Welcome to Day 1 of the PokerStars 2020 SCOOP Event #15-H: $2,100 NLHE [Sunday HR SE]
The first Sunday of the PokerStars 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is already underway with a full slate of events on the day’s schedule. Event #15-H: $2,100 NLHE [Sunday HR SE] will soon be among the next to get underway, as play is set to get started at 1 p.m. ET.
The SCOOP Edition of the Sunday High Roller event features a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. It is a two-day event, with Day 1 consisting of eight-and-a-half hours of play before concluding for the night. Players receive 100,000 starting stacks with blinds beginning at 250/500 with an ante of 60, and levels will last 20 minutes in length for the entirety of the day.
This event is sure to draw some of the biggest names in the world of poker out to compete for the first high roller title of the series. Familiar players such as Niklas "Lena900" Astedt, Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez, Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph, and Team PokerStars member Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas are among the earliest entrants into the tournament, and plenty more are expected to be seen adding their screen name to the lobby as the start time approaches.
Late registration is open for four hours and 25 minutes. No re-entries are available in this freezeout format, and all remaining players when the eight-and-a-half hours of play draw to a close will advance to Day 2, which will resume at 1 p.m. ET on Monday, May 4.
PokerNews will be providing live updates all tournament long in addition to coverage on the remainder of the three-week-long series. Be sure to stick around.
. Luca checked and "Pimmss" bet 1,800. Luca put in a check-raise to 8,100 and "Pimmss" made the call.
and Luca slowed down, clicking the check button. "Pimmss" bet 6,800 and Luca went for the double check-raise, making it 24,600 to go. "Pimmss" thought for a couple of moments and then folded, resulting in Luca taking down the pot on the turn. 
and both players checked.
and "lipe piv" made an overbet of 10,000. Feenstra thought for a while, activating his time bank before making the call. The river was 
and "lipe piv" activated their time bank before beting 8,840. 
. "aabas" made a continuation-bet of 10,000 and Greenwood called.
and Greenwood checked. Van Hoof went into his time bank and proceeded to shove all in for effectively just shy of 250,000, a bet of over three times the size of the pot. Greenwood then went into the tank, activating his time bank before deciding to make the call.
to give his opponent a flopped full house. All of a sudden, he was in trouble and the turn 
was of no help. However, the river was a miraculous 
to give Spinella a higher full house and score him the double and take his stack up to 376,000. 
and Van Hoof had hardly a sweat en route to winning a pot of more than 1.4 million, vaulting him to the top of the leader board with pocket aces for the second time in the tournament. 
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