SCOOP: Russia’s ‘BIack88’ Chops Way to $25K NLHE High Roller Title
SCOOP: Russia’s ‘BIack88’ Chops Way to $25K NLHE High Roller Title


Thursday’s action in the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker was all about star power. Among the winners were a recent November Niner, a young high roller powerhouse, a Russian online poker legend and, of course, a couple of Brazilians.

Leading the way was Russia’s ‘Black88‘ who topped the 125-player field in the $25,000 High Roller event for $702,658.76. Runner-up ‘fish2013‘ ended up with $569,575.65 after the final two players agreed to a chop. Canada’s ‘Apotheosis92‘ posted his second third-place finish of the week and walked away with $398,531.

The best story of the day probably belongs to Charlie ‘Epiphany77’ Carrel though. The 23-year-old British pro, who has had a lot of success in live No Limit Hold’em High Roller events over the past two years, took down Event #16 High ($1,050 Six Max Pot Limit Omaha Eight or Better) after registering for it by mistake. The misclick earned him $67,410 while runner-up Andrew ‘UlDuffer’ Sweeney pocketed $49,113.

The win was the first SCOOP victory for Carrel.

Jerry ‘hummylun’ Wong, who finished eighth in the 2016 WSOP Main Event, took down Event #14 High ($2,100 Razz) to win $60,270. The final table included Shawn ‘buck21’ Buchanan, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom and current SCOOP Leaderboard leader Calvin ‘cal42688’ Anderson. Anderson also made the final table of Event #15 Medium ($2,100 NLHE High Roller).

The Brazilians continued to add to their total 2017 SCOOP wins and now have seven total after ‘RickLogrado‘ and ‘felipectb440‘ won Event #15 (Medium) and #17 (Low) respectively. Last year Brazilian players took home 21 SCOOP titles and they are on pace to eclipse that total this year.

SCOOP Event #14 (High): $2,100 Razz
Entries: 123
Prize pool: $246,000

  1. Jerry ‘hummylun’ Wong – $60,270
  2. crossthervr – $41,820
  3. merla888 – $31,980
  4. gunning4you – $22,140
  5. Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom – $15,990
  6. Calvin ‘cal42688’ Anderson – $12,300
  7. grapenuts – $9,840
  8. Shawn ‘buck21’ Buchanan – $7,380

SCOOP Event #14 (Medium): $215 Razz
Entries: 538
Prize pool: $107,600

  1. Gigaloff – $20,228
  2. Senkel92 – $14,795
  3. grapenuts – $10,867
  4. maucchi – $8,070
  5. bigbird888 – $5,380
  6. namazu66 – $3,766
  7. Sz4t4n – $2,421
  8. 1stBeatz – $1,614

SCOOP Event #14 (Low): $27 Razz
Entries: 2,341
Prize pool: $57,471.55

  1. spike50698 – $9,771.98
  2. keyhell – $6,896.58
  3. cuipei88 – $5,439.10
  4. Al1FLush – $4,023.00
  5. Palmero92 – $2,873.57
  6. mastervp888 – $1,724.14
  7. outragous76 – $1,149.43
  8. Chillolini – $574.71

SCOOP Event #15 (High): $25,000 NLHE High Roller
Entries: 125
Prize pool: $3,065,625

  1. Black88 – $702,658.76*
  2. fish2013 – $569,575.65*
  3. Apotheosis92 – $398,531.25
  4. zcedrick – $275,906.25
  5. jdtjpoker – $199,265.62
  6. bencb789 – $152,281.25
  7. €urop€an – $122,625.00
  8. stevie444 – $91,958.75

SCOOP Event #15 (Medium): $2,100 NLHE High Roller
Entries: 772
Prize pool: $1,544,000

  1. RickLogrado – $289,500
  2. OverTheTop43 – $208,440
  3. Calvin ‘cal42688’ Anderson – $154,400
  4. Bounatirou – $115,800
  5. Kippling25 – $77,200
  6. valerii888 – $54,040
  7. mickl58 – $34,740
  8. KevBoyStar – $23,160

SCOOP Event #15 (Low): $215 NLHE High Roller
Entries: 4,507
Prize pool: $901,400

  1. fityfmi – $141,927.57
  2. SsicK_OnE – $98,919.63
  3. EL GRAN TORO – $80,224.60
  4. TheUrsaraie – $62,196.60
  5. Howié – $44,168.60
  6. Matze 90451 – $26,140.60
  7. sousinha23 – $11,267.50
  8. Omon_Ra-AA – $6,760.50

SCOOP Event #16 (High): $1,050 Six Max Pot Limit Omaha Eight or Better
Entries: 321
Prize pool: $321,000

  1. Charlie ‘Epiphany77’ Carrell – $67,410
  2. UlDuffer – $49,113
  3. blanconegro – $36,915
  4. Kroko-dill – $25,680
  5. MyRabbiFoo – $19,620
  6. römpsä – $12,840

SCOOP Event #16 (Medium): $109 Six Max Pot Limit Omaha Eight or Better
Entries: 1,372
Prize pool: $137,200

  1. Mastermandel – $22,638
  2. thomber26 – $16,944.20
  3. phatlat – $12,348
  4. fishyfischer – $8,232
  5. antesvante – $5,488
  6. goorkaPL – $3,430

SCOOP Event #16 (Low): $11 Six Max Pot Limit Omaha Eight or Better
Entries: 4,735
Prize pool: $47,350

  1. Shom1k – $6,897.89*
  2. weisserhai1 – $2,775.89
  3. DAHETHABEPHO – $3,500.29
  4. TheKaiser666 – $2,785.89
  5. jaxx23 – $3,615.26
  6. pantri – $710.25

SCOOP Event #17 (High): $1,050 No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 565
Prize pool: $565,000

  1. drew.derzh – $106,785
  2. Pass_72 – $78,252.50
  3. purplflowerz – $57,630
  4. GR*MIND – $43,505
  5. Biocid – $30,510
  6. Freeway1988 – $24,012.50
  7. elmelogno4 – $18,362.50
  8. rafitia – $12,712.50
  9. TboneMunson – $8,644.50

SCOOP Event #17 (Medium): $109 No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 2,783
Prize pool: $278,300

  1. luckyno75 – $43,833.30
  2. BORRAURELIO – $32,700.25
  3. ATR90 – $23,377.20
  4. Jacob151623 – $16,002.25
  5. GriffGolf13 – $12,002.25
  6. v587nt – $9,323.05
  7. lilachaa – $6,540.05
  8. Ac156519 – $3,762.61
  9. Cooler Sack – $2,365.55

SCOOP Event #17 (Low): $11 No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 8,100
Prize pool: $81,000

  1. felipectb440 – $12,150
  2. pacozabane – $8,910
  3. leppo1 – $6,075
  4. beef2020 – $4,082.40
  5. dev209 – $3,240.00
  6. EVitoy – $2,430
  7. xbambi – $1,620
  8. medeiroskkk – $931.50
  9. AlexD666 – $627.75