History of SCOOP Main Event Final Table 2009 5M Guarantee - PokerStars (part 1) [HQ] video

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History of SCOOP Main Event Final Table 2009 5M Guarantee - PokerStars (part 1) [HQ]

Published: 2010/08/10 by juanpablopoker

World Series Of Poker Online 2009, Serie Mundial de Poker Online 2009 When the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) was first announced to the poker community, players liked the idea. Besides the catchy name, the offerings of three buy-in levels to each tournament was more than appealing, as players at all levels of the game could find a way to make their bankrolls work for this series. Even those without sufficient money in their PokerStars accounts could find satellites for mere pennies on the dollar and win their way into a tournament whose results could change their poker worlds. The first 21 events made for 63 tournaments and tens of millions of dollars in prize money. Players came out in droves, crushed guarantees, and walked away with sometimes life-changing money. And that brought us to the Main Event. Event 22 offered three different buy-ins, this one being the high-stakes tournament with a $10,300 buy-in for the NLHE excitement. There were 502 players who entered the $5 million guarantee event, which pushed the prize pool just past that to a cool $5,020,000. That would be split according to the finishes of the final 54 players, though a sizeable portion - $963,338.00 - was reserved for the winner. The first day of action consisted of 22 levels of play and resulted in the vast majority of the players taking leave of the tournament. And when it was over after 12 hours, xxjondxx led the 14-player field, though he was trailed by PearlJammer, j.thaddeus, Chowdahhead4, and actionDJ. Day 2 began with Level 23, blinds of 2,500/5,000, and a 625 ante. Action was to be had right away. j.thaddeus immediately took the chip lead from xxjondxx, and $teveyMoney doubled through Tecknowledgy, who then doubled through Moorman1. The double-ups were fast and furious for the first 30 minutes, but eventually, someone would lose one of those decisions. Magisterium was the first to lose the all-in, going down to j.thaddeus. MazeOrBowie then took out pokerjamers. Both players received $55,220 for their 14th and 13th finishes. Tecknowledgy left soon after in 12th place, at the hands of actionDJ, and the day's original chipleader, xxjondxx, was eliminated in 11th place by the uber-aggressive j.thaddeus. And in only a few minutes of hand-for-hand play, BriDge2PaiN was eliminated by Chowdahhead4 in 10th place. All three of them received $65,260. With that, the final table began with chip counts as follows: Seat 1: teacuppoker (104,776 in chips) Seat 2: j.thaddeus (1,150,492 in chips) Seat 3: MazeOrBowie (243,940 in chips) Seat 4: actionDJ (842,557 in chips) Seat 5: ragen70 (808,362 in chips) Seat 6: PearlJammer (676,174 in chips) Seat 7: Moorman1 (93,688 in chips) Seat 8: Chowdahhead4 (617,123 in chips) Seat 9: $teveyMoney (482,888 in chips)