PokerStars 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker 96-M: $530 Main Event 2nd Chance Starts at 1 PM
At 1 p.m. EST, it's time for the PokerStars 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker 96-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event 2nd Chance] kicks off another 3-day event which comes with a guaranteed prize pool of $1,500,000. Earlier this week, Joao "HayashiJoão" Hayashi took down the SCOOP-74-M: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] by defeating Michael "merla888" Gathy heads-up for $920,067 in a field of 6,475 entries which broke all the previous attendance records.
Who knows who will take this tournament down as it offers players another chance of winning big with a $530 buy-in. As this is the first time that PokerStars has organized a tournament under this moniker, this gives everyone a chance to make their mark in history by becoming the inaugural SCOOP Main Event 2nd Chance Champion. With over a week of tournaments still to come, this is one of the ones that would look good on anyone's online poker resumé.
Players will get 100,000 chips to start with and play 20-minute levels throughout all three days according to the tournament lobby. Players can reenter three times for a total of four entries during the first six hours and 5 minutes of late registration that is possible. There's a 5-minute break every hour at 55 minutes past and Day 1 will end after 8h30. Play should resume at 1:05 p.m. EST on May 25 and end when there are 16 players left. The final day will see those 16 players return at 1:05 p.m. to battle it out to a winner.
PokerNews will be watching the action at the online tables and reporting back here, so keep reading along.
, Lafosse check-raised the 3,520 continuation-bet to 11,200 which "M1TR4ND1R" called.
and Lafosse continued with a bet of 22,000 for "M1TR4ND1R" to call again.
, Lafosse checked and "M1TR4ND1R" bet 27,080. Lafosse responded with a shove for 62,530 which "M1TR4ND1R" called for their stack as they had the same amount. "M1TR4ND1R" tabled 
for two pair but Lafosse held 
for the full house to score the early double-up.
, "skarbnik79" continued with a bet of 7,618 and Sousa called.
on the turn to the 
on the river. "skarbnik79" bet 7,500 for Sousa to raise it up to 35,500. "skarbnik79" responded with a shove for 95,909 which Sousa called for the 94,277 he had behind. "skarbnik79" tabled 
for the rivered flush to double up.
, it was checked to "aveanddave" who continued with a bet of 4,040. Sikorski raised to 17,100 which Benitez called but "aveanddave" reraised to 48,600. Sikorski gave up on the hand but Benitez shoved for 131,359 which "aveanddave" called with the bigger stack.
for "Chermie" to hold with the higher pocket pair for the set of queens to eliminate "laallaala" and earn a full double-up through Rajkovic who lost the remainder of his stack shortly after.
for "DeckMcFly" to shove and "luelue399" made the call for the 99,477 they had behind.
and Sikorski bet 26,758 for Codeiro to raise to 86,400. Sikorski shoved with the bigger stack and Codeiro called for the 263,735 she had behind. 
for both of them to improve to a full house but for Codeiro to double up with the bigger one.
