May 08, 2020Matthew Pitt
Day 8 of the 2020 Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP) was another day of intense poker action at the PokerStars virtual felt. Thousands of the games elite grinders took to the table to chase fame and fortune in the $85 million guarantee festival. Which players manage to achieve those goals? Lets find out.
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Russias Artur mararthur1 Martirosyan has been in scintillating form for several weeks, going deep in dozens of high roller events in the online poker. He won a SCOOP event on Day 5 and last night took down the SCOOP-29-H: $5,200 NLHE 8-Max Midweek Freeze, $750K Gtd.
Martirosyan banked an impressive $157,426 for his $5,200 investment. The Russian scooped the top prize after sending Dutch player pm_marke to the showers in second place. The runner-up collected $121,869.
Several household names were present and correct at the final table. These included back-to-back SCOOP Main Event champion Gianluca Tankanza Speranza, Francisco Tomatee Benitez and third-place finisher Ole wizowizo Schemion.
It was a British one-two in the SCOOP-29-M: $530 NLHE 8-Max Midweek Freeze, $500K Gtd with the Brits striking a deal when heads-up.
Gavin gavz101 Cochrane is better-know for his PLO prowess but it was at the Holdem tables that he excelled here. Cochrane officially finished in second and padded his bankroll with $71,742 after the aforementioned deal. Sc0RPioN95 was crowned the events champion, an accolade that came with a chunky $83,609 prize.
PLO is an extremely popular game in Scandinavian and Nordic countries and that showed with four of the six finalists in the SCOOP-30-H: $530+R PLO 6-Max, $350K Gtd event hailing from those regions.
WRUUUM of Finland busted in fifth for $26,488 before the PLO specialist Andreas Skervoy Torbergsen crashed out in fourth for $35,878.
Swedens tobbeb95 banked $48,598, which set up a heads-up battle between Netherlands aaldert-92 and Norways Myrmo locomi Espen. There was a prize difference of more than $30,000 but no deal was struck. This meant Espen got his hands on $89,165 when he emerged from the one-on-battle victoriously. His Dutch opponent consoled himself with $65,828.
Joao IneedMassari Simao came agonisingly close to taking down the SCOOP-30-M: $55+R PLO 6-Max, $150K Gtd event but ultimately fell at the final hurdle. Second-place in this event weighed in at a cool $23,780 but that was blown out of the water by the $34,130 top prize secured by Greeces tsafas13.
Also at the final table was the German star known as Sintoras. They put together another deep run but ran out of steam in third-place and had to make do with a $16,569 addition to their bankroll.
A field of 675 ensured the guarantee of the SCOOP-31-H: $1,050 NLHE PKO, $500K Gtd was surpassed by $175,000 and it as Russias fantomvmk who took full advantage of the juicy prize pool by being the last player standing.
The final table was a star-studded affair with such luminaries as Max goodeh99 Silver (6th - $16,533) and Romanias Vlad dariepoker Darie (5th - $20,891) being present and correct.
L1VeYRdrEamS and shtiriltz_ busted in fourth and third place respectively, setting up a heads-up clash between fantomvmk and Netherlands tonn22. Tonn22 fell by the wayside in second-place and won $72,533, including bounties, leaving the Russian to win the tournaments only six-figure prize.
Anatoly NL_Profit Filatov became a SCOOP champion on Day 8 courtesy of being the last man standing in the SCOOP-31-M: $109 NLHE PKO, $400K Gtd.
Filatov banked the $33,567 top prize plus a cool $21,392 worth of bounty payments for a combined prize worth $54,959. A large percentage of that bounty payment was on the head of runner-up fishgirl19y of Greece who tripped at the final hurdle and had to settle for second place. The runner-ups total prize weighed in at $34,738, a great return on a $109 investment.
Brazilian "bauruzito" took down the low edition of the Midweek Freeze, with Brit Guy "temp0r2k" Taylor (pictured) finishing second for $46,079.
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Andras probirs Nemeth has an almost unnatural ability to navigate his way deep into the toughest poker tournaments. Hes gone and done it again in the SCOOP-33-H: $10,300 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO], $1M Gtd event where he leads the 15 surviving players.
$113,785 is up for grabs for finishing first and nemeth has already accumulated $42,500 worth of bounties!
Some of pokers elite join Nemeth on Day 2. These include Niklas Lena900 Astedt, Thomas WushuTM Muehloecker, and Sam SamSquid Grafton.
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May 8 is Day 9 of this incredible series and sees some massive tournaments take place. Check out the table below to see which events you can play in the table below in addition to the in-play events above that conclude later.
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