Mustapha "lasagnammm" Kanit wins SCOOP Main Event for $1.3 million

Mustapha "lasagnammm" Kanit continues to crush in 2015, after shipping the €50,000 Super High Roller at the EPT Grand Final earlier this month, he now won the $10.300 buy-in SCOOP Main Event for $1.3 million, defeating a stacked final table that included Christian "eisenhower1" Jeppsson, Shaun "shaundeeb" Deeb and Emil "Maroonlime" Patel.

68 players returned for Day 2 of the most anticipated event of the 2015 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), the $10.300 Main Event, and the field was filled with the best online and live MTT players on the planet.

There were several big names who were eliminated near the final table, including Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, who finished in 12th place ($79.810) after running into Kings with 66 in a pre-flop all-in.

The final table started with 8 players as two players were eliminated during hand-for-hand play, and the final table lineup included Shaun "shaundeeb" Deeb, Mustapha "lasagnammm" Kanit, Emil "Maroonlime" Patel (one of the stars of 2Months2Million poker show) and Christian "eisenhower1" Jeppsson.

Seat 1. abeainy (Lebanon) - 333.200
Seat 2. ----empty----
Seat 3. KumariOy (Russia) - 2.338.668
Seat 4. I am Bobbie (Belarus) - 2.044.190
Seat 5. Christian "eisenhower1" Jeppsson (Sweden) - 1.022.204
Seat 6. Shaun "shaundeeb" Deeb (Mexico) - 1.592.007
Seat 7. Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit (United Kingdom) - 944.189
Seat 8. prrrak4783 (Austria) - 822.308

The first player to be eliminated was short stack abeainy, and he was soon followed by shaundeeb, who lost a huge pot to lasagnammm. Deeb raised the button, 4bet, then called his opponents 5bet shove for 50 big blinds with 99. lasagnammm had A-Q suited and paired both cards to send shaundeeb out in seventh place.

Eisenhower1 lost a big coinflip and was eliminated soon after, he got his final couple big blinds in with KJ but he couldn't improve against Maroonlime's 2-2.

prrrak4783 finished in fifth place and was soon followed by I am Bobbie, he shoved the button with T8 suited, was called by lasagnammm's AJ and couldn't improve.

KumariOy finished in third place after having a big stack for the most of the final table and not being able to get much going three handed (including having his KK cracked by Maroonlime's A4 after an all-in o 437 flop), his A-T couldn't improve against lasagnammm's 4-4 in a preflop all-in.

Mustapha "lasagnammm" Kanit - 7.684.281
Emil "Maroonlime" Patel - 2.725.719

Patel won a couple of pots at the beginning of heads-up play, but the heads-up ended after just 10 hands.

In the final hand, Patel min-raised to 120,000 from the button then called Kanit's 3bet of 343.200. On a flop of J-Q-9 with two hearts Kanit bet 289,420 and Patel called. Both players checked when an offsuit Queen fell on the turn, but Kanit bet a chunky 947.210 when an offsuit Ten rolled off on the river. Patel shoved all-in for 2.565.739 and Kanit snapcalled with Q-Q for quads.

Mustapha "lasagnammm" Kanit is quickly becoming one of the leading poker players on the circuit, he won the FTOPS Main Event in March for almost $240,000, won the EPT Grand Final €50,000 Super High Roller for $1.04 million earlier this month and has now followed it up with an even bigger score!

SCOOP 2015 $10,300 Main Event results

1. Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit (United Kingdom) - $1.304.720
2. Emil "Maroonlime" Patel (Finland) - $950.780
3. KumariOy (Russia) - $700.940
4. I am Bobbie (Belarus) - $527.440
5. prrrak4783 (Austria) - $370.596
6. Christian "eisenhower1" Jeppsson (Sweden) - $294.950
7. Shaun "shaundeeb" Deeb (Mexico) - $225.550
8. albeainy (Lebanon) - $156.150
9. hello_totti (Russia) - $104.100