We witnessed the second day of Event 27 yesterday along with the Events 28-30 inc. all taking place. There were many notable high stakes pros at the SCOOP tables including Isildur1 and $tinger 88 as well as top MTT players such as Moorman1 and Andy MCLEOD. The most notable name to win a SCOOP title yesterday was high stakes mixed game specialist, Shawn "buck21" Buchanan, who scooped a victory in Event 28-H, $2,100 Razz.
Event 27-M, $109 NLHE [$300k Gtd]
Entrants: 4992, Prize pool: $499,200
1st place: dean23price (United Kingdom) - $78,316.26
2nd place: Takezo1980 (Netherlands) - $58,156.80
3rd place: Drew M Scott (Canada) - $41,184
4th place: rku4 (Russia) - $28,204.80
5th place: jurata_PL (Poland) - $21,216
6th place: gull666 (United Kingdom) - $16,224
7th place: chr1spy (Ireland) - $11,232
8th place: 00scottmcg00 (United Kingdom) - $6,240
9th place: Zenit_07/08 (Russia) - $3,993.60
This is Dean "dean23price" Price's second SCOOP victory and it puts him into a list of just thirteen people who have captured more than one SCOOP title. He went into the heads-up encounter holding a near 2-1 chip lead but his Dutch opponent closed the gap very quickly before the Brit pulled away and captured the title.
Event 27-H, $1,050 NLHE [$600k Gtd]
Entrants: 1179, Prize pool: $1,179,000, * denotes a three-way deal
1st place: Hans-jörg029 (Austria) - $167,321.23 *
2nd place: APD0290 (Canada) - $151,265.70 *
3rd place: zcedrick (Spain) - $158,082.77 *
4th place: AQUA RAIDER (Canada) - $84,888
5th place: NhFy (Sweden) - $58,950
6th place: Weekender74 (U.K.) - $47,160
7th place: ely_cash41 (Mexico) - $35,370
8th place: Trommelochse (Germany) - $23,580
9th place: 1Lacky7 (Russia) - $14,148
The heads-up action only lasted three hands: Hans-jörg029 held QJo on a AcQc8h flop which was checked with APD0290 holding Kc7c for the nut flush draw. The Qd came on the turn which APD0290 called his opponent's three-bet. The Jc came on the turn giving him a flush but his opponent a full house and thus all the money went in a cooler.
Event 28-H, $2,100 Razz [$100k Gtd]
Entrants: 81, Prize pool: $162,000
1st place: Shawn "buck21" Buchanan (Canada) - $44,145
2nd place: sulbystar (UK) - $29,970
3rd place: Mrdawwe (Sweden) - $22,680
4th place: grapenuts (Canada) - $15,390
5th place: BigRiskky (Canada) - $11,340
6th place: villepn (Finland) - $8,505
7th place: buzzard1881 (Canada) - $6,885
8th place: ___akun___333 (Poland) - $5,265
buck21 went into the heads-up match with a slight chip lead and with his impressive tournament record he was always the favourite to win the title. This is his first SCOOP title to add to his WCOOP title which he won in 2007, winning Event 19 ($530 PLO) for $97k. He also has a great live tournament record with live tournament winnings exceeding $4.6 million.
Event 29-M, $109+R NLHE [Big Antes, $300k Gtd]
Entrants: 1660, currently 19 players on 3 tables
Total prize pool: $491,400 (1660 entries, 1879 re-buys, 1375 add-ons)
Notable players remaining: djk123 (3rd), pistons87 (5th), matt20 (6th)
Event 29-H, $1050+R NLHE [Big Antes, $400k Gtd]
Entrants: 277, currently 15 players on 2 tables
Total prize pool: $778,000 (277 entries, 249 re-buys, 252 add-ons)
Notable players remaining: zugzwang16 (7th), JackOrsen72 (9th), TheoJ (11th), Matfrankland (12th), ThePateychuk (13th)
Event 30-M, $215 NLHE [6-max, SuperKnockout, Turbo, $200k Gtd]
Entrants: 3664, Prize pool: $377,392, Bounty pool: $377,392
1st place: neto gol (Brazil) - $58,497.82
2nd place: Runninggreat (Canada) - $42,645.29
3rd place: C. Darwin2 (Sweden) - $31,323.53
4th place: c0mte (Finland) - $20,001.77
5th place: EaX40 (United Kingdom) - $12,106.73
6th place: carlitos350 (Colombia) - $6,604.36
neto gol dominated the action once it got four-handed doing lots of shoving and forcing the others to fold; he went into heads-up with a more than 12-1 chip lead and won it in just four hands. He got lucky as his opponent called with K4 which was ahead of his 86 but he spiked an 8 on the river to win the title.
Event 30-H, $2,100 NLHE [6-max, SuperKnockout, Turbo, $400k Gtd]
Entrants: 661, Prize pool: $677,525, Bounty pool: $677,525, ** denotes four-way deal
1st place: bleu329 (Thailand) $93,438.50**
2nd place: pmahoney22 (Mexico) $85,817.71**
3rd place: Nick "FU_15" Maimone (Honduras) $85,615.51**
4th place: Gonzalez259 (Germany) $75,584.78**
5th place: OBVAMENTS (Mexico) $33,876.25
6th place: G1a1u1s1s (Brazil) $21,071.02
bleu329 and pmahoney22 had both reached a SCOOP final table before and they were evenly stacked heading into the heads-up battle. Neither of them had won the title before but it took only two hands to determine the winner with bleu329 flopping top pair against his opponent's bottom two pair. All the chips went in on the flop but fortunately for the Thai player, the board hit a running running pair to give him the victory and make it Thailand's first victory this SCOOP series.
We will update you on the results of Event 29 and today's SCOOP tournaments in our SCOOP report tomorrow.