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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

Guarantees getting crushed seem almost commonplace for SCOOP tournaments. Add tonight's SCOOP 2013 Event #17-L $27 NLHE 6-Max, Super-Knockout, Turbo tournament with a $200,000 guarantee on to that list. Because of the Super-Knockout format the prize pool was split two-ways: half for the overall prize pool to be shared by 2,100 players, and half for those folks who enjoy collecting bounties worth $13 a piece. $217,919.00 was in each prize pool thus over doubling the guaranteed amount and leaving a huge chunk of change for Germany's _H00DL0VE_ who took home $28,000.00 after chopping up the remaining funds with three others. How did they get through 16,763 buy-ins in just over five hours? Read on. Belgium's JacktShipper still held the SCOOP 2013 Low Player of the Series led over Team PokerStars Pro Marcin "goral" Horecki who finished as the runner-up in Event #13-L a few hours ago. Despite just getting done with 12 heads-up matches of PLO in two days Horecki would try for a few more points but like JacktShipper the tournament ended early for the leaders with zero points added. Likewise for the overall leader Team Pro George Danzer who took down Event #12-H last night for his second SCOOP title but came up empty here. "Make it through 16,000 players to go out like that?!?" Team Online's Mickey "mement_mori" Petersen may have utter such words after being knocked out in 50th place. With the blinds up to 50K/100K ante 12.5K majkl1812 would open all-in for 1.8 million from the button as Petersen holding [Qd][Qs] quickly called for 1.09 million. majkl1812's [6s][Ts] found some magic on the board after hitting trips sixes [Ah] [3h] [6c] [6h] [3s] eliminating Petersen ($326.87 plus 10 KOs). It took only four hours and 30 minutes to reach the final two tables despite a small concern sized player pool. There was a steep drop off in prize money from first place ($29,845.41) to 7th through 9th ($1,852.31) but the players could not afford to even sit out a hand with the turbo blind and 6-max tables. Down to eight players left mrbandito27 did not want to call, probably should not call, but had to call. With the blinds at 300K/600K ante 75K rogand played the part of the schoolyard bully and opened all-in from the small blind for 14.5 million as mrbandito27 sitting with just 1.2 million behind and 600,000 chips in the pot decided to go with [8c][7d] and hope for the best. They were two live cards against rogand's [9d][Jc]. Unfortunately, both players would hit a pair on the flop [9h] [8h] [4d] [5s] [Tc] and mrbandito27 would fall just short of the final table in eighth place ($1,852.31 plus nine KOs). After mrbandito27 left the table the spotlight of the shortstack was directed in Fetenmann65's direction. The German would survive the first all-in but after posting and folding the big blind Fetenmann65 would shove 813,180 from the small blind, forcing mystery1975 to call with just about anything in the big blind for 213,180 more. mystery1975 flipped up [3d][Qc] squaring off against Fetenmann65's small ace [5d][Ad]. Things looked for the ace up to the ten on the turn [Jh] [2d] [Kh] [Th]. But, the river [9h] gave mystery1975 a straight, Fetenmann65 seventh place ($1,852.31 plus 13 KOs), and gave us the final table shown below: Seat 1: rogand (20112496 in chips) Seat 2: bigode_skol (11695260 in chips) Seat 3: mystery1975 (15240217 in chips) Seat 4: _H00DL0VE_ (24703557 in chips) Seat 5: Pendall (5083832 in chips) Seat 6: -ANALNATSHA- (6979638 in chips) 0-2 Barbeque An old saying from this author's tournament softball playing days as most tournaments we entered had double elimination. If you lost your first two games of the day, you went and had more time to enjoy a few (more) beers at the barbeque. -ANALNATSHA- only got to enjoy two hands at the final table before heading out of this tournament tonight. With the blinds at 400K/800K ante 100K Pendall would shove all-in from the small blind for 7.4 million a

