SCOOP-73-H: $2,100 NLHE [Sunday Warm-Up SE], $750K Gtd Day 1 | PokerStars SCOOP 2020

05-17-2020 10:48 UTC-5

Double Starting Plus

Level 4 : 500/1,000, 125 ante

Current chip leader is relatively recent entrant Kahle "ROFLshove" Burns, with just shy of 230,000. Only a handful of others approach this stack size at this early point, Tyler "Wonderboy222" Goatcher and Michael "merla888" Gathy among them.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kahle "ROFLshove" Burns	225,525 125,525	125,525
"bungakat"	222,452 222,452	222,452
Tyler "Wonderboy222" Goatcher	219,000 219,000	219,000
"Sintoras"	217,000 217,000	217,000
Michael "merla888" Gathy	214,626 214,626	214,626
"vovo_leo"	202,238 202,238	202,238

Tags: Kahle "ROFLshove" Burns Michael "merla888" Gathy Tyler "Wonderboy222" Goatcher

Level: 4

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 125

05-17-2020 10:42 UTC-5

The SCOOP Main Event Starts Tonight!

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Yori Epskamp

Level 3 : 400/800, 100 ante

It's one of the biggest nights of the year for online poker, with no fewer than six SCOOP Main Events (three in NLHE, three in PLO) kicking off tonight. PokerNews' Sarah Herring breaks down what to expect tonight.

05-17-2020 10:40 UTC-5

From Min to All-In in Four Bets

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Level 3 : 400/800, 100 ante

Rob "batoelrob" Hollink opened for 1,680, finding cutoff "hotmark777" three-betting to 7,140. Back to Hollink, who threw in around a third of his chips as a four-bet: 24,000. Quick as you like, a jam for 100,000 from "hotmark777" and a call.

played with no tough outdraw (the board a chop-creating ).

Player	Chips	Progress
Rob "batoelrob" Hollink	103,948 3,948	3,948

"hotmark777"	93,125 93,125	93,125

Tags: "hotmark777"Rob "batoelrob" Hollink

05-17-2020 10:27 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
hello_totti	143,115
Jorma "jobetzu" Nuutinen	124,094
Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel	119,734
Christian "eisenhower1" Jeppsson	113,383
Lucas "YRWTHMELTHR" Greenwood	102,935
Kahle "ROFLshove" Burns	100,000
Joshua "slayerv1fan" Hoesel	100,000
Rui "sousinha23" Sousa	100,000
Javier "que_te_crio" Fernandez	100,000
Pedro "pm_marke" Marques	100,000

Joao "Naza114" Vieira	100,000
Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev	100,000

Watson Holds 'Em

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Level 2 : 300/600, 75 ante

Mike “SirWatts” Watson proved undislodgeable from the button, calling a three-bet to 6,600 from big blind “nikolaaa1234” after he’d called a cutoff open (to 1,440). Heads up to a flop, Watson called 7,808, then a further 15,616 when the turn paired the board with the . The river brought the ; both players checked and Watson’s picked up the pot (his opponent showing down .

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike “SirWatts” Watson	109,832 109,832	109,832
"nikolaaa1234"	77,120 77,120	77,120

Tags: "nikolaaa1234"Mike “SirWatts” Watson

05-17-2020 10:04 UTC-5

(Very) Early Leaders

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Level 2 : 300/600, 75 ante

With the traditional just-before-hour break upon them, the top chip counts include a few new entries into the now 94-strong field.

Player	Chips	Progress
"6omen6"	183,049
"Lackoo87gcb"	166,386
Diogo "NORTE" Cardoso	143,955
"BBRS999"	138,616
"Nacho124441"	137,783
Aleksejs "Aponakov" Ponakovs	128,399 28,399	28,399

05-17-2020 09:59 UTC-5

Veldhuis in Amongst It

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Level 2 : 300/600, 75 ante

Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis has been involved in a large number of pots in the first level though his near starting stack may not reflect it at first glance. He dropped over 15,000 in the first half of Level one, but back they came in a couple of hands in a row, the first blind on blind vs. "onlymany" who led 500 on a flop. Veldhuis made the call, and again to a second lead of 1,250 on the turn. The river brought the innocuous seeming ; "onlymany" check-called a bet of 3,000 from Veldhuis and mucked seeing his .

Another rivered two pair came along seconds later, as a three-way hand vs. Pascal "Päffchen" Hartmann (big blind) and "ja.sam.gale" (under the gun plus one) saw Veldhuis check back the button on a flop of . Hartmann checked the turn, "ja.sam.gale" bet 2,000, and Veldhuis alone called. On the river, "ja.sam.gale" bet out 8,000, called quickly by Veldhuis with ; his opponent's went into the muck.