SCOOP-44-H: $5,200 NLHE [Sunday HR SE], $1M Gtd
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The stakes have been ramped up for the second Sunday of the PokerStars 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) with the SCOOP Edition of the Sunday High Roller in Event #44-H: $5,200 NLHE ready to begin at 1 p.m. ET.
A guaranteed prize pool of $1 million is featured in this event, which will take place over a two-day period, and with the stakes having been raised from last week’s $2,100 buy-in version of this same event, the accompanying prestige of winning is certain to follow suit.
Late registration is open for the first four hours and 45 minutes of play, closing sharply at 5:45 p.m. ET. Players are allowed up to two re-entries during the registration period should they become eliminated and wish to fire again.
This tournament’s structure features starting stacks of 250,000 and blinds beginning at 1,200/2,400 with an ante of 300. The first 18 levels will be 20 minutes in length, and they will increase to a half-hour at the beginning of Level 19, staying that way for the remainder of the event. Day 1 will continue until play reaches the money, at which point the tournament will be paused for the evening with players set to return for Day 2 on Monday at 1 p.m. ET.
Familiar names to the poker world such as Teun "tinnoemulder" Mulder, Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit, Artur "mararthur1" Martirosyan, and Jorryt "TheCleaner11" van Hoof" have already claimed SCOOP-H titles, and another will have the opportunity to add their name to that list when this two-day race concludes Monday evening.
PokerNews will be providing updates on all the high-stakes action that is about to unfold. Stick around and be sure to catch it all.
Level: 1
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
Level 1
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Seventeen players are registered and seated across two tables at the beginning of Event #44-H with more expected to add their name to the lineup as the day continues.
Here's a look at some players already in on the action.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 |
Level 1
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Sergi "srxakgirona" Reixach opened to 6,000 in the cutoff and saw Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez defended his big blind to take action heads up to a flop of 
. Benitez checked and Reixach made a continuation-bet of 10,100. Benitez called.
The turn came 
and Benitez checked again. Reixach fired a second barrel of 23,400 and Benitez called once more. Both players then checked the river 
to take the hand to showdown.
Benitez showed 
for kings up and Reixach mucked, earning Benitez the early pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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291,625
41,625
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41,625 |
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210,619
39,381
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39,381 |
Level 1
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Anatoly "nl_profit" Filatov opened to 4,800 in the hijack and was three-bet to 24,000 by Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez, who was in the small blind. Filatov called and the two players saw the flop come 
. Benitez made a continuation-bet of 35,300 and Filatov called.
The turn was 
. Benitez continued with a second barrel of 50,650 and Filatov called once more, bringing the river 
. Benitez checked and Filatov went all in for 140,000. Benitez made the call.
Filatov showed 
for a pair of sevens, which proved to be no good to Benitez's 
. Benitez found his call with a pair of queens to be correct and he earned the first knockout of the tournament, taking an early vault up the leader board as he now finds himself with over 545,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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545,825
254,200
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254,200 |
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Busted |
Level 1
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
The field has risen to 49 with 48 players remaining nearing the end of Level 1. Here are some of the familiar names to have entered over the first 20 minutes.
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
Level: 2
Blinds: 1,400/2,800
Ante: 350
Level 2
: 1,400/2,800, 350 ante
Jorryt "TheCleaner11" van Hoof opened the action with a raise to 7,000 in early position and was called by Patrick "pads1161" Leonard on the button and "hotmark777" in the big blind.
The three saw a flop of 
and "hotmark777" checked to Van Hoof, who made a continuation-bet of 10,800. Leonard called and "hotmark777" check-raised to 40,950. Van Hoof folded and Leondard called.
Action was then heads up to the turn and "hotmark777" bet another 61,500. Leonard called, bringing the river where "hotmark777" shoved for 123,000.
Leonard folded and "hotmark777" took down the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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364,310
364,310
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364,310 |
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231,971
18,029
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18,029 |
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218,792
31,208
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31,208 |
Level 2
: 1,400/2,800, 350 ante
Michael "Imluckbox" Addamo opened to 6,300 and was called by Sergi "srxakgirona" Reixach in the cutoff. Fedor "CrownUpGuy" Holz three-bet to 37,800 in the big blind and Addamo went into his time bank before four-betting to 80,000.
Reixach got out of the way and Holz then found action upon himself. He needed to activate his time bank before five-bet shoving his stack of 282,000 into the middle.
Addamo was then put to the test for the remainder of his chips, totaling about 15,000 less than Holz. He decided not to commit the last 186,000 and Holz took down the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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372,868
372,868
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372,868 |
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186,688
186,688
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186,688 |
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168,209
42,410
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42,410 |
