Joris Ruijs Wins $217,040 at 8-Max Sunday Million Special Edition

The online poker tournament called 2019 Spring Championship of Online Poker took place on PokerStars platform, and one of the events that grabbed the attention of many poker lovers was SCOOP 32-M: $530 NLHE (8-Max, Sunday Million SE). The event had a guaranteed prize of $1,250,000, and the number of players that applied for it was 3,008. However, only 138 managed to come back on the second day of the event, and one of those people was Joris Ruijs whose nickname on the platform was “BillLewinsky.”

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At the moment he came back for Day 2, he was third in chip number. It took several hours of play before the official final table was reached. The final table consisted of eight players, and the last player who was eliminated in the ninth place before the last part of the event was on was Orpen “OrpTheTurk” Kisacikoglu, who is one of the popular online poker players. Kisacikoglu managed to win a total of $14,476 from this tournament. All the players that remained in the final table were guaranteed to win at least $20,307.

The Final Table Results

The player who actually claimed the minimum prize for the final table was Ivan Luca from Argentina, whose nickname on PokerStars is “Negriin.” He was soon followed by a player from Canada who has the nickname “alexos888.” He managed to win a total of $28,488. The sixth place belonged to a player from Poland called “mikimiki88,” who managed to win a total of $39,965. “Dancer King” from Russia ended up in fifth place for $56,065, and a Brazilian player named “tomnelz1” ended up fourth for $78,650. The third place belonged to a player from Russia nicknamed Premove who failed to reach the heads-up part of the tournament and had to hit the rail with a total of $110,334.

The final part of this SCOOP tournament was between a player named “Zurgok” from the United Kingdom and “BillLewinsky,” who is from the Netherlands. “Zurgok” tried to take a shot at the title, but it was too late, so he had to settle for the second place and a reward of $154,783.

On the other hand, “BillLewinsky” had one of the best days of his life, and winning this event was just a part of it. In fact, the player from the Netherlands actually managed to finish on the second place in another event called High Roller Club: $1,050 Daily Warm-Up (8-Max), where he earned $23,968. In other words, the Dutchman had a blast that day and managed to earn approximately $240,000 just by playing poker on the web during a single day. This is definitely a day he will remember for the rest of his life.

Online poker is not only very entertaining but also gives an opportunity for people to earn hefty rewards. Naturally, it takes hundreds of hours of practice and some luck in order to be the best in this game.