Just two more weeks until the flood gates of tournament action are unleashed when the inaugural Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) kicks off for players of all bankroll sizes. Starting April 2nd and lasting until the main event April 12th, players will be able to compete in three buy-in levels of action that won't kill your virtual wallet to be a part of. Be sure to check here at the PokerStarsBlog for all the final table recaps as we crown three champions a night!

As for tonight's action at the $215 buy-in Sunday Warm-up 4,353 easily crushed the $750,000 guarantee again and ramped up the first prize to $112,307,40 and assured five figure paydays to eight different players.

Here's how we arrived at the final nine:

A nice run by Team PokerStars Pro Noah "Exclusive" Boeken (199th place winning $957.66) ended on an open button push with Ah-9s and lara15fiona awaited in the big blind with Ad-Qs. lara15fiona would promptly flop broadway and sent the Dutch pro out of the tournament. With three tables left, not to mention several hours later, lara15fiona would still be using Boeken's chips on a run towards the final table but ultimately finishing a respectable 23rd place ($1,828.26).

Joining lara on this late table run was none other than James "mig.com" Mackey who's 2007 WCOOP main event final table netted him almost $600,000 for third place (report found here) and winning Event #14 ($1,050 NLHE) the same year for another $580,212.50, read about that win here.

Another player who is familiar to late play in big online tournaments, grebnrets86, was sitting near the top of the leaderboard with two tables left, just two weeks ago claimed the runner-up prize in the Sunday Warm-up ($76,014.00).

mig.com would knock out mppowerm in 11th after turning a set of nines against mppowerm's A8o to leap from mid pack to near the top in chip counts. After dishing out some chips and taking them back via steals, mig.com would send ronnyr3 home as the bubble boy when mig.com turned up Ad-Th to ronnyr3's Kh-Qd and neither connected on the Js-Jc-6d-9c-6c board and Mackey's Ace high produced our final table.

Seat 1: don_beppe (2612658 in chips)
Seat 2: Buton77 (12005148 in chips)
Seat 3: Ar Schaflme (4502712 in chips)
Seat 4: grebnrets86 (3781982 in chips)
Seat 5: dj_ponytale (2621644 in chips)
Seat 6: DeacNutt (1684826 in chips)
Seat 7: p5an (2705570 in chips)
Seat 8: mig.com (8973176 in chips)
Seat 9: Quagmire (4642284 in chips)

Buton77 wasted no time to expandhis lead as the fifth hand at the final table he would be responsible for its first knock-out. With blinds at 80,000/160,000 ante 16,000 and folded around to don_beppe in middle position, he would open shove for his 2.5 million chips with pocket eights (8c-8d) and receive a snap call by Buton77 on his direct left. Buton77 turned up a slightly better pocket pair of aces (Ah-Ac) which would hold on the 3c-Ks-2s-3s-As board. don_beppe would have to settle for ninth place and the $7,051.86 that came with it.

Fifteen hands would go by before DeacNutt and Ar Schaflme would actually produce cards in the middle of the board. Post flop play went by quickly however with DeacNutt taking down the 849,424 chip pot with a 640,000 chip flop bet.

At the break the chip counts stood as shown below with Buton77 stack dwarfing the field and mig.com sitting in second:

Seat 2: Buton77 (15256806 in chips)
Seat 3: Ar Schaflme (2877000 in chips)
Seat 4: grebnrets86 (5068982 in chips)
Seat 5: dj_ponytale (1923744 in chips)
Seat 6: DeacNutt (2673438 in chips)
Seat 7: p5an (2164570 in chips)
Seat 8: mig.com (8440176 in chips)
Seat 9: Quagmire (5125284 in chips)

Mackey would claim his first final table victim in the form of p5an. Folded around to p5an sitting on the button with the short stack and pocket sevens (7c-7h) a push seemed to be an easy decision. Unfortunately, that 460,000 pre-flop pot would not be sliding his way as mig.com woke up with pocket kings (Kh-Kd). The kings proved to be enough on the 4c-3h-Tc-2h-4h board with mig.com being the benefactor of the 3.8 million chip pot increasing his total to nearly nine million. For eighth place p5an got a five figure send off in the form of $10,882.50 added to his PokerStars account.

Six hands later, the other big gun at the table, grebnrets86 would get his hands deep into the battle for that $112K first prize as he tangled with Ar Schaflme pre-flop. Folded around to Ar Schaflme in the cutoff he would shove his remaining 2.8 million into the middle and got a customer in the form of a re-raise from grebnrets86 on the button. The blinds got the message to sit this one out. Ad-Td for grebnrets86, a dominated As-7h for Ar Schaflme, and there was no drama once again as grenbnrets86 would flop two pair and river the nut flush on the Tc-Qd-Ah-Kd-9d board for the 6.1 million chip pot sending Ar Schaflme home in seventh place ($17,412.0HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:38:02 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.41 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6 X-Pingback: http://wizfix.com/xmlrpc.php Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

