Pavel "MountaiRo$e" Veksler and Artur "mararthur1" Martirosyan were both spotted with a stack of more than one million chips minutes ago but they have been sent to the rail as the field rapidly approaches the last 100 contenders.
Martirosyan was part of a three-way all-in against red-hot running "hotmark777" and Thomas "WushuTM" Muehloecker.
Thomas "WushuTM" Muehloecker:
Artur "mararthur1" Martirosyan:
"hotmark777":
The board came and Muehloecker got a lucky chop while Martirosyan was felted.
The next batch of casualties includes such big names as Orpen "OrpTheTurk" Kisacikoglu, Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas, Bengt "pkrbt" Sonnert, Darrell "FourSixFour" Goh and Claas "ssicK_OnE" Segebrecht.
Goh was a bigger stack not long ago but doubled Mark "AceSpades11" Radoja.
At the same table, Colillas then ended up at risk for a pot of around 600k and faced big stack Andrew "ClockWyze" Pantling.
"RamonColillas" Colillas:
Andrew "ClockWyze" Pantling:
The board came and that spelled the end for the Spaniard.
Goh then defended the small blind against "temka99" and was unfortunate enough to flop trips queens with on a board of as "temka99" had flopped the nut full house with .
Will "hellzito" Arruda opened the action with a raise to 60,000 and he called a three-bet to 240,000 by Michael "imluckbox" Addamo in the small blind. Addamo continued the flop for 176,963 and called all-in for more than 972,000 total when facing a short by Arruda.
Michael "imluckbox" Addamo:
Will "hellzito" Arruda:
The turn improved Addamo to a set but the river gave Arruda the ten-high straight. And just like that the table closed as there were just 80 players remaining.
Daniel "DANMERRRRRRR" Merrilees opened the action with a raise to 80,000 from early position and he was called by "mdf92" in the hijack. Mark "AceSpades11" Radoja three-bet to 360,000 in the cutoff and 2020 SCOOP-H Main Event champion "Alexgirs" jammed the big blind for 581,115. Merrilees folded, "mdf92" jammed for more than 1.4 million and Radoja also let go.
"Alexgirs":
"mdf92":
Board:
"Alexgirs" was in need of help but ended up drawing dead to postpone his hopes of a second SCOOP title of the current year.
The bubble has burst eventually and it is Canada's "m.a-0000" who came up short of a five-figure cash when he jammed the cutoff for fewer than eight blinds and was isolated by Michel "FreelancerZZ" Dattani in the small blind.
"m.a-0000":
Michel "FreelancerZZ" Dattani:
On a board of , the bubble burst in cruel fashion as Dattani hit a four-card flush.
In a big three-way all-in right after the money bubble had burst, former chip leader "hotmark777" saw his stack decimated a ton when he clashed with Jans "Graftekkel" Arends and a short-stacked Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira was caught in the crossfire.
Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira:
Jans "Graftekkel" Arends:
"hotmark777":
The board almost saw "hotmark777" get there with running clubs but he dropped to 1.4 million instead.
As other players busted left and right, "hotmark777" was one of the casualties shortly after when he was all-in blind-on-blind with Andrey "Anjeyyy" Novak.
"hotmark777":
Andrey "Anjeyyy" Novak:
Board:
Novak's ace on the turn cemented the lead and "hotmark777" failed to catch a trey for the straight.
The same table featured yet another elimination as Sam "Str8$$$Homey" Greenwood jammed the small blind with and was called by Michel "FreelancerZZ" Dattani in the big blind with the .
No diamonds, overcards and broadway showed up on a board.
That wasn't all for that table as "psjebemvas" on the button clashed with Arends in the small blind, who check-called three barrels on a board. "psjebemvas" tabled for a jack-high flush but Arends had that beat with for the nutflush.
The 2020 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is on the home stretch and one week of online poker action remains for the extended schedule to take a shot at earning one of the elusive SCOOP title for the poker resume.
Among the events to kick off was the SCOOP-96-H: $5,200 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event 2nd Chance] and the guarantee was easily surpassed thanks to 324 unique players and additional 141 re-entries. A total field size of 465 entries created a prize pool of $2,325,000 and the top 55 spots locked up a payday of at least five figures whereas the top five finishers will earn six-figure scores.
