SCOOP: Calvin Anderson Picks Up Record Breaking Ninth Title
SCOOP: Calvin Anderson Picks Up Record Breaking Ninth Title

Former #1-ranked Calvin ‘cal42688’ Anderson won a record-breaking ninth PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker title on Day 6 of SCOOP and catapulted himself into the top spot on the overall series leaderboard.

Anderson came into the day’s play already holding a record eight SCOOP titles, but by the end of it, he had made that number nine by winning Event #19 (High) for $126,659. After 335 entrants had departed the $2,100 buy-in field, the final three of Anderson, Aaron Been and David ‘dpeters17’ Peters went to battle. Peters, fresh off the back of his fourth-place finish at the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event for $280,770, was the first to depart taking away $67,143 for third place, leaving Been the only man standing between Anderson and a ninth SCOOP title.

However, Been, who has eclipsed over $3.8M in online tournament earnings, was unable to stop the formidable Anderson from achieving the accolade as the American claimed another six-figure score exactly a year to the day after his last, which came during the 2017 SCOOP series.

Anderson’s victory propels him to the top of the overall SCOOP leaderboard, overtaking Roman Romanovsky, in a race that will see the winner receive the trophy and a much coveted PokerStars Platinum pass to next year’s PCA worth over $30,000.

Elsewhere on Day 6, The UK’s Jon ‘luckyfish89’ Clark also achieved quite a remarkable feat after taking down Event #18 (High) for his third ‘Thursday Thrill’ title in just over eight weeks. The SCOOP special edition ‘Thrill’ tournament featured a massive $1m guaranteed prize pool with 1,344 entrants all looking for the first-place prize. But it was the former Sunday Million runner-up Clark who went the distance after beating Oscar ‘owilson25’ Ramirez heads-up, to claim his first SCOOP title and a prize of $104,935.

Canada’s ‘D PitcherAK‘ won $51,979 for coming through a 7,334 player field in the Event 18 (Medium) Mini Thursday Thrill. ‘MarioDutraJR‘ took the silver medal for $35,971 and ‘Whatzaq‘ took $24,894 in third.

Jon ‘LUFCBas’ Spinks finished in a very respectable fourth-place in the mammoth Event #18 (Low) 19,648 player field. The two-time Sunday Warm-Up champion received $3,636 for his efforts as ‘rawacha’ took the title for $9,797.

PokerStars online-pro Jaime Staples made an appearance at the Event #17 (Low) final table, with the well-known Twitch steamer securing a fifth-place finish for $1,461. ‘RunGodLike’ was the eventual champion for $6,201 after they beat ‘Stoffers1’ heads-up, who took $4,320 for second place.

‘villepn’ won $13,701.09 and Rui ‘RuiNF’ Ferreira secured $48,271 for winning Event #17 (Medium) and Event #17 (High) respectively. Ferreira was able to come through a final table which featured online phenomenon Victor ‘Isildur1’ Blom, who exited in sixth-place for $12,876.67

Ramiro ‘ramastar88’ Petrone, ($57,321), ‘WhoAreYoux1‘ ($39,938) and Alberto ‘bertotraste’ Novoa ($27,828) made up the top three in Event #19 (Medium), as world no.#10 Petrone secured his first SCOOP title.

‘GodOf.com’ beat ‘karas1926’ to victory in Event #19 (Low) and jumped to the top of the SCOOP Low Leaderboard. The win earns them $21,995, with the runner-up taking $15,319.

Event #23 saw three 5-Card NLO Six-Max Turbo tournaments take place with ‘BigTreeStump’ taking down the $530 (High) for $29,791.‘Foxy1029’ turned $55 into $10,512 in the (Medium) tournament after they negotiated a final table that included current world no.#1 ‘C. Darwin2‘, who finished in sixth place. The final three players agreed to a deal before ‘Foxy1029’ became the last player standing. And in the final result on Day 6, ‘SFARRRR’ took the Event #23 (Low) win for $3,277 after seeing off ‘jogrepiria’ ($2,180.14) in second, and ‘schmidt88888‘ ($1,963.11) in third after once again a three-handed deal was made.

