Michiel ‘treg’ Brummelhuis was the big winner on the first Saturday of the 2018 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker series after he defeated Austria’s Linus ‘LLinusLLove’ Loeliger to earn $194,883.

Event #21 (High) saw 552 entrants create a $1,104,000 prize pool after they all stumped up the $2,100 buy-in. Once the final nine came together and the play resumed PocketFivers ‘skyboy69‘, and Andrei ‘ragaaaila19’ Boghean was eliminated in eighth and sixth place, and took away $24,976 and $44,921 respectively. Ben ‘Ben86’ Tollerene, who won the PokerStars $2,100 High Roller last Sunday for $54,000, just missed out on the heads-up battle after he fell in third place for $108,354.

Dutchman Brummelhuis, who finished in seventh place at the 2013 WSOP Main Event for $1,225,356, was able to find a way to send Loeliger to the rail in second-place for $145,314 and earnt himself a $194,883 payday alongside a coveted SCOOP title.

‘KMasalskas’ prevented ‘alberto.m7’ from earning a second SCOOP title of the series in Event #21 (Medium) after the players had agreed to a heads-up deal. ‘alberto.m7’, who took down Event #12 (High) earlier this week, agreed to a deal with ‘KMasalskas’ before eventually falling in second-place for $76,335. ‘KMasalskas’s win earnt them $89,839 and a title of their very own.

In Event #21 (Low), ‘pl@ta0plomo’ outlasted 16,808 other entrants and turned $22 into $36,434, after winning a heads-up battle against ‘FeelTh3Power‘, who took away $26,186 for second place.

The UK’s Michael ‘mczhang’ Zhang took his online tournament earnings over the $1m mark after seeing off Finland’s Tomi ‘elmerixx‘ Brouk in Event #22 (High). Linus “LLinusLLove” Loeliger made his second SCOOP final table appearance of the day but departed in sixth place before Phill ‘Grindation’ Mcallister exited in fourth place for $24,960. ‘SwalzB’ won $35,880 in third as Zhang and Brouk went to battle for the title. Brouk, who is one-third of the ‘BITB’ staking main coaching team alongside Patrick Leonard and Samuel Vousden, was the final player to depart the field and picked up the runners-up score of $47,892. Zhang continued his excellent 2018 form to add the title to his honours list as well as $68,640 to his bankroll.

Event #22 (Medium) saw Canada’s Jonas ‘donut604’ Mackoff outlast Francisco ‘chicalltreta’ Correia to win $31,233, on a final table that featured ‘TiltzPhil‘, Igor ‘Giopires21’ Peredo and Vicente ‘vicenfish’ Delgado. After Mackoff and Correia made it to heads-up play, it was the Canadian who got the better of the Brazilian to earn his second SCOOP title in as many years.

In Event #22 (Low), ‘Zlushchiy’ picked up the first-place prize of $11,921 after coming through the 4,585 field and defeating ‘jayme1987‘ into second place for $8,711.

Jerry ‘hummylun’ Wong went the distance in Event #27 (High) to earn a second career SCOOP title and the first-place prize of $86,046. Their win comes just days after taking the bronze medal in Event #9 (Medium). The other two Event #27 Six Max PKO Turbo tournaments were won by ‘JoeGall‘, who took away $44,569 for victory in the ‘Medium’, and ‘MR.BUMFLUFF’ who banked $10,301 for coming through the enormous 20,749 player field in the ‘Low’.

The final event of Day 7 saw three eight-max PLO8 tournaments take place as ‘1bloodflood‘ claimed a win in the ‘Low’ for $4,964. ‘Dorination’ saw off two-time SCOOP winner ‘lukro8‘ for the title and $14,574 in the (Medium), and ‘fers223’ was named the ‘High’ champion for $35,684 after they defeated former no.#1 ranked Brian ‘brianm15’ England heads-up.

