Tonka Wins First Title; Burns Leads SCOOP $25,000 Super High Roller


Parker Talbot Kahle Burns

While the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Main Events continued, there was still plenty of action on PokerStars on Monday night.

And it was a great night for PokerStars Ambassador Parker Talbot, who took down his first SCOOP title, with Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson becoming only the fifth player to win at least nine SCOOP titles.

With only two more days of SCOOP events to come, be sure to check out who else has won late titles!

Tonka Wins SCOOP 113-H: $530 NLHE [Sunday Kickoff]

Fintan “easywithaces” Hand has three. Lex Veldhuis won his first this year. And now, Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot has his first SCOOP title. He defeated “Vop4444” heads-up to win Event 113-H: $530 NLHE Sunday Kickoff for $70,128.

In the penultimate hand, Talbot overbet pot with 32 on a K6510A board and was called by his opponent. Talbot’s flush was good leaving his opponent with 2.5 big blinds which went in on the final hand and Talbot emerged victorious.

SCOOP 113-H: $530 NLHE [Sunday Kickoff] Final Table Results

Place Player Country Payout (USD)
1 Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot Canada $70,128
2 Vop4444 Mexico $49,989
3 Pablo “pabritz” Brito Brazil $35,634
4 Daniel “dani aziz” Aziz Brazil $25,401
5 PokerHorst Malta $18,107
6 Mihska Belarus $12,907
7 rollingdrone Poland $9,201
8 Noveasalpedo Argentina $6,559
9 proggrezive Argentina $4,675

Field of Big Names in SCOOP 120-H: $25,000 Super High Roller

Kahle Burns

The biggest buy-in of the SCOOP festival got underway last night with 69 entries in the $25,000 Super High Roller. After 14 hours of play, it’s Kahle “ROFLshove” Burns who sits in the chip lead, with almost double the chips of Mario “MB TREMENDO” Bonanata in second place.

Adrian “Amadi_017” Mateos was the only player at the final table picked in the $25k Fantasy Draft at the WSOP, but will have to delay any plans to head to Vegas for at least one more day.

Ryhor “Grisha813” Karapanau was the unfortunate bubble boy, finishing in tenth with the final able all guaranteed $52,758.

SCOOP 120-H: $25,000 Super High Roller Final Table

Rank Player Country Chip Count
1 Kahle “ROFLshove” Burns United Kingdom 5,057,907
2 Mario “MB TREMENDO” Bonanata Uruguay 2,541,519
3 Adrian “Amadi_017” Mateos United Kingdom 2,263,014
4 Alexandros “Pwndidi” Theologis Austria 2,241,372
5 Vyacheslav “VbV1990” Buldygin Kazakhstan 1,517,037
6 Rodrigo “SELOUAN1991” Selouan Brazil 1,326,834
7 Jordi “prot0” Urlings Malta 861,632
8 CPUrul0r Austria 786,423
9 Nacho124441 Dominican Republic 654,262

SCOOP 120-H: $25,000 Super High Roller Payouts

Place Payout
1 $456,748
2 $342,104
3 $256,236
4 $191,920
5 $143,748
6 $107,667
7 $80,643
8 $60,401
9 $52,758

Mattsson Wins SCOOP Title Number Nine

Simon Mattsson

There was a final table of big names in SCOOP 114-H: $530 NLHE Sunday Warm-Up, with Niklas “Lena900” Astedt and Kelvin “kelvin_FP:AR” Kerber missing out.

Eventually taking home the title and almost $60,000 in combined bounties and prize money was Sweden’s Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson who won the ninth SCOOP title of his career. It comes just weeks after winning SCOOP 16-H: $10,300 Super Tuesday High Roller for $186,238.

Mattsson’s first SCOOP title came back in 2012, winning a $530 6-Max event for $38,233. He followed it up with titles in 2016 and 2020 before bagging two titles in both 2021 and 2022. He’s now snagged another brace of titles to join some of the all-time greats on at least nine titles.

Player SCOOP Titles
Benny “RunGodlike” Glaser 11
Calvin “cal42688” Anderson 10
Andre “Premove” Skvortsov 10
Niklas “Lena900” Astedt 9
Ole “wizowizo” Schemion 9
Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson 9

SCOOP League Update

Talbot’s SCOOP title has seen him increase his lead of Team Fintan in second place, with little change at the top of proceedings.

Team Points
Lex 13,820
Spraggy 10,905
Tonkaaaa 7,600
Fintan 5,600

Monday, May 27 SCOOP Results

Event Entries Prize Pool Winner Payout (USD)
SCOOP 113-H: $530 NLHE [Sunday Kickoff], $350K Gtd 844 $422,000 Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot $70,128
SCOOP 114-L: $5.50 NLHE [Progressive KO, Sunday Warm-Up], $35K Gtd 12,361 $60,569 Fis01 $5,091
SCOOP 114-M: $55 NLHE [Progressive KO, Sunday Warm-Up], $250K Gtd 8,184 $409,200 RisingStar Z
SCOOP 114-H: $530 NLHE [Progressive KO, Sunday Warm-Up], $400K Gtd 1,182 $5,910,000 Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson $57,744
SCOOP 121-L: $55 NLHE [Turbo, Main Event 2nd Chance], $200K Gtd 5,368 $268,400 iamivar $38,166
SCOOP 121-M: $530 NLHE [Turbo, Main Event 2nd Chance], $300K Gtd 699 $349,500 mohsalah11 $59,500
SCOOP 121-H: $5,200 NLHE [Turbo, Main Event 2nd Chance], $350K Gtd 82 $410,000 FreeLancerZZ $110,663
SCOOP 122-L: $2.20 NLHE [6-Max], $12.5K Gtd 7,582 $14,861 edgar9899 $2,111
SCOOP 122-M: $22 NLHE [6-Max], $100K Gtd 6,363 $127,260 77 Maia $16,549
SCOOP 122-H: $215 NLHE [6-Max], $175K Gtd 1,071 $214,200 perfect guim $34,483

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Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for CelestialPoker as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019.

He graduated from the University of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He also holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism.

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