
Check the numbers:īiggest first place prize: $660,067 – Powerfest #301: $2M Gtd Super High Roller With an original $20m in guarantees over 301 events, Powerfest actually blasted well past that - in a few ways.
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The newest contender in the major series game, partypoker's new Powerfest, more than held its own in the battle for the hearts, minds and buy-ins of online poker players. With $81m in total guarantees it's been the richest two weeks in online poker history and the payouts have been fast and furious. The battle for online poker territory is afoot. The class of the field so far appears to be Molendijk, who's already made an impressive hero call with sixes and played with (it seems) a clear understanding of the fundamentals. Watch the stream below! 3) Powerfest Hits $27m in Prize PoolsĪs we mentioned a few times this past month it's been an epic couple of weeks for online poker with 3 major tournament series running simultaneously.

It's a fun watch as you'll find a lot of, uh, unconventional play and self-inflicted tough spots. The premise: nine "world-class gamers and eSports hotshots" battle it out for $5k in a one-off Sit-and-Go.Īmong the invites this time are German Twitch star Alan 'Hotted89' Widmann, 2-time European Hearthstone champ Thijs 'Thijs' Molendijk, John 'Swifty' Pyle, Craig 'onscreen' Shannon and Sophia 'Djarii' White. With the start of the Unibet Open in Copenhagen tomorrow Unibet has brought back the super fun eSports Battle Royale to kick things off again. Other notables to make Leaderboard top 10s include Japan's Naoya 'nkeyno' Kihara, Brazil's Yuri 'theNERDguy' Martins, Canada's Mike 'goleafsgoeh' Leah, Jerry 'hummylun' Wong and Connor 'blanconegro' Drinan. Check the overall leaderboard below: 2) Molendijk Class of Battle Royale SNG The current runner-up? That would be the legend Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom, who has 785 points - and surprisingly collected a ton of points in low buy-in events. If nothing changes on the leaderboards today that'll mean João Vieira of Portugal will be the overall 2017 SCOOP leaderboard champion.īy the looks of things Vieira will have cashed 54 (!) of the 171 tournaments scheduled ( h/t and collected 815 leaderboard points. João Vieira (Photo: Neil Stoddart, PokerStars)Ĭharlie Carrel and Harrison Gimbel chopped the SCOOP-H main Event for roughly $1.2m each.Īustralia's ROFLShove bossed around the SCOOP-M final table to collect a dazzling $787,312,19 to spend on drinks on the beach.Īnd Austria's madalain flipped his $109 into a 2,000% ROI and $221,516.37 in the SCOOP-L main event.Īll that's left? A couple of rescheduled events from last week and the crowning of the overall SCOOP leaders. 1) Naza114 > Isildur1Īs you might have seen, the 2017 Spring Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars 'concluded' in blockbuster fashion yesterday. Today in the 3-Bet we find João Vieira dominating SCOOP 2017, Thijs Molendijkbossing at Unibet Copenhagen and partypoker's Powerfest crushing guarantees.

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