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Sunday Grind: May 5, 2013 Cinco de Mayo falling on a Sunday inevitably meant it would be a working holiday for me. Each Saturday night, I feel like I did when I was nine and beyond excited to go to Space Camp the next day, the unfortunate effect of which is that I sometimes have trouble sleeping the night before. Fortunately, though, it also means that I wake up earlier, which enables me to fit more PokerStars huge-guarantee tournaments into my schedule! Since Collin sleeps a bit later than me on Sunday, he started bringing breakfast to me while I play. Ever since my infamous scorched eggs, I've taken to making scrambled eggs the night before. Collin heats up the eggs for me on Sunday morning, and if I am running good on the breakfast front, he adds some smoked salmon and brie. As fancy as that sounds, I assure you that shoveling eggs into my mouth while 25-tabling is anything but glamorous! This, however, is glamorous! Another great thing about starting earlier is that the 180-mans (one of my favorite game formats) load super quickly. My first final table of the day occurred at the smallest prizepool tournament that I routinely grind: an $8 180-man. Things weren't looking the best for me, as I had an ante-adjusted stack of just over two big blinds with eight left. Fortunately, I got it in good and held this hand: RSS readers click through to see replay Unfortunately, I busted shortly afterward, when my unexploitable shove got correctly called by a much better hand. While I always play to win, laddering up to fourth was certainly better than eighth, but my tiny fourth wasn't doing much to offset my buy-ins so far. By the fifth time I noticed getting two-outered on the river, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was running bad. One good thing about busting with A-A to T-T all-in pre-flop in the money of the WSOP Main Event last year was that no beat stings as much as that one did, and so I reminded myself just to keep loading tourneys and the results would follow. One of my best tricks for staying positive when a session isn't going my way is to switch up my grind music. Clearly, I'm no scientist, but I feel that occasionally switching to music to which I'm not accustomed activates my brain in a different way that helps me find more creative lines. This week, that meant listening to the Beatles. I've yet to know anyone that can listen to "Can't Buy Me Love" without smiling. Pretty soon, I was bouncing along to the beat. Better yet, I had a sweat brewing (and I don't mean the kind you get from spastic dancing in front of the computer). I was pretty deep in the $8 Rebuy, a tournament that I chopped three-handed about a month ago (also on a Sunday) for about $7.2K. When I'm running deep in an MTT, figuring out how many tournaments to keep loading is an art form I've yet to perfect. On the one hand, if I make a super deep run, I want to have all my focus on the high-dollar decisions I will face. On the other hand, if I have a disappointing bust late in the tournament, having a bunch of other tables to focus on offers hope. Because the $8.80 $30K Guaranteed is a 2x-turbo, the action goes quickly, so I decided to keep loading tables normally as my stack dwindled to 10 big blinds on the last few tables. Then, I got the best suckout I've had in a long time! Not just a double-up but a triple-up! RSS readers click through to see replay Then, my stack continued to grow with 18 left: RSS readers click through to see replay Remember that "art" of figuring out when to stop registering for more tournaments when deep in a large-field MTT that I mentioned? I'm as good at it as a preschooler trying to use finger paints to make a perfect copy of the Mona Lisa. I did stop registering for more tournaments once I'd reached the final table, but I still had over 20 games going. Usually this is a low number for me mid-session, but it had the potential to be a bit high while fulfilling the goal of perfect awareness of eve

