Felixchamp was one of these dominant force to start out this final table, it looked to us like he might just gobble up the smaller stacks one at a time and walk off with a brand new SCOOP watch in record time. But when we've learned anything from this year's SCOOP it isn't to underestimate the ability of Brazilians. Crizh arrived on the final table with the shortest stack but perhaps essentially the most chutzpah, scoring an early double-up through Wlzed. Crizh survived to peer five-handed play where he won perhaps essentially the most crucial hand of the tournament, knocking out manokippa2 and Wlzed within the same hand. With Felixchamp's power considerably weakened, the overall three agreed to an ICM chop and Crizh picked up much more momentum by eliminating vagnerA2 in third place. Crizh and Felixchamp faced off heads-up and although Crizh momentarily lost the lead, he came back out swinging and knocked out the fiesty German, earning his first SCOOP title and the 20th for Brazil this year.

For a late-add event, this Progressive Super-Knockout finale was wildly popular, drawing 18,155 players. $5 of every player's $11 buy-in went into the principle prize pool and another $5 went toward the bounty pool. 2,475 players earned a share of the $181,550 prize pool, with $9,804.63 put aside for first place.

The blinds were as much as 160,000/320,000 and ten players remained when vagner2 opened for 681,600 from the cutoff and Hozzam moved all-in for 2.68 million from the large blind with 4♣4♦. VagnerA2 called, and far to Hozzam's dismay, he turned over K♥K♠. Vagner2's cowboys held up and Hozzam departed at the final table bubble.

Final table chip counts

Seat 1: BAJER12 (12,475,121 in chips)Seat 2: Crizh (6,872,236 in chips)Seat 3: Wlzed (18,505,804 in chips)Seat 4: manokippa2 (26,349,702 in chips)Seat 5: poker2007man (14,434,526 in chips)Seat 6: kuznez681989 (15,058,778 in chips)Seat 7: yachooza (10,290,688 in chips)Seat 8: Felixchamp (57,910,340 in chips)Seat 9: vagnerA2 (19,652,805 in chips)

Felixchamp arrived on the final table with 32% of the chips in play and immediately set about increasing that number. WIth the blinds as much as 200,000/400,000, he opened for 800,000 from UTG and the action folded around to kuznez681989 within the small blind, who shoved for 11.1 million. Felixchamp called, his Q♥Q♠ racing with A♦K♣. A queen at the flop made it a very simple sweat for Felixchamp, whose set of queens sent kuznez681989 packing in ninth place. Felixchamp moved as much as 77.3 million in chips, pocketed $116.92 for kuznez681989's bounty, and increased his own bounty to $908.89

Three short stacks doubled up during eight-handed play. Wlzed picked up pocket aces and three-bet shoved pre-flop vs. Felixchamp, who called with pocket fives and doubled him as much as 23.7 million. Two hands later, yachooza's pocket sixes held against Felixchamp's pocket threes, and he moved as much as 16.4 million in chips. By the point the blinds were as much as 250,000/500,000, Crzh was right down to 11 big blinds and open-shoved with A♥J♣. Wlzed called with A♦8♣, but Crizh made Broadway when the flop fell K♥Q♠T♠ and doubled to twelve million.

That pot left BAJER12 was the fast stack and with A♦K♥, he moved all-in for 8.67 million and manokippa2 reshoved from the cutoff with J♠J♣. Manokippa2 hit a suite of jacks at the K♦Q♥J♦4♥3♦ board and BAJER12 hit the rail in eighth place. Manokippa2 picked up $497.36 for the KO and added an identical quantity to his own bounty, now the most important on the table at $1,076.64.

The blinds were as much as 400,000/800,000 when poker2007man picked up K♣Q♥ and opened for 1.6 million. Felixchamp three-bet to 4 million and poker2007 man called. The remainder of poker2007man's chips went in at the Q♦6♦5♠ flop and Felixchamp turned over A♠6♣, trailing his opponent's top pair. The turn was the K♠, making poker2007man kings and queens, but Felixchamp caught a miracle at the river with the 6♥ to make trips and poker2007man was suddenly at the rail in seventh place.

Crizh also tested his luck with K♦Q♦, moving in for 11.3 million from the cutoff. Manokippa2 reshoved and turned over pocket eights, but Crizh caught a king at the flop to double as much as 24.4 million.

Three hands later, yachooza made his stand by open-shoving for 7.18 million with A♦7♠. Unfortunately, he bumped into Felixchamp's K♣K♦. Felixchamp flopped a collection of kings and moved as much as 82 million, while yachooza went out in sixth place.

