PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Event 22 low stakes event kicked off its first day with no overlay - and nearly double the guarantee.
The $1,000,000 guarantee for the $109 "low" version of the Main Event was never in danger of not being met. By the time late registration
concluded, 18,747 players signed up. That meant a prize pool of $1,874,700 and a first prize of $187,470.01. For just $109 and two days of perfect poker, someone was going to earn more than most people earn in a year. To be in the Top 10 counts at the end of Day 1 required a player to amass almost 8 million chips. "Every turn card is a sweat," remarked one railbird.
It was definitely going to take perfect poker to get to the final table. 18,747 players meant that there were 2,083 tables to start play. The odds against any single, random player making the final table were 2,082-to-1. Too much can go wrong somewhere between 18,747 and 9, even when you play perfectly. If you don't play perfectly, you can forget any final table dreams.
End of Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts:
1. dhutt24 (21,485,086 in chips)
2. JannotLapin (14,301,227 in chips)
3. xxRogexx (13,676,255 in chips)
4. Benny Binion (11,696,241 in chips)
5. Naxer (11,080,806 in chips)
6. 75champ75 (10,747,618 in chips)
7. Tiktok23 (10,346,942 in chips)
8. mosche (9,028,382 in chips)
9. AlGohr (8,624,415 in chips)
10.ByggmesterBe (7,962,404 in chips)
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