Jude 'j.thaddeus' Ainsworth Wins SCOOP High-Stakes Main EventJ.C. Alvarado Takes Down Mid-Stakes Main Event |
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The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) events have concluded. The SCOOP was a 22-tournament series spread out over 12 days of action. Each tournament was offered with three different sets of buy-ins ranging from low, to mid, to high stakes. Buy-ins were offered for as little as $5.50 and as high as $25,500.
Main Event -- No-Limit Hold'em
Low-Stakes -- $100 Buy-In
The smaller of the three main events drew in a massive field of 18,747, creating a total prize pool of $1,874,700. Day one of the tournament left just 26 survivors, battling it out for the $187,470 first-place prize. It took just over an hour once play resumed to determine the final table of nine.
Once play got four-handed, a deal was quickly agreed upon based on a chip count chop and leaving $20,000 on the side for the eventual winner.
JannotLapin got heads up against Sador1983 with the chip lead, and just 20 minutes later emerged with the victory, as well. On the final hand, JannotLapin turned a heart flush against Sador1983's top pair, top kicker.
Here are the final table results:
Mid-Stakes -- $1,000 Buy-In
A total of 3,198 players bought into the mid-stakes main event, generating a total prize pool of $3,198,000. Only 19 players survived the first day of action, ready to battle it out for the title.
It wasn't until just before the final table that Team PokerStars pro J.C. Alvarado (pictured right) began to take his place among the chip leaders. Once he got there, he doubled up when his pocket jacks held against ErikXP's second-nut-flush draw. That put him just a few blinds behind the leader and firmly in contention for the title.
Once heads-up play began, Alvarado held nearly a 2-1 chip lead over the aforementioned ErikXP. On the final hand, Alvardo called down his opponent with a flopped full house, fives full of sevens, which was good enough to bust ErikXP's flopped trip sevens.
Here are the final table results:
High-Stakes -- $10,000 Buy-In
The high-stakes tournament featured a prize pool of $5,020,000 thanks to a stacked field of 502. Only 14 players remained after day one, two of which were Online Player of the Year contenders.
The chip leader coming into the day, Jonathan "xxjondxx" Delong, was eliminated just short of the final table in 11th place by Jude "j.thaddeus" Ainsworth. Delong is currently in 12th place in the OPOY rankings, but would have moved into third had he won this event.
The other OPOY candidate, Chris "Moorman1" Moorman, got it in with the nut-flush draw, but the turn and river bricked, allowing Steven "$teveyMoney" Merrifield's A-10 high to take the pot and bust Moorman in eighth place. The final-table finish was enough to move Moorman into third place in the OPOY rankings.
Jon "PearlJammer" Turner (pictured right) held the lead at one point six-handed, but he lost a lot of momentum to Ainsworth. Finally, he was eliminated in third place when his K-Q failed to hit against Niklas "ragen70" Heinecker's A-10. Going into heads-up play, j.thaddeus held a more than 3-1 chip lead.
On the final hand, ragen70 made a move with a rivered pair of sixes but ran into Ainsworth and his runner-runner club flush.
Here were the final table results:
SCOOP Leader Board Final Results
It was a close sweat for SCOOP series leader board winner Brett "get crunk" Richey (pictured right). Francis "teacuppoker" Cagney had a chance to take away the overall title when he made the final table of the main event. Unfortunately, his ninth-place finish meant he could only manage third place on the leader board.
Richey got to the top thanks to five final tables and nearly $95,000 in winnings. Richey will take home a Player of the Series trophy, a 2009 WCOOP main-event ticket, a 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure prize package, and an EPT Monte Carlo package.
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