PokerStars' weekly news digest
29 May 2015
Total prizepool of the 2015 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), almost doubling the $40 million guarantee. The total number of entries from the 138 tournaments was 569,089.
More info: http://psta.rs/1FD9PIH
$1,301,720
First prize in the SCOOP ‘High’ Main Event, won by Mustapha ‘lasagnaaammm’ Kanit. He overcame a field of 694 players to claim the title and the champion’s watch. Emil ‘maroonlime’ Patel was the runner up and took home $950,780.
Kanit is on the run of a lifetime. In March, he scooped the FTOPS XXVIII Main Event title for $239,400 and earlier this month he won the €50,000 buy-in Super High Roller event at the EPT Grand Final for €936,500.
More info: http://psta.rs/1J1P9w8
$700,000
Guaranteed prize money in Full Tilt’s new tournament series ‘The Stack.’ Running from May 31 to June 7, it will feature 16 events with buy-ins ranging from $2.50 to $500. A special Tournament of Champions will take place on June 14, with the winner receiving a $13,000 trip for two to Las Vegas and tickets to UFC 189, among other prizes.
More info: http://Ti.LT/cE
$609,206.86
Amount won by Australian Tom ‘tollgate’ Grigg for his victory in the SCOOP ‘Medium’ Main Event. He beat ‘Azn1nvas1on’ of Canada after making a heads-up deal for the lion’s share of the prizepool. The ‘Low’ Main Event was won by ‘apostolis20’ of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Blog report: http://psta.rs/1JVkZLU
$25,000 (HKD)
Buy-in for the APPT 9 Macau Main Event, which kicked off on May 27, at the PokerStars LIVE Macau poker room. The four-day tournament is the crown jewel of the 13-event schedule that included a HKD$100k High Roller and HKD$5k Warm-Up event that carried a hefty HKD$1 million guarantee.
More info: http://psta.rs/1AcKGWo
€1,100
Buy-in for the PokerStars Marbella Festival Main Event, which combines the Estrellas Poker Tour and the U.K. & Ireland Poker Tour. The festival runs from June 15-21, with the Main Event starting on June 17. The schedule features 13 events with buy-ins ranging from €165 to €2,200.
More info: http://psta.rs/1FD9TIu
680
SCOOP leaderboard points accumulated by Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier to win the overall race. For the achievement he receives a 2016 PCA package and $10,000 cash. The ‘High’ leaderboard was won by ‘Puropoker123’ of Panama, ‘Medium’ by ‘Gambler4444’ of Germany and ‘Low’ leaderboard ‘JagaForever’ of Poland. Each of them receives a $5,200 WCOOP Main Event ticket and $5,000 cash.
More info: http://psta.rs/1bCLc4e
31st
The date in May (this Sunday) of Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier’s first WSOP Talk Show on Twitch. His new show will feature a guest, the first being fellow Team Pro Eugene Katchalov, and they’ll be partaking in poker-related challenges for charity, talking about the latest WSOP results and news, and interacting with the viewing audience. Tune is every week at 10:00 PDT / 13:00 ET / 18:00 BST.
Watch at: http://www.twitch.tv/elky
14
Number of ‘Spadie’ tournaments on the recently released 2015 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) schedule. Highlights include the HKD$100k buy-in ACOP Main Event, which features a HKD$1.5 million guaranteed prizepool, as well as the HKD$25k ACOP Warm Up, HKD$500k MBP Super High Roller and HKD$250k MBP High Roller.
Full schedule: http://psta.rs/1FgrBz2
7
Shirt number of Cristiano Ronaldo, the newest member of Team PokerStars. The announcement was made on Wednesday via a video CR7 posted on his Facebook page. He joins Neymar Jr, Ronaldo Nazário, Rafa Nadal and Fatima Moreira de Melo on Team PokerStars SportStar.
More info: http://psta.rs/1HLtAyA
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Watch Cristiano announce his new sponsorship deal with PokerStars at: https://www.facebook.com/Cristiano/videos/10153412774707164/