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I know. I know. Alliteration in headlines is cheap and hacky, but today it was a complete necessity. When the two biggest-name winners of the day are Anders Berg and Noah Boeken, don't think you're going to see a SCOOP wrap-up without some alliteration in it. Boeken, the longtime PokerStars grinder, won the $2,100 Heads-Up event last night. A few hours later Berg won his second SCOOP title in in the $2,100 limit Omaha hi-lo tourney. Anders Berg The action continues for another nine days. You can form your plan of attack with our handy 2013 SCOOP schedule. Need some final table inspiration? How about checking our highlight shows on the PokerStars.tv SCOOP channel. In the meantime, here's all the wrap-ups from Friday. You can read our stories by clicking on the headlines. JTDStreet finds the right road against Horecki in claiming Event #13-L ($27 PLO Heads-up) Players: 3,376 Prizepool: $82,880.80 Places paid: 512 1. JTDStreet (Slovenia) *$7,394.15 2. Team PokerStars Pro Marcin "Goral" Horecki (Poland) *$6,894.15 3. LukaPotocar (Slovenia) $2,778.99 3. slinkyshop (Canada) $2,778.99 (* part of two-way deal) It's a reign of terror777727 in Event 13-M ($215 PLO Heads-Up) Players: 959 Prizepool: $191,800 Places paid: 128 Finalists 1st: terror777727 ($24,731.51)* 2nd: Le Dolce ($22,731.51)* Semifinalists Unkn0wn123 ($9,227.49) Lena900 ($9,227.49) Quarterfinalists krendipont ($5,140.24) zumbapoker ($5,140.24) TonaaliAnttu ($5,140.24) Ezequiel "ezepoker90" Vasquez ($5,140.24) * denotes 2-way deal Noah "Exclusive" Boeken binks Event #13-H ($2,100 PLO Heads-Up) Players: 216 Prize pool: $432,000 Places paid: 32 1. Noah "Exclusive" Boeken (Netherlands) $85,520* 2. Ankush "pistons87" Mandavia (Canada) $70,000* 3-tie. tracyer (Hungary) $30,240 3-tie. ringosnuff (Canada) $30,240 Colossal win for wilmy_x in Event #14-L (Big Antes) Entrants: 8,071 Re-buys: 12,348 Add-Ons: 5,065 Prize Pool: $254,840 Places Paid: 1,080 1. wilmy_x (Portugal) - $34,971.61 ** 2. gardze_wami (Poland) - $31,386.08 ** 3. Adreny (U.K.) - $20,387.20 4. Da_Engineer (Canada) - $13,506.52 5. shmothy (U.K.) - $10,448.44 6. Mr Mathes0n (Netherlands) - $7,900.04 7. Quuube (Germany) - $5,479.06 8. Ottomantr1 (Turkey) - $3,058.08 9. -ANALNATSHA- (Kazakhstan) - $1,975.01 ** denotes a deal between the final two players Yayoshow goes wire-to-wire on Day 2 to win Event #14-M ($109+R NLH Big Antes) Players: 1,534 (2,184 rebuys/1,240 add-ons) Prizepool: $495,800 Place paid: 198 1. Yayoshow (Canada) $83,046.50 2. Sasuke234 (Sweden) $60,735.50 3. Carlito1983 (Germany) $45,861.50 4. Heartthrob10 (Brazil) $33,714.40 5. Bruno GT (Brazil) $24,294.20 6. Matt Bugley (Canada) $19,336.20 7. welsamvel (Russia) $14,378.20 8. IcollectCar (Russia) $9,420,20 9. vindog03 (United Kingdom) $5,106.74 Leqenden locks up a win in Event 14H ($1,050+R NLHE Big Antes) Players: 317 Rebuys: 309 Add-ons: 276 Prizepool: $902,000 Places paid: 36 1. Leqenden (Belarus) $135,499.91* 2. Scott "SCTrojans" Freeman (Mexico) $121,902.04* 3. Brian "brianm15" England (Costa Rica) $127,829.47* 4. Nicolas "niccc" Chouity (Lebanon) $113,123.58* 5. Max "$kill Game" Weinberg (Canada) $52,316.00 6. Unkn0wn123 (Uruguay) $40,590.00 7. Ondrej "Vinkyy" Vinklarek (Czech Republic) $31,570.00 8. Thayer "THAY3R" Rasmussen (Mexico) $22,550.00 9. Rory "Mafews" Mathews (UK) $17,138.00 (Payouts reflect four-way deal) holako splits, quarters and scoops a win in Event #16-L ($27 Limit Omaha H/L) Entrants: 2,953 Prize pool: $72,496.15 Places paid: 378 1st holako (United Kingdom) - $11,456.32 2nd wconanw (Germany) - $8,554.54 3rd xD6x (Germany) - $6,089.67 4th IamGrand18 (Russia) - $4,240.29 5th DTFobos (Russia) - $3,153.58 6th urcatchingup (Mexico) - $2,428.62 7th natedogg0381 (Canada) - $1,703.65 8th Luckkozak (Netherlands) - $1,051.19 9th Daut44 (Canada) - $616.21 thefish01x is the shark in Event 16-M ($215 FL Omaha Hi/Lo) Players: 657 Prizepool: $131,400 Places paid: 90 1st: thefish01x ($22,142.49) 2nd

