It's all over, folks! After two intensive weeks of tournament poker, the 2014 Spring Championship of Online Poker came to a close early this morning once all three two-day Main Events (Low, Medium and High) had found their winners.
The cheapest Main Event, Low - $109 buy-in, saw 21,545 entries creating a $2,154,500 prize pool (more than a million over the guarantee). 2,700 players received a slice of the cake and Ari "BodogAri" Engel laid hands on the $187,699.27 first-place prize after a four-way deal had been made.
1. Ari "BodogAri" Engel $187,669.27*
2. jeppinho (Sweden) $136,418.37*
3. MAKKAPAKK (United Kingdom) $172,207.27*
4. MoscowNo1 (Russia) $117,442.65*
5. camikater (Germany) $75,407.50
6. vlaviusz (Romania) $53,862.50
7. sksjohny (Czech Republic) $32,317.50
8. capinhabr (Brazil) $19,390.50
9. Didcot4 (United Kingdom) $12,927.00
*= reflects the results of a four-way deal that left $20,000 in play for the winner
4,047 players registered for the $1,050 buy-in Main Event (Medium) and created a $4,047,000 prize pool, which doubled the original $2m guarantee. At the end of it all, ‘LexaLucky666' (from Belarus) ended up winning the tournament after defeating 2011 EPT Loutraki champion and WCOOP bracelet winner Zimnan ‘Zimmy86' Ziyard (picture) heads-up. Believe it or not but no deal was made on this final table (not that common these days in big online tournaments), so LexaLucky666 got about $160k more than Ziyard who finished runner-up.
1. LexaLucky666 (Belarus) $635,379.00
2. Zimnan 'Zimmy86' Ziyard $473,499.00
3. marek_heinz (Czech Republic) $333,877.50
4. seonkett1 (Germany) $232,702.50
5. Four-7-Kevin (United Kingdom) $171,997.50
6. €urop€an (Finland) $131,527.50
7. seonkett1 (Germany) $91,057.50
8. Andr the gun (Lithuania) $50,587.50
9. 1337Gambl0r (Austria) $32,376.00
The High buy-in version of this year's SCOOP Main Event was won by Ivan "vandir4rek" Soshnikov of Russia. Soshnikov, winner of EPT Prague High Roller in 2013, overcame a field of 657 to lay hands on $1,048,000 - the only 7-figure score at the 2014 SCOOP! In total, he made the money 18 times over the last two weeks including 3 final tables!
1. Ivan "vandir4rek" Soshnikov (Russia) $1,048,000.00*
2. Peter "Se7enTr3y" Akery (United Kingdom) $860,000.00*
3. Better C4ll (United Kingdom) $890.820.00*
4. Martin "M.nosbocaJ" Jacobson (United Kingdom) $499,320.00
5. Phill "Grindation" Mcallister (United Kingdom) $350,838.00
6. Ben "NeverScaredB" Wilinofsky (Canada) $279,225.00
7. VVVILELAAA (Brazil) $213,525.00
8. Santiago "sanpri" Nadal (Mexico) $147,825.00
9. sat1337en (Sweden) $98,555.00
*= reflects the results of a three-way deal that left $60,000 in play for the winner