Some of the mot intriguing events in the Spring Championship of Online Poker are variants of no-limit Hold'em. Big Ante events feature antes that are 20% the size of the big blind. The added equity in the pot pre-flop provides players with more incentive to play more hands. More players taking shots at pots with marginal hands translates into humongous action across the board. Simply put, Big Antes produce big action. And when you couple Big Antes with a re-buy event, then the result is a juicy prize pool with a plethora of action players. When Event #14-L $11+R NL [Big Antes] got down to heads-up, wilmy_x and gardze_wami were engaged in a tightly-knit affair. The rest of the final table went rather quickly, but the heads-up match was an intense and methodical affair. Eventually wilmy_x finally broke through and won a sizable pot to gain a major advantage. Although gardze_wami did not give up so easily, wilmy_x methodically chipped away at the lead before delivering a knockout blow and locking up a victory in Big Antes. PokerStars knew that Event #14-L $11+R NL [Big Antes] was going to be one of the more popular events, which is why it was spread out over two days. Event #14-L attracted 8,071 runners. They contributed 12,348 re-buys and 5,065 add-ons, which boosted the prize pool to $254,840. The top 1,080 places paid out. This event drew the attention of notable Team PokerStars Pros like Marcin "Goral" Horecki and George Danzer, but neither of them cashed. Only a trio of PokerStars pros cashed in this event: Team PokerStars Online Grzegorz "DaWarsaw" Mikielewicz (617th place), PokerStars Team Pro Marcel Luske (754th), Team PokerStars Online Randy "nanonoko" Lew (948th). Action was suspended at the end of Level 32. At the end of Day 1, 92 players remained with gardze_wami (Poland) as the chip leader. At the end of Day 1, the Top 10 in chips were: gardze_wami (2,852,124), Mr Mathes0n (2,489,166), -ANALNASTHSA- (2,482,202), mr_oizo88 (2,473,494), Ottomantr1 (2,324,423), StraZer (2,188,752), Snake8484 (2,029,666), bennybunny18 (1,973,000), Devil_HelpMe (1,785,634), and DannyN13 (1,683,292). Day 2 started with brisk action when 10 players busted in the first 15 minutes and a total of 25 players were liquidated in 30 minutes. In the first hour of play, 40 players hit the rail. With 52 remaining, NutsErryTime took over the lead with 5.7 million. With 27 remaining, wilmy_x (Portugal) held the lead with 11.8 million. With 18 remaining on the final two table, wilmy_x retained the lead accumulated a stack worth 14.1 million. With 11 to go, gardze_wami had regained the lead after rocketing to the top spot with 22.8 million. Action went hand-for-hand with 10 to go. ShowMeDa$999 bubbled off the final table in 10th place when [Kd][Jh] was run down by big-stacked wilmy_x's [Qh][4s]. wilmy_x flopped two pair, then turned a boat. The final table of nine was set. SCOOP Event #14-L - Final Table Chip Counts: Seat 1: Adreny (13,018,284) Seat 2: Mr Mathes0n (2,736,808) Seat 3: -ANALNATSHA- (6,018,339) Seat 4: gardze_wami (12,949,084) Seat 5: Da_Engineer (14,832,400) Seat 6: Ottomantr1 (5,138,154) Seat 7: Quuube (3,134,600) Seat 8: wilmy_x (24,601,775) Seat 9: shmothy (4,152,556) The final table commenced during Level 45 with blinds at 125K/250K and a 50K ante. wilmy_x began the final table as the overall leader with 24 million. Mr Mathes0n brought up the rear with 2.7 million. -ANALNATSHA- eliminated in 9th place We lost someone on the first hand of the final table. It started when gardze_wami min-raised 500,000, wilmy_x called, and -ANALNATSHA- called from the big blind. Three players. The flop was [Qc][9c][9d]. -ANALNATSHA- checked, gardze_wami checked, wilmy_x bet 1,155,555, -ANALNATSHA- called, and gardze_wami folded. Heads-up. The turn was the [6h]. -ANALNATSHA- checked. wilmy_x bet 1,888,888, -ANALNATSHA- shoved for 4,312,784, and wilmy_x called. -ANALNATSHA- trailed with [Qh][Th] versus wilmy_x's [Kd][Qd]. The river

