The Sunday Briefing: 2014 Spring Championship of Online Poker Begins at PokerStars

Brett Collson Chief Editor

May 05, 2014 4 min read Last updated May 06, 2014

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PokerStars kicked off the highly anticipated 2014 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on Sunday with the first three of 45 events on the schedule. Each event features three buy-in levels — low, medium and high — which means a total of 135 tournaments will be taking place from May 4 through 18. Sunday's exciting slate had more than $5 million in guarantees and attracted more than 100,000 players.

No results are in yet from the first two events of the series, because the tournaments were two-day affairs, but three champions were crowned in Event 3: Turbo Progressive Super-Knockout. Russia's "Max666917" took down the low level, while Denmark's "Jezpez" won the medium version and George "GeoManousos" Sotiropoulos from Greece won the high.

The first two SCOOP events will play down to winners on Monday. Only 27 players remain in Event 1-H: $2,100 NLHE, where the eventual winner will take home $315,989. Mike "SirWatts" Watson is second in chips heading into Day 2, and Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick, Pascal "Pass_72" Lefrancois, Paul "pvas2" Vas Nunes are all in the top 10 on the leader board.

In Event 2-H: $2,100 NLHE, Gleb "Ti0373" Tremzin leads the final 43 players who are competing for the $386,280 top prize. Also in contention are Tobias "PokerNoob999" Reinkemeier, Joe "floes" Serock, Sorel "zangbezan" Mizzi, and Kevin "Civell" Vandersmissen.

Alongside the start of the SCOOP was the MiniFTOPS Main Event at Full Tilt Poker. The $75 buy-in event attracted 1,080 players, and in the end it was "svwerder" who took it down for $89,000 after a heads-up deal with "Rocky2810."

Here's a full look at the results from the Sunday Majors on PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, partypoker and WSOP.com:

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SCOOP Event 3-L [Turbo, Progressive Super-Knockout] ($100K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$10+1	26,047	$260,470

Place	Player	Tournament Prize	Bounty Prize
1	Max666917	$12,390	$2,477
2	Trona ziptet	$9,033	$818
3	kingsize86	$5,860	$1,375
4	neesam1405	$4,688	$844
5	Raise3333	$3,516	$570
6	naniol	$2,344	$554
7	CCmuney	$1,627	$1,054
8	AATwinTowers	$1,106	$850
9	colddeck14	$651	$335

Notable Finishes: Martin "phasE89" Balaz (45th - $182)

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SCOOP Event 3-M [Turbo, Progressive Super-Knockout] ($100K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$100+9	7,287	$728,700

Place	Player	Tournament Prize	Bounty Prize
1	Jezpez	$55,422	$9,429
2	Albert McFly	$40,989	$8,022
3	zao92	$29,148	$1,391
4	syvers007	$20,039	$4,852
5	SONGJOY	$15,302	$3,408
6	Brad "smerks" Marsh	$11,659	$2,020
7	lady_IG	$8,015	$3,434
8	pawlinho	$4,372	$1,854
9	tgf18tgf	$2,823	$4,821

Notable Finishes: Martin "AABenjaminAA" Hruby (20th - $3,074)

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SCOOP Event 3-H [Turbo, Progressive Super-Knockout] ($100K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$1,000+50	1,363	$1,363,000

Place	Player	Tournament Prize	Bounty Prize
1	George "GeoManousos" Sotiropoulos	$117,626	$31,842
2	Isidinho	$85,187	$36,055
3	poluyter	$64,742	$11,128
4	jpgossn	$47,432	$10,999
5	Chris "Run dat Game" Lovett	$33,734	$32,150
6	Demonic16	$26,919	$16,499
7	uknowProsky*	$20,104	$6,273
8	czlol	$13,289	$10,859
9	HOMERos	$7,496	$3,765

Notable Finishes: Magnus "Giffordonian" Martin (11th - $13,971), Timothy "highland" Finne (14th - $8,959), Rafael "zugzwang16" Porzecanski (20th - $7,286)

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MiniFOPS Main Event ($600K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$70+5	8,053	$600,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	svwerder	$89,000*
2	Rocky2810	$73,000*
3	Brian Caby	$46,800
4	BlakSugar	$34,200
5	kingriver321	$25,200
6	vladobu6i	$18,000
7	kimokh	$12,600
8	Sentimento_do-2	$8,700
9	LBBigSlickAK	$6,120

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: John "BlackFours" May (14th - $3,120), Reed "badbeatme" Hensel (20th - $1,590), Mike "GoLeafsGoEh" Leah (22nd - $1,590), Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger (26th - $1,590)

