SCOOP 2026 First Week Recap: Neymar Reaches Three Final Tables

Three final tables for Neymar

On Friday, February 27, Santos forward Neymar scored a brace on the field in a match against Vasco da Gama. And already on Sunday, March 1, Neymar «neymar-jr» reached two SCOOP final tables:

He finished 9th in the $1K Mystery Warm Up ($2.2K). The winner was Germany’s HardiZ1 ($30.1K). Patrick «pads1161» Leonard received the most money ($42.5K), pulling the $20K Mystery Bounty.

He finished 7th in the $530 SCOOP Kickoff ($4.5K). The winner was Canada’s Alexander «aminolast» Raymond ($23K).

But that’s not all. A day later, Neymar finished third in the $5K PKO Bounty Builder SHR ($23.3K). Second place went to Hungary’s kZhh ($47.2K). The winner was Denmark’s starwins : ) ($90.3K).

A double in three days: king153246 and Eimantasa record two wins the fastest in the series

Two wins in three days — likely no one has ever completed a SCOOP double this quickly.

The first to do it was Lithuania’s Eimantasa. He won the $530 Bounty Builder HR ($29.7K) and the $1K NLHE PKO ($33.8K).

Three hours later, SCOOP-2025 and WCOOP-2025 Player of the Series, Albania-based Vitaliy «king153246» also recorded two wins. He won the $1K NLHE ($26,2K) and the $530 NLHE PKO ($15.9K).

Andrey «Premove» Skvortsov won two tournaments in one evening

Premove became the champion of two NLO8 6-max PKO tournaments.

First he won the $109 event, and half an hour later the $1,050 event.

Over his career, Premove has recorded 13 SCOOP titles:

• 2026 — 22-M: $109 NLO8 [6-max PKO] — $7,304
• 2026 — 22-H: $1,050 NLO8 [6-max PKO] — $22,486
• 2025 — 95-H: $530 2-7 Single Draw PKO — $8,950
• 2024 — 17-L: $11 PLO [6-Max] — $4,516
• 2023 — 66-M: $33 NLHE 8-max Weekend Starter — $7,750
• 2023 — 76-H: $2,100 NLO8 6-max PKO — $61,970*
• 2023 — 118-M $55 Mixed NLHE/PLO 6-max PKO — $7,521*
• 2022 — 19-M: $109 NLO8 PKO — $14,390*
• 2022 — 90-L: $11 NLO8 — $3,169
• 2021 — 27-H: $1,050 8-game — $28,101
• 2021 — 82-L: $55 NLHE 8-max PKO Mini Thursday Thrill — $51,601*
• 2020 — 34-M: $55 PLO8 8-max — $17,635
• 2019 — 16-H: $2,100 NLO8 — $47,793

Only Simon «C.Darwin2» Mattsson has more career titles (14). Slightly fewer, but still many, belong to Benny «RunGodlike» Glaser (13), Niklas «lena900» Astedt (11), and Jerry «Perrymejsen» Odeen (11).

Other Notable Winners

Benny «RunGodlike» Glaser won the $320 NLHE ($16.6K). A funny fact: Glaser did not plan to play this one-day tournament because of computer problems.

Renan «Internett93o» Bruschi won the $530 NL 5 Card Draw PKO ($8.1K).

SCOOP Player of the Series Leaderboards started very hot: FAL1st leads all leaderboards

As usual, PokerStars are awarding $100K across four SCOOP leaderboards (Low, Medium, High and Overall). The leaderboards run throughout the entire series and are not divided by weeks. Points are awarded as follows: win — 100 points, 2nd place — 80 points, 3rd place — 70, etc. The minimum ITM awards 5 points.

The Overall Leaderboard is the main and most prestigious one. It has only one winner, who will receive $20K in cash. After the first week, the Overall Leaderboard is led by Thailand-based Fal1st:

1. Mikhail «FAL1st» – 1260
2. Vitaliy «king153246» – 735
3. Patrick «pads1161» Leonard – 685
4. Renan «Internett93o» Bruschi – 670
5. Benny «RunGodlike» Glaser – 620

In the High Leaderboard, three players will be awarded ($15K; $10K; $7.5K). Interestingly, it features the same names as the Overall leaderboard:

1. Mikhail «FAL1st» – 605
2. Patrick «pads1161» Leonard – 390
3. Benny «RunGodlike» Glaser – 365
4. Vitaliy «king153246» – 335
5. Renan «Internett93o» Bruschi – 330

The Medium Leaderboard will award 10 players. The winner will receive $10K. Fal1st also leads this leaderboard:

1. Mikhail «FAL1st» – 365
2. The1WhoKnocksss – 275
3. Jerry «Perrymejsen» Odeen – 270
4. RagVoen – 265
5. Eimantasa – 255

The Low Leaderboard will award 20 players. The winner will receive $5K. In this leaderboard, Fal1st is in third place:

1. Just rag it – 325
2. Vitaliy «king153246» – 305
3. Mikhail «FAL1st» – 290
4. HeimaS – 270
5. Sebastian «peace&loove» Huber – 265

The SCOOP series will conclude on March 25. Read more about SCOOP here.