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2021 NJ/MI SCOOP Day 17: Madara Loses in NJSCOOP While Stozypokes Wins MISCOOP
The results for the 2021 (MISCOOP) Michigan Spring Championships of Online Poker and (NJSCOOP) New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker were recently announced on PokerStars.
The main event resulted in Madara losing the NJSCOOP main event and Stozypokes winning the MISCOOP. The former garnered almost 26,600 entries with whopping prize money of 1.3 million dollars. Contrarily, the latter incurred nearly 42,000 entries, with 2.3 million dollars offered as the winning reward.
TrashNinja00 Won the NJSCOOP Main Event
While Madara was a crowd-favorite, TrashNinja00 won the NJSCOOP main event. The finals did not disappoint as the play spanned ten hours over two days,, of course. Beating over 391 players, TrashNinja00 went home with 19,938.52 dollars.
Other than Madara, Steven “FadeOrHoldz” was also a viable contender for the win. Madara ended up on the second spot while the third one was occupied by Sridhar “sri100k” Sangannagari. Every player in the top three spots earned over 10 grand dollars in winnings.
| Ranking | Player Tag | Winning Amount (in dollars) |
| 1 | TrashNinja00 | 19,938.52 |
| 2 | Madara Steven “FadeOrHoldz” | 14,427.86 |
| 3 | Sridhar “sri100k” | 10,440.41 |
| 4 | RunninItUp98 | 7554.98 |
| 5 | Zlajamiest | 5467.00 |
| 6 | TiltedHard | 3,956.08 |
| 7 | PhillyisGarb | 2862.73 |
| 8 | jordanofpkr | 2071.55 |
| 9 | GivnUstrokes | 1759.22 |
At the start of the final table, Madara was leading the lot, but it ended up with TrashNinja00 taking it all. Here is how the events are unveiled in the MISCOOP event.
Stozypoke Won the MISCOOP Main Event
Unlike the NJSCOOP event, MISCOOP merely conceived three and a half hours. Out of 871 players, merely 36 survived and went on to participate in the finals on Monday.
Orlimar17 stayed on top of the leaderboard until the field was halved. After that, Stozypokes dominated the entire event and won over 40,000 dollars. Here is how the table appeared in the end:
| Ranking | Player Tag | Winning Amount (in dollars) |
| 1 | Stozypokes | 41,074.16 |
| 2 | “aardvark555” | 29,344.34 |
| 3 | healybuck2021 | 20,964.48 |
| 4 | Polarithm | 14,977.64 |
| 5 | YoRayman | 10,700.45 |
| 6 | Andrew “autokorekt” | 7,644.73 |
| 7 | wldcrd2121 | 5,461.61 |
| 8 | crazydave1234 | 3,901.93 |
| 9 | BishPlz94 | 2,787.67 |
The event transpired as expected,and Stozypokes took the winning amount home. Once the event hit Level 32, there were only 17 players left. Polarithm gained a hot streak and eliminated five finalists. However, Stozypokes ended the game by eliminating four finalists and claiming his victory.
Final Thoughts
New Jersey marked an end to two of its esteemed poker events, (MISCOOP) Michigan Spring Championships of Online Poker and (NJSCOOP) New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker. While the former witnessed TrashNinja00 winning 19,938.52 dollars, the latter was won by Stozypokes who won 41,074.16 dollars.
