The 2012 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, or SCOOP, has been very kind to longtime PocketFives member Shaun shaundeebDeeb (pictured). In the first twenty 2012 SCOOP events, Deeb has recorded not one, but two tournament titles, both in Stud. His latest win came by virtue of taking down the high-stakes version of SCOOP Event #19, $2,100 Triple Stud, for $45,000 on Saturday night, which marked his third career SCOOP victory. Deeb became just the second person ever to win three SCOOP titles.

Deeb told PocketFives on Sunday morning just hours after his second SCOOP title of the year, “When I have one pair in Stud, I make sure they have no pair. I often try to make five-card hands like straights and flushes. They are pretty strong in Stud.”

He Tweeted to the world that obtaining his second SCOOP Stud championship was anything but simple: “Another SCOOP title for me. Super tough and long three-hour match with Stevie and @EugeneKatchalov. Both played well, but turned down a +EV chop.”

Earlier on at the final table, Deeb Tweeted that he was the chip leader three-handed: “60% of the chips in play. Been running so good, rarely getting to showdown because my boards get scary.” When play was five-handed, Deeb sat third in chips and posted on his Twitter feed, “3/5, but less than half avg. @EugeneKatchalov is crushing the table. I’m just getting lots of bets in good then losing. $10K locked up already.”

Katchalov (pictured), a PokerStars pro, bluntly Tweeted when all was said and done, “Ran atrociously bad three-handed and finished third.”

Deeb, who currently resides in Mexico, sits atop the overall SCOOP Leaderboard, which shells out a trophy and an EPT Grand Final prize package to the winner. He’s tied for seventh on the low-stakes leaderboard, which gives a trophy and a PokerStars Caribbean Adventure prize package to its winner, and is pacing the high-stakes leaderboard, which awards the same prizes to its eventual champ. Needless to say, it’s shaping up to be a very profitable SCOOP for Deeb.

Deeb’s performance during the 2012 SCOOP has not gone unnoticed. In fact, a rail thread for his Triple Stud run broke out in the Poker Community forum here on PocketFives. The original poster in the thread pointed out, “[Deeb] made it to the $2.1K Shootout final table and will take the lead in the SCOOP Leaderboard. Sick run he has this SCOOP, with one title already ($2.1K Stud) and four final tables. I guess he just runs awful in ladies events.”

Upon watching Deeb take down his second Stud title, another PocketFives poster wrote, “This boy Deeb ain’t half bad at the Stud games, is he?”

Deeb’s first SCOOP event win came in the high-stakes version of Event #10, $2,100 Stud, and he banked $41,000. He was actually the short stack with nine players remaining, but staged a furious comeback to out-muscle a final table that included Pat TorontoToroPezzin (pictured), George Jorj95 Lind, and James Andy McLEOD Obst.

Deeb was actually a 2:1 dog against TheMuppet entering heads-up play for his first SCOOP title this year, but after winning 14 of 15 hands at one point, assumed a 3:1 chip lead.

The poker veteran who briefly retired at age 24 now has a potpourri of online poker wins under his belt, including three SCOOP titles, two WCOOP titles, an FTOPS title, and victories in the Sunday Warm-Up, Super Tuesday, $1K Monday, and $750K Guaranteed, just to name a few. According to his PocketFives profile, his legacy isn’t confined to poker: “In 2007, Shaun Deeb made headlines after wagering nearly $1 million on UB blackjack in a week and winning over $30,000 in the process.”

Two multi-day events are on the docket for Sunday in SCOOP, with nearly $4 million in combined guaranteed prize money up for grabs:

SCOOP Event #20: May 13th at 11:00 ET
No Limit Hold’em Two-Day Event
Low: $27 buy-in, $250,000 guaranteed
Mid: $215 buy-in, $500,000 guaranteed
High: $2,100 buy-in, $750,000 guaranteed

SCOOP Event #21: May 13th at 14:30 ET
No Limit Hold’em Two-Day Event
Low: $27 buy-in, $400,000 guaranteed
Mid: $215 buy-in, $1,000,000 guaranteed
High: $2,100 buy-in, $1,000,000 guaranteed

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