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Looking Back at the 2015 SCOOP
Posted by: Jo Martin - Fri, 2015-05-29 04:54
The 2015 SCOOP has turned out to be a major success in more ways than one. Participation was plentiful, the guarantees of the SCOOP tournaments were met and exceeded and a handful of professional players have once again delivered proof concerning the importance of the skill element over the luck one in the game. On Monday, the Series wrapped up with the end of the high Main Event, a tournament won by Italy's Mustapha Kanit. Kanit took home more than $1.3 million from the $10.3k tournament. Kanit's SCOOP Main Event win came after his win in the
EPT 11's Grand Final €50k Super High Roller, which netted him a prize of €936.5k.
The medium Main Event (featuring a $1,050 buy-in) was also won by a well-known pro: Tom Grigg walked away with $609.2k in this one, having struck a heads-up deal with eventual runner-up Azn1nvas1ion.
The top prize of the low Main Event ended up with Macedonia's apostolis20, who took down a $203.1k haul.
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Despite all the great accomplishments listed above, the player who ended up hogging most of the SCOOP 2015 limelight was PokerStars' own Jason Mercier though, who ended up cashing in no fewer than 22 events. Although in itself quite incredible, Mercier's accomplishment was crowned with 3 SCOOP titles, well enough to give him the Overall Leaderboard Player of the Year title, a distinction which came with an additional $10k cash reward and a 2016 Caribbean Poker Adventure package worth quite a bit of money too.
The leaderboard runner-up was Russia's vovtroy, who made the money in no fewer than 31 SCOOP events, but failed to actually secure a title.
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