Poker: SCOOP 2013 results

My SCOOP campaign last year was good fun and actually profitable, which is always nice, so this year I have a lot to live up to by my own standards

This years preparation has been a little more compressed than I would like, due to my being on holiday the first week, meaning not only do I miss some events, but also have no opportunity to satellite in well in advance.

Having said that, in April I played a Hyper Turbo 6-max for 2300 FPP and won a seat into the Low Stakes ($109) SCOOP #43 Main Event :)   Great start to my campaign, but sadly no other suitable sats were running before the holiday

Having got back from holiday, I could sit down and find some sats.    My strategy is to satellite into the Medium stake events, but then directly buy into the Low stake events if I fail

20th May (Event #24)  Mix NLHE/PLO (Low)

Made the 1st break but ended up 5004th from 7067 entries

Satellite cost $27.50 took 154 min's
Event entry cost $11.00, took 85 min's, return $0

Total cost $38.50 and 4 hours time investment

22nd May (Event #31)  NL Hold' em Knockout (Low)

The Satellites were a bit frustrating in some ways, bubbling two but winning some cash as compensation....

Completely bombed out the main event and only lasted half hour.  10'286th from 11'159 entries at the time I was knocked out.  Luckily I had tried the FPP Hyper-Turbo satellites and won the seat in the second one I tried, so that saved me a few bucks :)

Satellite made $78 took 40 min's
Event entry cost $0.00, took 30 min's, return $0

Total income $78 and 1 hours time investment

23rd May (Event #33)  8 game (Low)

This event is the one I really target to do well in and was desperate to get into the Mid stakes game.... sadly to no avail, despite my trying (perhaps more times than was financially wise!)

First break  894th out of 1949 reamining  (2088 entries)    5127 chips / 5353 avg
Made second break (just about)  1865/2052  (2780)  2428 / 6773

At least I lasted past the 2 hour registration closing and was starting to make a comeback, but got bad beat on NLHE and am out in 1778 place out of 2780 runners

Satellite cost $71.20 took 406 min's
Event entry cost $27, took 135 min's, return $0

Total cost $98.20 and 9 hours time investment

24th May (Event #37)  HORSE (Low)

First Break  236th out of 2185 remaining (2246 entries)  7454 chips / 5113 avg (starting stack 5000)   

Second break:  1921/2190 (2826)   2625/6426    Took a bit of a tumble, mostly by an aggro big stack to my left who seems to like reraising me all the time !    At least I made it to registration close again.    Soon after finished 2086th

Satellite cost $4.40 took 140 min's
Event entry cost $27 took 130 min's, return $0

Total cost $31.40 and 4.5 hours time investment

26th May (Event #43)  NL Hold' em - Main Event (Low)

I was really pleased to qualify first time, basically for free !   It's normally $109 buy-in so defiantly a great result already.

15k starting stack, 15 minute levels and 12500 entries at startup (3.5 hours extended registration!)

Break 1 (after 25 mins play)  2335th of 15'886 players, 16'265 entries so far   Have 17'215 chips and average is 15'317
Break 2:  2216/18414  (20393 entries)  24171/16602
Break 3:  6294/16527  (22145)          20717/20086
Break 4:  8456/11742  (23045 entries)  16495/29395   **registration close

Out soon after 11'169th place.

Satellite cost $0 took 15 min's
Event entry cost $0, took 220 min's, return $0

Total cost $0 and 4 hours time investment

SCOOP 2013 total results

Overall cost of all events $90.10 and 25 hours time investment

Conclusion

I did play all the events I was hoping to, and also got around $200 worth of tournament entries for $90, so was better financially than it could have ended up as.  

Unfortunately I didn’t get any deep runs and was no-where near the money in any event.    Although I was a little disappointed with my results, particularly the 8-Game event, it was still good fun to try to satellite for the bigger buy-ins and play the events themselves.

In the end, not what I was hoping for but overall still good value for money.    Will have to make sure I don’t go on holiday for next years events, which will allow me more time to qualify !