Shawn ‘buck21’ Buchanan closed down SCOOP with another win and six figure score.

If the Spring Championship of Online Poker had a winner’s ceremony where the national anthem of the champion’s country was played, everybody would know the words to the Brazil anthem by now. On Monday Brazil notched their 20th 2016 SCOOP title with crizh’s win in Event 56 (L).

Brazil’s dominance of SCOOP is easily the overwhelming storyline of 2016, but repeat winner have also made their presence felt. Shawn ‘buck21’ Buchanan won his second title of the spring with his victory over 975 other players in Event 523 (H), $2,100 Eight Max No Limit Hold’em. Buchanan’s win, the fifth SCOOP title of his career, earned him $214,436.74 after a deal amongst the final five players.

Overcoming a bad case of food poisoning, Daniel ‘jungleman12’ Cates beat out a final table that included Paul ‘paulgees81’ Volpe, Shaun Deeb, Mikael Thuritz and eventual runner-up Team PokerStars Pro George Danzer to win Event 53 (H), $2,100 NL Deuce to Seven for the second SCOOP title of his career. Cates celebrated on Twitter immediately after his win.


Tuesday marks the final day of SCOOP with just the three Main Event final table left to play. In the low stakes event ‘mmleandro’, one of four Brazilian players at the final table, leads the final nine players in pursuit of the $225,618.11 first place prize money. Romanian player ‘OMGitsH.O.H’ leads the mid-stakes Main Event. That final table includes Jordan ‘jymaster11’ Young and Andres “Educa-p0ker” Artinano all chasing the $750,934.65 winner’s share.

Not surprisingly though, the $10,000 buy-in High Main Event final table features some of the winningest players in poker. Talal ‘raidalot’ Shakerchi leads the way but to take down the $1,468,000 first place prize, he’ll have to outlast John ‘LuckBox’ Juanda, Markku ‘markovitsus’ Koplimaa, Scott ‘gunning4you’ Seiver and Sean ‘Nolez7’ Winter.

Event 51 (H): $1,050 No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 2,813
Prize Pool: $2,813,000

  1. profit76 – $437,420.71
  2. Rob ‘robtinnion’ Tinnion – $314,794.10
  3. jzjayz88 – $224,395.82
  4. gordon0410 – $159,957.02
  5. Jack ‘jackziyang’ Salter – $114,022.98
  6. Yuri ‘theNERDguy’ Martins – $81,279.66
  7. Andreas ‘Hoegh93’ Høgh – $57,938.79
  8. ViCiuSMaXiMu – $41,300.74
  9. ismo<3seppo - $29,440.57

Event 51 (M): $109 No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 14,482
Prize Pool: $1,448,200

  1. clan1 – $193,767.77
  2. Giorgos ‘gkap13’ Kapalas – $138,276.16
  3. Bluf_To_Much – $98,567.96
  4. tuk-tuk17 – $70,262.46
  5. pol17pl – $50,085.41
  6. mathiijs992 – $35,702.47
  7. Harleyy20040 – $25,449.94
  8. dampfnudel77 – $18,141.45
  9. tzini9 – $12,931.84

Event 51 (L): $11 No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 99,114
Total prize pool: $991,140

  1. 1TheSpiteful – $105,470.26
  2. tizzle26 – $76,598.76
  3. Hmaster7 – $55,587.78
  4. vidi.pkr – $40,340.19
  5. th0mh1993 – $29,274.90
  6. navarro0011 – $21,244.88
  7. manu_hrz – $15,417.48
  8. haozlh – $11,188.58
  9. _p0nczek – $8,119.61

Event 52 (H): $2,100 Eight Max No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 976
Total prize pool: $1,952,000.00

  1. Shawn ‘buck21’ Buchanan – $214,436.74 *
  2. baeks22 – $238,333.82 *
  3. AA DOCTOR – $189,547.43 *
  4. brights88 – $216,791.98 *
  5. Jeff ‘jeff710’ Hakim – $201,411.63 *
  6. Maxxx72alba – $68,320.00
  7. Ryan ‘i need sheet’ Yu – $43,920.00
  8. Oscar ‘MendaLerenda’ Serradell – $29,280.00

*Five-way deal
Event 52 (M): ($215 Eight Max No Limit Hold’em
Entrants:*4,967
Total prize pool:*$993,400

  1. Nick ‘GripDsNutz’ Grippo – $146,436.43*
  2. Parker ‘tonkaaaa’ Talbot – $119,041.85*
  3. Gerardo ‘g3r4rd0x’ Rodriguez – $88,412.60
  4. passuare – $68,544.60
  5. Kley – $48,676.60
  6. Squa1l – $28,808.60
  7. SergeiOrehov – $12,417.50
  8. pisha4 – $7,450.50