It was just under two months ago that the U.K.'s Andoni "Pollopopeye" Larrabe made a bit of history at PokerStars by winning the largest-ever first prize in a Super Tuesday, the weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament, topping a field of 663 to win a whopping $124,644 first prize. Pollopopeye would actually turn around and final table the Super Tuesday again just three weeks later, finishing fifth. So it was hardly a shock to see his name again at the SCOOP #17-M final table, nor to see him take it down to win the tourney and $65,926.79 first prize. Making the win even less surprising, this marks a second SCOOP watch for Larrabe, after he won a $1,050 NLHE event -- i.e., one similar to the Super Tuesday -- last year. Like many who played the event, Larrabe earned a few extra bucks as well in the form of bounties, as this was a $215 buy-in, turbo-structured short-handed NLHE event that awarded "super knockout" bounties for every elimination earned. $103 worth of each buy-in went to the regular prize pool, with another $103 also going into the bounty pool to be claimed with every elimination. With 4,197 entrants, the total prize pool ended up adding up to $864,582, more than twice the tourney's guarantee. The blitzing pace set by the five-minute levels meant it took less than two hours to play from 4,197 down to 540 and to the money at which point chrisjester topped the counts with just over 182,000 at a time when the average was just under 39,000. Meanwhile Swiss89 was hovering just outside of the top 50 with an above-average stack, but by then had already collected the most $103 bounties with 11 of them. By the three-hour mark just 50 players remained, with imgoodiknow on top as the only player with more than 1 million chips and ramastar88 with a below-average stack but having collected the most bounties with 15. About 45 minutes later they were down to 12. nanu mare had pushed in front with more than 2.78 million, followed closely by GoToCa$hier in second position and with the most bounties of anyone at 16. The pace slowed somewhat at that point as it would take about a half-hour for six more to fall. Leandro "leopeluca" Csome (12th), blackaces93 (11th), and Sedoj77 (10th) were the next three out, each earning $3,674.47. GoToCa$hier was next to go in ninth, earning $4,755.20 plus another $1,648 for those tourney-leading 16 knockouts. Then imgoodiknow followed in eighth (with six KOs) and O"Pazzzo" in seventh (with nine KOs), each also earning $4,744.20 worth of the regular prize pool. Meanwhile, it was white-hot Pollopopeye who'd pushed into first place, one of three British players who'd made the final table. Seat 1: Pe-T (United Kingdom) -- 2,115,648 Seat 2: Hunterr84 (Russia) -- 2,056,065 Seat 3: Donk0388 (Germany) -- 1,780,172 Seat 4: nanu mare (Romania) -- 4,242,037 Seat 5: Andoni "Pollopopeye" Larrabe (United Kingdom) -- 7,100,626 Seat 6: ouchbadbeat (United Kingdom) -- 3,690,452 On just the third hand of the final table, the blinds were 125,000/250,000 when ouchbadbeat open-raised all in for more than 3.9 million from the cutoff, then Pe-T called all in for 1,703,148 from the button. The blinds folded, and ouchbadbeat showed [6d][5s] while Pe-T had the preflop edge with [Ah][Jd]. The flop came [Js][8c][7c] to increase Pe-T's advantage, but the turn was the [6h] and the river the [5h], giving ouchbadbeat two pair and likely leaving Pe-T muttering the winner's name while hitting the rail in sixth. A couple of orbits later the blinds were already up to 150,000/300,000 when Donk0388 pushed for 1,211,422 from UTG+1, then Andoni "Pollopopeye" Larrabe reraised all in from the small blind to force ouchbadbeat to give up the BB. Larrabe had [Js][Ts] while Donk0388 was hoping [4d][4h] would hold up. But the flop came [Jh][Th][3s] to pair Pollopopeye twice, and after the [6h] turn and [2d] river Donk0388's tourney run had ended in fifth. About a half-dozen hands after that ouchbadbeat