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There's a reason why you don't see Fixed Limit Omaha Hi/Lo played on poker television broadcasts. It's a game which doesn't have the glitz and glamour of Holdem. It's a game of quarters, halves and scoops that requires a strong ability to hand read and a deep understanding of hand strength. It's not the sort of game you can fluke a win, so it was certainly an impressive performance by holako to defeat nearly three thousand players to turn a $27 investment into a five-figure score and the coveted SCOOP title. SCOOP Event 16-L was the $27 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo event which saw a rather impressive 2,953 players come together to produce a prize pool of $72,496.15 - a figure that was almost three times the advertised guarantee! Among them were Team PokerStars Pros Fredy Torres, Chad Brown, Naoya Kihara, George Danzer, Andre Coimbra, Richard Toth, Adrienne Rowsome, Mickey Petersen, Lex Veldhuis and Matthias de Meulder but they sadly fell short of the money for the top 378 players. The min-cash was worth $43.49 but maxxscam from Canada would be the one to miss by the narrowest of margins, falling as the bubble in 379th place. Marcin Horecki (340th - $46.39), Marcel Luske (240th - $61.62), George Lind (196th - $72.49) and Henrique Pinho (195th - $72.49) were the red spades to finish in the money. A huge multi-way pot unfolded on the final table bubble that saw xD6x and Dimm57 both all in, with two other players in the hand. holako took the high with two pair as wconanw and xD6x chopped the low, to leave Dimm57 to be eliminated in 10th place as the final table line up was set: Final Table Line up Seat 1: xD6x (225,757 in chips) Seat 2: urcatchingup (2,845,193 in chips) Seat 3: IamGrand18 (2,344,910 in chips) Seat 4: wconanw (1,072,665 in chips) Seat 5: natedogg0381 (775,271 in chips) Seat 6: Daut44 (463,693 in chips) Seat 7: holako (4,256,239 in chips) Seat 8: Luckkozak (2,158,579 in chips) Seat 9: DTFobos (622,693 in chips) The blinds started off at 30,000/60,000 with holako holding a solid chip lead with both xD6x and Daut44 under pressure as the short stacks. xD6x would secure an early double up, but Daut44 couldn't do likewise. Daut44 was all in preflop with Luckkozak and IamGrand18 taking the action all the way to the river with some heavy betting on a [9d][Kh][8d][3h][Qs] board. IamGrand18 showed [Kc][9c][Td][Jh] for a king-high straight which was too good for both opponents who mucked. Daut44 picked up $616.21 for 9th place. xD6x doubled up the very next hand to get right back into contention as wconanw took a hit, but it was Luckkozak who was next to go. Luckkozak three-bet preflop, raised the flop, bet the turn and then called all in on the river when holako fired a final bet on the [Kd][3s][Jc][5c][Qs] board. Luckkozak held [Ad][6d][5s][Ah] for a pair of aces but holako's [Qd][3c][Tc][9d] for the rivered straight took it down with no low available. Luckkozak's 8th place was worth a nice return of $1,051.19. urcatchingup collected a big double up in a hand that was capped preflop and again on the flop when both players held pocket aces: RSS readers click through to see replay natedogg0381 was on the short stack and survived a couple of all-ins by collecting half of the pot but ultimately couldn't recover. natedogg0381 was all in preflop against IamGrand18 and holako, with the two live players betting all the way to showdown on the [4s][3h][6s][Ks][9s] board. IamGrand18's [Ac][5c][As][7d] was a seven-high straight and six-low but holako opened [7c][Ah][5s][Jh] for the same hands. natedogg0381 couldn't beat the high or the low to be eliminated in 7th place for $1,703.65. urcatchingup was quartered in a big pot against both wconanw and holako, before urcatchingup was all in preflop with three opponents making the call. wconanw led the betting on the flop, the turn was checked before wconanw bet again on the river on the [9c][8d][2d][Ac][9d] board. Both holako and IamGrand18 made the call but wconanw took the high with

