The 2015 edition of PokerStars' Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) ended on Sunday with three Main Events in Low, Medium and High buy-ins. Despite the latter having a buy-in of $10,300, 694 entries were made and generated a prize pool of $6,940,000 (the orginal guarantee was $4 million)!
No deal was made on chopping the prize money on the final table so the winner, Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit, ended up waking away with a whopping $1.3 million! Kanit, born in Italy but located in England, won his first SCOOP last year, a $2,100 buy-in tournament for $376,920. He won the €50,000 Super High Roller at the EPT11 Grand Final in Monaco last month, a score worth €936,500. Add to that his latest cash worth $1.3 million!
SCOOP 45-H: $10,300 NL Hold'em Main Event
Entrants: 694
Prize pool: $6,940,000.00
Places paid: 81
1. Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit (United Kingdom) $1,304,720.00
2. Emil "Maroonlime" Patel (Finland) $950,780.00
3. KumariOy (Russia) $700,940.00
4. I am Bobbie (Belarus) $527,440.00
5. prrrak4783 (Sweden) $370,596.00
6. Christian "eisenhower1" Jeppsson (Sweden) $294,950.00
7. Shaun "shaundeeb" Deeb (Mexico) $225,550.00
8. albeainy (Lebanon) $156,150.00
9. hello_totti (Russia) $104,100.00
Viktor "Isildur1" Blom finished in 12th for $79,810. In other words, he wasn't far away from winning a fourth SCOOP title and a second SCOOP Main Event "High" win after winning this event in 2013.
