Sousa Scoops Day 1 Chip Lead in SCOOP 85-H: $1,050 PKO Thursday Thrill SE With 61 Players Left
After almost nine hours, Day 1 of the PokerStars SCOOP 85-H: $1,050 PKO Thursday Thrill SE has come to an end with 61 players out of 1,047 entries making it through to Day 2. The tournament was part of the extended schedule and is one of the ones with a whopping $1,000,000 guarantee and surpassed this as all those entries created a prize pool of $1,047,000. Out of all those players, 127 players would cash for at least 41,11 (excluding any bounties they have earned). The winner will eventually walk away with $73,597 and the bounties they have collected on the way to victory including their own.
Claiming the Day 1 chip lead is Rui "sousinha23" Sousa who hails from Portugal but resides in Croatia. He finished the day with an incredible 8,974,565 chips which is more than double than what the second place currently has. He earned most of those chips when he scooped a huge double-up through Alisson "heyalisson" Piekazewicz who had been chip leading the tournament for most of the day. Piekazewicz had rivered a flush when she called Sousa's shove who had turned the full house.
Sousa is followed in the counts by "G A W" (4,004,932), "Neyko348" (3,510,006), "DaanOss" (3,390,550), and Jamie "Ship It 2010" O'Connor with 3,384,432. But there are many more notable names to pick in the list of players to keep an eye on. Players like Jakob "Succeeed" Miegel, Kyriakos "9cream4" Papadopoulos, Mike "gorodski" Gorodinsky, Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves, Scott "D_DIGGLER99" Hill, Nick “justnl2” Lampropoulos, and Pete “psxfrcndhe" Chen are just some of the more familiar names and faces left in the field.
Mateusz "KeyserMM" Moolhuizen was responsible for bursting the bubble when he took out "juswhackit and then all the eliminations starting flying in. Moolhuizen himself also failed to make it through to Day 2. Piekazewicz busted as the last player of the day and cashed for $1,805 plus $6,406 in bounties. Other notable names to have cashed today include Eder "edercampana" Campana, Michael "Skämmes" Tureniec, Ivan "Negriin" Luca, Calvin "cal42688" Anderson, Jareth "jareth3542" East, Oliver "sk2ll_m0dR" Weis, Ryhor "Grisha1983" Karapanau, Jonathan "Corback_fr" Therme, Shawn "buck21" Buchanan and Kevin "torino2000" Killeen for example.
When the players return at 1 p.m. EST on Friday, May 22, they will finish the last seven minutes of Level 24 which features a small blind of 17,500, big blind of 35,000, and a running ante of 4,500. Play will continue until a new SCOOP champion has been found and PokerNews will be there for it all so make sure to return to follow along.
, Sousa check-called the 91,410 continuation-bet of Piekazewicz. 
and Sousa took over the initiative and led out for 102,840 which Piekazewicz called.
, Sousa continued with a bet of 198,280 and Piekazewicz raised it up to 1,075,000 for Sousa to shove for 3,002,507 which Piekazewicz called with 
for the flush but Sousa held 
for the turned full house to double up and take the chip lead.
, Piekazewicz check-raised the 50,000 continuation-bet of Karapanau to 150,000 which was called.
, Piekazewicz check-called the 150,000 bet of Karapanau.
and Piekazewicz checked for the last time. Karapanau shoved for 319,025 and Piekazewicz called. Karapanau tabled 
, "josip1313" checked again and this time Zilberknop made it a bet of 170,940 which "josip1313" called.
. "josip1313" checked for the last time. Zilberknop shoved for 722,850 and "josip1313" called. Zilberknop held 
for trip sixes but "josip1313" had 
for the full house to bust Zilberknop.
for the pair of tens and open-ended straight draw. Moolhuizen held 
for Moolhuizen to burst the bubble by eliminating "juswhackit".
and "RUMUKULUS" checked again. "cha jin jin" bet 43,348 and this time "RUMUKULUS" raised it up to 145.644 for "cha jin jin" to shove for 553,250 which "RUMUKULUS" called.
for quads and this left "cha jin jin" drawing dead.
to seal the deal for "RUMUKULUS" to collect another bounty.
for Maasberg to hit two pair but for "Onny87" to make the straight.
which didn't help Maasberg as he was looking for another jack or ten to stay alive.
to send Maasberg to the rail.
