SCOOP 2020 Day 3: Fifth SCOOP Title for Benny Glaser; Tied Third All-Time

Will Shillibier Managing Editor

May 03, 2020 8 min read Last updated May 07, 2020

SCOOP 2020 Day 3: Fifth SCOOP Title for Benny Glaser; Tied Third All-Time

A total of 15 winners were crowned last night on Day 3 of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker. Head on over the 2020 SCOOP Hub to find out more information, follow along in the live updates and watch exciting videos as they come out!

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SCOOP-06-H: $2,100 8-Game

Mixed Game wizard Benny "RunGodlike" Glaser bagged the fifth SCOOP title of his career after he won SCOOP-06-H: $2,100 8-Game for $54,854. That moves him into third on the all-time list, one behind Shawn Buchanan and five behind Calvin Anderson.

He defeated Germany's "donthnrmepls" heads-up, who had to settle for $42,070.

Place	Player	Country	Payout
1	Benny "RunGodlike" Glaser	United Kingdom	$54,854
2	donthnrmepls	Germany	$42,070
3	at0216	Macau	$32,266
4	joiso	Austria	$24,746
5	Jens "Fresh_oO_D" Lakemeier	Russia	$18,979
6	Fake Love888	Germany	$14,556
7	Phil "flong78" Long	Poland	$11,164

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— jack (@jack)

This result sees Glaser move up the all-time SCOOP standings to sit tied for third:

All-Time SCOOP Titles

SCOOP Titles	Player(s)
10	Calvin "cal42688" Anderson
6	Shawn "buck21" Buchanan
5	Jussi "calvin7v" Nevanlinna
	Jason "JasonMercier" Mercier
	Luke "lb6121" Schwartz
	Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira
	Shaun "shaundeeb" Deeb
	Benny "RunGodlike" Glaser

Benny Glaser SCOOP Titles

Year	Event	Buy-in	Entriers	Prize Pool	Payout
2016	Stud Hi/Lo	$2,100	111	$222,000	$54,390
2018	FLHE	$22	2,074	$41,480	$6,202
2019	FL 2-7 Triple Draw	$215	379	$75,800	$14,667
2019	8-Game	$1,050	191	$191,000	$45,840
2020	8-Game	$2,100	122	$244,000	$54,854

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"mandan1979" Tops 93 Survivors as Big Names Retain Chances for SCOOP Title

Another Progressive Knockout tournament in the shape of Event #10-H: $1,050 NLHE drew a total of 1,157 entries, easily surpassing the initial guarantee of $750,000. Even the 890 unique entries would have sufficed but an additional 267 re-entries boosted the prize pool to $1,157,000, of which the top 143 spots locked up a portion of the cash pool.

After the completion of over eight hours of play, only 93 players made it through in the hopes of scoring further bounty prizes and potentially claiming the top prize of $79,644.69. Romania's "mandan1979" topped the counts as the only player above five million and has 5,080,902 to his name. He is followed by Lithuania's "Mikensonas" with 4,365,087 and third-placed "jorginho88" is trailing by quite a margin with 3,023,682.

Rank	Player	Chip Count
1	mandan1979	5,080,902
2	Mikensonas	4,365,087
3	jorginho88	3,023,682
4	bukharkov777	2,957,914
5	copag holdem	2,633,779
6	JoeGall	2,474,773
7	Freshmannn	2,454,752
8	lopan83	2,258,385
9	aabas	2,235,108
10	need2klonk	2,222,601

Other notables that made it through are three former EPT Main Event champions Robin "robinho" Ylitalo (1,153,065), Andrey "ThePateychuk" Pateychuk (1,142,296) and Rob "batoelrob" Hollink (718,459).

SCOOP-05-L: $11 NLHE

Six of the nine final tablists in SCOOP-05-L: $11 NLHE were from South America, with Argentina's "corresao" eventually coming out on top.

From a field of 41,411 - the largest completed tournament so far - they walked away with $38,968 and become the latest SCOOP champion!

Brazil's "corvonas" would have to settle for second-place and $27,754 in prize money.