Below are the SCOOP results for Friday, May 11

Event #17 (Low): $22 Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 2,074
Prize pool: $41,480

  1. RunGodlike – $6,201.94
  2. Stoffers1 – $4,320.13
  3. nicholaswang – $3,010.14
  4. KeysOfCyprus – $2,097.39
  5. jaimestaples – $1,461.40
  6. Netinho_RJ – $1,018.26

Event #17 (Med): $215 Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 373
Prize pool: $74,600

  1. villepn – $13,701.09
  2. EMOYI – $9,971.90
  3. markovitsus – $7,757.86
  4. PikkuHUMPPA – $5,282.50
  5. Dancer King – $3,844.77
  6. JeremiieLand – $2,798.34

Event #17 (High): $2,100 Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 101
Prize pool: $202,000

  1. RuiNF – $48,271.22
  2. Senkel92 – $37,060.45
  3. PikkuHUMPPA – $28,453.39
  4. Mordnilap – $21,845.24
  5. hotmark777 – $16,771.81
  6. Isildur1 – $12,876.67

Event #18 (Low): $11 PKO No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 19,648
Prize pool: $192,550.40

  1. rawacha – $9,797.83
  2. Ignas309 – $7,033.46
  3. Enklereliv – $5,057.11
  4.  LUFCBas – $3,636.10
  5. Loko12rus400 – $2,614.38
  6. SamBakuSV – $1,879.75
  7. myrandrea – $1,351.56
  8. cigonas301 – $971.77
  9. Rihard4a – $698.70

Event 18 (Medium): Mini Thursday Thrill PKO No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 7,334
Prize pool: $733,400

  1. D PitcherAK – $51,979.90
  2. MarioDutraJR – $35,971.14
  3. Whatzaq – $24,894.93
  4. wannawinyou – $17,229.25
  5. fiyaW – $11,924.02
  6. Vladzikass – $8,252.40
  7. Nevks – $5,711.35
  8. ADREKS – $3,952.73
  9. Servasx – $2,735.61

Event #18 (High): $1,050 Thursday Thrill PKO No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 1,344
Prize pool: $1,344,000

  1. luckyfish89 – $104,935.81
  2. owilson25 – $76,179.53
  3. DanielLUCKY – $55,303.92
  4. P0KERPR02.0 – $40,148.90
  5. Cashcid Linc – $29,146.79
  6. xxMaecksxx – $21,159.60
  7. mcc3991 – $15,361.18
  8. Lincownz – $11,151.70
  9. MisterTipper – $8,095.78

Event #19 (Low): $22 Six Max No Limit Hold’em

Entrants: 7,790
Prize pool: $155,800

  1. GodOf.com – $21,995.76
  2. karas1926 – $15,319.84
  3. AadrovanRj21 – $10,674.45
  4. strflushtome – $7,437.64
  5. Runninggreat – $5,182.34
  6. Mihska – $3,610.89

Event #19 (Medium): $215 Six Max No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 1,913
Prize pool: $382,600

  1. ramastar88 – $57,321.20
  2. WhoAreYoux1 – $39,938.58
  3. bertotraste – $27,828.10
  4. zajac69 – $19,389.82
  5. ziototo94 – $13,510.29
  6. TurboDoc – $9,413.60

Event #19 (High): $2,100 Six Max No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 338
Prize pool: $676,000

  1. cal42688 – $126,659.11
  2. AaronBeen – $92,218.70
  3. dpeters17 – $67,143.15
  4. power2prut – $48,886.08
  5. NLZWERVERNL – $35,593.29
  6. papan9_p$ – $25,915.00

Event #23 (Low): $5.50 5-Card NLO Six Max Turbo
Entrants: 4,874
Prize pool: $23,882.60

  1. SFARRRR – $3,277.65*
  2. jogrepiria – $2,180.14*
  3. schmidt88888 – $1,963.11*
  4. PixelPi – $1,149.71
  5. NVladislav – $801.09
  6. BKLaw – $558.17

*Denotes a three-way deal

Event #23 (Medium): $55 5-Card NLO Six Max Turbo
Entrants: 1,504
Prize pool: $75,200

  1. Foxy1029 – $10,512.51*
  2. Kaggis – $7,725.70*
  3. mer760 – $6,798.14*
  4. justholdplz – $3,880.77
  5. vitja1234 – $2,704.01
  6. C. Darwin2 – $1,884.08

*Denotes a three-way deal

Event #23 (High): $530 5-Card NLO Six Max Turbo
Entrants: 318
Prize pool: $159,000

  1. BigTreeStump – $29,791.28
  2. raidalot – $21,690.49
  3. p0cket00 – $15,792.54
  4. BiggestFish – $11,498.35
  5. Erä_Koira – $8,371.79
  6. aacheckmate – $6,095.39