Everybody likes a little action and PokerStars delivered with their 2013 SCOOP $14-M NLH Rebuy Big Antes tournament. Antes were posted from the first hand and were bigger than standard structures. The added value of early levels brought out a large field of 1,534 who put more money in the prizepool with 2,184 rebuys and 1,240 add-ons. This $109 buy-in tournament had a $250,000 guarantee which was nearly doubled by the end of the rebuy period, finishing with $495,800 prizepool and more than $83,000 up top for the winner. The large field, slow structured tournament was scheduled as a two-day event and play ended after Level 24 with just 60 players remaining. Yayoshow (1,217,904) held a relatively large chiplead when Day 2 began over vindog03 (579,632) sitting in 2nd. Team Online's George "Jorj95" Lind (365,538) was the only PokerStars pro to take a stack onto Day 2 along with other notable including "Ozzy 87" Sheikh (428,507), Ryan "Tepen69" Tepen (423,426), Jordan "iMsoLucky0" Morgan (111,541) and former Sunday Million winner Dan "danloulou" Smyth (417,962). The pace of play was much quicker on Day 2 than anticipated considering the relative stack sizes. It took just a few hours to break the tournament down to the final two tables and action stayed hot. One of the biggest hands of the tournament outside of the final table saw Ryan "Tepen69" Tepen eliminated short after being on the receiving end of a bad beat. Down from a high over 2,000,000 in chips, Tepen was part of a rare 3-way all-in with stacks these size. Unfortuntely his [Td][Tc] was dominated by both [Ad][Ah] and [Jd][Jh]. You can review the big 3-way action on the replayer below. Players continue to drop until poker legend was eliminated on the final table bubble when he pushed his short-stack in the middle with [Kd][Qc] and was knocked out by Matt Bugley's [Tc][Ts] in 10th place for $4,164.72. Players began the final table with an average stack around 64 big blinds deep with Heartthrob10 holding a slight chiplead. Final Table chip counts: Seat 1: welsamvel (763294 in chips) Seat 2: IcollectCar (1110996 in chips) Seat 3: Yayoshow (2686484 in chips) Seat 4: Heartthrob10 (3074362 in chips) Seat 5: Sasuke234 (2142429 in chips) Seat 6: Matt Bugley (1627800 in chips) Seat 7: Bruno GT (2306179 in chips) Seat 8: Carlito1983 (2991019 in chips) Seat 9: vindog03 (651437 in chips) Blinds: 15k/30k with 6k ante Average: 1.93million (~64 BBs) vindog03 goes from penthouse to outhouse, eliminated in 9th vindog03 began Day 2 with enough chips to claim the second highest spot on the leaderboard but had a rough time after returning. A series of second best hands and bad beats brought the former big stack to the final table with the shortest stack of those nine. It only took one hand to get the final 558,437 chips in the middle with [As][Ts] but was dominated and eliminated by Bruno GT with [Ad][Qs]. vindog03's run ends in 9th place for $5,106.74. IcollectCar runs out of gas, eliminated in 8th place IcollectCar was on the bad end of a big hand with plenty of chips in hand. Bruno GT min-raises from early position and was only called by IcollectCar to see a [4s][Qd][8d] flop. After a series of post-flop raises they both had their chips in the middle with Bruno GT holding more chips. Bruno GT showed [Ad Jd] for the nut flush draw IcollectCar showed [Ac][Qs] for top pair top kicker Bruno GT was behind but didn't need to wait for the river to hit the draw when [2d] hit the turn to make the river [Kd] irrelevant. IcollectCar was eliminated in 8th place for $9,420,20. welsamvel rivered in a big hand, eliminated in 7th place welsamvel began the hand with the smallest stack of the 7 remaining but was still holding over 25 big blinds when Carlito1983 moved all-in after a three and four-bet. welsamvel easily called with [Ad][Kc] and was looking for a nice double up with Carlito1983 holidng only [Qc][Ts]. Luck was with the Russian right up until the dreaded river on a boar