Place	Player	Country	Payout
1	corresao	Argentina	$38,968
2	corvonas	Brazil	$27,754
3	ANIILOVEYOU	Argentina	$19,784
4	vituhu3	Brazil	$14,103
5	tritaskis11	Germany	$10,053
6	smdtom	Brazil	$7,166
7	jusforfan	Brazil	$5,108
8	baranoz	Netherlands	$3,641
9	kuznetsmasha	Russia	$2,596

SCOOP-05-M: $109 NLHE

While the Low tier was full of South Americans, the Medium tier SCOOP-05-M: $109 NLHE was a European affair as Germans and Russians battled it out to see who would top the8,022-player field.

In the end it was Germany's "staanemer" who walked away with $112,835 in prize money for finishing first, defeating Russia's "da_malganus" who would have to settle for $78,617.

PokerStars Ambassador Ben "Spraggy" Spragg finished 22nd for $2,120.

Place	Player	Country	Payout
1	staanemer	Germany	$112,835
2	da_malganus	Russia	$78,617
3	RyderRock	Germany	$54,778
4	Zhakinec09	Russia	$38,168
5	Jesusisback0	Poland	$26,594
6	Ruiter1991	Netherlands	$18,530
7	getll	Lithuania	$12,911
8	SetNCheck	Malta	$8,996
9	slinkerknot	Germany	$6,268

SCOOP-05-H: $1,050 NLHE

It was a star-studded affair at the SCOOP-05-H: $1,050 NLHE final table, with notables galore. Eventually, "com 157" defeated Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev heads-up to win $128,391 and top a 741-player field.

Other notables at the final table included Kenny "SpaceyFCB" Hallaert, Rafael "GM_Valter" Moraes and Josip "Jozinho6" Simunic.

Place	Player	Country	Payout
1	com 157	United Kingdom	$128,391
2	Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev	Bulgaria	$94,888
3	Max "mikki696" Lehmanski	Austria	$70,128
4	Consi11	Ireland	$51,829
5	Kenny "SpaceyFCB" Hallaert	United Kingdom	$38,305
6	Easterdamn	Belgium	$28,309
7	Rafael "GM_Valter" Moraes	Brazil	$20,922
8	disquesi!	United Kingdom	$15,463
9	Josip "Jozinho6" Simunic	Austria	$11,428

Reigning SCOOP Main Event champion Gianluca "Tankanza" Speranza finished 14th for $6,979, with Aliaksei "ale6ka" Boika (11th - $8,931), Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson (15th - $6,979) and Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira (20th - $5,454) all finishing in the money.

Five-Way Deal to End SCOOP-06-L: $22 8-Game

With the final table seven-handed, all it took were two further eliminations before the final five struck up a deal. Eventually, Ireland's "Nr1InEurope" came out on top of a 4,039 player field, defeating the UK's "Clarkson6" heads-up to win the first 8-Game title of the 2020 SCOOP.

Place	Player	Country	Payout
1	Nr1InEurope	Ireland	$7,825*
2	Clarkson6	United Kingdom	$5,335*
3	CardTrooper7	Germany	$6,408*
4	vpisjak	Latvia	$5,781*
5	Francuz_032	Russia	$6,459*
6	Alexti666	Russia	$1,895
7	jagakva111	Russia	$1,321

SCOOP-06-M: $215 8-Game

Japan finished first and second in the SCOOP-06-M: $215 8-Game with "fish_san" just edging out Naoya "nkeyno" Kihara to top the 642-player field.

The $60,000 guarantee was smashed, with PokerStars Ambassador Mason "Pye_Face21" Pye finishing 13th for $1,507.

