Day 2 of the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Main Events on PokerStars were an enthralling affair that saw all three surpass their guarantees and play down to the money.
Be sure to check out our daily recap from the action at the tables, including a maiden for PokerStars Ambassador Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot and a ninth title for Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson.
Colillas Ninth in Chips with 40 Left in SCOOP 115-H: $10,300 Main Event
Some of the best players entered the SCOOP 115-H: $10,300 Main Event and that field of 534 players has been whittled down to just 40 and they include PokerStars Ambassador Ramon Colillas.
Despite starting yesterday as the chip leader in the SCOOP 115-M Main Event, he fell in a respectable 306th place and was able to pivot and focus his attention on the big one. He’s the only PokerStars Ambassador flying the flag ahead of Day 3, which begins at 17:30 WET and plays down to a final table of nine.
SCOOP 115-H: $10,300 Main Event Top 10 Chip Counts
Leading the survivors is Juan Carlos “B4NKR0LL3R” Vecino who is the only player with an eight-figure stack. He emerged as chip leader midway through the day and held on as the bubble burst and the Day 3 field was set. He tops a field filled with talent that includes the likes of Patrick “pads1161” Leonard, Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo and Jerry “Perrymejsen” Odeen.
| Place | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juan Carlos “B4NKR0LL3R” Vecino | Estonia | 12,324,641 | 176 |
| 2 | Iago “neverstandard” Savino | Brazi | 9,736,630 | 139 |
| 3 | Vyacheslav “VbV1990” Buldygin | Kazakhstan | 8,448,686 | 121 |
| 4 | Tauan “kylix42” Naves | brazil | 6,583,806 | 94 |
| 5 | Dominik “Bounatirou” Nitsche | United Kingdom | 5,767,157 | 82 |
| 6 | Samuel “€urop€an” Vousden | Finland | 5,416,670 | 77 |
| 7 | Mark “AceSpades11” Radoja | canada | 5,179,051 | 74 |
| 8 | Almaz “Alister307” Zhdanov | Belarus | 5,013,535 | 72 |
| 9 | Ramon “RamonColillas” Colillas | Andorra | 4,308,884 | 62 |
| 10 | Peter “pitaoufmg” Patricio | Brazil | 4,169,714 | 60 |
Hand and Grafton Just Miss Out
Just 63 players were guaranteed a min-cash of $23,783, with one unlucky poker player leaving empty-handed.
It appeared that the unlucky player was Espen “Hymn2Ninkasi” Jorstad, who got his last chips in with A♥3♣ against the K♠Q♠ of Tauan “kylix42” Naves. The flop 10♣5♠4♠ gave Naves a flush draw. The turn was the 6♥ but the river 8♠ completed Naves’ flush draw sending Jorstad to the rail. However, at another table , Fabiano “Kovalski1” Kovalski had been eliminated, meaning that Jorstad was, in fact, the recipient of a min-cash.
Two PokerStars Ambassadors finished in the money with Sam “SamSquid” Grafton busting in 57th for $23,783, and Fintan “easywithaces” Hand narrowly missing out on making the final 40, finishing in 44th place for $29,803.
Wistern Makes SCOOP 115-L: $109 Main Event
Less than two weeks ago, PokerStars Ambassador Lasse Jagd Lauritsen — better known as Wistern — tweeted that he was still looking for his first SCOOP Day 2. Well now he’s got a Day 3 to look forward to with just 158 players remaining from a starting field of 23,616.
Wistern has locked up $1,388 and sits 88th in chips with 2,7982,242. He secured a huge double holding pocket kings with 297 players remaining to stay alive.
The chip leader is “sonik4” with over 17 million chips. Other notables still in contention include Rayan “beriuzy” Chamas, Steven “SvZff” van Zadelhoff and Roman “gogac sniper” Hrabec.
The tournament resumes at 17:30 WET on Tuesday evening and plays down to a final table.
Near Miss for Walsh in SCOOP 115-M: $1,050 Main Event
It was a case of so near and yet so far for Nick Walsh, who finally fell in 96th place in the SCOOP 115-M: $1,050 Main Event, just 16 places away from Day 3.
He still picked up $4,675 for his efforts, with the surviving players from a field of 3,993 returning to play down to a final table, with the winner walking away with over $570,000.
The chip leader is “€plov2” with 17 million chips, with familiar faces Dimitar “KuuL” Danchev, Tom “hitthehole” Middleton and Renan “Internett93o” Bruschi still in contention.
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Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for PokerNews as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019.
He graduated from the University of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He also holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism.
