A total of 15 winners were crowned on Friday's Day 16 of the 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker at PokerStars.
PokerNews live reporting was right there for blow-by-blow coverage of two marquee events including a big wins by Preben "prebz" Stokkan and Jans "Graftekkel" Arends.
In addition, Mike "SirWatts" Watson headed into the overnight chip lead in both of the Scoop High events that began on Day 16 and will conclude on Day 17.
Check out who were among the big winners in today's SCOOP recap.
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Preben "prebz" Stokkan Wins the SCOOP-62-H: $5,200 NLHE PKO Thursday Final Table Results
After a furious finish, SCOOP 62-H $5,200 NLHE [8-Max, PKO, High Roller] has wrapped up, and a dominating performance by Preben "prebz" Stokkan left no doubt who would be the big winner in the 235-entry field.
Stokkan eliminated six of his final table opponents, including the last five consecutively, to lap the field in prize money by both winning the $101,026 for first and snagging a staggering $174,922 in bounties. Stokkan's aggressive shoving strategy late worked amazingly well because not only did he show up with numerous huge hands, but the times he didn't, he often made winners anyway.
The Norwegian playing from the U.K., who has $2.2 million in live cashes, topped a final table that included Joao "Naza114" Vieira, Conor "1_conor_b_1" Beresford and David "MissOracle" Yan.
"Kebrashmebra" Wins SCOOP 62-M: $530 PKO Thursday Thrill SE Final Table Results
It would take almost nine hours to go from 190 players to one winner on Day 2 of the Pokerstars 2020 SCOOP-62-M: $530 PKO Thursday Thrill SE but in the end, it was "Kebrashmebra" who walked away with the first-place prize of $95,640 and a massive amount of $70,065 worth of bounties. They defeated James "TheDrunkLife" Whittet heads-up for the biggest share of the $1,547,000 prize pool which was created by the 3,904 entries which were collected on Day 1.
"Kebrashmebra" came out on top of the final table which also included "oNinguém", Daniel "Cabeça Tilt" Costa, Deividas "Deividas K" Kvaselis, Andrey "Anjeyyy" Novak, "dfsha", "moneyymakerr", and "ImRichAreU?".
PokerStars SCOOP-62-M: $530 PKO Thursday Thrill SE Final Table Results
Day 16 of the 2020 SCOOP crowned 18 champions. Here is a look at who won each event.
SCOOP-60-H: $1,050 NLHE
Entries
472
Prize Pool
$472,000
This event smashed its $300,000 guarantee with 472 entrants generating a $472,000 prize pool.
United Kingdom's "lopan83" defeated Canada's Lucas "YRWTHMELTHR" Greenwood to win the title and the $84,251 top prize. Meanwhile, Greenwood settled for the healthy runner-up prize of $63,145.
Daris "DEX888" Pedes came into the second and final day leading the pack of 28 players. While Pedes was unable to parlay this into a victory, he did finish strong with a fourth-place performance worth $35,470.
Other notable players at the final table included Brian "kofi89" Kaufman (fourth - $35,470), Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph (fifth - $26,585), Aleksandr “HITRII999” Shevelev (eighth - $11,192), and Bahar "bah23" Musa (ninth - $8,389).
Place
Player
Country
Prize
1
lopan83
United Kingdom
$84,251
2
Lucas "YRWTHMELTHR" Greenwood
Canada
$63,145
3
IADTTMax
Netherlands
$47,326
4
Daris "DEX888" Pedes
Germany
$35,470
5
Brian "kofi89" Kaufman
Uruguay
$26,585
6
Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph
Austria
$19,925
7
ArtHouse2011
Ireland
$14,933
8
Aleksandr "HITRII999" Shevelev
Russia
$11,192
9
Bahar "bah23" Musa
Bulgaria
$8,389
SCOOP 60-M: $109 NLHE
Entries
3,338
Prize Pool
$333,800
Winner
bacooo (Croatia)
First-place prize
$47,965
SCOOP-60-L: $11 NLHE
Entries
12,793
Prize Pool
$125,371
Winner
JManuel94 (Argentina)
First-place prize
$16,015
SCOOP-62-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max Progressive KO Mini Thursday Thrill SE]
Entries
19,406
Prize Pool
$970,300
Winner
Gaelito23 (Brazil)
First-place prize
$64,313
SCOOP-63-H: $1,050 Razz
Entries
116
Prize Pool
$116,000
Winner
Alexander "joiso" Kostritsyn (Russia)
First-place prize
$28,420
SCOOP 63-M: $109 Razz
Entries
680
Prize Pool
$68,000
Winner
Aleks "fNx_R" Trofimenko (Ukraine)
First-place prize
$10,359
SCOOP-63-L: $11 Razz
Entries
3,233
Prize Pool
$31,683
Winner
"climbsystem" (Peru)
First-place prize
$4,290
SCOOP-64-H: $2,100 NLHE
Entries
275
Prize Pool
$550,000
Jans "Graftekkel" Arends became the latest to join the exclusive list of multiple SCOOP winners as he shipped his second SCOOP title and third COOP title overall in the SCOOP-64-H: $2,100 NLHE, $500K Gtd for a six-figure haul of $104,723 after besting Bruno "great dant" Volkmann (second - $79,295) in heads-up play.
Also at the final table were Thomas "WushuTM" Muehloecker (fourth - $45,462), Ivan "Negriin" Luca (fifth- $34,424), Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira (sixth - $26,065), Sam "Str8$$$Homey" Greenwood (seventh - $19,736), Daris "DEX888" Pedes (eighth - $14,944), and Arsenii "josef_shvejk" Karmatckii (ninth - $11,316).
