PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Event 3 $1050 action and results.
Poker players these days are used to having four barrels. They can choose to fire one or all four. Hold'em games are full of chances to escape. You can fire a couple shots and still get away without having to win or lose. Five-card draw is not nearly as forgiving. Players have two decisions--whether to play and whether to go to showdown. When one only has two barrels, the aim better be true.
Five-card draw barely merits an explanation. It's the game that most poker players (at least those who weren't born in the 1990s) played for plastic chips or matchsticks around the kitchen table with Grandpa. If you were too young to see Rounders at the theater when it came out, you might need a brief primer. It's simple. You get five cards, you bet. You discard and draw. You bet. You show your hand. It's no nonsense, no room for error poker.
The grandpappy of SCOOP Event #3 events today was the $1,050 buy-in featuring 120 tough draw players. Only the top 12 were guaranteed to recoup any of their investment. The $54,000 first prize and $200,000 guarantee, though, was enough to turn the event into a long one. It took twelve hours to drop from the original 120 players to the final six.
After nearly 14 hours of five-card draw, he put it away for the first-ever SCOOP Five-Card Draw title and $54,000.
SCOOP Event #3: $1,050 Pot-Limit Five-Card Draw
1. sexygee (United Kingdom) $54,500
2. KONGOOR (Ukraine) $36,500.
3. JannotLapin (France) $28,000
4. Drunka (Ukraine) $19,000
5. CASINOICE (Iceland) $14,000
6. razgon (Bulgaria) $10,500
SCOOP is still going on – qualify, register and play here at PokerStars.