Towards the end of the night, Leandro "leitalopez" Bustillo had hovered around half a million and he ended up at risk with the on a flop. Bustillo's button raise was called by "Lassiole" in the big blind, who check-raised and called the shove with for the same top pair.
The kicker played a crucial role as the turn and river gave "Lassiole" a straight.
Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza saw his stack reduced to crumbs in the last hands as his got flushed by "danechka191" who got there with on a board.
"Lindskoug47" lost the remainder of his short stack with as "Passiveaggro" looked him up with and spiked the four on a board.
Also gone is Daniel Charlton. His may have flopped trips queens but the of "pudelpower" were one notch better on a board of .
A the clock ticks down for Day 1, fewer than 100 players remain.
Just a few minutes ago, Andras "probirs" Nemeth took over the lead and seemed poised to be the chip leader overnight. But it all came to a crashing end and the Hungarian highroller has been eliminated!
"mandan1979" opened to 50,000 and Nemeth three-bet to 200,000 on the button, which "mandan1979" called. On the flop and turn they both check and at that point, "mandan1979" still has nearly 1.3 million behind. They head to the river and "mandan1979" check-called the shove of Nemeth who flipped over the which "mandan1979" had beat with .
That was a big pot already, however, Nemeth was still in the lead with 4.3 million. Until he clashed again with "mandan1979" ... .
"mandan1979" raised to 50,000 and Nemeth, now in the cutoff, three-bet to 175,000. "ivan limeira" jammed for 493,416 and "mandan1979" clicked it up to 925,000. The raising war ended with a shove by Nemeth and instant call of "mandan1979".
probirs loses a big pot
The next few hands on the table aren't as crazy and Nemeth lost some chips, won some back and had 1.2 million behind.
"bukharkov777" made it 53,000 to go from the cutoff and Nemeth came along out of the big blind. They headed to the flop on which Nemeth check-raised from 47,750 to 128,023. He could not force a fold, instead "bukharkov777" came along and faced a bet of 201,898 on the turn. bukharkov777 raised to 575,000 and Nemeth tossed in calling chips to leave himself with half a million chips behind.
The fell on the river and a shove by Nemeth with ran into the stone-cold nuts, as "bukharkov777" had rivered the royal flush with .
After an incredibly fast-paced final few minutes, only 93 players remain with chips at their disposal and will be back for Day 2 as of 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The chip counts and a recap of today's action are to follow.
Simon Mattsson among the big names qualified for Day 2
Another Progressive Knockout tournament of the 2020 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) ensured a lot of action on the third day of the festival and Event #10-H: $1,050 NLHE drew a total of 1,157 entries, easily surpassing the initial guarantee. Even the 890 unique entries would have sufficed but an additional 267 re-entries boosted the prize pool to $1,157,000, of which the top 143 spots locked up a portion of the cash pool.
After the completion of 8h30 of play, only 93 players made it through in the hopes of scoring further bounty prizes and potentially claiming the top prize of $79,644.69. Romania's "mandan1979" topped the counts as only player above five million and has 5,080,902 to his name. He is followed by Lithuania's "Mikensonas" with 4,365,087 and third-placed "jorginho88" is trailing by quite a margin with 3,023,682.
Other big stacks and notables that made it through are "bukharkov777" (2,957,914), "Passiveaggro" (1,698,609), Ariel "ArielBahia" Celestino (1,296,197), Manuel "manuverd0n" Bardon (1,031,526), Swedish phenomena Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson (977,912), as well as the three former EPT Main Event champions Robin "robinho" Ylitalo (1,153,065), Andrey "ThePateychuk" Pateychuk (1,142,296) and Rob "batoelrob" Hollink (718,459).
Two-time SCOOP Main Event champion Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza will also return for Day 2, however, he will be the shortest stack with just 76,694 after losing an overpair against a flushdraw at the very end.
The bubble burst in the late stages of the night and one player in particular stood out, though he in fact didn't even make it through to Day 2. Andras "probirs" Nemeth was one of many participants that needed to fire a second bullet and ran that one up to a big stack. He burst the bubble after rivering a straight with ten-six versus ace-queen and doubled into an impressive lead with fewer than half an hour to go for the night.
Nemeth then doubled eventual chip leader "mandan1979" twice in quick succession and when his nine-four suited hit running spades for a flush in another big pot, the Hungarian High Roller regular ran into the royal flush of "bukharkhov" to go from chip leader to 102nd place finisher in extraordinary fashion. Nemeth collected $1,489.46 in cash and $7,656.25 in bounty prizes for his efforts.
Andras \"probirs\" Nemeth
None of the four PokerStars ambassadors made it to the cash money stage either, though, Lex "L-Veldhuis" Veldhuis, Ben "Spraggy" Spragg, Fintan "easywithaces" Hand and Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas all earned bounty prizes. Veldhuis was among the early big stacks but his ace-jack was flushed away by the ace-nine suited of "Sasuke234".
Many other big names came and left without much to show for either such as Niklas "Lena900" Astedt, Pedro "PaDiLhA SP" Padilha, Patrick "pads1161" Leonard, Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet, Jerry "Perrymejsen" Odeen, Jack "Swaggersorus” Sinclair, and Event #2-H champion Jorryt "TheCleaner11" van Hoof.
The smallest bounty up for grabs stands at $500 thus far while the largest one is worth $6,375. Returning blinds will be 15-000/30,000 with a running ante of 3,750 and the tournament will play down to a champion on May 3rd, 2020, as of 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Who will be next to collect a SCOOP title for his resume? Find out right here on PokerNews as we provide all the action from start-to-finish.
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