A Long and Action-Packed Day 2 Ahead in the $1,050 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker Main Event
Welcome to Day 2 of the 2023 $1,050 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Main Event . The action is set to kick off at 12:35 p.m. Eastern Time and the field will play well into the money, with the plan being to leave only 80 competitors with chips at the end of the day.
On Day 1, 3,845 entries were made by 2,664 unique players. Out of them, only 1,278 found a way to Day 2. Canada’s ”Zabiggesmaj” bagged the chip lead with a whopping 1,469,772 chips, equating to almost 15 starting stacks and 250 big blinds. Christoph "26071985" Vogelsang (1,067,360) and Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky (1,047,595) also found themselves with over one million chips at the end of the day, and thus in the top ten of the leaderboard.
Start of Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zabiggesmaj | Canada | 1,469,772 | 245 |
| 2 | Neocortex_UA | Ukraine | 1,383,534 | 231 |
| 3 | Eller77 | Brazil | 1,166,429 | 194 |
| 4 | Matheus "bolonhax" Freitas | Brazil | 1,091,574 | 182 |
| 5 | ChavesVila | Brazil | 1,085,364 | 181 |
| 6 | Christoph "26071985" Vogelsang | Germany | 1,067,360 | 178 |
| 7 | Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky | Ukraine | 1,047,595 | 175 |
| 8 | DanDan987 | Germany | 1,035,646 | 173 |
| 9 | Alfred "Kzzon" Karlsson | Sweden | 1,009,850 | 168 |
| 10 | anth0nypappa | Hungary | 1,004,382 | 167 |
When play ended on Day 1, the $4,000,000 guaranteed prize pool had not been reached yet. However, with late registration being open until the start of today, that is very likely to change. At the time of writing the clock reads 3,981 entries, with a top prize of over $570,000. Those numbers are sure to still rise, as many more are expected to take a final shot at becoming a SCOOP Main Event champion in the hour that remains until play commences.
Among those that have already made a reentry for the starting stack of 100,000 are Daniel "SmilleThHero" Smiljkovic, Gilles "TaxationIsTheft" Simon, and Pedro "kurtWSOP" Cavalieri. PokerStars Ambassador Fintan “easywithaces” Hand will also make a last-minute appearance, as he was the only one of the “Red Spades” who did not succeed in making Day 2.
As stated, the tournament will recommence at 12:35 p.m. Eastern Time. The blinds will start at 3,000/6,000 with an ante of 750, and Day 2 will last for as many 20-minute levels as it takes to whittle the field down from over 1,400 people to the final 80.
Stay tuned as PokerNews will provide all of the exciting action on the bubble-bursting Day 2 of SCOOP 108-M: $1,050 Main Event, as well as the $109 Low and $10,300 High versions of the tournament.