Plenty more card-playing action took place on the virtual felts for the 2024 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on PokerStars yesterday, with several poker variants taking centre stage.
Champions were crowned in Razz, Mystery Bounty, and Fixed Limit Hold'em events, which saw some familiar faces add to their legacies while Team Lex continued to dominate the inaugural SCOOP League.
So, sit back, grab a cup of coffee and check out these latest SCOOP highlights.
Lex Veldhuis is continuing his Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP) dominance and picked up his first title as he took down a SCOOP 41-H: $5,200 NLHE Titans for $140,279.
One of the tougher events on the SCOOP schedule, the Titans Event drew 128 runners and ended up with a final table full of top crushers. Those crushers included Brazil's Yuri "theNERDguy" Dzivielevski, Australia's Kahle "ROFLshove" Burns and Ukraine's Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky.
The Dutch Team PokerStars Pro navigated the final table with ease and eventually defeated the Dominican Republic's "Nacho12441" during heads-up play.
In SCOOP 60-H: $1,050 Razz, "FAL1st" from Team Spraggy holds the chip lead with eleven players remaining. However, he will have to fight of competition from three other players from Team Lex who are close behind him. The players from third to fourth in chips are all from the Dutchman's team, and collectively have won 19 SCOOP titles between them including the ten of Benny "RunGodlike" Glaser (pictured)
Also through to the final day are WSOP bracelet winner Adam "Adamyid" Owen, Mason "Pye_Face21" Pye and, fresh from his sixth-place finish in the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event, Niclas "Flushiisback" Thumm.
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FAL1st | Thailand | 1,281,705 |
| 2 | Benny "RunGodlike" Glaser | United Kingdom | 622,340 |
| 3 | WhatIfGod | Sweden | 599,900 |
| 4 | Denis "aDrENalin710" Strebkov | Thailand | 575,995 |
| 5 | Gabriel "pinguinho" Baleeiro | Brazil | 489,300 |
| 6 | sgsabioni | Brazil | 485,320 |
| 7 | Adam "Adamyid" Owen | Mexico | 398,365 |
| 8 | Bernado "bedias" Dias | Brazil | 360,930 |
| 9 | Mason "Pye_Face21" Pye | United Kingdom | 359,280 |
| 10 | Niclas “Flushiisback” Thumm | Austria | 315,465 |
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On the tables, the race to top the inaugural standings is getting tense. Lex Veldhuis still leads, with a 1,400-point margin over Spraggy in second, with Tonkaaaa and Fintan further behind.
However, as always, there are events tonight that might help Spraggy put a dent in that lead!
| Team | Points |
|---|---|
| Lex | 6,690 |
| Spraggy | 5,220 |
| Tonkaaaa | 3,450 |
| Fintan | 2,885 |
Estonian superstar Juan Carlos "B4NKR0LL3R" Vecino can call himself a three-time SCOOP champion after he won SCOOP 47-H: $1,050 NLHE Single Re-Entry. Vecino was the last player standing from a field of 264 entrants (including re-entries), and he got his hands on $50,200.
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juanki "B4NKR0LL3R" Vecino | Estonia | $50,200 |
| 2 | Tomi "elmerixx" Brouk | Finland | $37,611 |
| 3 | Haringbuis | Malta | $28,179 |
| 4 | Renan "Internett93o" Bruschi | Brazil | $21,112 |
| 5 | Espen "Hymn2Ninkasi" Jorstad | United Kingdom | $15,817 |
| 6 | Andras "probirs" Nemeth | Hungary | $11,851 |
| 7 | JackRipperJr | Denmark | $8,879 |
| 8 | wanderer_pro | Poland | $6,652 |
| 9 | Dominykas "Mikensonas" Mikolaitis | Lithuania | $5,508 |
Espen "Hymn2Ninkasi" Jorstad's fifth-place finish saw him win some valuable points for Team Lex in the SCOOP League. Fourth-place finisher Renan "Internett93o" Bruschi went undrafted in the SCOOP League, but the Brazilian is flying high in the Overall SCOOP Player of the Year leaderboard; he finds himself more than 200 points ahead of Patrick "pads1161" Leonard.
Hungarian superstar Andras "probirs" Nemeth added a fourth SCOOP title to his already impressive poker CV when he came out on top in the SCOOP 55-H: $1,050 NLHE 7-Max Turbo PKO. Nemeth outlasted a talented 210-strong field to capture SCOOP title number four and $47,218 in prize money.
Victory in high-stakes events is never easy because of the high-quality players that frequent them. Nemeth had to contend with the likes of Roman "Gogac sniper" Hrabec, reigning SCOOP High Main Event Champion Felipe "lipe piv" Boianovsky, and his heads-up opponent, Matthew "Stumfed" Stumpf.
Earlier this week, Stumpf won two SCOOP events in the space of three hours, but Nemeth denied him a remarkable hat trick.
| Rank | Player | Country | Bounties | Prize | Total Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andras "probirs" Nemeth | Hungary | $29,273 | $17,945 | $47,218 |
| 2 | Matthew "Stumpfed" Stumpf | Canada | $4,703 | $17,945 | $22,648 |
| 3 | Felipe "lipe piv" Boianovsky | Brazil | $1,718 | $11,457 | $13,175 |
| 4 | Matas "NoTilit" Cikinas | Lithuania | $500 | $8,555 | $9,055 |
| 5 | DaniC19941893 | Brazil | $7,406 | $6,388 | $13,794 |
| 6 | Roman "Gogac sniper" Hrabec | Austria | $2,625 | $4,770 | $7,395 |
| 7 | aferrao147 | Brazil | $3,953 | $3,562 | $7,515 |