PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Event 6 $2100 action and results.
Start with pot-limit Omaha, a game that is traditionally the most action-heavy of all poker games. Then give players the opportunity to re-buy one time and take an add-on at the end of the rebuy period. Finally, take three seats away from each table and play the tournament six-handed.
What you have just created -- what PokerStars created with Event #6, Pot-Limit Omaha (one re-buy, one add-on, six-max) -- is the action junkie's version of pure heaven.
SCOOP Event #6-High sported a $2,100 price tag and a $400,000 guaranteed prize pool. The 143 players who paid the buy-in easily surpassed the guarantee by taking 90 re-buys and 87 add-ons, thereby creating a total prize pool of $640,000. That meant that the action junkie who could outlast all the rest was in line for a one-day salary of $166,400.
Several members of Team PokerStars Pro threw their hats into the ring to try their hand at being that last survivor. Vanessa "Lady Maverick" got the closest, but she knuckled under in 39th place, well short of the 18th-place finish that was required to make the money. Her only solace was the bragging rights she got for outlasting fellow Team Pros Dario Minieri (57th), John Duthie (71st), Humberto Brenes (88th), Ivan Demidov (94th) and Peter Eastgate (98th).
SCOOP Event #6-High Results:
1st place: Browntown19 ($166,400)
2nd place: HarrisMP ($112,000)
3rd place: holla@ yoboy ($83,200)
4th place: ely_cash41 ($54,400)
5th place: steamraise ($41,600)
6th place: cnew27 ($28,800)
SCOOP is still going on – qualify, register and play here at PokerStars.