It's a club so exclusive only 21 players have earned a membership. Its ranks are filled with online legends, Viktor Blom, Sami Kelopuro, Calvin Anderson, and Shaun Deeb among them. Tonight, two men had the chance to become #22. Finland's villepn won this very event back in 2010, while Anders "Donald" Berg nabbed his first SCOOP watch in the $2,100 H.O.R.S.E. and topped the 2011 Player of the Series leaderboard. Facing stiff competition including WCOOP champion Richard "CHUFTY" Ashby, Aussie pro Billy "crocky" Argyros, and Sunday 500 champs highland and pthelegend, Berg took the chip lead he brought into the final table and rode it all the way to the finish, capturing his second SCOOP title in Event #16-H ($2,100 FL Omaha Hi/Lo). Two-time SCOOP champ Anders "Donald" Berg 129 fixed-limit fans stepped up to play in this event, creating a $258,000 prize pool. 15 places were paid with first place set to earn $64,500. Eight Red Spades were in the field with Eugene Katchalov, Nacho Barbero, George Danzer, Jason Mercier, Matthias De Meulder, and Alex Kravchenko flying the flag for Team Pro while Adrienne "talonchick" Rowsome and George "Jorj95" Lind repped Team Online. However, none of them finished in the money. Betting limits were 2,500/5,000 on the final table bubble and with only 8,226 in chips, 2mark was the shortest stack remaining. 2mark put the last of his chips in preflop vs. CHUFTY and saphire1, who continued betting on the side. CHUFTY check-called saphire1's bets on the flop, turn and river, the board falling [7h][7s][3h][Td][7d]. Saphire1 turned up [As][Ah][Qh][Jh] for sevens full of aces and with no low possible, saphire1 scooped the pot, ending 2mark's run in tenth place. Final table chip counts Seat 1: highland (86,165 in chips) Seat 2: T-Macha (41,382 in chips) Seat 3: CHUFTY (56,301 in chips) Seat 4: Pthelegend (79,011 in chips) Seat 5: saphire1 (92,454 in chips) Seat 6: Donald (120,045 in chips) Seat 7: chico134 (105,384 in chips) Seat 8: crocky (24,670 in chips) Seat 9: villepn (39,588 in chips) crocky, CHUFTY chewed up Nearly 40 minutes passed before the first elimination. The shortest stack to start the final table, crocky called a raise from the big blind and saw a [Jh][Th][5c] flop.The action checked to saphire1, who led out for 3,000. Crocky raised, T-Macha folded and saphire1 called. Crocky's last 8,100 went in on the [9c] turn and he turned up [Ah][3h][6c][7d] for the nut flush draw and a gutshot while saphire1 revealed [Ad][2d][5d][Ts] for tens and fives. Crocky's draws missed when the river fell the [2c] and saphire1 scooped, ending his run in ninth place. CHUFTY 's chip count increased steadily during the early levels of the final table, reaching a high water mark of 128,000 before falling back to the 56,000 he started with. CHUFTY took another significant hit when highland rivered trip fives and no low materialized, leaving him on only 13,000 in chips. Ultimately, CHUFTY put the last of his chips in preflop, his [3s][5d][9h][9d] up against chico134's [Ah][5h][7s][9s]. Chico134 flopped a pair of aces and CHUFTY did not improve, the board running out [Ac][Qc][8d][Kd][Js] to send him home in eighth place. Donald busts villepn, Pthelegend pummels T-Macha and saphire1 The betting limits rose to 5,000/10,000 before the final table lost another player. Holding [Ac][Qs][Qh][8h], villepn made a UTG raise and Pthelegend three-bet from middle position. Donald called from the small blind, villepn capped, and both opponents called. Villepn's last 774 chips went in on the [Js][6s][4d] flop and both Pthelegend and Donald called. Donald fired 10,000 when the [5h] hit the turn, folding out Pthelegend. Donald already had the nut low with [As][2c][4c][Ts] and snatched away the high when the [4h] fell on the river to make him trips. Villepn's hopes of a SCOOP repeat were dashed as he exited in seventh place. Two hands later, T-Macha put his last 18,000 in before the flop, his [2h][4c][9d][Tc] u

