The two day SCOOP 2012 Main Event tournaments began on Sunday May 20th. Play was halted at the conclusion of level 20 (10 hours) and resumed early this afternoon. After two weeks worth of events, and many players entering many of the available events, a mere 10 hour first day was welcomed by those who made it that far.
Medium Buy in Main Event Recap
The medium buy in tournament ended up more than doubling the $1.5 million guaranteed prize amount when 3,567 players each put up $1,050 to contest the first place prize of over half a million dollars.
The final table began with ministerborg holding the lead. He held 12.9 million chips, while the next highest stack was hunwei with 10.8 million:
Seat 1: scrooch025 (5374699 in chips)
Seat 2: ministerborg (12915172 in chips)
Seat 3: hunwei (10798611 in chips)
Seat 4: PSÄ! (4699534 in chips)
Seat 5: dknight10 (4307429 in chips)
Seat 6: Korn2005 (3558888 in chips)
Seat 7: carrycakes (4699546 in chips)
Seat 8: suarez_BG (4282408 in chips)
Seat 9: IRLMedic (2868713 in chips)
The third place finisher ended up being hunwei, when his QQ in the hole couldn’t out race the Ace-King of ministerborg:
PokerStars Hand #80814918182: Tournament #2012050402, $1000+$50 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level XLV (150000/300000) – 2012/05/21 19:51:50 ET
Table ‘2012050402 32’ 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: ministerborg (22994950 in chips)
Seat 3: hunwei (16784134 in chips)
Seat 8: suarez_BG (13725916 in chips)
ministerborg: posts the ante 37500
hunwei: posts the ante 37500
suarez_BG: posts the ante 37500
hunwei: posts small blind 150000
suarez_BG: posts big blind 300000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
ministerborg: raises 300000 to 600000
hunwei: raises 900000 to 1500000
suarez_BG: folds
ministerborg: raises 1645400 to 3145400
hunwei: raises 2554600 to 5700000
ministerborg: raises 17257450 to 22957450 and is all-in
hunwei: calls 11046634 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (6210816) returned to ministerborg
*** FLOP *** [4d 3s Ah]
*** TURN *** [4d 3s Ah] [Jd]
*** RIVER *** [4d 3s Ah Jd] [As]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
hunwei: shows [Qd Qh] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
ministerborg: shows [Ad Kc] (three of a kind, Aces)
ministerborg collected 33905768 from pot
hunwei finished the tournament in 3rd place and received $296061.00.
Heads up play for the SCOOP Main Event Champion title began with ministerborg holding a 3-1 chip lead against suarez_BG. Small pots were traded back and forth, with mnisterborg winning the majority of the smaller pots, and suarez_BG a number of the larger ones.
The first all in and call since heads up started ended up with suarez_BG doubling up with Ace-Ten offsuit against the Ace-Seven offsuit of ministerborg. With that 34.2 million chip pot win, suarez_BG took a solid lead with 34.2 million in chips against ministerborg’s 19.3 million.
Ministerborg was quick to strike back, getting all in with pocket tens against suarez_BG’s Ace-King. His tens lead the whole way as the board ran out T-A-K-9-Q.
Once again it was ministerborg winning the majority of pots, mostly the smaller ones. Suarez_BG won a few large pots in a row, and suddenly the chipstacks were even at approximately 27 million chips each. Suarez_BG then went on a tear, winning pot after pot, both large and medium sized ones. On the final hand where suarez_BG held a chip advantage of 41.6M to 11.8M, he raised all in with pocket fives and was called by ministerborg’s unsuited Ace-Queen. The board failed to pair ministerborg and suarez_BG ended up the champion. He won just over $560,000 for his win, while ministerborg won $417,339 for his efforts.
Results: SCOOP 2012 Main Event – Medium buy in $1,050, $1.5 Million guaranteed
Entrants: 3,567 Prize Pool: $3,567,000
1. suarez_BG (Bulgaria) $560,019
2. ministerborg (Denmark) $417,339
3. hunwei (Australia) $296,061
4. PSÄ! (Malta) $205,102
5. carrycakes (Mexico) $152,703
6. scrooch025 (Belgium) $115,927
7. dknight10 (Costa Rica) $80,257
8. Korn2005 (Canada) $44,587
9. IRLMedic (Ireland) $28,536
High Roller Main Event Recap
The high stakes SCOOP 2012 Main Event tournament featured a staggeringly high buy in of $10,300. 517 players showed up, good enough double the $2.5M guaranteed prize pool. A number of PokerStars pros participated in this event, including: Ivan Demidov, Humberto Brenes, ElkY, Isildur1, johnduhamel, nanonoko and aakkari. The best PokerStars pro finisher was aakkari of Brazil, with a 16th place $41,360 prize finish.
