Lex Veldhuis Wins His First Career PokerStars COOP Title For $140k

The title within the $5,200 Titans match was no longer easiest Lex Veldhuis’ first COOP acquire, but moreover the 2nd-supreme on-line money of his occupation. [Image: Twitch.com/LexVeldhuis]

Lex Veldhuis, a Personnel PokerStars Pro aged and likely the most sector’s most standard poker streamers, has masses of poker accomplishments, but a title in a Stars’ Championship of Online Poker (COOP) has alluded him. Till on the present time. On Monday, Veldhuis within the demolish broke through, winning the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) $5,200 No-Restrict Assign’em Titans match and its $140,278.96 first prize.

It was likely the most primary intimidating closing tables you’ll ever explore in an on-line match, with “hello_totti” getting into the action because the chief, holding 2,180,863 chips. Yuri “theNERDguy” Dzivielevski and Kahle “ROFLshove” Burns weren’t far on the wait on of. Veldhuis sat squarely within the course of the 9 final avid gamers of the normal 128 entries; completely different heavy hitters integrated Roman “RomeOpro” Romanovsky and 7-time SCOOP winner and extinct world no 1 Patrick “pads1161” Leonard.

position free the entire frustrations of COOP’s previous with a mighty “YESSSS! Oh my god sure!”

On the closing hand, Veldhuis had excessive stakes pro Ignacio “Nacho124441” Morón out-chipped about 3-to-1 when he got pocket Threes within the astronomical blind. After Nacho raised, Veldhuis keep aside him all-in and Nacho made the call with A-T. It was eerily quiet on Veldhuis’ circulate as he waited for the neighborhood playing cards to be dealt, but when Nacho’s hand didn’t make stronger, Veldhuis clenched his fists and position free the entire frustrations of COOP’s previous with a mighty “YESSSS! Oh my god sure!”

His hundreds of followers on his Twitch circulate successfully-known with him as Lex within the demolish had his first COOP title and the 2nd-supreme on-line money of his occupation.