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If you had locked up $20,000 for yourself in a $215 tournament, and were playing for only $2,000 more, how hard would you fight? Would you spend another hour after the deal playing heads-up poker, trying to snag that last $2,000 as skillfully as possible? Or would you let luck decide the outcome? In SCOOP 2013 Event 16-Medium, $215 FL Omaha Hi/Lo, thefish01x and Kid Blaast decided to take the former route, rather than the latter. They battled for more than an hour before thefish01x emerged victorious and captured a first SCOOP title (and Movado watch). Long prior to that heads-up match, Red Spades littered the ranks of the vanquished in Event 16-M. An aggregate of 14 Team PokerStars Pros and PokerStars Team Online players entered Event 16-M and failed to make the money. They included the likes of Chad Brown, Marcel Luske, Jason Mercier and Freddy Torres. Team Online player George "jorj95" Lind squeezed his way into a min-cash ($341.64) with his 86th-place finish. Lind and all the rest of the PokerStars players were outperformed by one Team Pro who's been on this stage several times before: George Danzer. Danzer was cruising through the field and had an above-average stack with two tables left. He caught the wrong side of variance at that point and quickly plummeted. He held on until 13 remained before finally busting ($1,182.60). The double elimination of elkijs and mapof on the final table bubble meant that the final table started eight-handed. Seat 1: Jason "Taknapotin" Somerville (218494 in chips) Seat 2: albertozi (334895 in chips) Seat 3: Kid Blaast (249759 in chips) Seat 5: thefish01x (306908 in chips) Seat 6: HK_LUX_HK (609502 in chips) Seat 7: xAlusticx (803690 in chips) Seat 8: Ami "UhhMee" Barer (155352 in chips) Seat 9: Nonnos44 (606400 in chips) Level 27: Stakes 20k-40k Average: 365,000 (9 big bets) xAlusticx started with the chip lead, but thanks to the double elimination on the final table bubble Nonnos44 also had a large stack. Barer and Somerville came into the final table as short stacks and went to war almost immediately. Somerville got the best of the encounter when his [as][ad][ah][2h] scooped Barer's [ac][6c][qs][5s]. Most of the chips went in on a two-club, two-small flop, but Barer bricked everything all the way to the river. He busted in 8th place a few hands later. Somerville's work wasn't done there. He doubled through HK_LUX_HK to pull himself closer to, though still a few big bets short of, an average stack. thefish01x also made a strong upwards climb, courtesy of an ace-high flush and a 6-low that scooped xAlusticx. Somerville continued his upward trajectory after the 12am break. A key pot for Somerville was this three-way pot against xAlusticx and Nonnos44 that went to the river but not to showdown: Kid Blaast knocked Somervile back a few pegs by rivering a heart flush to become the first player to crest the million-chip mark. Somerville seemed undaunted, while much of the rest of the table seemed just to be trying to hang on. Nonnos44 got the best of it among the other players and overtook Kid Blaast for the chip lead by notching yet another double elimination. HK_LUX_HK and xAlusticx were both severely short on chips. Three pre-flop bets was enough to put HK_LUX_HK all in; one more on a [3c][js][8c] flop ended the betting for xAlusticx. Nonnos44 covered them all and went for the double kill with [qc][qh][4d][td], a hand that was ahead of HK_LUX_HK's [ah][2d][3d][2s] but behind xAlusticx's [ad][as][3h][9c]. A lucky [9h] on the turn gave Nonnos44 a queen-high straight, and a board pairing [8d] on the river knocked HK_LUX_HK and xAlusticx out. The next hand the stakes went up to 30k-60k. That spelled trouble for albertozi and Somerville, both of whom had slipped below 200k. Somerville made his final stand with [ad][kd][qs][2c] but lost to the unstoppable Nonnos44's [qd][td][9d][6h] when Nonnos44 rivered trip tens. Somerville earned $6,898.50 for 5th place. Somerville (