Perhaps feeling somewhat fat and sassy (or simply able to gambool), Felixchamp looked down at 7♦9♦ within the big blind and decided to name Wlzed's 10.5 million button shove. Wlzed turned over K♠T♥, and his king-high held up at the Q♣4♥3♥4♦A♥ board, good for a double-up to 22.1 million. However, Wlzed wasn't long for this final table. Crizh opened for two million, Wlzed flat-called and manokippa2 three-bet shoved for 5.41 million from the small blind. Both Crizh and Wlzed called.

Crizh K♠T♥Wlzed 7♣7♦manokippa2 A♠T♠

Crizh made top pair at the K♣5♥2♣ flop. The turn brought the 6♣, the river was the 6♠ and Crizh took down the 47 million-chip pot, knocking out manokippa2 in fifth place and Wlzed in fourth.

Immediately after play turned three-handed, the players agreed to pause the action and discuss a possible deal. Here's how they stacked up on the time:

Felixchamp 77,438,158Crizh 58,178,027vagnerA2 45,933,815

The trio quickly agreed to an ICM chop that guaranteed them shares starting from $7,300 to just about $8,000. With $500 still in play and the inside track title at stake, cards went back within the air.

Crizh jumped into the chip lead after winning an enormous pot off Felixchamp, who three-bet to five million pre-flop. He then fired on the flop, turn, and river at the Q♥4♥2♠J♥8♥ board. Crizh called him down at the flop and turn, then moved all-in for 42.3 million at the river. Felixchamp gave up his hand and Crizh took down the 51.4 million pot with out a showdown. Shortly thereafter, vagnerA2 lost half his stack to Crizh when his open-ended straight draw missed against Crizh's aces and sevens. VagnerA2 fell to 19.3 million and two hands later, open-shoved at the button with 9♥T♠ Crizh called with A♣3♠ and made aces up at the A♥T♦2♠3♣J♥ board, ending vagnerA2's run in third place. Cirzh picked up another $267.72 in cash from vagnerA2's bounty and added an identical quantity to the prize on his own head, now totaling $1,241.98.

Heads-Up chip counts

Seat 2: Crizh (114,499,963 in chips, $1,241.98 bounty)Seat 8: Felixchamp (67,050,037 in chips, $1,264.91 bounty)

Felixchamp took back the chip lead when he three-barreled a 9♦4♣2♦J♥9♥ board and Crizh folded at the river. Felixchamp moved as much as 107.2 million, but his return to the highest was short-lived. In a pot Felixchamp three-bet to eight million preflop, the flop came down K♥K♠K♣. Felixchamp bet 6.4 million and Crizh called. The turn brought the Q♦ and Felixchamp fired another 9.6 million. Again, Crizh called. The river was the 6♣ and Felixchamp bogged down and checked. Crizh checked back and revealed A♥5♦-- an ace kicked to compliment the trip kings on board. Felixchamp had nothing but 5♥7♥ and lost the 48.4 million pot.

Two hands later, Crizh vaulted over the 100 million mark when he raised the activate a K♦T♠6♣T♣ board and Felixchamp folded. The pot took his stack as much as 109.9 million, although Felixchamp still held a healthy 71.7 million. However, three hands later, Felixchamp opened with a min-raise to 3.2 million and Crizh three-bet to ten million. Felixchamp called they usually saw a J♥8♦8♠ flop. Crizh continued for 6.5 million and Felixchamp called. The turn brought the K♠ and Crizh checked to Felixchamp, who made it 12.8 million to head. Crizh called and so they saw the river, which fell the 6♣. Crizh checked, Felixchamp moved all-in for 37 million and Crizh called.

Crizh turned over 2♥8♥ for trip eights at the flop. Felixchamp's K♥5♥ was no good and Crizh emerged as our newest SCOOP champion.

Congratulations to Brazil's Crizh on his first SCOOP title! He banked a grand total of $9,995.48 including bounties, while runner-up Felixchamp earned $9,244.79.

SCOOP-56-L ($11 NL Hold'em [Progressive Super-Knockout]) resultsEntrants:18,155Prize pool: $181,550Places paid:2,475

1. Crizh (Brazil) $8,121.05*+ $1,874.43 in bounties = $9,995.482. Felixchamp (Germany) $7,979.88* + $1,264.91 in bounties = $9,244.793. vagnerA2 (Romania) $7,319.94* + $535.43 in bounties = $7,855.374. Wlzed (UK) $4,084.87 + $417.16 = $4,502.035. manokippa2 (Brazil) $3,177.12 + $1,076.64 = $4,253.766. yachooza (Germany) $2,269.37 + $64.75 in bounties = $2,334.127. poker2007man (Russia) $1,361.62 + $647.30 in bounties = $2,008.928. BAJER12 (Poland) $816.97 + $994.12 in bounties = $1,811.099. kuznez681989 (Russia) $544.65 + $233.84 in bounties = $778.49

* denotes a three-way deal

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