Below are the SCOOP results for Saturday, May 12:

Event #20 (Low): $11 Eight Max PLO8 
Entrants: 3,534
Prize pool: $34,633.20

1. 1bloodflood – $4,964.61
2. russiadgl – $3,537.27
3. netrom84 – $2,521.48
4. Tube10 – $1,797.40
5. Nr 1 Enemy – $1,281.24
6. JJuulliie – $913.31
7. konna – $651.04
8. Gibraltarian – $464.08

Event #20 (Medium): $109 Eight Max PLO8 
Entrants: 877
Prize pool: $87,700

1. Dorination – $14,574.28
2. lukro8 – $10,388.69
3. Slavik_Krs – $7,405.41
4. Smertin – $5,278.82
5. Proacademik – $3,762.93
6. HeadSpeaker – $2,682.34
7. SkyScraper93 – $1,912.07
8. mhugge – $1,362.98

Event #20 (High): $1,050 Eight Max PLO8 
Entrants: 177
Prize pool: $177,000

1. fers223 – $35,684.39
2. brianm15 – $27,781.19
3. Zombob0 – $21,628.39
4. nb_communist – $16,838.29
5. xpoh1 – $13,109.06
6. texasilainen – $10,205.76
7. robc1978 – $7,945.45
8. Beeethoven87 – $6,185.76

Event #21 (Low): $22 No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 16,809
Prize pool: $336,180

1. pl@ta0plomo – $36,434.53
2. FeelTh3Power – $26,186.27
3. robot_werter – $18,828.13
4. lyonsden6 – $13,537.59
5. Duze93 – $9,733.62
6. snackerdelux – $6,998.56
7. schimenas – $5,032.00
8. primkiller – $3,618.03
9. IQspndR – $2,601.39

Event #21 (Medium): $215 No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 3,376
Prize pool: $675,200

1. KMasalskas – $89,839.95*
2. alberto.m7 – $76,335.94*
3. KauanAnjos – $49,297.29
4. SwalzB – $35,140.78
5. JopperHarryN – $25,049.51
6. 24b4tm4n24 – $17,856.13
7. dani_sun – $12,728.39
8. Ballage87 – $9,073.27
9. AQUA RAIDER – $6,467.74

*denotes heads-up deal

Event #21 (High): $2,100 No Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 552
Prize pool: $1,104,000

1. utreg – $194,883.23
2. LLinusLLove – $145,314.66
3. Ben86 – $108,354.17
4. GamadGADOL – $80,794.47
5. mcc3991 – $60,244.50
6. ragAAAila19 – $44,921.42
7. Bit2Easy – $33,495.69
8. skyboy69 – $24,976.12
9. com 157 – $18,623.48

Event #22 (Low): $22 Six Max No Limit Hold’em Shootout
Entrants: 4,585
Prize pool: $91,700

1. Zlushchiy – $11,921.00
2. jayme1987 – $8,711.50
3. alexxx9366 – $6,419.00
4. Maestro Shao – $4,126.50
5. elion22 – $2,292.50
6. iGrind4Chips – $1,283.80

Event #22 (Medium): $215 Six Max No Limit Hold’em Shootout
Entrants: 976
Prize pool: $195,200

1. donut604 – $31,233.44
2. chicalltreta – $23,424.00
3. dudd1 – $17,568.00
4. TiltzPhil – $11,712.00
5. GioPires21 – $7,808.00
6. vicenfish – $4,840.96

Event #22 (High): $2,100 Six Max No Limit Hold’em Shootout
Entrants: 156
Prize pool: $312,000

1. mczhang – $68,640.00
2. elmerixx – $47,892.00
3. SwalzB – $35,880.00
4. Grindation – $24,960.00
5. cmase86 – $18,720.00
6. LLinusLLove – $12,480.00

Event #27 (Low): $11 Six Max PKO Turbo 
Entrants: 20,749
Prize pool: $203,340.20

1. MR.BUMFLUFF – $10,301.80
2. JAK-ATTAQ – $7,164.74
3. lo-fi dream – $4,992.20
4. Regis R69 – $3,478.44
5. Thegod84 – $2,423.69
6. Ässnacke – $1,688.76

Event #27 (Medium): $109 Six Max PKO Turbo 
Entrants: 6,272
Prize pool: $627,200

1. JoeGall – $44,569.15
2. kambo44 – $31,051.60
3. jeanfranco07 – $21,635.89
4. zeeh_pb – $15,075.28
5. DRONCHEK – $10,504.03
6. David3077 – $7,318.92

Event #27 (High): $1,050 Six Max PKO Turbo 
Entrants: 1,055
Prize pool: $1,055,000

1. hummylun – $86,046.93
2. TonyYayo5 – $59,954.75
3. henri72 – $41,774.78
4. jutrack – $29,107.50
5. TiltMeBig – $20,281.26
6. tarantaleo – $14,131.40