The final table of Event 14 was one that boasted of names like SCTrojans, niccc, and THAY3R. Almost every player at the table has had prominent online poker accomplishments to date, and the tough action reflected their experience. It was no surprise when Leqenden and SCTrojans made it to heads-up play, even though they held some of the shorter stacks when the final table began. Heads-up play was a solid battle, but Leqenden was unstoppable and ended up with the victory. ***** As the 2013 Spring Championship of Online Poker rolls on, Event 14 offered a variation of No Limit Hold'em that has become a fan favorite. NLHE with big antes starts with an ante in Level 1 and raises that ante with each level. It adds another element to the game, as the antes are always in play and even more of a factor than the blinds in some cases. In addition, this was a rebuy tournament, so players could rebuy as many times as desired within the first 90 minutes and then purchase an add-on at the end of that registration period. The high buy-in option for Event 14 (14H) offered a $1,050 buy-in and a $400K guarantee. But when the numbers were calculated, the prize pool amounted to more than double that amount. Let's get to those numbers: Players: 317 Rebuys: 309 Add-ons: 276 Guarantee: $400,000.00 Prize pool: $902,000.00 Paid players: 36 This was also a two-day tournament, meaning players were set to complete 16 full levels of action on Day 1 (May 16) and then pause to return the following day to play for the win. The tournament would play toward the money without any members of Team PokerStars remaining. Vanessa "LadyMaverick" Rousso was the last Team Pro standing in the event but exited in 60th place. It wasn't until late that night that the money bubble burst, and it happened just before play ended for the night with Matt "All_in_at420" Stout as the bubble player. Pistecaloze was the first player to cash for $6,765.00, and p0cket00, Rens02, and jus2awsum followed before play ended. With 32 players remaining, play was scheduled to restart at the beginning of Level 17, with blinds of 600/1,200 and a 240 ante. Of the remaining 32 players, the top 10 player on the leaderboard, with their corresponding chip counts, were as follows: 1. lechuckpoker (UK) 268,478 2. WushuTM (Austria) 224,552 3. GripDsNutz (Costa Rica) 218,333 4. Unkn0wn123 (Uruguay) 206,130 5. calvin7v (Finland) 176,982 6. takechip (Canada) 173,664 7. brianm15 (Costa Rica) 150.072 8. Monk532 (Canada) 149,835 9. stevie444 (UK) 133,090 10. buck21 (Canada) 132,769 Day 2 When play restarted on the second day of action, play was slow and steady. It took more than two hours to thin the field to only two tables full of players, and that happened at the expense of 18th place finisher Shawn "buck21" Buchanan. Play moved forward as competitors like Martin "KortKongen" Pedersen exited in 16th, Kevin "ImaLuckSac" MacPhee left in 15th, Phillipe "takechip" D'Auteuil in 13th, and the 11th place elimination of Bjorn "kleath" Kleathersson started hand-for-hand play. Surprisingly, it didn't take long to burst the bubble. Heißtercamp began the hand with a raise, and brianm15 reraised. Heißtercamp responded by moving all-in with [As][Qh], and brianm15 called with [Jh][Js]. The board only produced [3c][3d][5s][3s][8c], and heißtercamp was out in tenth place with $14,432.00. Very strong lead for Vinkyy The final table began in Level 24, with blinds of 2,500/5,000 and a 1,000 ante, along with these players and their chip counts: Seat 1: SCTrojans (374,000 in chips) Seat 2: $kill Game (427,066 in chips) Seat 3: Mafews (400,428 in chips) Seat 4: THAY3R (167,780 in chips) Seat 5: Unkn0wn123 (288,520 in chips) Seat 6: Leqenden (224,337 in chips) Seat 7: Vinkyy (731,166 in chips) Seat 8: brianm15 (340,369 in chips) Seat 9: niccc (304,334 in chips) Only a few hands in, a battle of the blinds began with a raised flop of [Jc][7c][Ts]. Both players checked, and the [Th] came on the turn. $kil