The name of this event said it all. It was short-handed, turbo-charged, knockout bounty goodness dipped in chocolate and served up in under four hours of total play. Bliss. Surviving the carnage was a familiar name as Steve "gboro780" Gross wrote another chapter in his impressive online poker resume with a spectacular victory to collect a six-figure pay day and the SCOOP title. It all went down in SCOOP Event 17-H which was the $2,100 No Limit Holdem 6-Max Turbo Super Knockout event. Needless to say, the event was full of action as 787 players took to the felt to create a prize pool of $1,613,350. Half of that prize pool would be allocated towards the knockout bounties with each player's elimination worth a tidy $1,025, while the other half was up for grabs for the top 90 place finishers. The field was packed with talent including a host of Team PokerStars Pros. Eugene Katchalov, George Danzer, Max Lykov, Mickey Petersen, Liv Boeree, George Lind, Martin Hrubý, Andre Akkari, Jason Mercier, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Naoya Kihara, Matthias de Meulder, Ville Wahlbeck and Christophe de Meulder were some of the red spades that missed the money, but Team PokerStars was still well represented deep in this event. With the money bubble approaching there were a few notables under pressure to reach the money for the top 90 players. James Obst was one in the danger zone but he landed a double up with pocket jacks against ace-ten, while Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden also survived a bubble scare with his king-queen surviving a race against pocket nines. Shaun Deeb wasn't so fortunate as he was severely short-stacked and all in with [8d][7d] against [ks][2h] with the king-high holding up to see Deeb out in 92nd place. The honour of the pure bubble went to zcedrick from Portugal as the top 90 players secured a guaranteed $2,097.35. From there, the bustouts came thick and fast. Nacho Barbero (81st - $2,178.02 + 6 bounties), James Obst (75th - $2,258.69 + 5 bounties), Johnny Lodden (74th - $2,258.69 + 6 bounties) and Isaac Haxton (50th - $2,823.36 + 5 bounties) were quickly to the cashier, as Steve "gboro780" Gross was the chip leader with 40 to go. James "mig.com" Mackey had the most bounties at this point, while Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso was also gunning for the final table in 2nd chip position. However after losing a massive coinflip with ace-king against pocket eights, Rousso was back in the pack and eliminated soon after in 23rd place for $5,646.72 plus another 7 bounties. Brendon Rubie (32nd - $4,033.37 + 6 bounties), Randy Lew (30th - $4,678.71 + 7 bounties), Michael Fadersen (27th - $4,678.71 + 2 bounties), Alex Wice (26th - $4,678.71 + 1 bounty) and James Mackey (20th - $5,646.72 + 11 bounties) were all rapidly sent to the rail as the final table approached. Alexandre Gomes was out in 11th place ($10,486.77 + 3 bounties) when his ace-king was rivered by gkap13's ace-queen in a monster pot that saw gkap13 grab a commanding chip lead. But gkap13 was brought back to the pack when iambest2 spiked a gutshot straight to snatch the tournament advantage. When Marc-Andre "FrenchDawg" Ladouceur jammed [5s][8h] into Steve "gboro780" Gross' [Ad][6h] in a battle of the blinds, the board bricked out to see our final table of six formed as follows: Final Table Lineup Seat 1: gboro780 (588,001 in chips) Seat 2: kinamon8 (517,031 in chips) Seat 3: coltranedog (549,168 in chips) Seat 4: iambest2 (1,042,490 in chips) Seat 5: gnetaren (742,691 in chips) Seat 6: gkap13 (495,619 in chips) The final table blinds kicked off at 15,000/30,000 with a 3,750 ante, so there wasn't a whole lot of room to breathe in this turbo-charged format. kinamon8 would be the first to crack, moving all in with [ah][jh] after gnetaren had min-raised from under the gun. gnetaren made the call and opened a dominant [as][qc] which was good on the board of [Ks][2h][8s][3c][Th]. kinamon8 finished in 6th place and received $24,200.25 plus 5 KO bounties. Two