Three handed with fairly even stacks, action was paused while players discussed a deal. GripDsNutz on the short stack (2.16M) was only interested in an even chop. Before PokerStars support stepped in all three players had tentatively agreed to this. But shortly after they responded, the chip leader, sp00led, at 3.19M chips said “backer said no. we have to work a better deal”.
Sp00led offered an even chop, plus playing for $80,000 as the Championship prize rather than the minimum $50,000. Still, GripDsNutz held firm on getting an even chop for the maximum amount, despite holding the shortest stack and 50% less chips than the current chip leader. Eventually they settled on $718,675 each, and paying $80k for the winner of the tournament.
It was sosickPL who ended up being the first to get knocked out after the deal, when his pocket eights fell to the nines of GripDsNutz.
Now heads up, sp00led jokingly asked to chop the $80k first prize, as he was out chipped nearly 4 to 1.
The heads up battle was a good demonstration of skilled, aggressive play. Chips flew back and forth with neither player wanting to give up an edge to the other. Sp00led clawed his way back into it, nearly evening up the chip counts at 3.3 million to GripDsNutz’ 4.46 million.
Sp00led took the chip lead the first time during heads up with a great hero call against the relentless three barrel bluffs by GripDsNutz:
PokerStars Hand #80819810737: Tournament #2012050403, $10000+$300 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level XXXV (20000/40000) – 2012/05/21 22:46:41 ET
Table ‘2012050403 37’ 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 8: sp00led (3208217 in chips)
Seat 9: GripDsNutz (4546783 in chips)
sp00led: posts the ante 5000
GripDsNutz: posts the ante 5000
GripDsNutz: posts small blind 20000
sp00led: posts big blind 40000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
GripDsNutz: raises 40000 to 80000
sp00led: calls 40000
*** FLOP *** [Kh Kc 6c]
sp00led: checks
GripDsNutz: bets 74645
sp00led: calls 74645
*** TURN *** [Kh Kc 6c] [7s]
sp00led: checks
GripDsNutz: bets 198465
sp00led: calls 198465
*** RIVER *** [Kh Kc 6c 7s] [5s]
sp00led: checks
GripDsNutz: bets 435345
sp00led: calls 435345
*** SHOW DOWN ***
GripDsNutz: shows [9d Qh] (a pair of Kings)
sp00led: shows [3s 6s] (two pair, Kings and Sixes)
sp00led collected 1586910 from pot
In the end, it was GripDsNutz who claimed the PokerStars SCOOP 2012 Main Event High Roller Championship title. Pocket sixes will surely be his new favorite hand as they propelled him to winning nearly $800,000 in the tournament!
