Paul ‘paulgees81 Volpe won his second PokerStars SCOOP title in a ,100 No Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Six Max event

Thursday’s action in the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker was all about two syllables: paul-gees. Paul ‘paulgees81’ Volpe, who has well over $5 million in career online tournament winnings, came out on top in a SCOOP $2,100 No Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Six Max event for his second career SCOOP title.

Up to three re-entries per player were allowed in the event, and as you’d expect from a $2,100 Omaha Hi-Lo tournament, the field was stacked with poker’s elite. In fact, the final 30 included the likes of James ‘Andy McLEOD’ Obst, Shawn ‘buck21’ Buchanan, and Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom. The final table bubble boy was none other than Nick ‘FU_15’ Maimone.

Volpe was the second shortest stack entering the final table, while Nick ‘TheTakeover’ Schulman, just a few days removed from a SCOOP win of his own, held the lead. Schulman also made the final table of a $2,100 Razz tournament on Thursday. Also at the final table of the event were SCOOP event winner Mark ‘SHIPP ITT’ Herm and reigning Player of the Series Jason Mercier. It also had ‘lena900‘, the third-ranked online poker player in the world.

By the time heads-up play rolled around, it was Volpe versus Herm, two longtime PocketFivers. The pair agreed to an ICM chop and left $2,000 plus the SCOOP title to play for.

In a pivotal hand, Volpe limped on the button with Qc7c4s3s. Herm raised to 60,000 with AhTh9d5h, Volpe moved all-in, and Herm called, putting Volpe at risk. The board ran out 9cQd4s7dTc, giving Volpe a flush and a double-up.

With Herm’s stack now short, he was all-in four hands later with AhKhQs2s and was the favorite against Volpe’s As9d9h5h. The board came 8hTd2cTh4d and Volpe scored his second SCOOP event win. Volpe took home $93,000, while Herm banked $95,000 after the chop.

“Congrats to Paul Volpe and me chopping the $2K Six-Max NLO/8 SCOOP tourney for about $100K each. Both sporting tumbler avatars,” Herm said on Facebook.

In the mid-stakes version of Event #37, Jens ‘Fresh_oO_D’ Lakemeier went nearly wire-to-wire at the final table to win a $215 Razz tournament. There were 542 entrants, meaning a prize pool of $108,000 was up for grabs, and the top 72 players finished in the money.

Jens ‘Fresh_oO_D’ Lakemeier nearly went wire-to-wire in a SCOOP 5 Razz event

Lakemeier entered the final table with 1.7 million in chips, 500,000 more than the next closest player. He sent Daniel ‘jstclkdabtn’ Levy packing in eighth place and then busted Fabrizio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez in sixth before the UK’s ‘Kanehead11‘ went on a tear, eliminating the next three players to go into heads-up play against Lakemeier down only 400,000 in chips.

In the end, however, Lakemeier survived and earned the coveted SCOOP title. He also pocketed $20,000.

Brazil scooped its 15th SCOOP title this year in the mid-stakes version of Event #38, a $215 No Limit Hold’em tournament. Adrovan ‘AadrovanRj21’ Rodrigues outlasted a field of 3,985 entrants as well as a final table that included Germany’s Ole ‘wizowizo’ Schemion.

Schemion ended up going out in third, setting up a heads-up battle between Rodrigues and ‘Fiskin1‘, with the former holding a 3:1 lead. An ICM deal was agreed to that left $6,000 to play for and the final hand came down to an all-in pre-flop race between Rodrigues’ 4c4d and ‘Fiskin1’s’ KcJd. The Brazilian hit a set on the flop and never looked back, extending his country’s SCOOP dominance this year.

