The only cards dealt in the hand were players' hole cards, but it still turned into a pot of almost ~750k. Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev raised under the gun to 36,320 before "Pargo18" three-bet to 110,640 from the cutoff.
It folded to big blind Dominykas "Mikensonas" Mikolaitis who four-bet to 304k. Danchev made it 497,360 and "Pargo18" got out of the line of fire and Mikolaitis thought better of it as well.
Ben "Spraggy" Spragg got to play a bit more poker on Day 2 than he did on the opening day, but the result was the same. Team Pro is now down to two players remaining after Spragg got his stack in with ace-queen but ran into ace-king for Armin "armin1912" Rezaei and couldn't get there.
So far, it looks like Ben "Spraggy" Spragg is having a better day today than he did yesterday. He's up to more than 700k after two hands at the end of the last level.
In the first, he took a 227k pot from Christopher "lissi stinkt" Frank when Spragg raised preflop and got two callers. They all checked the flop, and only Frank was around after Spragg's delayed bet on the turn. Frank mucked to a bet on the river, sending the pot to Spragg on a board of 7♠A♣2♦10♥4♠.
In the very next hand, he sent Pascal "Pass_72" Lefrancois to the rail when his queen-nine got there against queen-ten for 262k.
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There are four PokerStars Team Pros who jumped in with a Day 2 start stack today and are waiting for the action now. Among them are Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes and Ben "Spraggy" Spragg. No doubt Spragg will be looking to survive a little longer than he did on Day 1.
Day 2 of SCOOP 108-H: Main Event is on-deck for 12:30 ET today with 183 players returning at this point. That number may well change before cards go in the air as entries are open until the Day 2 action begins. In total, 533 entries so far have pushed past the $5m guarantee for $5.33 million in prizes right now.
Day 1 played 15 levels and at the end of the day, Canadian streamer Rayan "beriuzy" Chamas was sitting behind the most chips. He bagged up 2,372,359 and was the biggest of six players with more than 2 million chips to start Day 2.
Mike Watson
There are three Canadians in the top ten chips to start Day 2 including Chamas while Poland has two players in the top ten. While he didn't make it to the top stacks, another Canadian, Mike "SirWatts" Watson is sitting in 13th with just over 1.5 million to start Day 2. As just the third player to win two Main Event titles on the EPT (one PCA victory, and a recent win in Monte Carlo), Watson is always dangerous and looks to be on a bit of a sun-run lately.
Top Ten Chips to Start Day 2 of SCOOP 108-H: Main Event
Place
Player
Country
Chips
1
Rayan "beriuzy" Chamas
Canada
2,372,359
2
Pargo18
Ireland
2,289,272
3
David "MissOracle" Yan
New Zealand
2,242,398
4
Dumitru "pora adrian" Pora
Romania
2,135,976
5
AnyExtras
Canada
2,075,897
6
Stumpfed
Canada
2,042,669
7
Fakeee1
Poland
1,947,513
8
Alex "FutureofMe" Kulev
Ireland
1,859,986
9
Retro_cheetah01
Poland
1,781,440
10
Christopher "lissi stinkt" Frank
Austria
1,751,752
Quite a few Team Pro members played on Day 1, but only one of them emerged from the day with chips. Lex "L.Veldhuis" Veldhuis bagged a small stack of 427k, but that is still more chips than Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes and Ben "Spraggy" Spragg. They both busted on Day 1, but are on the list waiting for Day 2 with a 250k second-bullet starting stack.
Spragg specifically had a rough, and quick, Day 1. Shortly after his name appeared on the players' list for Day 1, a tweet appeared on his timeline:
I lasted 1 hand in the $10k Main Event.
— Spraggy (@spraggy)
With any luck, his second bullet will last a bit longer than his first. Among the other notables to make Day 2 are Steve "Mr. Tim Caum" O'Dwyer, Simon "DaDumon" Grabenschweiger, Niklas "Lena900" Astedt, Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi (playing his fourth bullet) and Jans "Graftekkel" Arends with a short stack.
The Day 2 action gets going at 12:35 ET with the beginning of Level 16 and Day 2 will continue until there are 40 players left in the game.
Remaining Schedule in SCOOP 108-H: Main Event
Day
Date
Start Time (ET)
End Point
Day 2
May 29
12:35
40 Players
Day 3
May 30
12:30
9 Players
Day 4
May 31
12:30
Winner
Stay tuned here for all the action from SCOOP 108-H: Main Event until a winner is decided on Wednesday, and check out PokerNews' coverage of all three Main Events at the 2023 SCOOP Hub.
