SCOOP: Matt Affleck Wins $470,500 in Event #8

The first two-day event on the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker schedule wrapped up late Monday with nearly $5.5 million being awarded across the three buy-in levels. The late stages of the high buy-in event included Daniel Negreanu who wound up finishing 33rd in that event. Here’s a complete rundown of the final tables of all three events.

Event #8 $3,150 No Limit Hold’em (Two-day event)

The largest buy-in No Limit Hold’em of SCOOP so far featured a $255,000 overlay as the tournament fell 85 players short of the minimum to make the guarantee. The $3,000,000 prize pool included a scheduled $500,500 first place prize but the final three players Matt ‘MCMATTO’ Affleck, Zach ‘nofingclue’ Clark and Jamie ‘pokerjamers’ Armstrong chopped up the money and left $60,000 on the table. Affleck ended up walking away with $470,000 and an SCOOP title.

1. MCMATTO – $470,500
2. nofingclue11 – $390,000
3. pokerjamers – $380,000
4. hadouk3n – $223,500
5. Skint Paddy – $156,000
6. rubenrtv – $126,000
7. mahoney3 – $96,000
8. KingKobeMVP – $66,000
9. Choron – $39,000

Event #8 $320 No Limit Hold’em (Two-day event)

The medium buy-in event didn’t follow the lead set by the large buy-in as 6,274 players pushed the total prize pool to $1,882,200 just over 20% past the $1,500,000 guarantee. The final four players agreed to a chop without much negotiation and ‘AlexanderT’ earned the title of champion and $206,369.17. Runner-up ‘MKKMOO’ came away with nearly the same amount scoring $204,931.56.

1. AlexanderT – $206,369.17
2. MKKMOO – $204,931.56
3. dselnick – $191,335.64
4. bayoougieman – $148,490.80
5. Craps4Dinner – $79,052.41
6. DennyDav – $60,230.41
7. cuthbertt – $41,408.41
8. Mark018 – $22,586.41
9. frankpark9 – $14,587.06

Event #8 $33 No Limit Hold’em (Two-day event)

The high buy-in event had an overlay, the medium event was 20% oversubscribed but the low buy-in took it to a whole new level. The 20,353 players each paying $30 ballooned the prize pool to $610,590 well pas the $250,000 guarantee. Nashville-based poker pro Kevin ‘BodogBanshee’ Hercules came out on top and avoided any talk of a chop to bank nearly $55,000 for the win.

1. BodogBanshee – $54,953.11
2. frado82 – $37,795.53
3. magicdave2 – $27,476.56
4. scarface0928 – $21,370.66
5. celofyz33 – $15,264.76
6. Harperfr – $9,158.86
7. WalkerDCFC – $6,105.91
8. RandyV – $4,579.43
9. martin-king – $3,052.96