SCOOP-33-M: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, PKO, Thursday Thrill], $1M Gtd
Day 1 Started
SCOOP-33-M: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, PKO, Thursday Thrill], $1M Gtd
Day 1 Started
Day 1 of the two-day PokerStars SCOOP-33-M: $1,050 Thrusday Thrill is about to start at 1 p.m. Eastern Time, featuring a whopping $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
One of the biggest weekly tournaments on PokerStars, gets a special treatment with the same buy-in but with an inflated prize pool, around four times its original $250k guaranteed just as it is used to happen during big festivals like the Spring Championship of Online Poker. This will be one of the three Thursday Thrill events that were scheduled during SCOOP, and the only with a $1k buy-in, since the first one had a $2,100 buy-in and the last will cost $530 for those who want to enter next week.
Each player will receive a starting stack of 100,000 chips and Day 1 will play for eight hours and fifty minutes in 20-minute levels, before the action gets paused only to resume on Friday, May 8th for the conclusion of the event.
The first blind level is the 250/500 with a 60-chip ante, and late registration will remain open for four hours and twenty-five minutes.
Here you will be able to follow all the updates during Day 1 of this event, while PokerNews will also provide you coverage of the high edition of this event, SCOOP-33-H: $10,300 PKO NLHE. For everything regarding this year's SCOOP you can visit the respective SCOOP-page on PokerNews, or check PokerStars for all the events and nonstop satellites to hop into the action.
It was Sunday, Day 2 of the 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker Event 09-M, a $55 buy-in no-limit hold’em affair that had attracted no less than 7,898 total entries.
Adam “adamyid” Owen had survived the first day well enough to carry a decent stack into the final day. But a tough seat draw with Francisco “Tomatee” Benitez having position on him forced Owen to take the cautious route as he continued to navigate his way through the event.
“He was on my direct left, so I really couldn’t play many hands,” Owen explains. “I felt quite restricted, but maybe that helped me in that I didn’t quite get to go as hard as I usually might have done in that kind of tournament.”
Owen’s patience was rewarded as he made it to the last couple of tables, and even got to see Benitez fall in 22nd place. “With two or three tables left there were lots of really tough names,” says Owen. “I was happy to see some of those bust….”
“But having ‘veeea’ on the final table… he is one of the all-time end bosses.”
Read how Owen took care of 'veeea' heads-up to win a SCOOP title over at the PokerStars Blog
Level: 1
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 60
It all started with a raise under the gun to 1,125 from "hks_dragon" getting called by "gushuang88" and "Dowgh-Santos" on the hijack and the cutoff position respectively, before "Tr!pleeeee" popped it up to 7,500 from the button. The small blind got out of the way and "Eleres88" made it 29,750 from the big blind. It was folded back to "Tr!pleeeee" who shoved for 95,340 and "Eleres88" snap-called with a covering stack.
Tr!pleeeee:
Eleres88:
A typical cooler for "Eleres88" who saw the board running out on his favor, with giving him a full house and a bounty of $250 on his pocket.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Eleres88 | 199,295 | 199,295 |
Tr!pleeeee | Busted |
Level: 2
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
"RingIsdorf" opened the action with a raise under the gun, "airlewis" called one seat on his left and it was folded to "monzemann" on the small blind who called too, before Guntis "poker@luffyD" Aleskins made it 10,773 from the big blind. Only "airlewis called and the flop was .
Aleskins continued for 6,335 and "airlewis" raised to 14,500 getting a call by his opponent. The turn was the and Aleskins check-called a bet for 12,000.
The completed the board on the river and this time "airlewis" shoved all in after Aleskins' check, with the latter finding a call finally, only to see "airlewis" beating his with for a rivered full house.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
airlewis | 222,150 | |
Guntis "poker@luffyD" Aleskins
|
Busted |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
clapjkspit | 296,730 | |
Cashcid Linc | 214,608 | |
Sergei "Futti18" Koliakov
|
198,874 | |
estebangocu | 187,644 | |
Igrok222 | 184,978 | |
Adamyid
|
181,510 | |
EDGE143
|
179,750 | |
Galochina10 | 173,957 | |
seboraptor | 166,372 | |
m.a-0000 | 160,620 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Fintan "EasyWithAces" Hand
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Mike "SirWatts" Watson
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Christian "eisenhower1" Jeppsson
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Vlad "dariepoker" Darie
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Rui "sousinha23" Sousa
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Maksim "MAMOHT_T" Viktorovich
|
100,000 | 100,000 |