SCOOP 2024 - The End
It's the final week of SCOOP! And despite the uninspiring run of results thus far, I had high hopes for this week, with tickets for both the hold'em and omaha (low) main events!
I'd won an $11 ticket on Twitter, been holding onto a $109 power pass ticket from before SCOOP and won the $215 ticket from just 50 cents as part of the SCOOP League Team Spraggy qualification. That's $335 in buy-ins for this week at a cost of pretty much nothing, with over $250,000 up top to win!
Before the grand finale, I used my $11 ticket for a hold'em tournament but don't have much to say about that, nothing particular noteworthy.
#80-L NLHE -$11 2571/11603
Outside the big Sunday events, there wasn't too much on the schedule this week that excited me, a lot of turbo PKOs in the later evenings, which I'm not really interested in. But that was fine, before SCOOP began I had planned to play a lot more power path tournaments to see if I could rack up a big set of tickets and get into the $1k main events, so I thought I could use this week to do that, but as I began the power path grind from the 50cent/$1 level, I wasn't really feeling it, so decided to just rest up, have a break and take on the main events fresh.
The Main Events!
As ever, I late regged, starting both tournaments with 25,000 chips, although that translated into the 150bbs in the PLO and 50bbs in the hold'em, which had been running for over 3 hours by the time I joined in. And over the next 3 hours, I continued to have 25,000 chips in both tournaments.
The PLO was certainly frustrating because I felt as though I was continuously on the cusp of a big pot that never seemed to come. There were players at my table willing to pay off light, I saw a huge pot between two big stacks where one guy had a straight, the other an 8 high flush, neither seemed put off by the paired board, there were chips for the taking, I just struggled to get them. One example of this is a hand where I flopped the ace high flush draw while holding an overpair, I bet, got two callers. The turn brought me a second flush draw (king high), I bet again, got called again. The river was a brick, it checked around, both opponents were chasing worse flush draws. We were all holding each other's outs but if either flush comes I'm sure I would have been paid off in a good sized pot but, alas, it was not to be. Eventually, I did get it all in but not as I would have liked. UTG pot bet, the button and small blind called, as did I with 789T in the big blind. The flop was ATT with two spades. Checked to the button who bet small, like a quarter of the pot, the small blind called, and I decided to reraise. If the UTG player doesn't reraise then I thought it was unlikely that they or anyone else for that matter had AAxx, so I only had to worry about a better ten. Everyone folded except the small blind. A seven came out and I was confident I was ahead, so piled my remaining chips in. It was feasible that my opponent had ATxx but I wasn't deep enough to folding or checking down such a hand. The small blind called me with AAxx , he'd flopped it and let me do all the betting. Well played sir, very sneaky. I did not see that coming.
#117-L PLO Main -$215 873/1320
Meanwhile, in the hold'em low main event, I nursed my 25,000 chips for many an hour. Again, time and time again, my heart started to race as the prospect of a big pot loomed, I got premium hand after premium hand and yet... zero action. I got far more than my share of big pairs and ace kings but very little to show for it. Big pair in the big blind? A walk. Open with aces, kings, Queens, AK? Raise it and take it. And that was the story for all of day 1. As the blinds caught up with me and the 25k shrank in relative size, it was quite good to win lots of uncontested pots but I really was hoping for more. Each time I was dealt a big pair I thought "this is it, here we go" but it was always just the blinds for me. Still, I made it through to day 2 with 22bbs, having accumulated a few more chips in the final levels of day 1.
Day 2 began with around 7500 players and within 10 minutes we had lost 1000 of them. You could late reg right up until the start of day 2 with 10bbs, so I don't know if that was all people attempting to spin it up shortstacked but players were certainly falling fast. Once again I was dealt aces, and I was overjoyed to get 3bet. FINALLY, this was surely it, time for a double up! Great time for a double up. I 4bet all in and get the call, only this happens...
Sigh.
Nevermind, next time. One of the these times. Surely. 10 minutes later, it's pocket aces again, here we, come on, this time! Starting the hand with about 25bbs, I opened for 2.8x. I rolled my eyes as my opponents folded, as usual. But wait! The big blind has called! Flop is J94 with two clubs. BB checks, I cbet 5.5 into the 7.1bb pot. Looking to get value from any jack and charge potential draws. The big blind check raises me all in! I don't believe many people are check raising out of line in this spot, got to be a jack or a straight/flush draw. Unfortunately, it was a jack, with a 9...
Sigh.
- Top Overall Player: Dennis "aDrENalin710" Strebkov (Team Lex)
- Top Community Player: "blairtoast" (Team Lex)
- Top Pokerstars Pro: Lex "L.Veldhuis" Veldhuis (Team Lex)
- Top Team Captain: Lex "L.Veldhuis" Veldhuis (Team Lex)
- Top Team: Team Lex
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