Place	Player	Country	Payout
1	fish_san	Japan	$22,022
2	Naoya "nkeyno" Kihara	Japan	$15,442
3	lb6121	United Kingdom	$10,828
4	millwall1986	United Kingdom	$7,592
5	FONBET_RULIT	Russia	$5,324
6	eddycadub	Ecuador	$3,733
7	tmk999	Poland	$2,975

"YouGoBrokeOk" Wins SCOOP-07-L: $5.50 NLHE PKO

Place	Player	Country	Bounty Prize	Cash Prize	Total Prize
1	YouGoBrokeOk	Germany	$3,016	$5,930*	$8,946
2	AntonAnd20	Denmark	$806	$5,808*	$6,614
3	Oy$h!-MA$t3r	Germany	$737	$6,145*	$6,882
4	dannyt163	Ireland	$952	$6,107*	$7,059
5	medontcarexx	Romania	$561	$2,394	$2,955
6	HOMs_HC	Russia	$177	$1,707	$1,884
7	fredtempel	Brazil	$444	$1,217	$1,661
8	dobajam	United Kingdom	$698	$867	$1,565
9	imcuzza	United Kingdom	$457	$618	$1,075

SCOOP Success for "Lackoo87gcb" in SCOOP-07-M: $55 NLHE PKO

Place	Player	Country	Bounty Prize	Cash Prize	Total Prize
1	Lackoo87gcb	Hungary	$18,816	$37,897	$56,713
2	FiatEruditio	Russia	$7,113	$37,882	$44,995
3	CAMISA1088	Brazil	$2,264	$22,477	$24,741
4	zeisseli	Finland	$3,059	$16,022	$19,081
5	Roman-MI	Russia	$2,255	$11,421	$13,676
6	dUT73	Denmark	$1,370	$8,141	$9,511
7	DeckMcFly	Brazil	$541	$5,803	$6,344
8	PopayeAA	Canada	$1,504	$4,137	$5,641
9	88118811	Argentina	$582	$2,949	$3,531

Big Payday for "Lucky_Jew_17" in SCOOP-07-H

Russia's "Lucky_Jew_17" took down one of the biggest payouts of the 2020 Spring Championship of Online Poker so far, winning SCOOP-07-H: $530 NLHE PKO for over $120,000.

They defeated Diego "Die Ventura" Ventura heads-up, with PokerStars Ambassador Lex Veldhuis finishing 14th for combined cashes of over $5,500.

Place	Player	Country	Bounty Prize	Cash Prize	Total Prize
1	Lucky_Jew_17	Russia	$63,768	$60,864	$124,632
2	Diego "Die Ventura" Ventura	Peru	$14,376	$60,863	$75,239
3	Ervedosa	Brazil	$11,142	$36,111	$47,253
4	Jesseonboss	Finland	$8,223	$25,741	$33,964
5	jenssegers36	Belgium	$4,418	$18,349	$22,767
6	Odonkor1	Sweden	$1,508	$13,080	$14,588
7	KkruchitAAs	Argentina	$6,896	$9,324	$16,220
8	dadaking001	Canada	$2,843	$6,646	$9,489
9	pochi	Costa Rica	$1,262	$4,738	$6,000

SCOOP-11-L: $11 NL 5-Card Draw PKO

An exciting addition to this year's SCOOP schedule was the 5-Card Draw PKO variant which was taken down by "PufuMiu", collecting $2,115 in prize money and $1,281 in bounties.

The Romanian defeated "Philych_085" heads-up, who took down a NL draw SCOOP event back in 2014.

Place	Player	Country	Bounty Prize	Cash Prize	Total Prize
1	PufuMiu	Romania	$1,281	$2,115	$3,396
2	Philych_085	Belarus	$107	$2,112	$2,219
3	farmerpei	Canada	$553	$1,209	$1,762
4	EPT Sem	Netherlands	$338	$842	$1,180
5	Hra_hikka	Finland	$111	$587	$698
6	semi007479	Germany	$332	$409	$741
7	VilleVallaton	Finland	$107	$285	$392

SCOOP-11-M: $109 NL 5-Card Draw PKO

Mark "MarkBang" Bango took down the SCOOP-11-M: $109 NL 5-Card Draw PKO for a total prize of $6,817 when cash and bounty were combined. He defeated "falafel2" heads-up at a final table that also included Finland's Jussi "calvin7v" Nevanlinna.