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$250K Guarantee

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,447	$289,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	yasunori66	$57,880
2	Matt "mattyv" Vengrin	$38,490
3	bicycle12121	$27,493
4	Ben "NeverScaredB" Wilinofsky	$20,547
5	jaggalo1231	$15,338
6	jambeyang	$11,286
7	ScoopAndStack	$8,392
8	Mikleler	$6,077
9	Damian Salas	$4,312

Notable Finishes: Dylan "InvisibleEnigma" Linde (12th - $2,894), Ronald "ScarJo" Lee (17th - $1,591), Geoff "GeoffRas22" Rasmussen (23rd - $1,157)

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Full Tilt Sunday Brawl ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$240+15	1,315	$263,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	TheSonOfBink	$52,600
2	Jordan "Jymaster11" Young	$35,031
3	TakeIt2NextLVL	$24,985
4	biggusdikus	$18,673
5	Kutanoid	$13,939
6	rdcrsm	$10,257
7	KagM7F7	$7,627
8	Whoozz	$5,523
9	lise_7	$3,945

Notable Finishes: Kevin "Wu_Wizard" MacPhee (14th - $1,998), Jaosn "jdpc27" Wheeler (18th - $1,525)

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200K Guaranteed Sunday

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,020	$200,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	bossamtisch1	$23,038*
2	zarbazan7	$20,861*
3	alibakerr999	$9,800
4	ajh26	$7,400
5	BeerAndSkittles	$5,300
6	trucking_67	$3,900
7	Fitczkooo	$2,900
8	dendawgg420	$2,400
9	Robinfish	$1,920

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+30	929	$464,500

Place	Player	Prize
1	uaredead lol	$75,707*
2	kylef89	$67,498*
3	Negriin	$44,592
4	Andras "probirs" Nemeth	$33,444
5	Ryan "ryanghall" Hall	$23,225
6	needdollarz	$18,580
7	anmols	$13,935
8	LeCilli Br	$9,290
9	Dan "Danny98765" Smith	$5,574

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Simon "ministerborg" Ravnsbaek (10th - $4,412), Vojtech "Vojta_R" Ruzicka (11th - $4,412), Nikolai “YaGotBurnt” Sears (13th - $3,483), Jakob "mendieta19" Carlsson (17th - $2,554), Chad "badbeatman06" Eveslage (20th - $2,043),

Get in on the Sunday Majors action yourself by visiting PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.

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$109 Sunday Rebuy ($225K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$100+9	1,244	$389,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	P.Iv3Y	$71,102
2	nicelife	$51,777
3	GOGOGOGO#1	$38,960
4	Karolis "g.karolis" Grybauskas	$29,220
5	Mr.Ingenious	$20,454
6	Nick "caecilius" Petrangelo	$16,558
7	Desmoplakin	$12,662
8	goleagsgo41	$8,766
9	QcKimo	$5,454

Notable Finishes: Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick (10th - $3,896), Kevin "KevBoyStar" Stani (18th - $2,377), Michael "StrungOut1" Wasserman (2st - $1,675)

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Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,480	$296,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	vicenfish	$45,410*
2	I JEFF I	$41,910*
3	GodsTeacher	$28,090
4	Jonathan "Jcardshark" Little	$20,128
5	Pinnochyo	$14,652
6	Simon "pokerbrat13" Charette	$11,692
7	Michael "Skammes" Tureniec	$8,732
8	layeador	$5,772
9	Brryann	$3,196

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Clark "snake8484" Hamagami (12th - $2,545), Elio "smokrokflock" Fox ( 13th - $1,983), Matias "Festivuss" Gabrenja (14th - $1,983)

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Sunday Supersonic ($125K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$210.80+4.20	1,731	$364,894

Place	Player	Prize
1	Joao "joaobarb" Barbosa	$63,018
2	Nemesis7575	$46,888
3	thunder32us	$35,577
4	cocojamb0	$25,542
5	r0bet0blanc0	$18,244
6	Flávio "flavioreis88" Reis	$14,595
7	BadLuck82	$10,964
8	Rens "Rens02" Feenstra	$8,027
9	viivi87	$5,108

Notable Finishes: Ronald "ronaldgrauer" Grauer (10th - $3,284), Randal "RandaLLin" Flowers (11th - $3,284), Jeremy "EndlessJ" Menard (12th - $3,284), Brian "brianm15" England (16th - $1,824), Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko (21st - $1,204), Nick "Rounder63" Carillo (23rd - $1,204), Ben “KidCardiff6” Warrington (24th - $1,204)