PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Event 6 mid stakes event short handed PL Omaha only had one rebuy and one add on – but plenty of action.
The price tag on the "mid buy-in" $215 SCOOP Event #6 Pot Limit Omaha (Six-max, one rebuy, one add-on), may say medium but the heavy online tournament hitters were out in full force. Players making the money included: Eric "Rizen" Lynch (take a look at the recap for his finish), 2008 WCOOP Main Event 3rd place finisher AJKHoosier1 (finished 12th), and Soren "Kongsgaard" who managed to slip into the money in 132nd with exactly 132 players getting paid out of the 848 runners tonight. With the 848 entries, the 601 rebuys, and 440 add-ons the prize pool nearly doubled the $200,000.00 guaranteed by PokerStars and stood at $377,800.00.
Team PokerStars was represented tonight by Ivan Demidov, Vicky Coren, Victor Ramdin, Chris "Money800" Moneymaker, Tom McEvoy, Peter Eastgate, Steve Paul-Ambrose, Marcin "Goral" Horecki, Katja Thater, Andre "aakkari" Akkari, Dario Minieri, Alex "Allingomes" Gomes, and the newest Team PokerStars Pro member Maridu Mayrinck who won the unofficial last longer tonight amongst the pros. However, Against one of the best online tournament players, sapperjuu held his own and overcame a huge 4:1 heads-up chip deficit to win the Event #4 PLO (1R1A, 6-max) Medium Buy-in SCOOP tourney! For his victory, a sum of $63,281.50 was placed into his account as well as some new found bragging rights.
Results for SCOOP Event #6 PLO 1R1A 6-max (medium buy-in)
1. sapperjuu $63,281.50
2. Rizen $47,225.00
3. toomuchneon $35,891.00
4. Justin58 $24,557.00
5. EDWARDHOPPER $17,001.00
6. spieler52 $11,334.00
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