The event attracted a total of 461 entries, almost doubling the initial guarantee.

Place	Player	Country	Bounty Prize	Cash Prize	Total Prize
1	Mark "MarkBang" Bango	Hungary	$3,285	$3,532	$6,817
2	falafel2	Poland	$395	$3,532	$3,927
3	Jussi "calvin7v" Nevanlinna	Finland	$1,588	$2,090	$3,678
4	Gerkyha	Belarus	$713	$1,488	$2,201
5	molodnyak	Latvia	$471	$1,059	$1,530
6	Maestro Shao	Argentina	$905	$754	$1,659
7	Infe[id]	Belarus	$328	$604	$932

Other notable cashers included Vladimir "vovtroy" Troyanovskiy (27th - $380), Adam "Adamyid" Owen (30th - $340) and Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira (37th - $460).

Russian One-Two-Three in SCOOP-11-H: $1,050 NL 5-Card Draw PKO

In the $1,050 buy-in 5-Card Draw PKO it was a Russian one-two-three as Alexander "joiso" Kostritsyn defeated "Parasol6Ka" heads-up to top a 78-player field.

Kostritsyn takes home $23,666 in total prizes, with Denis "aDrENalin710" Strebkov finishing third and Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira enjoying another 2020 SCOOP deep run.

Place	Player	Country	Bounty Prize	Cash Prize	Total Prize
1	Alexander "joiso" Kostritsyn	Russia	$14,468	$9,198	$23,666
2	Parasol6Ka	Russia	$250	$9,198	$9,448
3	Denis "aDrENalin710" Strebkov	Russia	$4,094	$5,882	$9,976
4	Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira	Netherlands	$2,375	$4,397	$6,772
5	sprocketsAA	mexico	$1,500	$3,287	$4,787
6	Ulett_23	Canada	$2,438	$2,457	$4,895
7	Skint Paddy	Ireland	$500	$1,837	$2,337

SCOOP-12-L: $2.20+R NLHE Turbo

Peru's "Malicius20" walked away with the top prize in SCOOP-12-L: $2.20+R NLHE Turbo, turning a $2.20 buy-in into a massive $9,445 cash. They defeated "Julius" from Germany heads-up in an enormous 13,589-player field, more than tripling the initial $25,000 guarantee.

Place	Player	Country	Payout
1	Malicius20	Peru	$9,445
2	Julius	Germany	$6,725
3	TUL$REKOP	Canada	$4,794
4	xuipizhilo	Russia	$3,417
5	Weissssss	United Kingdom	$2,436
6	Vasiachiki	Ukraine	$1,736
7	Hanz��skils	Czech Republic	$1,238
8	neil's uncle	Canada	$882
9	nice hand180	United Kingdom	$629

SCOOP-12-M: $22+R NLHE Turbo Ends in Three-Way Deal

The final three players in SCOOP-12-M: $22+R NLHE Turbo agreed to a deal that would see Estonia's "ULOSEMFKR!!" take home over $30,000 in prize money, but in the end it was Brazil's "cassolGana" who walked away with the title.

They topped a 5,301-player field which generated a prize pool of$263,000, smashing the original guarantee of $100,000.

Place	Player	Country	Payout
1	cassolGana	Brazil	$27,015*
2	ULOSEMFKR!!	Estonia	$30,951*
3	raw-war123	United Kingdom	$25,329*
4	Brainy14	Canada	13584
5	rollingdrone	Poland	$9,683
6	poker@luffyD	Latvia	$6,902
7	JunkMAn0	Canada	$4,920
8	TG_CES	Denmark	$3,507
9	Raz0rs_3dg3	Germany	$2,500

SCOOP-12-H: $215+R NLHE Turbo

There was more SCOOP success for the nation of Brazil in the High buy-in Turbo, with "Eleres88" clinching victory and over $60,000 in prize money.

736 players entered, generating a prize pool of over $350,000, with notables Simon "C.Darwin2" Mattsson (14th - $2,880), Joshua "slayerv1fan" Hoesel (23rd - $2,460) and Rui "RuiNF" Ferrreira (30th - $2,101) in the money.

