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Only 45 players out of the 395 entered would get a slice of the $262,675.00 prize and only 17 of those would make it to day two with a potential $50,827.76 payday and the SCOOP champion's watch. Some players have been here before, most already had a watch like JIZOINT who won this event in the 2011 SCOOP series for $55,147.50 The saying goes "act like you have been here before" well, the UK player came back to win it again as JIZOINT took down Team PokerStars Online's George "Jorj95" Lind III heads-up to win $50,827.76 and the champion's watch. Lind however adds his 14th cash of the series and with the 80 points earned as the runner-up has taken the Player of the Series overall lead from Team PokerStars Pro George Danzer. Day two would start off with the Ante Up usual 5/5 blinds and antes of 800 going up every half hour. danger0us who made a 2011 Super Tuesday FT would exit the tournament after the first ten minutes in 17th place ($2,626.75). Six minutes later was AceSpades11 who took down a Super Tuesday in January 2012 would take a seat after flipping pocket sevens [7d][7h] against the chip leader Amadi_017 with [Ah][Ks]. A king on the flop [8s] [9s] [Kh] [2s] [Js] and AceSpades11 took home $2,626.75 in 16th place. INSHALA82 (United Kingdom) was trying to meet up at the final table again with George Lind III in the 2013 series. Both of them hit the Event #6-H final table as INSHALA82 took fourth for $7,600.00 and Lind was the runner-up. Lind was looking good at this point for another final table but INSHALA82 could not get away from a rivered set of tens as Kyle "KJulius10" Julius found a straight to collect a huge 184,752 chip pot as INSHALA82 was knocked in 13th place ($3,283.43). After slayerv1fan laid down for the morning in 12th place ($3,940.12), pistecaloze who scored a Sunday Million FT in February placing 6th as Kyle "KJulius10" Julius was trying to notch his second Sunday Million win at the same final table (coming up one player short as the runner-up) would meet a similar fate going out before Julius late in a tournament again. With the antes up to 1,000 chips pistecaloze would tangle with chip leader Amadi_017 on three different streets and while pistecaloze's kicker was bigger holding [As][Ts], Amadi_017's [Ac][7s] found a couple of sevens to go with the ace [3c] [7c] [Ah] [7d] [Qd] taking in the 115,524 chip pot and knocking out pistecaloze in 11th place ($3,940.12) setting up a lengthy hand-for-hand session. While it looked like the final table would start up well before the second hour of play, 45 minutes later all 10 players would hit the showers for a five minute break coming back to 1,250 antes and an average stack of almost 200,000. An hour long hand-for-hand during a live tournament may be considered a short time but for an online tournament it is a lengthy wait. It would take an hour after pistecaloze took off that the final table below started up. With the antes up to 1,500 u1ker would raise to 2,345 as tRaMp$d0PrAy three-bet from the button as u1ker made the call to see a [Th][8h][6c] flop. u1ker checked as tRaMp$d0PrAy bet 6,950 chips. u1ker check-raised to 13,900 and tRaMp$d0PrAy shoved for 50,045. Holding top pair u1Ker made the call [Td][Ks]. However tRaMp$d0PrAy was sitting with ladies [Qd][Qc]. The overpair was good on the turn [8d] but not so much on the [Tc] river handing the 118,765 chip pot and the final table chip lead to u1ker. tRaMp$d0PrAy would be denied making the same SCOOP event final table two years in a row after tRaMp$d0PrAy placed ninth last year. Seat 1: chico134 (225883 in chips) Seat 2: smokrokflock (240862 in chips) Seat 3: Amadi_017 (190701 in chips) Seat 4: Team Online George "Jorj95" Lind III (167490 in chips) Seat 5: Grey Poopon (133676 in chips) Seat 6: u1ker (365865 in chips) Seat 7: Kyle "KJulius10" Julius (345168 in chips) Seat 8: JIZOINT (151874 in chips) Seat 9: Chris "NigDawG" Brammer (153481 in chips) First in the dog