Results: SCOOP 2012 Main Event – High Roller buy in $10,300, $2.5 Million guaranteed
Entrants: 517 Prize Pool: $5,170,000
* denotes deal altered payout
1. GripDsNutz (Costa Rica) $798,675*
2. sp00led (Canada) $718,675*
3. sosickPL (Poland) $718,675*
4. UrMySponsor (Germany) $403,260
5. wizowizo (Germany) $284,350
6. hotmark777 (Lebanon) $219,725
7. r4st4f4ri (Germany) $168,025
8. römpsä (Finland) $116,325
9. B4d3m3!st3r (Germany) $85,822
Low Buy-in Main Event Recap
In the low buy in event, the final table began with a near tie for the chip lead. Flowstone80’s 55.2 million chip stack was just barely ahead of FrandsenDK’s 54.5 million:
Seat 1: jonath3501 (18550347 in chips)
Seat 2: flowstone80 (55184415 in chips)
Seat 3: FrandsenDK (54458130 in chips)
Seat 4: luznypapa (32000000 in chips)
Seat 5: slavOuchka (36206155 in chips)
Seat 6: john_tri80 (43352424 in chips)
Seat 7: T_Dot_D (37939308 in chips)
Seat 8: MrWeesy (10663332 in chips)
Seat 9: Fiskin1 (43565889 in chips)
The first final table casualty was MrWeesy, after his Ace-three fell to the pocket jacks of T_Dot_D:
PokerStars Hand #80809650237: Tournament #2012050401, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level LIII (800000/1600000) – 2012/05/21 17:52:42 ET
Table ‘2012050401 936′ 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: jonath3501 (18054392 in chips)
Seat 2: flowstone80 (46283583 in chips)
Seat 3: FrandsenDK (47033130 in chips)
Seat 4: luznypapa (27400000 in chips)
Seat 5: slavOuchka (20606155 in chips)
Seat 6: john_tri80 (86810379 in chips)
Seat 7: T_Dot_D (32014808 in chips)
Seat 8: MrWeesy (17576664 in chips)
Seat 9: Fiskin1 (36140889 in chips)
T_Dot_D: posts small blind 800000
MrWeesy: posts big blind 1600000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Fiskin1: folds
jonath3501: folds
flowstone80: folds
FrandsenDK: folds
luznypapa: folds
slavOuchka: folds
john_tri80: folds
T_Dot_D: raises 1615000 to 3215000
MrWeesy: raises 14161664 to 17376664 and is all-in
T_Dot_D: calls 14161664
*** FLOP *** [Ts 7c 2c]
*** TURN *** [Ts 7c 2c] [5s]
*** RIVER *** [Ts 7c 2c 5s] [5h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
T_Dot_D: shows [Jd Jh] (two pair, Jacks and Fives)
MrWeesy: shows [Ad 3s] (a pair of Fives)
T_Dot_D collected 36553328 from pot
MrWeesy finished the tournament in 9th place and received $13276.80.
The next elimination happened shortly thereafter, when john_tri80’s unimproved Ace-King was good enough to beat slavOuchka’s Ten-Nine offsuit:
PokerStars Hand #80810857154: Tournament #2012050401, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level LIV (1000000/2000000) – 2012/05/21 18:16:58 ET
Table ‘2012050401 936′ 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: jonath3501 (9504392 in chips)
Seat 2: flowstone80 (32933583 in chips)
Seat 3: FrandsenDK (41783135 in chips)
Seat 4: luznypapa (23850000 in chips)
Seat 5: slavOuchka (29622821 in chips)
Seat 6: john_tri80 (91993713 in chips)
Seat 7: T_Dot_D (81241467 in chips)
Seat 9: Fiskin1 (20990889 in chips)
slavOuchka: posts small blind 1000000
john_tri80: posts big blind 2000000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
T_Dot_D: folds
Fiskin1: folds
jonath3501: folds
flowstone80: folds
FrandsenDK: folds
luznypapa: folds
slavOuchka: raises 27372821 to 29372821 and is all-in
john_tri80: calls 27372821
*** FLOP *** [4h 8h 5s]
*** TURN *** [4h 8h 5s] [4c]
*** RIVER *** [4h 8h 5s 4c] [Qh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
slavOuchka: shows [Ts 9h] (a pair of Fours)
john_tri80: shows [Kh Ad] (a pair of Fours – Ace kicker)
john_tri80 collected 60745642 from pot
slavOuchka finished the tournament in 8th place and received $19915.20.
Players continued to drop off and at three handed play talk of a deal between the remaining competitors was brought up.
FrandsenDK on the short stack wanted 150k to make a deal, which was just slightly more than the 148k his stack was worth according to ICM. Fiskin1 the chip leader was set on a chip chop only, which neither other player was interested in.
