61 Players Return at 1 PM for Day 2 of the PokerStars 2020 SCOOP 85-M: $1,050 PKO Thursday Thrill Special Edition
Day 2 of the PokerStars 2020 SCOOP 85-H: $1,050 PKO Thursday Thrill SE restarts at 1 p.m. EST with 61 players out 1,047 entries returning to the online tables to compete for the biggest part of the prize pool of $1,047,000. The have all secured at least $1,805 but the champion will grab $73,597 and the bounties they have collected on the way to victory including their own at the end of the day.
Coming back for Day 2 with a gigantic chip lead is Portugal's Rui "sousinha23" Sousa who lives in Croatia. He finished a fantastic late run on Day 1 with 8,974,565 chips which is more than five times the average stack right now. Sousa is followed in the counts by "G A W" (4,004,932), "Neyko348" (3,510,006), "DaanOss" (3,390,550), and Jamie "Ship It 2010" O'Connor with 3,384,432.
But there are still loads of talented players left in the field and some of the more familiar names and faces include players like Jakob "Succeeed" Miegel, Kyriakos "9cream4" Papadopoulos, Mike "gorodski" Gorodinsky, Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves, Scott "D_DIGGLER99" Hill, Nick “justnl2” Lampropoulos, and Pete “psxfrcndhe" Chen.
When the players return at 1 p.m. EST on Friday, May 22, they will finish the last seven minutes of Level 24 which features a small blind of 17,500, big blind of 35,000, and a running ante of 4,500. The next pay jump will come when there are only 47 players left and then another one will come when the field is down to 31. But as this is a progressive knockout tournament, it's all about the bounties.
"Xungazz" and Daniel "Dan.Almeida" Almeida are "worth" the least as they haven't eliminated any other players yet while "josip1313", "BigFudge95", O'Connor, "chininhaltig", "PatrickRass", "Onny87", "mellum3", "Neyko348", "jpedro1710", and Hill all have bounties above the $4,000-mark.
Play today will continue until a new SCOOP champion can be crowned and PokerNews will be there from the start so keep reading the updates right here!