PokerStars SCOOP 2020

After almost nine hours, Day 1 of the PokerStars 2020 SCOOP-121-H: $1,050 NLHE PKO has come to an end with 138 players making it through to Day 2. The first few hours of the tournament attracted 1,831 unique players who reentered 608 times to get to a total of 2,439 entries to create a prize pool of $2,439,000 easily crushing the $1,500,000 guarantee which was placed on the tournament. All players who cashed walked away with at least $1,121 but the remaining players have already secured $1,865. The new SCOOP champion will walk away with the title, bragging rights, and $153,479 plus the bounties which were collected on the way to victory.

Taking the Day 1 chip lead into Day 2 is Brazil's "Rebozeio" with 6,722,646. They could be found at the top of the counts for most of the day but took a bigger lead when a 2 million pot was awarded to them when they had turned a flush. Second in the counts is Darrell "FourSixFour" Goh with 5,199,746. Completing the top five are "AtanasPPP" (5,136,775), "[email protected]" (5,007,450), and "SBGstyle" (4,980,945).

Further familiar names who ended in the top 20 at the end of the day include Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit, Stavros "IDOLLS" Kalfa, Keith "Kungfumonk" Johnson, Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev, Ricardo "ricardons8" Nascimento, and Joni "bustoville" Jouhkimainen. But there are many more notable names who have made it through. Players like Alberto "alberto.m7" Meran, Max "goodeh99" Silver, Alexandru "steakaddict." Papazian, Dalton "daltonhb" Hobold, Ezequiel "eze88888" Waigel, SCOOP Leaderboard leader Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira, Daniil "Dancer King" Kiselev, and Alfred "kzzon" Karlsson all finished in the top 50 of the counts.

After the bubble

After the bubble burst, "kackvogel84" eliminated "Roykus" with a full house over the flush of the latter to make them the first player of the day to bust in the money. And they weren't the only ones as more than 200 players left the tournament today with a cash but no Day 2. Konstantin "krakukra" Maslak, Kenny "SpaceyFCB" Hallaert, Rachid "SkaiWalkurrr" Ben Cherif, Alexandros "mexican222" Kolonias all min-cashed before Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche fell to Evan "PURPLE"K"99" Parkes.

Joep "Pappe_Ruk" van den Bijgaart, Mike "gorodski" Gorodinsky, Ognyan "cocojamb0" Dimov, Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet, Stefan "baeks22" Schillhabel, Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi, and /Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph all busted before the end of the day too. Felipe "Fepoker20" Meister was one of the final players to be eliminated when he shoved his last 3 big blinds in with ten-six and was looked up by Conor "1_conor_b_1" Beresford who held pocket tens.

Plan for Day 2

When the players return at 1 p.m. EST on Monday, June 1st, they will finish the last ten minutes of Level 24 which has a small blind of 17,500, a big blind of 35,000, and a running ante of 4,500. Level duration will remain at 20 minutes each until the start of Level 37 as the duration will then be increased to 30 minutes. Play will continue until a winner has been found and PokerNews will be there for it all, so stick around.

Play for Day 1 has halted with 138 players making it through to Day 2.

The chip counts and a recap are to follow.

Conor "1_conor_b_1" Beresford raised to 76,300 from the middle position and Felipe "Fepoker20" Meister shoved from the button for 120,011 which only Beresford called.

Felipe "Fepoker20" Meister:
Conor "1_conor_b_1" Beresford:

The board ran out for Beresford to hold with the pocket tens to eliminate Meister with two pair.

"Rebozeio" raised to 60,000 from the cutoff and "walter98499" three-bet to 180,000 in the small blind for "Rebozeio" to make the call.

The flop came and "Rebozeio" called the 138,600 continuation-bet of "walter98499".

The turn was the and "walter98499" check-called the 330,000 bet of "Rebozeio".

The river completed the board with the and "walter984999" checked for the last time. "Rebozeio" bet 447,876 and was called. They tabled for the flush and that was enough to scoop the pot.

Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph raised to 54,250 from the early position and was called by "clapjkspit" from the hijack and "Andry Vel" in the big blind.

They all checked through the on the flop to the on the turn. "Andry Vel" bet 50,000 and Rudolph raised to 187,500 which only "clapjkspit" called.

The river completed the board with the and Rudolph shoved for 629,776 which "clapjkspit" called. Rudolph tabled for "clapjkspit" to score a bounty as they held for two pair.

Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi raised to 53,500 from under the gun and "cheach123" three-bet to 150,000 from the middle position. The action folded back to Shakerchi who four-bet shoved for 519,326 which "cheach123" called with the bigger stack.

Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi:
"cheach123":

The board ran out for "cheach123" to hold with the higher kicker and same pair of aces to bust Shakerchi.