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The $21,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Max High Roller event of the 2016 PokerStars Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP) saw 143 entries processed and a $2,931,500 prize pool created. A huge slice of that money, $718,217.50, is now nestled in the PokerStars account of Dario 'Secret_M0d3' Sammartino.
Sammartino defeated Henrik 'hhecklen' Hecklen heads up to leave Hecklen with the $498,355 runner-up prize. Fourteen others shared the mammoth-sized prize pool, each walking away with the amounts shown in the table below:
Place | Player | Prize |
---|---|---|
1 | Dario 'Secret_M0d3' Sammartino | $718,217.50 |
2 | Henrik 'hhecklen' Hecklen | $498,355 |
3 | 'hurrrrican3' | $381,095 |
4 | Rafael 'GM_VALTER' Moraes | $263,835 |
5 | Martin 'nizmo jiz' Kozlov | $190,547.50 |
6 | 'bencb789' | $146,575 |
7 | Jason 'jakoon1985' Koon | $117,260 |
8 | Brian 'tsarrast' Rast | $87,945 |
9 | 'myzikant' | $73,287.50 |
10 | Chun 'SamRostan' Lei Zhou | $73,287.50 |
11 | Andreas 'Hoegh93' Hogh | $73,287.50 |
12 | Nicolas 'chilenocl' Yunis | $73,287.50 |
13 | Mikael 'ChaoRen160' Thuritz | $58,630 |
14 | Dietrich '2pacnrw16' Fast | $58,630 |
15 | Alexandros 'mexican222' Kolonias | $58,630 |
16 | Ludovic 'ludovi333' Geilich | $58,630 |
PokerNews will have a recap of the latest SCOOP events coming soon, but the $21,000 buy-in event and the huge prizes awarded was too great to leave out of the Sunday Briefing.
Big Scores in Non-SCOOP Events
There were some big scores enjoyed in standard PokerStars Sunday tournaments as well, particularly the $110,250 that 'daskalos20' won for taking down the Sunday Grand. Another was the $64,780 awarded to 'Fresh_oO_D' who triumphed in the pot-limit Omaha edition of the Sunday Grand.
Others included:
- 'Yarpiz' — won the $215 Bounty Builder for $19,408.85
- 'kiilitom' — won the Big $109 for $37,717.69
- 'ersevi6' — won the Hot $162 for $22,453.23
- 'bar-bar9999' — won the Super-Sized Sunday for $55,361.88
- Kevin 'torino2000' Killeen — won the $109 Bounty Builder for $17,933.20
- Johannes 'Greenstone25' Korsar — won the Hot $109 for $25,304.93
- Nicolas 'Legadzo' Cardyn — won the Big $215 for $38,816.90
- 'Keiruja' — won the Sunday Cooldown for $30,416.80
- 'SuchADegen' — won the Sunday Supersonic for $51,4693.70
- 'MountainRo$e' — won the Hot $215 for $27,084.95
Patrick Leonard Wins a Powerfest Event
Patrick Leonard, the newest member of partypoker's ambassadors, won the $200,000 guaranteed High Roller this week and banked $48,549.68 for his efforts.
Four other partypoker tournaments boasted of guarantees larger than $100,000 on Sunday, including the $300,000 guaranteed High Roller won by 'Gargurgel' for $55,141.50. Another was the $250,000 guaranteed won by 'gingasnapped' for $39,460.
Additionally, two more were the $100,000 guaranteed Super High Roller and the $100,000 guaranteed freezeout won by 'WWWpartyCOM' for $49,787.11 and 'DONKAROO1' for $20,230.38, respectively.
Sebastian Sikorski Secures an 888poker Super XL Title
Over at 888poker, the Super XL series was in full swing and the legendary grinder Sebastian 'p000cket000' Sikorski took down the $200,000 Super Whale for $43,134.20 following a three-way chop.
Other winners included 'jewelrunna' in the $150,000 Super Mega Deep for $33,786.98, 'EvnomiYa' in the $60,000 Turbo Mega Deep for $13,235.40, 'ncqqqqqq' in the $250,000 Opening Event for $56,725.06, and 'Ozzy_M' in the $110,000 Sunday Challenge for $17,927.52.
Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for more results from big online poker tournaments, including continued coverage of the 2016 PokerStars SCOOP.
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