Zapahzamazki and Pads Share SCOOP Victory After Point Error

The main SCOOP tournament for $109 was won by a player from Greece, with MagnatG being the best among Russians.

In the $1k average tournament, a representative from Greece reached the heads-up but lost to Mario 'livinmydream1' Mosbek from Austria. Mvpalls, who finished 6th, also took 2nd place ($105k) in SCOOP-82 (PSKO for $530).

The main GG Spring Festival tournament for $1,500 attracted 6,803 entries and ended with a heads-up deal. The $25k tournament held on GG on April 20 was won by Sami Kelopuro. Lev 'LevMeAlone' Gottlib won four expensive tournaments during this series and earned nearly $1.5 million in prizes. The final $25k tournament was won by Seth Davis, who defeated Sami Kelopuro in the heads-up. Mike Watson and Mark Radoya shared the $10k tournament. Arthur Martirosyan won one of the $10k tournaments and called this victory a 'breath of fresh air'. The Super MILLION$ tournament for $10k, held on the final Sunday, attracted 347 entries and was won by makeboifin. Arseny Malinov won the PSKO for $2,100. Kamel Mohammad made several deep runs in the Blade PLO-NL for $3k, finishing 4th ($17k) in one of them. Maxim Mamonov won the $2,600 high roller after a deal in the top 2. Konstantin Maslak and Shingis Satubaev could not handle the expensive cash regular Luke 'Bit2Easy' Rives in the $1k tournament. Sergey Denisov lost to Francisco Benitez in the $2k bounty heads-up. Matthias Eibinger won the $5k Omaha tournament. The Bounty Hunters main event for $50 was won by two Russian players who defeated a Brazilian army. Andrey Novak won the Sunday 500. Fabrizio Gonzalez earned $112k in prize money across all categories over the three weeks of the series. On PokerStars, Zapahzamazki finished second in SCOOP-76 (HORSE for $1k) and SCOOP-78 (Badugi for $1k). Pads was initially declared the winner of the SCOOP overall leaderboard with a 20-point lead over Zapahzamazki. Pads contacted PokerStars to dispute the points awarded for 13th place in a $1k tournament, claiming it was an error. PokerStars confirmed the error and adjusted the points, moving Pads from 1st to 3rd place in the overall standings and from 1st to 2nd in the High category. PokerStars decided to pay the first-place prizes to both Pads and Zapahzamazki due to the error. Zapahzamazki received $42k in total prizes across all leaderboards.