As the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) nears its expiration date, it refuses to wilt like a dehydrated sunflower, preferring to dole out a few more exciting plotlines.

Andrew Pantling is one of the most exciting amateurs in the high stakes asylum, and when he flicks it in on PokerStars, he does so under the guise of ‘ClockWyze.’

He’s not bad, either.

The Canadian businessman saw his name etched into the winner’s plaque of Event #97: $5,200 Pot Limit Omaha Main Event 2nd Chance. Pantling defeated 167-entrants over two days to claim the $169,239 first prize. Noah ‘Exclusive’ Boeken chalked up a third-place finish a week after winning the $1,050 8-Game title.

21-players made it through to the second day, and amongst the 19 players who finished in the money were online high stakes titans Joao ‘Naza114’ Vieira and Andras ‘probirs’ Nemeth.

Here are the results.

Results

  1. Andrew ‘ClockWyze’ Pantling – $169,239
  2. Zumbapoker – $128,814
  3. Noah ‘Exclusive’ Boeken – $98,045
  4. Chun Lei ‘SamRostan’ Zhou – $74,625
  5. Konstantin ‘krakukra’ Maslak – $56,800
  6. Argentin-GOd – $43,232
  7. Espen ‘locomo’ Myrmo – $35,061

Andrey’ anjeyyy’ Novak Leads a Star-Studded $5,200 Main Event Second Chance Final Table.

There is a golden fresh butter hue about the final table of the $5,200 Main Event Second Chance. The $5,200 buy-in attracted 465-entrants, and nine remain in the hunt for the $416,472 first prize.

Andrey’ Anjeyyy’ Novak leads the way, but there are two incredible and incredibly hot players snapping at his heels. Pascal ‘Pass_72’ Lefrancois recently took down a $10,300 side event at the Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) Online Series on partypoker, as well as winning a million dollars during the Poker Masters Online Series. Timothy ‘Tim0thee’ Adams also featured heavily in the Poker Masters cashing a record 13-times, winning one event, and finishing four grand below a million in gross profits.

Here are the chip counts.

Chip Counts

1: Andrey ‘Anjeyyy’ Novak – 25,969,709
2: Pascal ‘Pass_72’ Lefrancois – 21,477.585
3: Timothy ‘Tim0thee’ Adams – 18,866,198
4: Will ‘hellzito’ Arruda – 13,225,664
5: Alfred ‘Kzzon’ Karlsson – 10,705,721
6: Silva ’silskyer’ Costa – 10,320,168
7: Pavel ‘silentm0de’ Plesuv – 7,452,915
8: temka99 – 4,523,896
9: Artem ‘veeea’ Vezhenkov – 3,707,144

Tuesday night, and for once, No-Limit Hold’em jumped into the sidecar, leaving Pot-Limit Omaha to drive that Cadillac that Doyle Brunson bangs on about.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) Online Championships continued on partypoker, and Andrew Pantling ended the night as the biggest winner, defeating the 120-entrant field to bank $302,287.20 in Event #22: $10,300 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller.

The last time the poker world caught a sniff of Pantling was at the Triton Million in London during the Summer of 2019, a long time before bats and pangolins conspired to lock us in our homes.

There was no howling to the moon on that night despite eliminating Rick Salomon to take the early chip lead. Pantling eventually drowned, but there was no need for the life raft in this one.

High stakes stars Andras Nemeth, and Jens Kyllonen joined Pantling at the top table, but neither were able to stick their spoon in the jam and figgy pudding.

Results

  1. Andrew Pantling – $302,287.20
  2. Marcello Marigliano – $204,000
  3. Andras Nemeth – $144,000
  4. Marcello Marigliano – $102,000
  5. Jens Kyllonen – $75,000
  6. Gavin Cochrane – $49,800

Farid Jattin Chops Event #23: $2,100 Pot-Limit Omaha

Colombia’s finest poker export, Farid Jattin, narrowly missed out on the title in the $2,100 Pot-Limit Omaha event. The tournament attracted 168-entrants like nerds to a science lab, and Jattin chopped the $140k left up top with Kristoffer Edberg, before losing the heads-up scuffle for the title.

Results

  1. Kristoffer Edberg – $69,086.18*
  2. Farid De Jesus Jattin Jaraba – $68,360.03*
  3. Joao Vieira – $37,800
  4. Maksim Shuts – $27,384
  5. Arvi Vainionkulma – $20,160
  6. Saku Nasman – $13,440

*Agreed upon a deal

Fabio Sperling Wins WPT500

A $50 competition is hardly a high roller, but as its one of the WPT’s flagship tournaments, you can make it an orphan.

The 4,828-entrant field reduced to four hysterically happy hunters before brokering a deal. The heaviest bag went to Fabio Sperling, who banked $281,125.93, and the title.

Results

  1. Fabio Sperling – $281,125.93*
  2. Walter Treccarich – $235,666.74*
  3. Markus Prinz – $202,012.42*
  4. Christopher Putz – $187,289.83*
  5. Philipp Dietrich – $74,785.72
  6. Harutyun Sahakyan – $50,887.12
  7. Daan Mulders – $35,799.62
  8. Giuseppe Vassallo – $23,174.40