At 5:05 p.m. GMT, the 2021 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) will see the final day of SCOOP-53-M: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, Thursday Thrill], $1M GTD resume with 142 returning of the 1,178 entries. This tournament killed the guarantee with a prize pool of $1,178,000 and the eventual winner will be pulling in $80,877 plus their bounties collected along the way.
Leading the way into Day 2 is Canada's Martin "marlin5555" Raus who is sitting atop the leaderboard with 3,827,396. Raus secured the chip lead during the last hand of the night when his pocket nines held on versus ace-eight of Thorsten "juicetus" Legit who ended up finishing as the first player to cash the event.
Top 10 Chip Counts After Day 1 of SCOOP-53-M: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, Thursday Thrill], $1M GTD
| Position | Player | Country | Bounty | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|
| 1 | Martin "marlin5555" Raus | Canada | $3,750.00 | 3,827,396 | 239 |
| 2 | DubbCitySauce | United Kingdom | $4,187.50 | 3,372,109 | 211 |
| 3 | langace66 | Hungary | $1,875.00 | 2,533,984 | 158 |
| 4 | disquesi! | Andorro | $4,375.00 | 2,221,647 | 139 |
| 5 | Diogo "offQbert45" Ferreira | Brazil | $1,312.50 | 2,017,985 | 126 |
| 6 | Donborno3250 | Denmark | $2,187.50 | 1,969,069 | 123 |
| 7 | neeno1990 | Austria | $2,484.38 | 1,930,116 | 121 |
| 8 | dasslo007 | Netherlands | $2,187.50 | 1,834,074 | 115 |
| 9 | Vitaliy "Witalii" Pankov | Russia | $3,125.00 | 1,754,734 | 110 |
| 10 | jeyduverne | Argentina | $3,000.00 | 1,737,162 | 109 |
Fiogo "offQbert45" Ferreira (2,017,9850, Vitaliy "Witalii" Pankov, and Popular streamer Brian "TrueGeordie" Davis (1,721,512) will all be startiung the day with an overly healthy-sized stack as they look to secure a deep run here in this scoop event.
Many notable players will be starting the final day with some chips and that list includes Chris "Moorman1" Moorman, Matheus "zilbee" Zilberknop, Aliaksei "ale6ka" Boika, Bruno "brunilsks" Borges, Espen "Hymn2Ninkasi" Jorstad, Ramon "ZéDoBlefe11" Sorgatto, Matveychuk "MinReraise" Roman, Viktor "papan9_p$" Ustimov, Conor "1_conor_b_1" Beresford, and Mike "SirWatts" Watson.
One player highlighting the field is Team PokerStars ambassador Lasse "Wistern" Jagd Lauritsen who just signed on with the site last week but is already making waves in the poker community. Jagd Lauritsen will be starting with a below-average 465,380 stack but the slow structure is sure to give him some wiggly room as he attempts to make a deep run.
The 142 players will be returning today, Saturday, April 17 at 5:05 p.m. GMT to battle down to a winner with blinds resuming at 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante. All runners will be guaranteed at least a min-cash of $1,187 but all will have their eyes set on those juicy bounties up for grabs, along with the $80,877 first-place prize up for grabs.
The PokerNews team will be bringing all of the updates on Day 2, so stay tuned as the action unfolds.
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and the cowboys of "JACKPOT786" scooped the pot, dropping "pappos_11" from the field early.
