British grinder Leonard is a regular sight at the tables and won the fourth SCOOP-title of his career in
SCOOP-57-H: $1,050 NLHE [Freezeout, Afternoon Deep Stack] for $60,953. Leonard defeated a 324-player field with such luminaries as Dante dantegoyaF Goya (2nd), the red-hot Joao Naza114 Vieira (5th), and Conor 1 conor b 1 Beresford (7th) at the final table.
With the victory, Leonard strengthened his bid to win the Player of the Series leaderboard. Being more than halfway through the series, Leonard jumped ahead of the Swedish end bosses Niklas Lena900 Astedt and Simon C. Darwin2 Mattsson to take the lead on the High leaderboard.
Day 1 chip leader
Bruno brunilsks Borges didn t have things going for him today and ended up in 25th place when he ran his ace-jack into the king-eight of seboraptor . The king on the flop meant the end of his tournament run. It would then take almost two hours before the final table bubble was reached with notables like
Alexandros Pwndidi Theologis and
Bruno Borges finished in 25th place for $4,706
With the final table being reached in Level 45, the nine remaining players will return to finish the remainder of this level which features a small blind of 300,000, a big blind of 600,000, and a running ante of 75,000. Once that level is done, the level duration will increase to 30 minutes until play ends with a winner at the end of the road.
Joni Jouhkimainen
It took a little over nine hours of play to whittle a field of 257 entrants down to a final table of eight in
SCOOP-33-H: $5,200 NLHE [8-Max, High Roller Club SE], $1M Gtd . Leading the field into the final day is
Joni bustoville Jouhkimainen, who had a string of knockouts once the bubble burst to propel him to the top spot. Of the 257 entrants, 163 players and 94 re-entries helped build a prize pool of $1,285,000, well past the juicy $1,000,000 guarantee put up by PokerStars.
Jouhkimainen, who boasts just a hair under $4 million in Hendon Mob reported tournament earnings, started his streak by knocking out
and that propelled Wildace hun above 3.2 million.
Also in the final hand of the night, Jakub Olorionek Michalak scored another knockout to join the trio atop.
Franco rojorulez Spitale made it 41,400 to go and Michalak called. The flop was checked and Michalak overbet the turn for 130,000 into 115,300, which Spitale called. Michalak then bet the river for 650,000 and Spitale called all-in for just shy of that with
. for trips nines to score the bounty.
But both missed out on the overnight lead as Tom Poker NL claimed that spot by a few chips only. They raised to 44,200 and received three callers to the
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