McDermott Through to Day 2 of SCOOP 62-M: $530 NLHE PKO Thursday Thrill SE with "gnetaren" in the Lead
With a few minutes left in Level 24, Day 1 of the PokerStars 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker 62-M: $530 NLHE PKO Thursday Thrill SE finished with 190 players making it through to Day 2. The first four and a half hours of the tournament attracted 3,094 entries to the $1,000,000 guarantee to actually end up surpassing it by more than 50% as the total prize pool tallied up to be $1,547,000. 50% of that is dedicated to the bounties which will vary depending on how the players did and will do over these two days. When a new winner has been crowned out of the 431 players who cashed, that person will walk away with at least $95,640 excluding bounties.
Taking the Day 1 chip lead honors is "gnetaren" from Sweden with 4,542,547 in chips. "gnetaren" only jumped into the top ten of the counts during the last hour of the day and ended up on top. they are no stranger to deep runs in tournaments with the PKO-format as they took down the Turbo Series 12: $530 NLHE [6-Max, Progressive KO] back in 2018 for example. Second in the counts is a familiar name: Sven "SvenCalls" McDermott with 4,410,946 in his Day 2 "bag". McDermott scooped a big pot just before the end of the day when he collected the bounties of "marlin5555" and "trisgaudi" when he held pocket jacks. He was up against the ace-king of "marlin5555" and king-queen of "trisgaudi".
Completing the top five on Day 1 are "ddonkat" (4,172,468), "jason13-2008" (4,048,586), and "Nacho124441" (4,009,005). But there are still a bunch of familiar names left amongst the competitors, players like Samuel "€urop€an" Vousden, "O''Pazzzo"", Sean "MonkeyBudg" Prendiville, James "deyrzuited" Noonan, Pavel "silentm0de" Plesuv, Andrey "Anjeyyy" Novak, Fabiano "Kovalski1" Kovalski, Andrey "ThePateychuk" Pateychuk, Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves, Andrey "kot_spartac" Kotelnikov, Aleksejs "APonakov" Ponakovs, Killian "caaaaamel" Kramer, Joep "Pappe_Ruk" van den Bijgaart, Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev, Michael "munchenHB" Telker, Luan "Pseudo Fruto" Felipe, Pablo "pabritz" Brito, Kelvin "kelvin_fp:ar" Kerber, and Gustavo "22ehnutzz" Mastelotto are just some of the many who are left battling it out in this tournament.
"ezepoker90" was responsible for bursting the bubble when they took out "keepplaya" and doubled through "sp3edy14" with pocket eights while the two others held ace-king. This also signalled the start of a slew of eliminations where players like Adam "adamyid" Owen, Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi, Anatoly "NL_Profit" Filatov, Lucas "YRWTHMELTHR" Greenwood, Connor "blanconegro" Drinan, Mateusz "KeyserMM" Moolhuizen, Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson, Joel "Odonkor1" Nordkvist, Mike "SirWatts" Watson, and Alexandru "steakaddict." Papazian all busted in the money.
PokerStars Team Ambassador Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis finished in seventh place in the SCOOP-57-H: $5,200 NLHE High Roller earlier today and got his last chips in with ace-king when he was looked up by "nakcy" with ace-trey and "duncan1515" with pocket tens. Veldhuis flopped a straight draw but bricked the turn and river to be sent to the rail.
Day 2 resumes at 1 p.m. EST on Friday, May 15 to finish Level 24 which has a small blind of 17,500, big blind of 35,000, and a running ante of 4,500. All players have already been credited with the $912 they have secured for their efforts and will all be eyeing up many more pay jumps towards the final table. Level duration will remain at 20 minutes each with play continuing until one winner walks away with it all.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the live updates so see you again at 1 p.m. EST!
for McDermott to flop a set and improve to a full house on the river to claim two bounties.
on the flop and the 
on the turn to the 
on the river. Plesuv bet 725,000 which "Tarassol" called to see Plesuv held 
for the turned two pair to scoop the pot.
for Veldhuis to pick up the straight, flush, and royal flush draw but keep "duncan1515" ahead with the tens even though "nakcy" hit a pair of treys.
which didn't change things and neither did the 
on the river as "duncan1515" laid claim to both bounties.
for "ezepoker90" to hold with the pocket pair and improve to two pair to burst the bubble as he eliminated "keepplaya" and earned a full double through "sp3edy14".
for "Manni1822" to flop a pair of kings to eliminate both of his opponents.
, "saphire1" continued with a bet of 29,500 for "surprisefirm" to raise it up to 88,600. 'spahire1" responded with a reraise to 201,248 but "surprisefirm" decided to shove with the bigger stack and "saphire1" called for the 696,076 they had behind.
to leave "saphire1" drawing dead as "surprisefirm" improved to quad sixes.
for both of them to turn a straight draw but for "Deividas K" to hold with the higher two pair to eliminate Anderson from this tournament.
for "¿¿toneecho??" to triple up while the rest of "zxb8553624" their stack went to "THEMOS17" including their bounty.