Wednesday’s action in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker featured nine different players entering the winner’s circle including Canadian Parker Talbot and Australian Stevan Chew.
Now that it’s the end of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, or SCOOP, players like Stevan ‘random.chu’ Chew who relocated during the tournament series are headed back home. The days of “poker tourism” are over, at least until the World Championship of Online Poker rolls around later this year.
To open 2015, a field of 3,181 entrants descended on the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up. When all was said and done, Stevan random.chu Chew (pictured) from Adelaide, Australia came away with $74,000 after bowing out in second place. It was his largest online poker score ever and helped grow his lifetime total to over $2.2 million.