Shortly after play resumed, Fiskin1 lost a huge pot, and with it, the chip lead:
PokerStars Hand #80812454560: Tournament #2012050401, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level LV (1250000/2500000) – 2012/05/21 18:50:15 ET
Table ‘2012050401 936′ 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 3: FrandsenDK (77350839 in chips)
Seat 6: john_tri80 (93808421 in chips)
Seat 9: Fiskin1 (160760740 in chips)
FrandsenDK: posts the ante 312500
john_tri80: posts the ante 312500
Fiskin1: posts the ante 312500
FrandsenDK: posts small blind 1250000
john_tri80: posts big blind 2500000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Fiskin1: raises 2500000 to 5000000
FrandsenDK: raises 7800000 to 12800000
john_tri80: folds
Fiskin1: raises 147648240 to 160448240 and is all-in
FrandsenDK: calls 64238339 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (83409901) returned to Fiskin1
*** FLOP *** [Qh Tc 7d]
*** TURN *** [Qh Tc 7d] [Ac]
*** RIVER *** [Qh Tc 7d Ac] [4c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FrandsenDK: shows [Qs Qc] (three of a kind, Queens)
Fiskin1: shows [4h 4s] (three of a kind, Fours)
FrandsenDK collected 157514178 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Fransden, with his newfound chip lead, asked if players now want to chipchop. But neither of the other players replied.
Fiskin1 ended up finishing in 3rd place after his pocket 5’s were edged out by john_tri80’s pocket sevens:
PokerStars Hand #80812517204: Tournament #2012050401, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level LVI (1500000/3000000) – 2012/05/21 18:51:38 ET
Table ‘2012050401 936′ 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 3: FrandsenDK (152826678 in chips)
Seat 6: john_tri80 (90995921 in chips)
Seat 9: Fiskin1 (88097401 in chips)
FrandsenDK: posts the ante 375000
john_tri80: posts the ante 375000
Fiskin1: posts the ante 375000
john_tri80: posts small blind 1500000
Fiskin1: posts big blind 3000000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
FrandsenDK: raises 3000000 to 6000000
john_tri80: calls 4500000
Fiskin1: raises 81722401 to 87722401 and is all-in
FrandsenDK: folds
john_tri80: calls 81722401
*** FLOP *** [7c Ac Jh]
*** TURN *** [7c Ac Jh] [9d]
*** RIVER *** [7c Ac Jh 9d] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
john_tri80: shows [7s 7h] (three of a kind, Sevens)
Fiskin1: shows [5c 5h] (a pair of Fives)
john_tri80 collected 182569802 from pot
Fiskin1 finished the tournament in 3rd place and received $110640.00.
*** SUMMARY ***
Now heads up, a deal was quickly struck. The final hand where the Champion was crowned and given the remaining $30,000 went down shortly afterwards, with john_tri80 making a good hero call on the river with second pair:
PokerStars Hand #80813949645: Tournament #2012050401, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level LVII (2000000/4000000) – 2012/05/21 19:26:34 ET
Table ‘2012050401 936’ 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 3: FrandsenDK (125578356 in chips)
Seat 6: john_tri80 (206341644 in chips)
FrandsenDK: posts the ante 500000
john_tri80: posts the ante 500000
FrandsenDK: posts small blind 2000000
john_tri80: posts big blind 4000000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
FrandsenDK: calls 2000000
john_tri80: checks
*** FLOP *** [Ad 7s Js]
john_tri80: checks
FrandsenDK: bets 4000000
john_tri80: calls 4000000
*** TURN *** [Ad 7s Js] [2s]
john_tri80: checks
FrandsenDK: bets 9000000
john_tri80: calls 9000000
*** RIVER *** [Ad 7s Js 2s] [3h]
john_tri80: bets 16000000
FrandsenDK: raises 92078356 to 108078356 and is all-in
john_tri80: calls 92078356
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FrandsenDK: shows [5d 3d] (a pair of Threes)
john_tri80: shows [8c Jd] (a pair of Jacks)
john_tri80 collected 251156712 from pot
FrandsenDK finished the tournament in 2nd place and received $187000.00.
john_tri80 wins the tournament and receives $198725.75 – congratulations!
Results of SCOOP Main Event – Low buy in $109, $1M guaranteed
Entrants: 22,128 Prize Pool: $2,212,800
* Denotes deal altered payout
1. john_tri80 (Greece) $198,725*
2. Frandsen (Denmark) $187,000*
3. Fiskin1 (UK) $110,640
4. T_Dot_D (Canada) $88,512
5. flowstone80 (Germany) $66,384
6. luznypapa (Poland) $44,256
7. jonath3501 (UK) $31,089
8. slavOuchka (New Zealand) $19,915
9. MrWeesy (Germany) $13,276
Good game all and good luck next year at SCOOP 2013!