*Two-way deal
Event 52 (L): $27 Eight Max No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 12,969
Prize pool: $317,333.30

  1. SergeySil83 – $39,266.21*
  2. lachim70 – $19,778.31*
  3. ProMonkey – $18,974.24*
  4. KAZURRRR – $21,361.28*
  5. caprisonne58 – $19,266.45*
  6. skipper-sw8 – $3,807.99
  7. TottiLitti – $2,379.99
  8. Taffyfella – $1,665.99

*Five-way deal.
Event 53 (H): $2,100 NL Deuce to Seven
Entrants: 46
Prize Pool: $182,100

  1. Daniel ‘w00ki3z’ Cates – $47,775
  2. George Danzer – $33,215
  3. Paul ‘paulgees81’ Volpe – $22.750
  4. Shaun ‘shaundeeb’ Deeb – $16,380
  5. Mikael ‘ChaoRen160’ Thuritz – $12,285
  6. RunGodlike – $9,100

Event 53 (M): $215 Eight Max No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 334
Prize pool: $66,800.00

  1. rulez84 – $14,028.00
  2. GuculDK – $10,020.00
  3. marwan24 – $7,014.00
  4. Christopher ‘Ceegee87’ George – $4,342.00
  5. mixjuice – $3,006.00
  6. Adam ‘Adamyid’ Owen – $2,338.00
  7. retrA7777 (Russia) $1,670.00

Event 53 (L): $27 Eight Max No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 1,414
Total prize pool: $34,713.70

  1. vixen1968 – $5,058.67
  2. Naoya ‘nkeyno’ Kihara – $3,574.81
  3. bamboocha88 – $2,446.96
  4. AtomTom87 – $1,541.28
  5. Vichyn88 – $1,073.69
  6. SamyangRamen – $805.01
  7. UziStuNNa – $604.71

Event 56 (H): $1,050 NLHE Progressive Super-Knockout
Entrants: 980
Prize pool: $980,000

  1. Henwii22 – $61,751.88* (+ $29,408.18 in bounties)*
  2. 942003 – $69,592.39* (+ $30,945.28 in bounties)
  3. dadowiec – $68,085.73* (+ $21,453.10 in bounties)
  4. Dylan ‘ImaLucSac’ Linde – $35,525.00 (+ $5,640.62 in bounties)
  5. GreenBoo – $24,696.00 (+ $5,671.87 in bounties)
  6. Narcisus90 – $19,796.00 (+ $12,484.36 in bounties)
  7. dragonwarior – $14,896.00 (+ $9,109.37 in bounties)
  8. D1rtyR1v3r – $10,045.00 (+ $11,683.58 in bounties)
  9. ZeBaronjù – $6,125.00 (+ $4,562.50 in bounties)

*Three-way deal.
Event 56 (M): $109 NLHE Progressive Super-Knockout
Entrants: 5,302
Total prize pool: $530,200

  1. Ambri 81 – $41,591.75 + $10,450.84 bounties
  2. Green_Ape23 – $30,884.15 + $5,283.29 bounties
  3. theManiAKo – $21,870.75 + $2,632.32 bounties
  4. sniper18 – $14,978.15 + $3,180.31 bounties
  5. GeorgesVanC – $11,266.75 + $1,256.24 bounties
  6. Danny ‘DannyN13’ Noseworthy – $8,615.75 + $4,479.34 bounties
  7. Luke ‘LFmagic’ Fields – $5,964.75 + $1,521.26 bounties
  8. Vittorio_PL – $3,313.75 + $2,528.46 bounties
  9. marswu0624 – $2,120.80 + $937.48 bounties

Event 56 (L): $11 NLHE Progressive Super-Knockout
Entrants: 18,155
Prize pool: $181,550

  1. Crizh – $8,121.05*+ $1,874.43 in bounties
  2. Felixchamp – $7,979.88* + $1,264.91 in bounties
  3. vagnerA2 – $7,319.94* + $535.43 in bounties
  4. Wlzed – $4,084.87 + $417.16 in bounties
  5. manokippa2 – $3,177.12 + $1,076.64 in bounties
  6. yachooza – $2,269.37 + $64.75 in bounties
  7. poker2007man – $1,361.62 + $647.30 in bounties
  8. BAJER12 – $816.97 + $994.12 in bounties
  9. kuznez681989 – $544.65 + $233.84 in bounties

*Three-way deal