SCOOP: Steve ‘BetrThanPhil’ Tripp Wins Event #8 (High) for $100K
Steve ‘BetrThanPhil’ Tripp took the headlines on Day 3 of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker after grinding his way to victory in Event #8 (High) for a score of $100,343.
After 12 more events came to their conclusion on Tuesday, Tripp claimed his first SCOOP title after defeating “0PIGGYBANK” heads-up, with the latter taking away $86,213 after a deal between the two players had been agreed. It was Tripp’s second largest recorded online cash after he won $193,804 for taking down FTOPS Event #9 back in 2010.
Alex ‘lynskey99’ Lynskey came through an 8,562 player field in Event #8 (Medium) and claimed the first-place prize of $60,073. ‘Kobasteris‘ was the player to lose the heads-up battle and took away $42,472 in second place.
The biggest field of the day came in Event #8 (Low) after 27,101 players paid the $11 tournament entry fee and created a $265,589.80 prize pool, with Marcos ‘Marcos Epa’ Epaminondas taking the majority share. The Brazilian’s prize for outlasting the enormous field was $13,172, the honour of a SCOOP title to his name and his largest recorded online cash to date.
In Event #7 (High), ‘aDrENalin710’ beat out 120 opponents to win a score of $27,202, with ‘BelovCaXa’ banking $12,246 after securing victory in Event #7 (Medium). Russia’s ‘Iwantbearich‘ narrowly missed out on adding a SCOOP title to their previously won PokerStars MicroMillions gold medal after losing a heads-up battle to ‘kagor82’ in Event #7 (Low). The victor bagged a score of $4,841 with the Russian having to settle for a second-place prize of $3,371.
Day 3 saw the first HORSE events of this year’s series played out with ‘CMoosepower’ beating Luke ‘lb6121’ Schwartz to the title in Event #9 (High). Schwartz already has five SCOOP titles to his name, but the Brit was unable to attain his sixth on this occasion and had to settle for the runners-up prize of $24,800, with ‘CMoosepower’ earning $34,800 for the win.
Event #9 (Medium) saw Russia’s ‘Zapahzamazki’ record their second largest online cash after they came through an 823 field to take the title for $15,431.
Thomas ‘sandman201’ Taylor was able to cash in all three of the HORSE events, which included victory in Event #9 (Low) for $5,625, and a near-final table miss in the ‘High’ after he exited in 10th place.
Event #12 saw three Six Max ‘Win the Button’ PKO No Limit Hold’em tournaments played out with ‘corsei‘, ‘88pro88‘ and ‘alberto.m7‘ taking the titles.
$4,381 was added to the bankroll of Romania’s ‘corsei‘ courtesy of their win in Event #12 (Low), The UK’s Tommy ’88pro88′ Lawrence followed up on his impressive Sunday Million victory last month by taking down Event #12 (Medium) for $27,700, and last but certainly not least, ‘alberto.m7‘ took the win in Event #12 (high) for $56,828 after seeing off the Brits Jonathan ‘proudflop’ Proudfoot and Conor ‘1_conor_b_1’ Beresford into second and third place respecitivelty.
Below are the SCOOP results for Tuesday May 8
Event #7 (Low): $22 NLO8 Six Max PKO
Entrants: 3,366
Prize pool: $67,320
- kagor82 – $4,841.91
- Iwantbearich – $3,371.36
- freekick71 – $2,349.07
- showdown90 – $1,636.76
- WrestUA – $1,140.45
- SvetJordanov – $794.63
Event #7 (Med): $215 NLO8 Six Max PKO
Entrants: 714
Prize pool: $142,800
- BelovCaXa – $12,246.18
- smiechu0808 – $8,586.71
- ruthless848 – $6,020.94
- tvtotaliwin – $4,221.84
- krakukra – $2,960
- nemisoi – $2,075.32
Event #7 (High): $2,100 NLO8 Six Max PKO
Entrants: 121
Prize pool: $242,000
- aDrENalin710 – $27,202.12
- Pardosh – $20,862.60
- Shtopol’ – $16,000.56
- aless_84 – $12,271.62
- TheRabbitFR – $9,411.71
- iamivar – $7,218.31
Event #8 (Low): $11 Eight Max PKO No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 27,101
Prize pool: $265,589.80
- Marcos Epa – $13,172.88
- NiceYy8 – $9,370.93
- Kimbalance – $6,679.93
- vinymachado1 – $4,761.70
- IcePunishU – $3,394.31
- Buldo PP – $2,419.59
- Messihorst85 – $1,724.78
- familypok&r – $1,229.49
Event #8 (Medium): $109 Eight Max PKO No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 8,562
Prize pool: $856,200
- lynskey99 – $60,073.19
- Kobasteris – $42,472.61
- pm_marke – $30,032.71
- Dam4666 – $21,236.32
- appart.2010 – $15,016.37
- goa1908 – $10,618.20
- husajn54 – $7,508.23
- Lefebvre1101 – $5,309.16
Event #8 (High): $1,050 Eight Max PKO No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 1,413
Prize pool: $1,413,000
- BetrThanPhil – $100,343.04*
- “0PIGGYBANK” – $86,213.04*
- Sanderssi – $55,397.51
- drupa-lucker – $39,513.41
- alimounda – $28,183.76
- capotinha – $20,102.68
- WRUUUUM – $14,338.70
- Hymn2Ninkasi – $10,227.36
Event #9 (Low): $11 HORSE
Entrants: 3,531
Prize pool: $34,603.80
- sandman201 – $5,625.57
- Van Bijnen – $4,003.65
- lucas [Ik7s] – $3,114.34
- raidalot – $2,442.26
- sl8a – $1,730.19
- ceJI9I – $1,038.11
- Ulett_23 – $519.05
- dalzini – $311.43
Event #9 (Medium): $109 HORSE
Entrants: 823
Prize pool: $82,300
- Zapahzamazki – $15,431.25
- Plato2Newton – $11,110.50
- hummylun – $8,230.00
- woodbine ave – $6,172.50
- BigPig400 – $4,115.00
- Perumov – $2,880.50
- Kusu_a – $1,851.75
- mariop17 – $1,234.50
Event #9 (High): $1,050 HORSE
Entrants: 160
Prize pool: $160,000
- CMoosepower – $34,800.00
- lb6121 – $24,800.00
- WhooooKidd – $19,200.00
- brianm15 – $13,600.00
- flong78 – $8,800.00
- Zbad – $7,200.00
- Fabahaba – $5,600.00
- Mikleler – $4,400.00
Event #12 (Low): $5.50 Six Max ‘Win the Button’ PKO No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 16,858
Prize pool: $82,604.20
- corsei – $4,381.88
- Brito.Aces – $3,046.67
- madnet_rz – $2,122.84
- lambbbbr – $1,479.13
- whitfield950 – $1,030.62
- vinypuh1 – $718.11
Event #12 (Medium): $55 Six Max ‘Win the Button’ PKO No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 7,881
Prize pool: $394,050.00
- 88pro88 – $27,700.01
- Kuconi – $19,296.33
- betpeter3 – $13,445.16
- nefartovaya – $9,368.24
- nameLarsen – $6,527.55
- DoshevS – $4,548.24
Event #12 (High): $530 Six Max ‘Win the Button’ PKO No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 1,482
Prize pool: $741,000
- alberto.m7 – $56,828.68
- Proudflop – $39,596.11
- 1_conor_b_1 – $27,589.50
- OMGjonyctt – $19,223.61
- NEWFlat – $13,394.50
- MonkeyBudg – $9,332.93