The Hunt Begins Shortly in SCOOP-62-H: $5,200 NLHE [8-Max, PKO, High Roller] $1M Gtd
More progressive knockout action is on the schedule Thursday in the PokerStars 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), as Event #62-H: $5,200 NLHE [8-Max, PKO, High Roller] looks to get underway at 1 p.m. ET.
The tournament features a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million and is sure to see many of the best No-Limit Hold’em players in the world contend for the prestige and six-figure payday that will accompany victory in this event. Players will be battling over two days in a progressive knockout format, where half of each player’s buy-in will be placed atop their heads as bounties. Each time someone earns a knockout, they receive half of that player’s bounty, while the other half is added to their own head.
Up to two re-entries are available within the late registration period, which will last sharply five hours and five minutes. Players receive starting stacks of 250,000, with blinds beginning at 1,200/2,400/300 and increasing every 20 minutes through the first 18 levels of play. Blinds will then increase to 30 minutes in length for the rest of the tournament, with play concluding for the day when the field reaches the money.
Yesterday, players such as Steve “Mr. Tim Caum” O’Dwyer, Andras “probers” Nemeth, Tyler “Wonderboy222” Goatcher, Patrick “pads1161” Leonard were among those to add their names to the list of 2020 SCOOP champions across various tournaments. More will do so today as this tournament makes its way towards Day 2, which will resume Friday at 1 p.m. ET and play down to a winner.
PokerNews will be guiding you through the field with updates on the action as it all unfolds, so be sure to stick around.
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and river 
left his set of jacks best, scoring the early double knockout and finding an early chip lead of 732,000.
to give Reeves a set of tens. The turn 
left Papazian's kings no good and he was sent to the rail for a couple of moments, having since moved onto his second entry in the tournametn.
and "L1veYrdrEamS" made a continuation-bet of 43,800. Stokkan called and the turn came 
. "L1veYrdrEamS" continued with a second barrel of 54,000 and Stokkan raised all in for the effective 161,500 that "L1veYrdrEamS" had behind in their stack. 
and Karapanau raised to 50,050. "3DTemujiN" called to bring the river 
on board. "3DTemujiN" checked and Karapanau jammed for 189,300, a bet of roughly one-and-a-half times the size of the pot. "3DTemujiN" went into the tank and eventually called.
for a pair of aces and it wound up to be no good as "3DTemujiN" had called correctly with 
, giving Reeves a full house on the flop and leaving Reixach with a no-good flush. Reeves won both the main- and side pots, earning the knockout and taking his stack up to 732,000 as a result. 