Ex6tenceLV won event 15-M of the 2013 Spring Championship of Online Poker, earning $16,124.22 and a SCOOP watch in the process. It can be considered a thoroughly deserved victory for ex6tenceLV, who not only endured the seemingly unstoppable run of eventual runner-up WestCliff21, but also the unstoppable run of time, 29 and a half hours of it passing in an unforgivably endless contest. This, after all, was an "Ante-Up" tournament in which the blinds remain at 5 and 5 throughout, with only the ante increasing, an idea thought to have been based on an early draft of Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses Don't They?, in which contestants in a depression-era dancing contest hope to win first prize by staying on their feet the longest. It's a device that injects innovation into a poker tournament while the players are slowly driven mad, losing all sense of time and place. There was also room for novelty, such as WestCliff21's stack at the start of the final table amounting to 541,077 big blinds. There was also the unusual sight of nine players each limping into a pot for $5 with $45,000 already in the middle. With this lead WestCliff21 had seemed a certainty, gaining the lead ten-handed, when a pair of kings snagged the chips of g0epr0, who had led coming into the second day - a hand that made you spew coffee everywhere as your feet fell off the desk. SCOOP 2013 Event 15-M Final table That set him up and the others could only watch, albeit a line-up made up of some seriously good online players whose recent form suggested a long drawn out struggle ahead. Luckily, those looking for a format to intensify that struggle had come to the right place. Seat 1 - vovtroy (Russia), 1,405,211 Seat 2- ex6tenceLV (Latvia), 608,953 Seat 3 - OMGjonyctt (United Kingdom), 170,275 Seat 4 - bryanusftw (Netherlands), 745,205 Seat 5 - apostolis20 (Greece), 642,033 Seat 6 - zemachess (Russia), 1,247,715 Seat 7 - JlaTuHoC (Russia), 189,272 Seat 8 - WestCliff21 (Germany), 2,705,388 Seat 9 - viking47 (United Kingdom), 1,210,913 JlaTuHoC doubled up three times and ex6tenceLV once before apostolis20 went out in ninth place, nearly two hours after play began - bryanusftw's pocket tens holding on against king-queen. A hand later OMGjonyctt followed, busted by zemachess, who would follow in seventh place some 75 minutes later, after ex6tenceLV had doubled twice more. Vovtroy exited 15 minutes later, all stand out hands amid long periods of inactivity. Vovtroy had found pocket threes but ran into a resurgent ex6tenceLV with pocket aces. Down to five With five left WestCliff21 still led with 3.5 million (that's 700,000 big blinds to those keeping score at home) to ex6tenceLV's 2.5 million. By now bryanusftw was the short stack, but he too managed to double up, leaving viking47 in peril, departing in fifth place with king-queen against the pocket kings of JlaTuHoC. It was time for a deal in which it can only be assumed that all players agreed to keep playing for the rest of their lives. The numbers though were thrashed out in seconds. Nobody wanted to be the first to cry fatigue or boredom, which worked well at hurrying along a simple ICM chop. WestCliff21 piped up. "I can't believe we've been playing for 28 hours." Nobody else could believe it either. The host congratulated them all and reminded them of what was still at stake, a title and a SCOOP watch. "A watch?" asked WestCliff21, as though he'd just learned a valuable lesson. Down to four Play continued, JlaTuHoC out within ten minutes in fourth place against WestCliff21. WestCliff21 now had more than half the chips in play, some 5.7 million to ex6tenceLV's 2.1 million, and short stack Bryan's 892,000, who was out minutes later, all-in with ace-jack against the queens of WestCliff21. "He runs like hell," said ex6tenceLV, hardly surprising given that it felt like we were already in its seventh circle. WestCliff21's leads seemed insurmountable, but ex6tenceLV got stuck in for an extended perio

