Welcome to Day 1 of the SCOOP-33-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Sunday Million SE], $1.25M GTD
Day 1 of the PokerStars 2021 Spring Championship of Online Poker -33-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Sunday Million SE] kicks off at 5:05 p.m. UTC.
This three-day event boasts a massive $1.25M guaranteed prize pool and like many other SCOOP events, the guarantee is likely to be smashed here as well.
Players will take a seat with a starting stack of 50,000 chips and the blinds will begin at 125/250/30. This great structure will allow for plenty of hands to be played with blind levels lasting 15 minutes for the first 12 levels of play and will then increase to 20 minutes for the remainder of the tournament.
Players will get a 60 second time bank from the start of play with an additional 10 seconds coming after the completion of every three levels, and once the final table is reached, an additional 75 seconds will be awarded to the remaining nine players.
Late registration is open for the first four hours of play and all players are allowed up to two re-entries (three total bullets) for this event.
The course of this three-day event will see Day 1 action commence after eight hours and 25-minutes of play and all remaining players will return for Day 2 action Monday, April 12th at 5:05 p.m. UTC. Day 2 will play until only eight players remain and the final table will return Tuesday, April 13th with the same start time.
PokerNews will be covering the final table coincide with the PokerStars Twitch stream on a 30-minute delay as the hole cards will be shown and commentary will be provided by James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton who will be joined by guest commentators throughout the series.
Make sure to come back at 5:05 p.m. UTC. to find out who will be jumping into this NLHE 8-Max tournament as the PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing you all the action right here.
and Gumz continued for 3,600. "Gselweckle" called and did the same for 10,800 after the 
appeared on the turn. 
completed the board on the river, Gumz moved all in for 35,886 and "Gselweckle" called off their 32,960. 
for a missed gutshot and "Gselweckle" scooped the pot holding a pair of snowmen 
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flop. 
fall on the turn. "geek128" check-jammed for 43,709 after "Wildace_hun"fired out 27,156and was called. 
river secured their double-up.
turn and 
flop gave Schneiders a wheel draw while pairing his ace. 
left him drawung dead and the 
flop appear. 
turn kept his tournament hopes alive as he needed any king or seven to win the hand. 
flop. Unfortunately for him, the 
river ended Grafton's tournament as play inches closer to the money bubble.