Event 37 (L): $27 Razz
Entrants: 1,936
Prize pool: $47,528.80
Places paid: 256

  1. Vovan7778 – $7,520.26*
  2. recusant_89 – $6,656.03*
  3. Ozenc ‘ozenc’ Demir – $4,515.23
  4. YaSashok86 – $3,327.01
  5. Respect8871 – $2,376.44
  6. cardiaftw – $1,425.86
  7. lautokastar – $950.57
  8. AceQuad – $475.28

Event 37 (M): $215 Razz
Entrants: 542
Total prize pool: $108,400
Places paid: 72

  1. Jens ‘Fresh_oO_D’ Lakemeier – $20,487.60
  2. Kanehead11 – $15,013.40
  3. Dejan ‘dejanaceking’ Divkovic – $11,056.80
  4. Arturio30 – $8,130
  5. oOwL – $5,420
  6. Fabrizio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez – $3,794
  7. marek_heinz – $2,710
  8. jstclkdabtn – $1,897

Event 37 (H): $2,100 Razz
Entrants: 127 (85 entries, 42 re-entries)
Total prize pool: $254,000
Places paid: 16

  1. otitov (Russia) $62,230.00
  2. Maicoshaa (Russia) $43,180.00
  3. VavaBobo888 – $33,020.00
  4. Laszlo ‘omaha4rollz’ Bujtas – $22,860.00
  5. krakukra – $16,510.00
  6. Dan ‘djk123’ Kelly – $12,700.00
  7. Andrey ‘Kroko-dill’ Zaichenko – $10,160.00
  8. Nick ‘TheTakeover’ Schulman – $7,620.00

Event 38 (L): $27 NL Hold’em
Entrants: 11,668 (7,978 entries, 3,690 re-entries)
Total prize pool: $286,449.40
Places paid: 1,530

  1. alejorojas57 – $39,853.10
  2. Keep3r – $28,644.94
  3. bevved – $20,051.45
  4. Rafael ‘zugzwang16’ Porzecanski – $14,322.47
  5. xxxALBxxx – $11,457.97
  6. Vichyn88 – $8,593.48
  7. pokertaumes – $5,728.98
  8. darkziv – $2,864.49
  9. DSMaverick – $1,804.63

event 38 (M): $215 NL Hold’em
Entrants: 3,985
Prize pool: $797,000.00
Places paid: 540

  1. Adrovan ‘AadrovanRj21’ Rodrigues – $118,146.01*
  2. Fiskin1 – $100,231.99*
  3. Ole ‘wizowizo’ Schemion – $65,752.50
  4. Gansao – $45,827.50
  5. Nurlux – $33,872.50
  6. Million5050 – $25,902.50
  7. Xading – $17,932.50
  8. Rui ‘sousinha23’ Sousa – $9,962.50
  9. Talal ‘raidalot’ Shakerchi – $6,376.00

Event 39 (L): $27 NL Omaha Hi-Lo Six Max
Entrants: 3,524 (2,072 entries, 1,452 re-entries)
Total prize pool: $86,514.20
Places paid: 450

  1. kwerqeradaus – $10,319.05*
  2. hendo17 – $10,200.87*
  3. Perrymejsen – $8,070.30
  4. Jonny White1 – $6,493.90
  5. teckidtq – $2,811.71
  6. anelka79 – $1,513.00

Event 39 (M): $215 NL Omaha Hi-Lo Six Max
Entrants: 1,026 (584 entries, 442 re-entries)
Total prize pool: $205,200
Places paid: 132

  1. luk45zp – $31,021.00 *
  2. Oledjan – $29,000.00 *
  3. ZeGrimReaper – $19,494.00
  4. aDrENalin710 – $13,338.00
  5. TJR43 – $9,234.00
  6. rbkgutt – $6,156.00

Event 39 (H): $2,100 NL Omaha Hi-Lo, Six Max
Entrants: 242 (135 entries, 107 re-entries)
Total prize pool: $484,000
Places paid: 30

  1. Paul ‘paulgees81’ Volpe – $93,300.26*
  2. Mark ‘SHIPP ITT’ Herm – $95,459.74*
  3. Nick ‘TheTakeover’ Schulman – $58,080
  4. Adam ‘Adamyid’ Owen – $38,720
  5. Jason ‘JasonMercier’ Mercier – $29,040
  6. Lena900 (Sweden) $19,844