Having bubbled in the $5,000 Omaha tournament the previous night, I was pretty determined to do well in either the SCOOP $25,000 heads up or $10,000 main event. The HU field looked pretty grim being full of some of the best HU players in the world, but I knew that given the right opportunities and a bit of luck, I had as good a chance as any of the competition. The first three matches went pretty easily and in match three I won a significant coin-flip with A-K against Q-Q which got me through effectively
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SCOOP: Watch the Main Event highlights
If like us you're only just catching your breath after the enthralling SCOOP series, then apologies for getting your heart racing all over again. Thing is, our friends over at pokerstars.tv have only gone and put the best bits of the Main Event on video so you can watch the...more
SCOOP: Winner j.thaddeus scores $963,338 in Event 22-H $10,300 NLHE Main Event
When the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) was first announced to the poker community, players liked the idea. Besides the catchy name, the offerings of three buy-in levels to each tournament was more than appealing, as players at all levels of the game could find a way to make...more
SCOOP: JC Alvarado claims biggest win of career in Event #22-M, $1,050 Main Event
When Day 1 of the SCOOP $1,050 Main Event ended, the last remaining representative of Team PokerStars Pro went to sleep with a chip stack of 1.5 million. That put him squarely in the middle of the 19 runners who still had a shot at the $502,086 first prize. It...more
SCOOP: JannotLapin wins the $109 Main Event
Event #22, the final tournament on PokerStars' Spring Championship of Online Poker schedule, certainly drew a crowd -- 18,747 players to be exact. Those thousands created a bountiful prize pool of $1,874,700 with a first-place prize of $187,470.01. Day 1 play on Easter Sunday ended after 44 levels and 18,721...more
SCOOP: Event #22-M $1,050 Main Event Live Blog
Day 2 live blog coverage of the SCOOP Medium Stakes Main Event, $1,050 No-Limit Hold'em, is brought to you by Jason Kirk and David Aydt. Click refresh to see the latest information as the 19 finalists play for their shares of the $3,198,000 prize pool. For a look at previous...more
SCOOP: Event 22-Low $109 NLHE Main Event Live Blog
Day 2 live blog coverage of SCOOP Event #22-Low, $109 NLHE Main Event, is brought to you by Tuscaloosa Johnny Kampis and Dave Behr. Click refresh to see the latest information as the 26 survivors play for the lion's share of a $1,874,700 prize pool. For a look at previous...more
SCOOP: Event 22-High $10,300 NLHE Main Event Live Blog
Day 2 live blog coverage of the SCOOP High Stakes Main Event NLHE is brought to you by Jen Newell and Martin Harris. Click refresh to see the latest information as the 14 finalists play for their shares of the $5,020,000 prize pool. For a look at previous coverage, see...more
SCOOP: 14 players remain, xxjondxx leads in Event 22-H $10,300 NLHE Main Event
Every tournament series has its main event. After days filled with hold'em, stud, mixed games, heads-up events, and even razz for those so inclined, it all comes down to the big one. It's the tournament that everyone wants to win, a title that every poker players wants to hold, and...more
SCOOP: dhutt24 leads massive Event #22-L (Main Event) Field
Finally, we've made it. After 21 thrilling and varied SCOOP events across a spectrum of buy-in levels, we've come to the two-day finale: the SCOOP Main Event. And what a Main Event it is turning into! The $1,000,000 guarantee for the $109 "low" version of the Main Event was never...more
SCOOP: hasuace has Event #22-M $1,050 Main Event lead after Day 1
After a week and a half of guarantee-busting tournaments, SCOOP has finally rolled around to the Big One - or rather, the Big Ones. With three Main Event tournaments running today, SCOOP, the new kid on the PokerStars tournament series block, was set to go out with a bang. The...more
SCOOP: blakeb0921 tears up the field in Event #21-low, $270 heads-up NLHE
Even low-rollers need a little high-roller action every once in a while. That's what today was about, with SCOOP Event #21 kicking up the buy-ins several notches at every level for the Heads-up NLHE event. The $270 "low" buyin installment drew 1550 entrants creating a hefty $387,500 prize pool. 256...more
SCOOP: RunThisTable runs the table in $2,600 NLHE Heads-Up Event 21
The "medium" stakes version of Event No. 21, the No-Limit Hold'em Heads-Up tournament, was capped at 256 entrants, meaning the winner would have to win eight consecutive matches to take the title. With a buy-in of $2,500+$100, that meant the total prize pool was $640,000. Those winning three matches and...more
SCOOP: toweliestar wipes up competition in $25,000 Heads-Up SCOOP event
It was the biggest thing anybody could do in poker all day. The buy-in was bigger than any poker event in the world this week. The competition was not surprisingly made up of 32 of the best players in the world. All of that was clear. Left unanswered was who...more
SCOOP: One day left to climb leader board
When the news broke early this morning that Terrence "Unassigned" Chan had won back-to-back Spring Championship of Online Poker events, we thought, "That must have put him near the top of the leader board." Well, he's a lot closer than he was before, but he still has some work to...more
SCOOP: Terrence "Unassigned" Chan goes back-to-back, winning his second SCOOP title of the night in Event #20-high, $5,200 LHE
The road to a SCOOP final table is fraught with suckouts, bluffs, value bets, miracle river cards, moments of heart-pounding tension, and long, intense hours of concentration. Now let's multiply that by two. Over the course of this week we've seen several players who have accomplished the feat of making...more
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