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Here's how we arrived at the final nine: A nice run by Team PokerStars Pro Noah Exclusive Boeken (199th place winning $957.66) ended on an open button push with Ah-9s and lara15fiona awaited in the big blind with Ad-Qs. lara15fiona would promptly flop broadway and sent the Dutch pro out of the tournament. With three tables left, not to mention several hours later, lara15fiona would still be using Boeken's chips on a run towards the final table but ultimately finishing a respectable 23rd place ($1,828.26). Joining lara on this late table run was none other than James mig.com Mackey who's 2007 WCOOP main event final table netted him almost $600,000 for third place (report found here) and winning Event #14 ($1,050 NLHE) the same year for another $580,212.50, read about that win here. Another player who is familiar to late play in big online tournaments, grebnrets86, was sitting near the top of the leaderboard with two tables left, just two weeks ago claimed the runner-up prize in the Sunday Warm-up ($76,014.00). mig.com would knock out mppowerm in 11th after turning a set of nines against mppowerm's A8o to leap from mid pack to near the top in chip counts. After dishing out some chips and taking them back via steals, mig.com would send ronnyr3 home as the bubble boy when mig.com turned up Ad-Th to ronnyr3's Kh-Qd and neither connected on the Js-Jc-6d-9c-6c board and Mackey's Ace high produced our final table. Seat 1: don_beppe (2612658 in chips) Seat 2: Buton77 (12005148 in chips) Seat 3: Ar Schaflme (4502712 in chips) Seat 4: grebnrets86 (3781982 in chips) Seat 5: dj_ponytale (2621644 in chips) Seat 6: DeacNutt (1684826 in chips) Seat 7: p5an (2705570 in chips) Seat 8: mig.com (8973176 in chips) Seat 9: Quagmire (4642284 in chips) Buton77 wasted no time to expandhis lead as the fifth hand at the final table he would be responsible for its first knock-out. With blinds at 80,000/160,000 ante 16,000 and folded around to don_beppe in middle position, he would open shove for his 2.5 million chips with pocket eights (8c-8d) and receive a snap call by Buton77 on his direct left. Buton77 turned up a slightly better pocket pair of aces (Ah-Ac) which would hold on the 3c-Ks-2s-3s-As board. don_beppe would have to settle for ninth place and the $7,051.86 that came with it. Fifteen hands would go by before DeacNutt and Ar Schaflme would actually produce cards in the middle of the board. Post flop play went by quickly however with DeacNutt taking down the 849,424 chip pot with a 640,000 chip flop bet. At the break the chip counts stood as shown below with Buton77 stack dwarfing the field and mig.com sitting in second: Seat 2: Buton77 (15256806 in chips) Seat 3: Ar Schaflme (2877000 in chips) Seat 4: grebnrets86 (5068982 in chips) Seat 5: dj_ponytale (1923744 in chips) Seat 6: DeacNutt (2673438 in chips) Seat 7: p5an (2164570 in chips) Seat 8: mig.com (8440176 in chips) Seat 9: Quagmire (5125284 in chips) Mackey would claim his first final table victim in the form of p5an. Folded around to p5an sitting on the button with the short stack and pocket sevens (7c-7h) a push seemed to be an easy decision. Unfortunately, that 460,000 pre-flop pot would not be sliding his way as mig.com woke up with pocket kings (Kh-Kd). The kings proved to be enough on the 4c-3h-Tc-2h-4h board with mig.com being the benefactor of the 3.8 million chip pot increasing his total to nearly nine million. For eighth place p5an got a five figure send off in the form of $10,882.50 added to his PokerStars account. Six hands later, the other big gun at the table, grebnrets86 would get his hands deep into the battle for that $112K first prize as he tangled with Ar Schaflme pre-flop. Folded around to Ar Schaflme in the cutoff he would shove his remaining 2.8 million into the middle and got a customer in the form of a re-raise from grebnrets86 on the button. The blinds got the message to sit this one out. Ad-Td for grebnrets86, a dominated As-7h for Ar Schaflme, and there was no drama once again as grenbnrets86 would flop two pair and river the nut flush on the Tc-Qd-Ah-Kd-9d board for the 6.1 million chip pot sending Ar Schaflme home in seventh place ($17,412.00). You know how people compare the live game with the speed of the online game? Well, the next bust out happen quicker then I could type out the amount won by Ar Schaflme! The very next hand grebnrets86 sended another player out of his seat. Opening from the cutoff for 478,987 grebnrets86 would push DeacNutt's in the big blind into making a decision for his chips. The decision was clear that Ah-Jc was the hand to double-up or go home with as DeacNutt shoved his nearly two million chips into the middle. grebnrets86 would make the call with pocket ducks (2h-2d) and the race was on for DeacNutt's tournament life. Only this race lasted slightly longer then a bad TV sitcom pilot, as grebnrets86 would flop a set of twos and river a boat on the 2s-9h-5h-6d-9c board leaving DeacNutt with nothing left to hold but the $26,118.00 he received in sixth place. Eight hands later would be the biggest hand of the tournament to this point as the two heavyweights would collide for all of their chips pre-flop. mig.com would start the betting by raising to 510,000 with the blinds at 100,000/200,000 ante 20,000. grebnrets86 would counter with a re-raise from the small blind to 1.6 million. To which Mackey had an answer of all-in, and grebnrets86 took a look at his cards and responded likewise. grebnrets86: [Td-Ts] mig.com: [5h-5s] Well behind, Mackey still had 177K chip in his stack but wouldn't need them, as the pretty looking five of diamonds hit the 5d-Js-9h flop. 8d on the turn opened up straight possibilities as well as the other two tens, but Ad came instead and grebnrets86 cX-Powered-By and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

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