Day 2 of SCOOP 01-H: $215 NLHE [Phase 2], $2M GTD Begins Today
The Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) will continue today with a healthy line-up slated for the viewers, one tournament returning for Day 2 is SCOOP 01-H: $215 [Phase 2], $2M GTD which will return at 2:15 p.m. EST.
The Phase tournament saw 10,813 sign up over the span of all of Day 1's and just 1,111 are set to start today. Blinds will be starting at 3,500/7,000 with an 825 ante and all levels will be 15-minutes in length throughout. The second day will play down until only 27 are left and then all will bag up for Day 3 tomorrow April 28 at 2:15 p.m. EST.
Leading the way into Day 2 is Joao "joaovbarb" Barbosa with a 1,186,721 stack and is the only player above the one million threshold. Team PokerStars ambassador Sam "SamSquid" Grafton is still in contention, having a healthy-sized stack of 687,146. Both will be in the field clawing at a shot for a piece of the $2,162,600 prize pool.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing all of the updates throughout this event, so stay tuned as the action unfolds.