Isildur1 Wins SCOOP Main Event

On May 27, the final tables of the PS SCOOP 2013 Main Events took place. Similarly to the other events, the Main Event of the championship was also organised on low, mid and high stakes as well.

Event #43-L $109 NLHE Main Event was won by Israeli player ‘MLiz’, besting a field of 23,045. The finale saw a five-way deal.

The end results are as follows:

1st: MLiz (Israel) – $189,015
2nd: Cha444 (Indonesia) – $121,137
3rd: Pawel.Mpl (Poland) – $142,494
4th: yuricougar (Netherlands) – $111,322
5th: Thru Ya City (Russia) – $114,277
6th: sirgiannis1 (Greece) – $46,090
7th: TWOcc (Switzerland) – $32,378
8th: tonn22 (Netherlands) – $20,740
9th: boomerangP (Canada) – $13,827

On the mid-stakes, Event #43-M $1,050 NLHE Main Event had a total of 4,039 entrants and Brazilian Nicolau ‘nicofellow’ Villa-Lobos emerged as champion. Following a four-handed deal, he took home 472,209. Cash game ace Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew also made it to the finale and finished 4th.

The end results are as follows:

1st: Nicolau ‘nicofellow’ Villa–Lobos (Brazil) – $472,209
2nd: Bostero10 (Argentine) – $434,760
3rd: LuCasino777 (Slovakia) – $396,731
4th: Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew (Canada) – $368,445
5th: mandalaclub (Brazil) – $171,657
6th: Need1MFasT (United Kingdom) – $131,267
7th: stasia42 (Israel) – $90,877
8th: iAct.VolanD (Russia) – $50,487
9th: zinkAA (Russia) – $32,312

The greatest attention, however, was undoubtedly paid to the high stakes finale, the Event #43-H $10,300 NLHE Main Event. A total of 580 players entered the contest, including many of the best professionals of day, which resulted in an accordingly strong finale. Chipleader was Noah ‘Exclusive’ Boeken and he was accompanied by the likes of Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom, Ravi ‘govshark2’ Raghavan, Mike ‘munchenHB’ Telker and Sergio ‘zcedrick’ Aido.


Play started on Level 30 (2,000/8,000/16,000) and the first elimination took place soon enough: ‘munchenHB’ opened to 32,000 in chips, ‘Amadi_017’ from the BB shoved with 363,205 and ‘munchenHB’ called instantly to show pocket jacks. ‘Amadi_017’ played with A-K and the board came neutral.

‘LeshkaGmBlZ’, ‘w4ldo’ and ‘govshark2’ came next: the latter opened all-in with 172,207 and got called by ‘Isildur1’ alone. ‘Govshark2’ showed Q-9 against Blom’s A-Q and the A-8-6 flop did not help him, nor did the 4 for the turn and he drew dead.
A couple of hands later, Boeken min-raised to 60,000 from UTG (blinds: 15,000/30,000), ‘Isildur1’ called from CO and ‘zcedrick’ shoved with 505,263 from the Button. Boeken folded and Blom called.

Zcedrick: A K
Isildur1: 9 9

Board: 2 7 Q T 6

‘Isildur1’ won the flip and ‘zcedrick’ finished 5th.

Out in 4th place was ‘munchenHB’, who went all-in on the Q-4-T flop with Q-9. Boeken had Q-J and eliminated his opponent with a better kicker. ‘MunchenHB’ happens to have finished 4th in last year’s WCOOP Main Event as well.

The heads-up was set with the elimination of ‘cmontopdeck’:


Boeken had the edge in the beginning but Blom managed to gradually come back. The Swedish FTP Pro increased his stack by about 1 million in chips without getting all-in even once. ‘Isildur1’ went on to annoy his Dutch opponent by mucked hands and ultimately gained an edge of over 3 times on ‘Exclusive’.


Surprisingly making no deal in the finale, ‘Isildur1’ won $1,096,200, in addition to his third SCOOP title.

The end results are as follows:

1st: Isildur1 (United Kingdom) – $1,096,200
2nd: Exclusive (Netherlands) – $803,300
3rd: cmontopdeck (United Kingdom) – $591,600
4th: munchenHB (Cyprus) – $446,600
5th: zcedrick (Portugal) – $313,200
6th: govshark2 (Canada) – $246,500
7th: w4ldo (Germany) – $188,500
8th: leshkaGmBlZ (Russia) – $130,500
9th: Amadi_017 (United Kingdom) – $88,740