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Chances are, if you're a poker player, you know somebody who's a heads-up specialist. I sat next to one in a poker game two nights ago. These players love being involved in every hand that gets played and believe the psychological battle of heads-up play represents poker in its purest form. Those are the people that SCOOP 2013 Event 13-Medium, $215 PLO Heads-Up, was designed for. 959 of them registered for the event, and after 10 rounds of heads-up play terror777727 was anointed the champion. PokerStars was represented by seven Team Pros and three Team Online players. Team Pros Chad Brown, Marcel Luske, Eugene Katchalov and Johnny Lodden all exited in the first round of play, as did Team Online player Naoya "nkeyno" Kihara. George Danzer, Richard Toth and George "jorj95" Lind made it to the second round before they faltered. Marcin "Goral" Horecki (Round of 128, $498.68) and Team Online player Freddy "sirfreddy83" Torres (Round of 64, $878.44) brought home the cash for Team PokerStars in Event 13-M. Both were already on to other events when the quarterfinals kicked off at 2pm PokerStars today. Quarterfinals The quarterfinals picked back up at 2pm PokerStars time today. If Event 13-M had been a live tournament with a feature table, that honor in the quarterfinals would undoubtedly have gone to the match between Ezequiel "ezepoker90" Vasquez and Unkn0wn123. Vasquez won the opening event of last year's WCOOP, pocketing about $184,000 in the process. Unkn0wn123 took down the Super Tuesday event just last month for a shade north of $100,000. Unkn0wn123 got the best of the match-up by taking down a medium-sized pot on the first hand of play and never looking back. The match was over inside of 20 minutes. On the final hand, Vasquez shoved the turn with top pair and an open-ended straight draw. Unkn0wn123 called with top two pair and moved on to the semifinals after the river blanked. Unkn0wn123's semifinal opponent would be terror777727, who needed an additional hour to knock off zumbapoker. The other two quarterfinal matches pitted krendipont against Le Dolce and Lena900 against TonaaliAnttu. Lena900 advanced first in a match that was closely contested until the final few minutes. Le Dolce persevered to knock off krendipont Semifinals In the semis, Unkn0wn123 again jumped out to an early lead. terror777727 came roaring back, winning four out four medium-sized pots in the span of five minutes. Those pots pushed terror777727 into the chip lead. The Bulgarian player won 12 of the last 13 hands of the match to close out Unkn0wn123. In the other semifinal match, Le Dolce was behind the 8-ball early. For the first 10 minutes of the match it seemed like Lena900 won almost every bpot. Le Dolce quickly slipped to about 1,000 in chips from the starting stack of 5,000. Yet Le Dolce managed to grind it all the way back over the next 10 minutes to reset the match. From there it was all Le Dolce. Final - terror777727 v. Le Dolce At the start of the final, Le Dolce asked if terror777727 was interested in a deal. terror777727's succinct answer was, "no, play" and so play they did. After about five minutes, however, with the stack still basically level, terror777727 had a change of heart. terror777727: wanna look numbers? Le Dolce: sure Le Dolce: 1500-2000 for the winner? Le Dolce: your call terror777727: 2k is good Like that, the difference between runner-up and champion when from $10,500 to $2,000 - and a SCOOP watch. Even with the smoothed out payouts, terror777727 and Le Dolce both still seemed to play cautious at the start of the final. It was terror777727 who struck first in a pot that Le Dolce three-bet from the big blind pre-flop. On a [4d][as][7d] flop, Le Dolce bet 150 into the 360-chip pot. terror777727 raised to 390 and Le Dolce called. Both players checked the [ks] turn. When the river fell [th], Le Dolce checked and called a bet of 690. terror777727 showed down [ad][jc][6c][7h] for two pair, aces and sevens. It was

