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Join PokerStars now! Robert Healey, a 58-year-old managing director from Howth, Dublin, swept away with the lead of the UKIPT Dublin main event after a barrage of big hands late in the day boosted him up to 454,800. Healey goes into Day 3 at the head of the final 58 players, leading the chase for the €100,000 first place prize, but he’s hotly pursued by the likes of Con Collins (348,500), Lee Atherton (343,200) and Shifaaz Taus (315,400)

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UKIPT3 Dublin: Robert Healey surges to the top late in Day 2, 58 players remain

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SCOOP 2012: BreezyWest flattens the field in Event #34-Low ($55 FL Hold’em, 6-max)

Join PokerStars now! There are pros and cons to playing a rebuy event. The cons are that it can get pretty expensive if you have to constantly reach back into your account to throw more money on the table. The pros are that these events tend to produce juicy prize pools with deep structures, which is golden for any serious MTT’er

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SCOOP 2012: PaDiLhA SP prevails in SCOOP Event #33-L $27 NLHE 1R1A

Join PokerStars now! Faraz “The-Toilet 0″ Jaka made a deep run a couple of days earlier in SCOOP Event #29-High, but he could only muster up a ninth-place finish.

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SCOOP 2012: Faraz "The-Toilet 0" Jaka flushes field and wins Event #33-High ($2,100 N

Join PokerStars now! “If you build it, they will come.” SCOOP is always evolving and bucking convention. Limit Omaha Hi/Lo is a game that is usually played in brick and mortar rooms by cantankerous pensioners

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SCOOP 2012: UhhMee delivers delicious win in Event #33-Low ($27 NL Omaha Hi/Lo)

Join PokerStars now! Some of the best poker stories are those that include a fair amount of struggle. C.Darwin2 had more than a player’s fair share, as short-stacked play required comeback after comeback. But C.Darwin2 did it, fighting back against players like William Reynolds and Vincent van der Fluit to score a coveted Movado SCOOP champion’s watch and more than $38K in cash

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SCOOP 2012: C.Darwin2 wins Event #34-M, Akkari final tables ($530 LHE 6-Max)

Join PokerStars now! There is probably no more fitting game for the Spring Championship of Online Poker than pot-limit Omaha hi/lo, where scooping pots instead of splitting them is the path to success. You can scoop while you SCOOP, and if you SCOOP really well you can scoop up some serious cash. A total of 140 players agreed with that sentiment today, putting up $2,100 apiece for a chance at the latest High-level SCOOP tournament title.

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SCOOP 2012: gmcrafter leads, bleu329 chasing after Day 1 in Event 32-H ($2,100 PLO/8)

Join PokerStars now! The 8-game format clearly tests poker players’ skills in a variety of ways. And in a multi-table tourney setting we might well add a ninth “game” to the mix, too — that of managing the increasing blinds/stakes and negotiating a path through a large field of opponents to the final table and eventual victory.

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SCOOP 2012: jay3400 joins list of winners, takes down #31-M ($215 8-game)

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SCOOP 2012: The Cooker is 8-Game top chef in Event #31-Low

Join PokerStars now! By now, if you read the PokerStarsBlog at all, you’ve probably read about how Shaun Deeb is absolutely dominating the Player of the Series race. He’s made a joke out of it, really, by crushing souls in the stud events.

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SCOOP 2012: tua133 comes up big in Event 29-Low, $11+R NLHE (Big Antes)