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Leks Veldhuis Secures Second Place in SCOOP-29-H Tournament
Leks Veldhuis, a successful Dutch poker player and member of the PokerStars Team Pro, recently finished as the runner-up in the SCOOP-29-H tournament. The event, part of the SCOOP 2021 series, had a buy-in of $2,100 and a guaranteed prize pool of $350,000.
The tournament attracted a total of 129 entries, including 82 re-entries, which helped to create a prize pool of $422,000. For his second-place finish, Leks Veldhuis earned $62,770.
PaDiLhASP from Brazil took home the first-place prize of $82,350. Aleksey Boyko from Belarus finished third, earning $47,850. Other notable finishers included Konstantin Maslak from Russia, who placed 10th, and Simon Mattsson from Sweden, who finished 11th. Andrey Novak from Ukraine secured the 25th place, earning the minimum payout of $4,380.
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