The Ashes

The Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP), the largest and most popular online poker competitions, has just published its first results of the 2011 edition. Indeed, this festival of online poker tournament, with 38 events in total, has just started on May 8 and will only end on next Sunday, May 22 with the $ 10,300 Main Event. What caught everyone’s attention was the victory of Koen De Visscher, player of Poker 770 at the $ 1,000 buy-in tournament of the SCOOP, the event # 8 high. He’s an outstanding player who had just joined in this famous professional online poker team for a few months but continues to make talk about him in various competitions.

The experiences he acquired until now, continue to improve his performance. Note that De Visscher is accompanied at this SCOOP by some colleagues from his team, Team 770 as Coralie Naude and Jamel Maistriaux. And about the earning, he picked up $ 122,000 for this feat, an amount that certainly won’t stay there and may increase further during other events that will take place shortly. As a reminder, these online poker tournaments, run by all players of the four corners of the planet are available for buy-ins ranging from $ 5.50 to $ 25,000. All levels and all categories of players can find the tournament that suit them. The prize of over $ 500,000, of the final stage of this competition is still awaiting its winner.