SCOOP-40-H: $5,200 PLO [6-Max], $750K Gtd
Day 1 Completed
PokerStars SCOOP 2020
SCOOP-40-H: $5,200 PLO [6-Max], $750K Gtd
Day: 1
Level 21
: 10,000/20,000, 0 ante
Day 1 of the PokerStars 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker 40-H: $5,200 PLO [6-Max] has come to an end with 19 players making it through to Day. There were 94 unique entries reentering 56 times to create 150 entries in total to reach the $750,000 guaranteed prize pool. All 19 players are already guaranteed $11,047 but will all return to battle it out for that first-place prize of $152,011.
Claiming the Day 1 chip lead is Lauri "Lateski" Varonen with 2,780,996 in chips. Varonen already has a COOP title in possession when he won the $2,100 Hold'em tournament during WCOOP in 2014 but doesn't have a SCOOP one yet. Will this be the one where he claims his first SCOOP title? Varonen is followed by "kjunia" in the counts with 2,570,719. "kjunia" is no stranger to the tournaments with a bigger buy-in with several mentions for them in the recaps of High Rollers and Super Tuesdays. They look to have been around since 2011 with their first cashes recorded back then.
Third in the chip counts is another well-known player: Ignat "0Human0" Liviu with 1,214,973 in chips. Liviu is also know from playing the high stakes cash games and also started playing live tournaments in the past years. Completing the top five are "vovo_leo" (1,064,056) and "soldatikk" with 970,574.
But also keep your eye on "WRUUUM", Connor "blanconegro" Drinan, Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi, Ola "Odd_Oddsen" Amundsgard, and Gavin "gavz101" Cochrane although the latter will be returning to the tables as the short stack with 154,549 in chips. Another name which has been seen a lot during this year's SCOOP are "EEE27" and /"KissMyAcePlz".
Day 1 Action
The day started with ten players in their online "seats" but that number climbed up quite quickly. "kjunia" might have ended second in the counts, their start of the day didn't go too well as they were the first player to bust on the day to Niklas "Lena900" Astedt. Luckily, they only needed one more bullet today. This wasn't the case for players like Yuri "theNERDguy" Martins, Joni "bustoville" Jouhkimainen, Patrick "pads1161" Leonard, Andras "probirs" Nemeth, Laszlo "omaha4rollz" Bujtas, Belarmino “PaGaOVelhinho” de Souza and Astedt who all used three bullets and didn't manage to hit their cards on the board in the end.
Benny "RunGodLike" Glaser tried his luck in this tournament too but gave up after his first bullet when he was eliminated by Amundsgard. When the registration closed, the dust started to clear. Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit fell to "WRUUUM", Ludovic "ludovi333" Geilich ran into Alexey "LuckyGump" Makarov's full house, and Christopher "lissi stinkt" Frank was eliminated by Amundsgard too.
This went on until the final break when there were 21 players left, things started to slow down with the short stacks managing to double or avoid elimination by other players' raises. In the end, "TheBrodie5" busted to "KissMyAcePlz" to get the field down to 20. "rickv17" would become the bubble when they got their last seven blinds in with ace-ace-ten-trey against the king-five-trey-trey of Varonen. But the board would run out eight-seven-six-seven-four to give Varonen the straight to end the tournament for today.
Day 2 Plan
When the players return, they will finish Level 21 which has a small blind of 10,000 and big blind of 20,000. Level duration will remain at 20 minutes until Level 37. Play will resume at 1 p.m. EST on May 10 and continue until someone walks away with the title and the first-place prize that comes with it.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be there from the start until the final pot has been awarded so make sure to follow along.
Level 21
: 10,000/20,000, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,780,996 | |
|
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2,570,719
256,429
|
256,429 |
|
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1,241,973
99,060
|
99,060 |
|
1,064,056
236,600
|
236,600 |
|
970,574
-40,400
|
-40,400 |
|
|
820,829
49,975
|
49,975 |
|
|
798,254
-107,200
|
-107,200 |
|
|
795,601
-117,520
|
-117,520 |
|
|
643,023
61,116
|
61,116 |
|
557,576
225,629
|
225,629 |
|
|
542,666
-22,500
|
-22,500 |
|
|
393,398
-16,640
|
-16,640 |
|
352,628
-227,500
|
-227,500 |
|
|
321,007
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
|
|
289,316
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
284,503
-425,654
|
-425,654 |
|
228,256
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
190,176
-100,000
|
-100,000 |
|
|
154,549
-22,760
|
-22,760 |
Level 21
: 10,000/20,000, 0 ante
Lauri "Lateski" Varonen raised to 60,000 from the small blind and "rickv17" shoved from the big blind for 134,095 which Varonen called.
"rickv17": 
Lauri "Lateski" Varonen: 
The board ran out 
for Varonen to river the straight to burst the bubble and eliminate "rickv17".
The 19 remaining players are now all in the money for $11,047 and will return on May 10 at 1 p.m. EST for Day 2.
A recap is to follow.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
2,780,996
406,095
|
406,095 |
|
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|
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Busted | |
Level 21
: 10,000/20,000, 0 ante
"KissMyAcePlz" raised to 70,000 from the button and "TheBrodie5" pushed their last 71,868 into the pot which "KissMyAcePlz" called.
"TheBrodie5": 
"KissMyAcePlz": 
The board ran out 
for "KissMyAcePlz" to hold with the pair of aces to eliminate "TheBrodie5" in 20th place.
Hand-for-hand play has now started for the bubble.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
351,007
-202,214
|
-202,214 |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 21
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 0
Level 20
: 8,000/16,000, 0 ante
Ignat "0Human0" Liviu raised to 35,360 from the cutoff and "Infestus176" defended their big blind.
The flop came 
, "Infestus176" shoved for 54,768 and Liviu called.
"Infestus176": 
Ignat "0Human0" Liviu: 
The rest of the board was completed with the 
on the turn and the for "Infestus176" to turn the higher flush to double up with.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,142,913
212,315
|
212,315 |
|
|
188,256
21,832
|
21,832 |
Level 20
: 8,000/16,000, 0 ante
Lauri "Lateski" Varonen raised to 48,000 from under the gun and "soldatikk" defended their big blind.
The flop came , "soldatikk" check-called the 60,000 continuation-bet of Varonen.
The turn was the , "soldatikk" checked again and now Varonen bet 160,000 which was called.
The river completed the board with the , both players checked. "soldatikk" tabled 
but Varonen showed 
for two pair to scoop the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
2,374,901
536,680
|
536,680 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,010,974
-363,680
|
-363,680 |
Level 20
: 8,000/16,000, 0 ante
With the bubble approaching, action has slowed down a bit.
Level: 20
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 0