After years of attempting, Lex Veldhuis lastly came through. On Monday, the Team PokerStars Pro and respected banner won his really first Championship of Online Poker on Stars, taking the crown in the $5,200 No-Limit Hold ’em Titans occasion in the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP).
The high stakes competition drew in the world’s finest online poker gamers and Veldhuis easily confessed on social networks in advance that he “may be the worst gamer at the table.” He likewise stated that it unwinded him a bit, as despite the fact that he was at yet another COOP last table that he so frantically wished to win, he didn’t anticipate to win it.
He started the last table in the middle of the pack, however entered into heads-up play versus Ignacio “Nacho124441” Morón with around a 3-to-1 chip lead. Veldhuis got it in excellent on the last hand, however it was close, as Nacho had A-T.
Live streaming the action as he typically does, Veldhuis didn’t make a noise as the virtual dealership dealt the flop: Q-4-4. Safe in the meantime, however Nacho had 2 overcards and a runner-runner possibility. The 8 on the turn eliminated the runner-runner opportunities, however included another card (together with the Queen) that, if combined, would counterfeit Veldhuis’s Threes and offer the hand to Nacho, who would have much better kickers.
Veldhuis had to fade a lot of cards: Aces, Queens, Tens, and Eights. Which’s simply what he did. A Nine fell on the river and with that, Veldhuis discharged an enormous, “YESSSSSSSS!” as he lastly had that evasive COOP title, not to point out over $140,000.
Winning his very first COOP in this competition, particularly, was likewise significant to Lex Veldhuis. Talking with the PokerStars blog site, he stated:
It’s nearly a triple win. I keep in mind when I got 2nd in a COOP in 2015– a truly little one, an $11 6+ occasion. I was gutted. I resembled, wow. It was just then that I actually comprehended what having a COOP title suggested to me, even a little one. They actually all count.
I would have been extremely pleased to win an $11 SCOOP. I likewise got a huge reward AND it was versus the finest competitors in the world. I truly maxxed out.
Veldhuis in fact hopped back into SCOOP occasions and kept right on playing and streaming soon after his win. He stated that challengers at his tables praised him, which astonished him, as he understood that all sorts of individuals were seeing, even those who were presently playing in SCOOP tourneys.
For a guy who has had a great deal of success both playing poker and streaming his play, it appears unusual that it took him this long to get a PokerStars COOP win, however he has one now and it is definitely a day he will not forget.
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