Place	Player	Country	Payout
1	Eleres88	Brazil	$62,622
2	conejin_20	Chile	$44,639
3	TheGrinder?	Brazil	$31,820
4	Ahhh Is It?	United Kingdom	$22,682
5	progre69	Argentina	$16,169
6	Jamil11	Canada	$11,526
7	Felipe "lipe piv" Boianovsky	Brazil	$8,216
8	drupa-lucker	Russia	$5,857
9	Witalii	Russia	$4,175

Other Events

SCOOP-09-L: $5.50 NLHE

Guarantee	$50,000
Prize Pool	$115,189
Players	23,508
Players left	433
First place prize	$11,789
Next payout	$29
Chip leader	wanderer_pro (Poland)

SCOOP-09-M: $55 NLHE

Guarantee	$175,000
Prize Pool	$394,900
Players	7,898
Players left	302
First place prize	$55,531
Next payout	$192
Chip leader	Rowniwn (Austria)

SCOOP-09-H: $530 NLHE

Guarantee	$300,000
Prize Pool	$465,000
Players	930
Players left	78
First place	$77,273
Next payout	$1,440
Chip leader	planty07/08 (United Kingdom)

SCOOP-10-L: $11 NLHE PKO

Guarantee	$200,000
Prize Pool	$495,522
Players	46,890
Players left	501
First place prize	$18,035
Next payout	$34
Chip leader	yoyo.razek10 (Germany)

SCOOP-10-M: $109 NLHE PKO

Guarantee	$500,000
Prize Pool	$1,162,700
Players	11,627
Players left	402
First place prize	$64,330
Next payout	$190
Chip leader	Ioami24 (Netherlands)

Lots of Events on the SCOOP Sunday Schedule

It's the first Sunday of SCOOP which means there's plenty of action on offer with 18 events kicking off including three $2,100 events and a $10,300 High Roller!

Time GMT	Time EDT	Buy-in	Name	Guarantee
12:00	08:00	$55	SCOOP 13-M NLHE 8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Kickoff SE	$250,000
12:00	08:00	$530	SCOOP 13-H NLHE 8-Max, Progressive KO	$400,000
12:00	08:00	$6	SCOOP 13-L NLHE 8-Max, Progressive KO, Mini Sunday Kickoff SE	$50,000
14:30	10:30	$1,050	SCOOP 14-H NLHE 8-Max, Sunday Warm-Up SE	$500,000
14:30	10:30	$11	SCOOP 14-L NLHE 8-Max	$100,000
14:30	10:30	$109	SCOOP 14-M NLHE 8-Max, Sunday Warm-Up SE	$350,000
17:00	13:00	$2,100	SCOOP 15-H NLHE Sunday HR SE	$1,000,000
17:00	13:00	$22	SCOOP 15-L NLHE Mini Sunday Million SE	$275,000
17:00	13:00	$215	SCOOP 15-M NLHE Sunday Million SE	$1,000,000
18:15	14:15	$2,100	SCOOP 16-H PLO 6-Max	$400,000
18:15	14:15	$22	SCOOP 16-L PLO 6-Max	$80,000
18:15	14:15	$215	SCOOP 16-M PLO 6-Max	$200,000
19:30	15:30	$10,300	SCOOP 17-H NLHE 8-Max, High Roller	$1,000,000
19:30	15:30	$109	SCOOP 17-L NLHE 8-Max	$400,000
19:30	15:30	$1,050	SCOOP 17-M NLHE 8-Max	$750,000
21:00	17:00	$2,100	SCOOP 18-H NLHE 8-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO, Sunday Cooldown SE	$400,000
21:00	17:00	$22	SCOOP 18-L NLHE 8-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO, Mini Sunday Cooldown SE	$100,000
21:00	17:00	$215	SCOOP 18-M NLHE 8-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO, Sunday Cooldown SE	$250,000

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Will Shillibier Managing Editor

Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for PokerNews as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor. He graduated from the University of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He also holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism.

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