,816,852 and seeks a third SCOOP title.
Other notables in contention are Joao "Naza114" Vieira (1,685,473), Sergi "srxakgirona" Reixach (1,331,057), Teun "tinnoemulder" Mulder (974,679), Finnish high stakes cash game specialist "makeboifin" (901,644), Vicent "gordon0410" Bosca (848,941) and recent SCOOP champion Ilya "Leqenden" Anatsky (435,453).
Big names that joined the rail throughout the day were the 2020 SCOOP champions "Körrinho", Jorryt "TheCleaner11" van Hoof and Artur "mararthur1" Martirosyan, as well as the online superstars Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson and Niklas "Lena900" Astedt.
The field was rapidly reduced from the last four to two tables with several eliminations in quick succession as Steve "Mr. Tim Caum" O'Dwyer, Mikita "fish2013" Badziakouski, Matthias "iambest2" Eibinger, Orpen "OrpTheTurk" Kisacikoglu, and Fedor "CrownUpGuy" Holz all departed.
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Holz lost a flip with eights versus ace-queen as Joao "Naza114" Vieira flopped a queen, and failed to repeat his deep run of the previous day when he finished second in Event #17. Moments later Kisacikoglu four-bet jammed a suited ace into the queens of Adrian "Amadi_017" Mateos. A turned flush was no good as Mateos rivered a full house.
Badziakouski with ace-king and Joris “BillLewinsky” Ruijs wit pocket tens fell victim of the hot run of Carrel, who held aces and vaulted to the top of the leaderboard. Anatoly "NL_Profit" Filatov was also among those to leave empty-handed, along with O'Dwyer and Pedro "pvigar" Garagnani.
Chun Lei "SamRostan" Zhou was then the unfortunate bubble boy when his kings failed to hold up against the ace-seven suited of Carrel in a three-bet pot when the chips went in after a paired queen-high board. Carrel's flushdraw didn't hit but he instead caught an ace right away on the turn to end the day on the spot.
The action resumes on May 6th, 2020, as of 1 p.m. EST with blinds of 20,000/40,000 and a running ante of 5,000. All levels from now and until the conclusion of the tournament will last 30 minutes each. The PokerNews team will be there to provide the action from start to finish.