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SCOOP 2025 First Week Recap: Strong Start For “pads1161”, But “king153246” Comes Out On Top

SCOOP 2025 First Week Recap: Strong Start For “pads1161”, But “king153246” Comes Out On Top
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  • Last updated on: May 19, 2025 · 2 minutes to read

Here’s a look at the multiple SCOOP 2025 champions and key results from the first week.

pads1161, Perrymejsen, sixsixxsix, and C.Darwin2 each won two titles during the opening week

Simon “C.Darwin” Mattsson and Patrick “pads1161” Leonard, source PokerStars Blog

“sixsixxsix” was the first to score a double victory in this year’s series — and he did it in one evening, winning two NL 5-Card Draw tournaments: a $530 event ($8.9K prize) and a $55 event ($2.6K prize).

Patrick “pads1161” Leonard also claimed two titles — in Stud Hi/Lo and NLHE, both with $1K buy-ins. That brings his career SCOOP title count to 10:

YearTournamentPayout
2025$1,050 Stud Hi/Lo [6-max]$16,157
2025$1,050 7-Max Turbo PKO Daily Cooldown$31,949
2024$530 NLHE Wednesday Mystery Bounty$35,638
2023$5,200 Titans 8-max PKO$197,117
2022$530 6+ Hold’em 8-max Turbo PKO$12,583
2021$1,050 NLHE Afternoon Deep Stack$60,953
2021$5,200 NLHE PKO Sunday HR SE$258,007
2020$2,100 PLO8, 6-Max$52,606
2020$215+R NLHE 8-Max Turbo Rebuy$41,809
2017$215 PLO Heads-Up$18,567

In addition to his two wins, pads1161 had several deep runs. Highlights include:

  • 2nd in $530 NLHE Deep Stacks ($27.5K)
  • 2nd in $1,050 NLHE PKO ($24.3K)
  • 3rd in $1,050 8-Game ($9.2K)

Jerry “Perrymejsen” Ödeen also picked up two titles in SCOOP 2025 — winning the $109 8-Game and $109 Stud Hi/Lo events. He now joins Patrick Leonard with 10 career SCOOP titles:

YearTournamentPayout
2025$109 8-Game$6,174
2025$109 Stud Hi/Lo$4,935
2024$1,050 NLO8 [6-Max]$23,897
2024$109 Razz$5,400
2024$33 NLHE [Turbo The Copacabana Unlimited]$24,750
2023$320+R NLHE [8-Max Rebuy]$44,828
2022$11 NLHE [6-Max, Turbo]$11,149
2022$1,050 NLO8$28,101
2021$2,100 PLO8 6-Max$62,426
2019$530 PLO H/L$29,348

Simon “C.Darwin” Mattsson also won two tournaments, tying Benny “RunGodlike” Glaser in total SCOOP titles. Both players achieve 11 titles each:

YearTournamentPayout
2025$530 PLO 6-Max Turbo PKO$14,686
2025$5,200 Super Tuesday High Roller$107,964
2024$10,300 NLHE [Super Tuesday High Roller]$186,238
2024$530 NLHE [Progressive KO, Sunday Warm-Up]$57,744
2022$10,300 NLHE [Super Tuesday High Roller]$207,901
2022$1,050 NLHE [4-Max, Progressive KO]$41,362
2021$530 NLO8 8-Max$21,166
2021$1,050 NLHE 8-Max, Turbo, PKO$74,465
2020$1,050 NLHE$61,141
2016$1,050 NL Hold’em$226,106
2012$530 Limit Hold’em [6-Max]$38,233

Benny “RunGodlike” Glaser had a chance to move ahead with 12 titles but lost heads-up in the $109 FLO8 to Thailand-based «Fal1st” ($5.2K).

By the way, a screenshot of Fal1st went viral on Twitter thanks to Patrick Leonard.

This tournament was the $5.5 The Copacabana Unlimited

king153246 wins two out of three SCOOP Weekly Leaderboards

In previous years, SCOOP had separate leaderboards running throughout the series. This year, there’s only one Overall Leaderboard for the entire series, while the Low, Medium, and High leaderboards reset weekly on Mondays.

The winner of two out of three weekly leaderboards was Albania-based “king153246”. He took down:

  • High Leaderboard (+$5K) — Patrick “pads1161” Leonard finished 2nd ($3.5K)
  • Medium Leaderboard (+$3.5K) — Jerry “Perrymejsen” Ödeen finished 2nd ($2.5K)

Here are some of king153246’s standout results last week:

  • 6th in $1K PKO Daily Cooldown ($3.1K)
  • 3rd in $1K HORSE ($8.1K)
  • 4th in $5K PKO Bounty Builder ($29.8K)
  • 3rd in $530 NL 5-Card Draw ($3K)
  • 5th in $5K Super Tuesday ($33.9K)
  • Win in $530 NLHE Deep Stacks ($30.1K) — first career SCOOP title
  • 5th in $1K NLHE PKO ($13.7K)
  • 6th in $109 NLHE ($4.5K)
  • 5th in $320 NLHE Copacabana ($7.8K)
  • 3rd in $109 8-Game ($3.2K)

king153246 is also currently leading the Overall SCOOP Leaderboard:

  1. king153246 — 1,415 points
  2. Patrick “pads1161” Leonard — 840 points
  3. Fal1st — 755 points

There will be only one winner of the Overall Leaderboard, who will receive $15K.

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