Looking Back at the 2019 PokerStars SCOOP
PokerStars recently released the bustling schedule for the 2020 Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP), which features $85 million worth of guaranteed prize pools. It’s the biggest SCOOP yet with at least $1.5 million guaranteed to be won every day and a gargantuan $22 million on the final Sunday alone.
We thought now is the perfect time to take a look back at the highlights of the last year’s 2019 SCOOP with the latest edition being only a week away, so that’s exactly what we’ve done here.
Check out the 2020 SCOOP schedule
More Than $100 Million Awarded in 2019
To say the 2019 SCOOP was a roaring success is a massive understatement. PokerStars guaranteed $75 million across 218 tournaments and those combined guarantees were blown out of the water.
A massive $100,460,112.36 was paid out across 218 tournaments for an average of $460,826.20 per event. This was helped by a total attendance of 1,019,086 players, which obviously includes rebuys and re-entries. This lead to an average attendance of 4,674 players in each of the 218 individual tournaments.
Gianluca Speranza Does The Unthinkable
The SCOOP Main Event is the SCOOP tournament everyone wants to win. This $10,300 buy-in tournament attracts the very best online poker tournament players in the world, all who join the hunt for a seven-figure prize.
Gianluca “Tankanza” Speranza won the 2018 SCOOP Main Event. The Austria-based Italian triumphed over 653-opponents in 2018 to bank $1,133,160.03. Amazingly, Speranza was the last man standing in the 2019 edition too! He outlasted 661-opponents to get his hands on another $1,028,203.24, which was the biggest prize of the series.
It was an incredible achievement that guaranteed Speranza a place in online poker’s history book as the first-ever player to win two ‘COOP Main Events.
Speranza joins an elite group of players who can call themselves SCOOP Main Event champions. Just check out the previous Main Event winners:
| Year | Entries | Prize Pool | Winner | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 502 | $5,020,000 | Jude "j.thaddeus" Ainsworth | Ireland | $963,338 |
| 2010 | 615 | $6,150,000 | Ryan "toetagU" Fair | United States | $1,162,350 |
| 2011 | 380 | $3,800,000 | Sami "Lrslzk" Kelopuro | Finland | $504,691.09 |
| 2012 | 517 | $5,170,000 | Nicholas "GripDsNutz" Grippo | Costa Rica | $798,675 |
| 2013 | 580 | $5,800,000 | Viktor "Isildur1" Blom | United Kingdom | $1,096,200 |
| 2014 | 657 | $6,570,000 | Ivan "vandir4rek" Soshnikov | Russia | $1,048,000 |
| 2015 | 694 | $6,940,000 | Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit | United Kingdom | $1,304,720 |
| 2016 | 824 | $8,000,002 | Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi | United Kingdom | $1,468,000.88 |
| 2017 | 693 | $6,930,000 | Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel | United Kingdom | $1,200,899.97 |
| 2018 | 654 | $6,540,000 | Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza | Austria | $1,133,160.03 |
| 2019 | 662 | $6,620,000 | Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza | Austria | $1,028,203.24* |
The 10 Biggest Scores of the 2019 SCOOP
The $1,028,203.24 was by far the biggest prize awarded during the 2019 SCOOP, but there were some other wallet-filling prizes.
Jacobo “jakobgold” Montoya secured the second-largest prize of the festival by taking down the $1,050 edition of the Main Event. Montoya topped a field of 5,475 to turn his $1,050 investment into a mammoth-sized $688,558.
Also banking an impressive sum was UK-based Spaniard Juan “Malaka$tyle” Pardo who won the $25,000 buy-in 8-Max High Roller. Pardo walked away with the $549.421.48 top prize and the admiration from his fellow professionals.
| Place | Player | Tournament Won | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gianluca “Tankanza” Speranza | $10,300 Main Event | $1,028,203.24 |
| 2 | Jacobo “jakobgold” Montoya | $1,050 Main Event | $688,588.42 |
| 3 | Juan “Malaka$tyle” Pardo | $25,000 High Roller | $549,421.48 |
| 4 | Jean “Jack Wastes” Fillipe | $109 Main Event | $315,955.11 |
| 5 | Vicent “gordon0410” Bosca | $10,300 High Roller | $287,133.45 |
| 6 | “pkrbt” | $10,300 PLO Main Event | $285,762.77 |
| 7 | “josef_shvejk” | $5,200 Sunday High Roller | $224,958.52 |
| 8 | Rui “RuiNF” Ferreira | $5,200 High Roller | $224,007.51 |
| 9 | Pablo “pabritz” Brito | $2,100 NLHE | $218,631.85 |
| 10 | Joris “BillLewinsky” Ruijs | $530 Sunday Million | $217,139.56 |
Get Ready For the Biggest-Ever SCOOP
The 2020 SCOOP shuffles up and deals for the first time on April 30 with the last set of champions crowned on May 19. It’s going to be fantastic with several different formats and variants on offer, and a wide range of buy-ins to suit every player.
Download PokerStars via PokerNews today and get some tournament practice in at the tables so you’re fully prepared for the full SCOOP experience. It could be your alias that’s adorning the PokerNews pages in the coming weeks, you never know.
