SCOOP-74-M: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event], $5M Gtd Day 1 | PokerStars SCOOP 2020

05-17-2020 13:40 UTC-4

Some More Familiar Names

Shirley Ang

Level 2 : 250/500, 60 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Anton "Bomber&Granater" Wigg	100,000

Shawn "buck21" Buchanan	100,000
Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson	100,000
Killian "caaaaamel" Kramer	100,000
Sylvain "caIcuIer_" Loosli	100,000
Matthias "Cashcid Linc" Maasberg	100,000
Adi "Chillero1441" Rajkovic	100,000
James "Cmon_Gasquet" Hopkins	100,000
Dzmitry "colisea" Urbanovich	100,000
Vlad "dariepoker" Darie	100,000

David "davaman" Lopez	100,000
Diego "Die Ventura" Ventura	100,000
Daniel "dougiedan678" McAulay	100,000
Job "DeadNylan" Greben	100,000
Alex "dynoalot" Difelice	100,000

Level: 2

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 60

05-17-2020 13:20 UTC-4

First Familiar Names in the Field

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Shirley Ang

Level 1 : 200/400, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Fabian "!$eveeeeeeen!" Gumz	100,000
Benjamin "bencb789" Rolle	100,000
Andy "BowieEffect" Wilson	100,000
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche	100,000
Brunno "botteonpoker" Botteon	100,000
Jean-Francois "bmwmcoupe" Talbot	100,000
Connor "blanconegro" Drinan	100,000
Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves	100,000
Joris "BillLewinsy" Ruijs	100,000
Bertie "bigstealer" Bayley	100,000
Alexander "BIack88" Trofimov	100,000
Stefan "baeks22" Schillhabel	100,000
Ignat "0Human0" Liviu	100,000
Aleksejs "APonakov" Ponakovs	100,000

Jasper "AppelKruimel" Wetemans	100,000
Alberto "alberto.m7" Meran	100,000
Scott "Aggro Santos" Margereson	100,000
Denis Strebkov	100,000

Adam "adamyid" Owen	100,000
Aaron "AaronBeen" Been	100,000
Kyriakos "9cream4" Papadopoulos	100,000

Dietrich "2pacnrw16" Fast	100,000

Johan "busto_soon" van Til	100,000

05-17-2020 13:13 UTC-4

Shalamov Scores Early Double-Up

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Shirley Ang

Level 1 : 200/400, 50 ante

"goedelf" raised to 880 from the hijack and was called by Mikhail "innerpsy" Shalamov in the cutoff and "Lackoo87gcb" in the big blind.

The flop came , "Lackoo87gcb" checked, "goedelf" continued with a bet of 1,200 for Shalamov to raise to 5,400. "Lackoo87gcb" responded with a reraise to 13,000 which only Shalamov called.

The turn brought them the and "Lackoo87gcb" continued with a bet of 23.134 which was called.

The river completed the board with the and "Lackoo87gcb" fired a continuation-bet of 27,200 into the pot. Shalamov shoved for 62,636 which "Lackoo87gcb" called with the slightly bigger stack. "Lackoo87gcb" held for the flopped straight but Shalamov held for the flush to score an early double-up and leave "Lackoo87gcb" behind with a mere 1,800 which were lost shortly after

Player	Chips	Progress
Mikhail "innerpsy" Shalamov	201,980

Lackoo87gcb	Busted

Tags: Lackoo87gcb goedelf Mikhail "innerpsy" Shalamov

05-17-2020 13:00 UTC-4

Main Event Action Started

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Shirley Ang

Level 1 : 200/400, 50 ante

It's exactly 1 p.m. EST now so this means the tournament has kicked off with over 1,400 players in the event.

Level: 1

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

05-17-2020 12:02 UTC-4

PokerStars SCOOP-74-M: $1,050 Main Event with $5,000,000 Guarantee Starts at 1 PM

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Shirley Ang

Welcome to the biggest day of the PokerStars 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker! This was supposed to be the last Sunday in the huge Sunday schedule which traditionally always features the Main Events but the SCOOP has been extended until the 31st of May so there's loads of more SCOOP action coming up. Today is the day that the Main Events start and right here, PokerNews will be offering you live coverage of SCOOP-74-M: $1,050 NLHE Main Event which has a spectacular guaranteed prize pool of $5,000,000.

Jacobo "jakobgold" Montoya won the Main Event last year at this buy-in for $688,558 after doing a deal heads-up with "4BETBRICK". "Wildace_hun" won it the year before and has been making waves this year as their name has popped up on several final tables already. Back in 2017, it was Kahle "ROFLshove" Burns who took it down for $787.312 which is also the biggest cash of all the winners since 2009. The first seven years in its history the Main Event was a 2-day affair, this was increased to 3 days in 2016, and for the first time ever, 2020 sees the start of the Main Event being played out over four days.

Players can register until 1 p.m. EST on Monday, May 18 and even reenter up to three times (if needed). Day 1 will end after Level 16. Day 2 will then resume on Monday, May 18 at 1:05 p.m. and finish when there are 80 players left. Play on Day 3 will resume on Tuesday, May 19 at 1 p.m. and end when the final table of 9 players has been reached. And then the most exciting part of all for those nine players will start on Wednesday, May 20 at 1 p.m. until a new SCOOP Main Event Champion has been crowned.

Players will start with a time bank of 60 seconds and get 30 extra seconds after the first three levels, another 10 seconds will be added every three levels thereafter. The first 17 levels of the tournament will feature 25-minute levels and decrease to 20 minutes from thereon. After Level 49, players will get 10 extra seconds added to their time bank after every two levels and another 90 seconds will be banked when the final table has been reached.

PokerNews will be here for it all so keep following along with the exciting updates!

NLHE SCOOP Main Event Schedule

Main Event	Day 1 Start	Day 1 End	Day 2 Start	Day 2 End	Day 3 Start	Day 3 End	Day 4 Start
$109 Low	May 17, 7:00 p.m. CET	End of 17th Level	May 18, 7:05 p.m. CET	160 players remain	May 19, 7:05 p.m. CET	9 players remain	May 20, 7:05 p.m. CET
$1,050 Medium	May 17, 7:00 p.m. CET	End of 16th Level	May 18, 7:05 p.m. CET	80 players remain	May 19, 7:05 p.m. CET	9 players remain	May 20, 7:05 p.m. CET
$10,300 High	May 17, 7:00 p.m. CET	End of 15th Level	May 18, 7:05 p.m. CET	40 players remain	May 19, 7:05 p.m. CET	9 players remain	May 20, 7:05 p.m. CET

Tags: Jacobo "jakobgold" Montoya Kahle "ROFLshove" Burns Wildace_hun

SCOOP-74-M: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event], $5M Gtd

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