A Champion Will Be Crowned in 2020 SCOOP-43-H $2,100 NLHE PKO
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The next high stakes tournament of the PokerStars 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker will come to a conclusion today and 32 survivors out of a field of 578 entries will return to their virtual seats in SCOOP-43-H: $2,100 NLHE PKO. They have locked up a cash prize of $2,898.09 and the eventual champion is slated to go home with a cash prize of $88,844.76.
"girafganger7", who has already cashed for more than $9.6 million on the virtual MTT tables. Nearly $7.4 million of that has come under his moniker on PokerStars, however, a SCOOP title is missing on his resume so far. The Belgian came close to victory during the 2017 SCOOP when he came second to Gordon "holla@yoboy" Vayo in Event #1-H ($1,050 NLHE) but scored the biggest prize of the five-way deal.
Belgian poker player "girafganger7", who has already cashed for more than $7.4 million in MTT's on PokerStars, will lead the charge with a stack of 5,903,984, followed by Gary "quiditbear" Hasson (5,245,498), Jareth "jareth3542" East (4,548,537), "DEX888" (3,882,161) and "SinKarma" (2,716,236).
Also in contention for a SCOOP title are notables such as Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira (1,921,915), "Pimmss" (1,641,744), Thiago "KKremate" Crema (1,489,228), Morten "-MortenVM-" Mortensen (1,153,017), 2020 SCOOP two-time champion Ilya "Leqenden" Anatsky (745,454) and Eder "edercampana" Campana (340,282).
The action will recommence at 1.05 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and only a handful of minutes remain in Level 24 at blinds of 17,500/35,000 and a running ante of 4,500 before immediately increasing to 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante. For now, the level duration remains at 20 minutes each and will go up to 30 minutes each as of level 37. After each hour of play, all remaining contenders will receive an additional 10 seconds for their time bank and the nine finalists are granted 90 seconds on top.
Stay tuned right here on PokerNews to find out who will become the latest SCOOP champion in the hours to come.