PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Event 22 high stakes event was the one everyone was waiting for, and day one did not disapoint the fans or the players.
The $10K buy-in brought high stakes players and satellite winners alike to the felt, and the final number showed there were 502 of them altogether. That pushed just past the $5 million guarantee to create a prize pool of $5,020,000 and set the first place prize at an astounding $963,338.00. For those of you who aren't into the math portion of this recap, it's nearly a million dollars!
The tough part would be making it into the money. Only 54 spots paid, so the majority of the field would play for hours today without anything but online poker memories and a few hand histories to show for it. But that was what made it so exciting...trying to get into those 54 places, but more importantly, all the way to the final table that would be watched by online poker fans from around the world.
All of the chip counts for Day 2's returning players are below, and they will begin play in Level 23 with blinds at 2,500/5,000 and a 625 ante. The average player's stack is 358,571, but it is no-limit hold'em, and anything can happen. The final 14 competitors will return on Monday, April 13, at 16:30pm ET to play for the win.
SCOOP Event 22-High Survivors (Day 1):
1. xxjondxx (663,843)
2. PearlJammer (639,019)
3. j.thaddeus (624,273)
4. Chowdahhead4 (616,156)
5. actionDJ (561,682)
6. Moorman1 (481,702)
7. Tecknowledgy (270,525)
8. teacuppoker (241,291)
9. pokerjamers (211,112)
10. ragen70 (173,464)
11. Magisterium (163,154)
12. BriDge2PaiN (157,339)
13. MazeOrBowie (115,471)
14. $teveyMoney (100,969)
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