After 24 levels of 20 minutes each, the bubble burst and 13 players already earned $11,735.67 for their efforts, the next pay jump will be locked up with 39 players remaining as 42 contenders advanced to the penultimate day.
One of the players to fire the maximum of three bullets in the event was Jans "Graftekkel" Arends and that proved to be a golden decision as he topped the Day 1 survivors with a massive stack of 9,351,977. Second-placed "temka99" from Moldova is nearly three million in chips behind and has 6,393,999 to his name while Michel "FreelancerZZ" Dattani rounds out the overnight podium with a stack of 5,356,025.
Top 10 Chip Counts After Day 1
Position
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds for Level 25
1
Jans "Graftekkel" Arends
Netherlands
9,351,977
134
2
temka99
Moldova
6,393,999
91
3
Michel "FreelancerZZ" Dattani
Malta
5,356,025
77
4
Aleksejs "APonakov" Ponakovs
Estonoa
4,841,123
69
5
Will "hellzito" Arruda
Brazil
4,432,848
63
6
Alfred "kzzon" Karlsson
Sweden
4,392,743
63
7
Laszlo "omaha4rollz" Bujtas
Hungary
4,099,676
59
8
Andrew "ClockWyze" Pantling
Canada
4,038,499
58
9
Andrey "Anjeyyy" Novak
Ukraine
4,030,409
58
10
Mark "AceSpades11" Radoja
Canada
3,985,022
57
Other notables with an above-average stack include Laszlo "omaha4rollz" Bujtas (4,099,676), Andrew "ClockWyze" Pantling (4,038,499), Mark "AceSpades11" Radoja (3,985,022), Sylvain "caIcuIer_" Loosli (3,778,756), Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson (3,674,366), Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche (3,571,505) and Daniel "DANMERRRRRRR" Merrilees (2,871,503).
There are plenty further well-known poker pros in contention and Alex "dynoalot" Difelice is eying another major result after his third-place finish in the SCOOP-74-H: $10,300 Main Event. Difelice made it through as one of the shorter stacks with 1,823,622, as did former SCOOP-H Main Event champion Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel (1,500,796), Pavel "silentm0de" Plesuv (1,337,314) and Mike "gorodski" Gorodinsky (1,228,748).
No fortune for the PokerStars ambassadors
Many other big names of the live and online poker world departed without anything to show for. The PokerStars ambassadors had a rough day on the felt as Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis and Fintan "easywithaces" Hand bowed out with kings. Veldhuis bought back in but didn't get anything going to depart with fours versus eights. Ben "Spraggy" Spragg check-called three barrels with aces and was shown a flopped set of sevens and rivered full house. Last but not least, Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas ran with ace-jack suited into aces and caught no miracle.
Others that bowed out before the money were notables such as Calvin "cal42688" Anderson, Kahle "ROFLshove" Burns, Michael "imluckbox" Addamo, Fedor "CrownUpGuy" Holz, Niklas "Lena900" Astedt, football striker Neymar Jr, Artur "mararthur1" Martirosyan, Connor "blanconegro" Drinan, and Patrick "pads1161" Leonard.
Former SCOOP-H Main Event champion Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi was eliminated close to the money bubble with ace-king suited versus jacks and current title holder "Alexgirs" exited with queens versus kings. The unfortunate bubble boy was Canada's "m.a-0000" when his kings failed to hold up against the pocket eights of Michel "FreelancerZZ" Dattani, who rivered a four-card flush.
Once the bubble had burst, Jans "Graftekkel" Arends skyrocketed into the lead after he won a big three-way all-in with aces versus queens and sixes, then rivered the nut flush when his opponent "psjebemvas" fired three barrels with a jack-high flush draw and hit the river to bust with the inferior flush.
The action will resume on Monday, May 25th, 2020, as of 1.05 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and the penultimate tournament day will conclude once the final table of the last nine has been determined. Returning blinds in level 25 will be 35,000-70,000 with a running ante of 8,750 and all levels will last 30 minutes each for the remainder of the event.
Stay tuned right here on PokerNews to find out who makes it through another day and remains in contention for the top prize of $416,741.68 and next high stakes SCOOP title.