Action of the Tournament
The event had an advertised $2,000,000 guarantee that was shattered when 10,813 showed up over the span of all Day 1 s, accumulating a $2,162,600 prize pool that had $200,006 set aside for the eventual champion. Day 2 began with 1,111 runners who were all in the money and when the final day ended it was
Tatiana Mysters Y Barausova sitting atop the 26 player field.
A final day of action saw many players drop early in the day including Barausova who took an exit in 18th place after running her top pair into the top two of tonn22 . The eliminations came all at once, having big names like Ivan BanicIvan Banic, Eduardo SAFADA1 Fay, and Pedro LgwZ Grochocki take an exit just shy of the final table.
Ka Kwan kaju85 Lau triumphed in the
$10,300 PLO Main Event and secured a $263,099 payout following a heads-up deal with Danish grinder LamassuShedu.
The majority of the $1,340,000 prize pool was dished out among the final seven players, with start of the day chip leader
Joao vovo leo Studart being the final table s first casualty. Studart collected $59,046 for his efforts. terror777727 were the next players to fall, the latter banking the tournament s final five-figure prize, namely $98,178.
Lau was aggressive throughout the final table s proceedings and that aggression paid off with the scalp of PLO expert TheBrodie5 . Lau went into his heads-up battle with LamassuShedu holding a near two-to-one chip lead, but PLO is a high variance game so nobody blamed the heads-up duo for striking a deal.
The second day of
SCOOP 01-H: $215 NLHE Phase 2, $2M GTD has now completed here on
PokerStars, and it took just six hours of play. A total of 10,813 signed up for the event and when Day 2 ended only 26 were left in contention. The survivors will return Wednesday, April 28 at 2:15 p.m. EST to play down to a winner, who will be taking home $200,006 for their victory.
Leading the way into the final day is Russia s
Tatiana Mysters Y Barausova who bagged an impressive 27,394,121 by the end of the night. Barausova hovered above-average throughout the day and really started to roll during the last four tables of the night. Her biggest hand of the night was when she four-bet shoved with aces and zaminhan jpz called with big slick. The board ran out clean and she never looked back, ending the day on top of the field.
The third and final day of
SCOOP 01-H: $215 NLHE Phase 2, $2M GTD is set to begin today at 2:15 p.m. EST. An insane total of 10,813 entry slips were sold over the span of the Day 1 s and now just 26 will be returning for a shot at the title. along with the $200,006 first-place prize.
Russia s
Tatiana Mysters Y Barausova is leading the way into Day 3 with a 27,394,121 stack that is good for 110 big blinds after heating up late last night. Closest on the totem pole is Killer ooooo with 22,608,536 who is the only other player to have a stack above 20 million. Rounding out the top five are
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