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12 wins in a row (without a bye in the first round) is what JTDStreet had to accomplish today and yesterday during the SCOOP Event #13-L $27 PLO Heads-Up tournament to take home the championship watch. In bowling to score a perfect 300 game you must roll 12 consecutive strikes. That 12th ball becomes heavier, your palms get sweaty, the lane gets longer with everyone in the bowling center laying their eyes on you. JTDStreet had a similar scene as Team Pro Marcin "goral" Horecki was the Slovenian's final opponent as PokerStars fans hit the rails to see who would take home today's wrist-wear. After an even chop suggested by Marcin for their hard two days of work, it was JTDStreet claiming the $7,394.15 and the watch. Read below for how they made it that final match. Round of 16 l_Saint333_l (Ukraine) lost vs. Bavoulis (Greece) slinkyshop (Canada) def. The Rabbi75 (Netherlands) Ghostflush (Switzerland) def. viktor werne (Germany) Team PokerStars Pro Marcin "Goral" Horecki (Poland) def. ncux13 (Russia) Eye Rai$e (United Kingdom) lost vs. Krenjuussa (Finland) JTDStreet (Slovenia) def. Marshallme (Denmark) maygli79 (Russia) lost vs. william129 (Canada) Kid Blaast (United Kingdom) lost vs. LukaPotocar (Slovenia) The second day of competition for the Event #13-L crown would start off with 16 players already locking up $832.12 for surviving the first eight rounds of this massive heads-up Pot Limit Omaha tournament with a potential $8,732.80 sitting in round 12 or otherwise known as the finals. Marcin "Goral" Horecki is looking to grab another online title after dominating the MicroMillions I and III installments. After 40 minutes of play Horecki with an 8,773 to 1,227 chip lead would raise to 252 chips as ncux13 called. After the [Th][As][3h] flop ncux13 tried to check-raise all-in holding a flush draw [Tc] [2h] [7h] [3c] and two pair but Marcin called with top pair and a gutshot [5s] [9s] [Ad] [4c] and on the turn a [5d] would give the Team Pro the lead, closing out the match with a [6d] river bringing 10,000 chips to the next round. The Rabbi75 and slinkyshop would finish up the first match of the Round of 16. With the blinds at 125/250 slinkyshop holding a 5,693 to 4,307 lead the Canadian would min-raise from the button as The Rabbi75 called. After the [9d][9h][8d] flop both players decided it was time to get things done and tossed all their chips in the middle. The Rabbi75 showing a flush draw and overpair [Kd] [Qc] [Qd] [7h] while slinkyshop held trips [9c] [Jh] [7s] [3d]. [4c] and [Th] later and the slinkyshop opened up the quarterfinals. Quarterfinals Team PokerStars Pro Marcin "Goral" Horecki (Poland) def. Ghostflush (Switzerland) Bavoulis (Greece) lost vs. slinkyshop (Canada) JTDStreet (Slovenia) def. Krenjuussa (Finland) LukaPotocar (Slovenia) def. william129 (Canada) With 5,000 chips a piece and 10/20 blinds most would expect lengthy match despite the five minute levels. Marcin in a hurry to obtain that SCOOP watch finished his match against Ghostflush in two hands. After a three-bet by Horecki and call by Ghostflush both would see a [4c][7d][Ad] flop. The Team Pro would lead for 194 as Ghostflush raised to 530 which was called. [3h] on the turn and Marcin checked as Ghostflush bet 980. Marcin check-raised to 4,280 as Ghostflush made the call for less holding [8d] [2d] [Ac] [Kd] aces with the nut flush draw. Marcin showed the nut straight [Qh] [4s] [6c] [5h] which held for the win after the [6h] river advancing him to the next round. JTDStreet only needed three levels to defeat Krenjuussa as the other two tables played out for the last spot in the semi-finals. LukaPotocar would take control of the match during the 60/120 level after getting aces [Ac] [Th] [Ah] [Qc] to safety as william129 [7c] [Jd] [Qd] [As] could not improve on a flopped top pair and flush draw on the [4d] [5d] [Qs] [9s] [9h] board. LukaPotocar would close out the match six hands later starting the semi-finals. Semi-Finals JTDS