Until today, nine Dutch players had won a title during the PokerStars 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker and three of those victories came in high stakes progressive knockout tournaments. A fourth Dutch winner emerged in SCOOP-43-H: $2,100 NLHE PKO as "Pimmss" defeated Sylvain "caIcuIer_" Loosli in heads-up to score a payday of $190,243. More than half of that came from bounty prizes as "Pimmss" was responsible for several late bustouts and kept his own to boost the bankroll significantly.
"Pimmss" is no stranger to the PKO tables on PokerStars as he won two events during the PokerStars High Rollers festival in December 2019. First he claimed the honors in High Rollers 02: $1,050 NLHE 8-Max PKO for $56,901.33 + $57,015.59 and followed that up with a victory in High Rollers 12: $530 NLHE 8-Max for $41,674.50.
The tournament featured 431 unique players and 147 re-entries on top of that created a field of 578 entries, which resulted in a prize pool of $1,156,000 for this Special Edition of the Sunday Warm-Up. Only the top 71 spots secured a portion of the cash prize pool and 32 survivors returned for the final day after nine hours of play the previous evening. "girafganger7" was leading the pack and the online legend with more than $7.4 million in cashes on PokerStars reached the final table but eventually had to settle for 4th place.
Final Result SCOOP-43-H: $2,100 NLHE PKO
| Place | Winner | Country | Bounty Prize | Cash Prize | Total Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Pimmss" | Netherlands | $101,398 | $88,845 | $190,243 |
| 2 | Sylvain "caIcuIer_" Loosli | France | $13,078 | $88,844 | $101,923 |
| 3 | "DEX888" | Germany | $39,977 | $56,102 | $96,078 |
| 4 | "girafganger7" | United Kingdom | $19,344 | $41,600 | $60,944 |
| 5 | "CrazyLissy" | Russia | $18,469 | $30,847 | $49,316 |
| 6 | "Alchemist.AJ" | South Korea | $7,438 | $22,874 | $30,311 |
| 7 | Thiago "KKremate" Crema | Brazil | $4,438 | $16,961 | $21,399 |
| 8 | Vitor "VitinhO Dzi" Dzivielevski | Brazil | $2,500 | $12,577 | $15,077 |
| 9 | Jareth "jareth3542" East | United Kingdom | $9,375 | $9,848 | $19,223 |
Slow Start; Frantic Middle Stage on the Final Day
One Dutch player and two Portuguese that are based in the Netherlands were among the 32 survivors of the previous day and the final kicked off with a small surprise. Unlike previous high stakes PKO tournaments, half an hour passed without elimination. But once Eder "edercampana" Campana had missed out on a pay jump, the action really kicked off and Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira was eliminated in a three-way all-in shortly after.
Getting from 27 hopefuls down to the last 17 contenders barely took more than 15 minutes in total and Morten "-MortenVM-" Mortensen was among those quick fire casualties. Short-handed action prior to the final two tables took a while and "Pimmss" doubled up twice to get back in contention from a rather short stack.
Sylvain "caIcuIer_" Loosli followed a very similar path as he was very short, then doubled three times. Suddenly, the Frenchman who is currently based in the UK went on a heater and knocked out "temoni18", "ChristianBR4", and Ilya "Leqenden" Anatsky in a row. "Pimmss" and Loosli took their turns to eliminate "Razer2311" and "BC1989RF", and Gary "quiditbear" Hasson could not return from a very short stack to bust shy of the final table.
Only moments later the final nine were combined to one table as "wisopekeno!" ran with queens into aces and Loosli racked up another bounty when his ace-king suited beat the ace-queen suited of "zazano". Still in the lead by then was "girafganger7" while Loosli sat in third and "Pimmss" was in the middle of the pack.
"Pimmss" Rises to the Top and Clinches Victory
Jareth "jareth3542" East lasted all but a few hands on the final table and "girafganger7" went on a roller coaster ride, bled chips only to get them back by sending the Brazilians Vitor "VitinhO Dzi" Dzivielevski and Thiago "KKremate" Crema to the rail in 8th and 7th place respectively.
"Pimmss" took over the top spot after his flopped set sent "Alchemist.AJ" with top two pair to the rail and the Dutchman also took care of "CrazyLissy" right after when ten-eight suited got there versus king-jack suited. Two double ups followed as Loosli and "DEX888" returned from a short stack, and it was "girafganger7" that came up short in a flip with fours against the ace-jack suited of "DEX888" to finish fourth.
Loosli took over the lead with a double through "DEX888", who dropped further behind and was knocked out by "Pimmss" to set up the duel for the SCOOP title. Ultimately, Loosli lost the vast majority of his stack on a bluff which he later described as follows on Twitter:
"2nd for 101k$, Somewhat questionable bluff in the penultimate hand of heads-up but happy with my performance!"
It was all over the very next hand as "Pimmss" rivered a flush with ace-four suited versus ace-eight. For Loosli it would have been the second SCOOP title after he topped a huge field of 7,580 entries in a $215 NL Hold'em for $178,368.64 back in 2015. Instead, it was yet another victory for the Dutch players as "Pimmsss" earned a first SCOOP title of his own.
That's a wrap for today but stay tuned for further PokerNews updates for the remainder of the festival.