The "low" version of Event #15 -- the "Ante Up" no-limit hold'em event -- represented a great opportunity for players to turn a little into a lot. Many did just that, with no less than seven players turning the $7.50 buy-in into five-figure paydays and JAMIEHUNT83 of the U.K. ultimately coming away as the victor following a five-way chop. JAMIEHUNT83 earned $7,465.80 for the win, just under the $7,583.34 that szadali of Hungary picked up for finishing third as both players ended up making roughly 1000 times their buy-in (!). The event drew a huge field of 12,914, which made the prize pool $88,073.48 to beat yet another SCOOP guarantee (in this case for $50K). The top 1,620 finishers made the money in the two-day event. Here's the story of those two days and how JAMIEHUNT83 managed to claim the victory. Day 1: 12,914 to 46 It took a little under five hours for the cash bubble to burst, and with 1,620 players left BruceLee880 had fought gamely enough to land the top spot in the counts. Three hours after that the field had been trimmed to just 285 players, with Super*Catch sitting in first and approaching the 1 million-chip mark. About five hours after that they were down to 100, led by JAMIEHUNT83, BennyZhang, and szadali as the only players north of the 2 million-chip mark. Finally after almost 11-and-a-half hours they'd reach the end of Level 40 and the scheduled stopping point for Day 1, with 46 players left and BOOMAX1964 of Slovenia the only one of them with more than 4 million. Here's a look at the overnight top 10: 1. BOOMAX1964 (Slovenia) -- 4,323,641 2. UBS2927 (Germany) -- 3,828,735 3. JAMIEHUNT83 (United Kingdom) -- 3,029,951 4. BennyZhang (China) -- 2,814,499 5. riskysoldier (Canada) -- 2,540,904 6. Raabise (Estonia) -- 2,468,682 7. Kes237 (Belarus) -- 2,406,891 8. bapc_3 (Russia) -- 2,297,553 9. aue1966 (Canada) -- 2,227,063 10. szadali (Hungary) -- 2,165,373 Day 2: 46 to 1 When play resumed on Saturday the blinds remained 5/5 as always -- just as throughout the entire tournament -- while the antes to start Level 41 had increased to 17,500. That meant players were having to contribute more than 157,000 per orbit to start the day, with that cost scheduled to increase every 15 minutes when the levels changed. And with the average stack just over 1.4 million that also meant little time for waiting around for a lot of players, most particularly the short stacks. The first hour saw the field swiftly trimmed down to 24 players, with BOOMAX1964 slipping from the top spot to be replaced by sw_iceman who had risen up the counts to build a stack of just over 6.8 million by the first break. It only took about 20 minutes more to play down to 18, with GuiAvilaa having pushed past all into the top spot with more than 7 million. A little over an hour after that they were down to nine, with D_tek (18th), Raabise (17th), and aue1966 (16th) each earning $184.95, ZesLucky (15th), Hupenmann (14th), and Kes237 (13th) taking away $264.22 apiece, and riskysoldier (12th), casinoberlin (11th), and start-of-Day-2 leader BOOMAX1964 (10th) each seeing $352.29 added to their PokerStars accounts. During the playing down GaiAvilaa continued to keep the top spot, adding chips to have more than 15 million to start the final table. Seat 1: jiZYo (Russia) -- 4,909,572 Seat 2: GuiAvilaa (Brazil) -- 15,434,481 Seat 3: szadali (Hungary) -- 10,256,856 Seat 4: BennyZhang (China) -- 2,726,670 Seat 5: bapc_3 (Russia) -- 1,731,142 Seat 6: JAMIEHUNT83 (United Kingdom) -- 5,445,459 Seat 7: Gorleone (Netherlands) -- 3,765,766 Seat 8: UBS2927 (Germany) -- 9,052,667 Seat 9: sw_iceman (Russia) -- 11,247,387 About 10 minutes after the final table began, the antes were up to 90,000 when bapc_3 pushed all in from middle position for 611,112 and got a single caller in JAMIEHUNT83 sitting one seat over. bapc_3 had [Ad][6h] and needed help versus JAMIEHUNT83's [Qd][Qh]. But the board brought no improvement for bapc_3,

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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