One of the most interesting battles was the one between Artur "mararthur1" Martirosyan and Niklas "Lena900" Astedt. Martirosyan had taken a lead early and finally managed to take all of Astedt's chips in a hand where he limped from the button and called Astedt's raise to 5,600.
The flop came Martirosyan called Astedt's continuation bet for 4,800.
The turn was the and both players checked.
The completed the board on the river and Astedt led with a shove for 23,528, getting a call from Martirosyan. The Russian player showed with two pair and it was enough against Astedt's .
These are the players that are already in Round 2 after less than four levels: Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves, "CatLover666", "Danila4444", "FoxNuts1", "MaTitheone", Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez, and "sipinho13".
"FreeLancerZZ", "beginner27", "lechuckpoker", "razvanel1987", "caaaaamel", and "wubblepig" are the players who are already in Round 2.
Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche also managed to overcome "muumipoiss", and in the last hand he opened to 3,000 from the button getting a call. The flop came and "muumipoiss" check-called for 3,438.
The came on the turn and this time Nitsche made an overbet at 19,689 after his opponent's check, getting another call.
The was the river and Nitsche shoved to see another call from and eliminated his opponent with for two pair.
Two players managed to overcome their opponent before the end of the second level of play. "Fepoker20" sent "Passiveaggro" to the rail and the Dutch player is early out of contesting another SCOOP title in this year's series. In the last hand, "Fepoker20" raised to 1,784 on the button and "Passiveaggro" made it 5,678 to go. "Fepoker20" called and the flop came and "Passiveaggro" check-shoved for 22,721 after "Fepoker20" bet 6,400 getting a quick call.
Fepoker20:
Passiveaggro:
The on the turn and the on the river gave the pot and this round's win to "Fepoker20".
Ole "wizowizo" Schemion is another player who advanced to the second round after beating "Distaples". The last hand was big with Schemion raising to 2,360 and calling his opponent's three-bet to 8,720.
The flop came and Schemion called a c-bet from "Distaples" for 8,845.
The hit the turn and Schemion called again his opponent's bet, this time for 19,690.
The completed the board on the river and Schemion shoved with a covering stack after his opponent's check, getting a call. Schemion opened and it was good against the from "Distaples".
The first level of the event just started and the event's field is finalized to 119 entrants. This means that not all players will find an opponent to play, so that there are 64 players left after the first round.
Among those that weren't paired with player and wait for the first round to finish are Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis and Connor "blanconegro" Drinan.
The second heads-up tournament of the PokerStars 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker is about to begin and an elite field is expected for SCOOP-58-H: $2,100 NLHE [Heads-Up]. This unique event comes with a $200,000 guaranteed prize pool and there is a cap of 128 entrants.
Many big names are already registered and given the fact that there is no late-registration, anyone who wants to play must pay the $2,100 buy-in up until two minutes before the start of the tournament. Among notables are Benjamin "bencb789" Rolle, Dominik "Bounatirou" Nitsche, Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis, Patrick "pads1161" Leonard, Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi, Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira, Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza, Francisco "Tomatee" Benitez, and Ole "wizowizo" Schemion.
The event starts at 2:15 p.m. Eastern Time and every time a player wins a heads-up clash he will have to wait until all other heads-up matches are concluded, in order to move to the next phase of the event.
The blinds start at 400/800 with a 100 ante leveling up every ten minutes and Day 1 will end as soon as there are 8 players left. Those will be the last four heads-up matches, with a winner being crowned on Thursday.
Who will manage to beat every opponent that will stood in his way and ship the prestigious heads-up SCOOP title? Stay tuned here on PokerNews to find out through the updates of the live reporting team.