SCOOP-15-H: $2,100 NLHE [Sunday HR SE], $1M Gtd Day 1 | PokerStars SCOOP 2020

05-03-2020 19:59 UTC-4

Van Hoof Eclipses Two Million

HillKerby

Level 19 : 7,000/14,000, 1,750 ante

"flippetyflop" was under the gun and opened to 28,000. "MCalai" three-bet to 86,500 in early position and action folded around to Jorryt "TheCleaner11" van Hoof, who cold-called in the small blind. "flippetyflop" called as well and the three players saw the flop come .

Action checked to "MCalai," who made a continuation-bet of 106,775. Van Hoof called and "flilppetyflop" folded, taking action heads up to the turn . Van Hoof checked again and MCalai bet another 160,800. Van Hoof called again. Action then went check-check on the river to take the hand to showdown.

Van Hoof showed for the missed nut flush draw and nut kickers to go with the board's pair of fives. It proved best as "MCalai" mucked and Van Hoof took down the pot, bringing his stack to 2.39 million and becoming the first player in the field to reach 2 million.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jorryt "TheCleaner11" van Hoof	2,339,252 1,198,867	1,198,867
MCalai	765,319 -638,075	-638,075
flippetyflop	692,100

05-03-2020 20:47 UTC-4

Vicent “gordon0410” Bosca Eliminated On the Bubble By "0m3rta"

HillKerby

Level 21 : 10,000/20,000, 2,500 ante

Vicent “gordon0410” Bosca opened to 43,000 in middle position and action folded around to "0m3rta" in the small blind, who three-bet to 160,000. Bosca called and action went heads up to a flop of . "0m3rta" made a continuation-bet of 111,600 and Bosca called.

The turn came ."0m3rta" continued, firing a second barrel of 180,800. Bosca called again.

The river fell and "0m3rta" thought for some time, going into their time bank before shoving all in for effectively 525,000. Bosca went into the tank himself, thinking for a while before calling off his remaining chips.

Vicent “gordon0410” Bosca:
"om3rta":

Bosca found his pair of jacks no good to the pocket aces of "om3rta" and he found himself eliminated from the tournament, taking 72nd place and becoming the official bubble boy of the 2020 SCOOP Event #15-H.

Player	Chips	Progress
0m3rta	2,701,227 1,199,977	1,199,977
Vicent “gordon0410” Bosca	Busted

05-03-2020 21:29 UTC-4

Kelopuro Wins A Second Straight Coin Flip

HillKerby

Level 23 : 15,000/30,000, 3,750 ante

"19Pistike93" raised to 63,300 under the gun and Sami “Lrslzk” Kelopuro three-bet to 180,000 on their direct left. Action folded back to "19Pistike93," who four-bet jammed 825,000. "Kelopuro called.

"19Pistike93":
Sami “Lrslzk” Kelopuro:

Kelopuro hit a set as the flop appeared , but he wasn't out of the woods as he needed to fade his opponent's nut flush draw and backdoor Broadway draw. The turn added three more outs to the tally, but the river was clean and Kelopuro scored a second knockout in short succession to take his stack up to 1.84 million with minutes remaining in the evening.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sami “Lrslzk” Kelopuro	1,842,240 893,306	893,306
19Pistike93	Busted

05-03-2020 22:30 UTC-4

“0m3rta” Leads SCOOP Event #15-H After Day 1; Kelopuro, and Van Hoof Among Top Stacks

HillKerby

Level 23 : 15,000/30,000, 3,750 ante

The PokerStars SCOOP 2020 is off to a fast start for a few players, namely that of ”0m3rta” and Jorryt "TheCleaner11" van Hoof. The two players wound up heads up for the title of Event #2-H, a $2,100 No Limit Hold’em event just two days ago, and “0m3rta” (5.48 million) will now be taking the chip lead into Day 2 of Event #15-H: $2,100 NLHE $1M Gtd.

Fedor “CrownUpGuy” Holz (2.1 million) and Sami "Lrslzk” Kelopuro (1.69 million) also finished in the top 10. Holz made a charge up the leader board shortly after registration closed and was seen with an above-average stack throughout the rest of the evening by way of knocking out players such as ”iamivar” and Brunno “botteonpoker” Botteon. Kelopuro’s journey to the top 10 came within the last 10 minutes of the night after he won two straight coin flips to launch him up the counts before play came to a close.

”fukuruku” (2.24 million) is another player to follow on Day 2, finishing seventh in chips on the day and doing so while also winning Event #9-H ($530 8-Max), topping a field of 930 entries for a first-place prize of $77,273.

Van Hoof (1.74 million) finished ninth in chips when Day 1 came to an end. He was at or near the top of the leader board all day long, propelled by winning two huge pots with pocket aces. The first instance occurred when he knocked out Sam "Str8$$$Homey" Greenwood with a river overbet that was more than three times the size of the pot, and he followed it up with a three-way all in that involved a full double through Jack “Swaggersorus” Sinclair, who wound up finishing with 907,000.

Other notable players to advance include Pedro “PaDiLhA SP” (1.53 million), Sam “SamSquid” Grafton (1.51 million), Eder “edercampana” Campana[/b[ (1.19 million), Twitch streamer [b]Joshua "slayerv1fan" Hoesel (1.18 million), and Leo “LeoFernandez” Fernandez (510,000).

Many more were less fortunate, including the likes of PokerStars Team Pro Ramon “RamonColillas” Colillas as well as Twitch streamers and PokerStars Online Team Pros Lex “L. Veldhuis” Veldhuis and Fintan “easywithaces” Hand.

Adrian “Amadi_17” Mateos, Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot, and Charlie “Epiphany77” Carrel also were eliminated as the day went on, falling short of the money by less than an hour’s worth of play. Vicent “gordon0410” Bosca became the bubble boy not long after, when he called off all of his chips with pocket jacks to run into end-of-day chip leader “0m3rta’s” pocket aces.

Bosca’s elimination brought the field down to 71, which was the number needed to reach the money. From there, the entire first round of payouts was completed, and players such as Gary “quiditbear” Hasson (69th place), Arsenii “Josef_shvejk” Karmatckii (55th place), Kayhan “KayhanMok” Roshanfekr (52nd place), and Anthony “holdplz” Spinella (51st place) were among those to make it into the money and earn a first-level payout of $4,435.

Forty-two will advance to Monday’s Day 2, which will begin at 1 p.m. ET. Play will resume with approximately five minutes left in Level 23 (15,000/30,000/3,750), and levels will be 20 minutes in length until the completion of Level 36, at which point they will increase to half an hour and continue until a winner has been determined and the top prize of $196,648 has been claimed.

Who will be the last one standing? Come back to PokerNews Monday to find out.