Facts and Figures 2017 SCOOP Main Event:
Buy-In: $10,300
Players: 693
Prize pool: $6,930,000
Places paid: 80
First Place: $1,200,899
Carrel deposited $15 and ran it up to $5.5 Million Dollar!
The stories of Charlie “Epiphany77” Carrel are what make up the fascination of poker. Carrel deposited $15 in 2013 and won his first-ever tournament – a 180-man SNG!
During the next seven months “Epiphany77” moved to Partypoker, focused on cash games and managed to run up his bankroll from $1,800 to $60,000 in the first few months.
Then he went back to PokerStars and on January 12th 2014 Carrrel chopped the Sunday Million securing himself a staggering $201,733.
Charlie continued his online run and soon after cracked the $500,000-Mark, before entering the live poker scene, where he now is a regular in High Roller Events and already has amassed lifetime winnings of $5,507,578 within only three years!
Charlie Carrel wins two SCOOP Titles within 4 days…
Charlie also had a great start into the SCOOP 2017 by winning two events within only 4 days.
And then ships the Main Event for 1.2 Million Dollar!
As if this would have not been enough Carrel carried on to make the final table of one of the biggest and most important online poker tournaments, the $10,300 SCOOP Main Event.
Almost 7 Million Dollar were on the line and Charlie made it to Heads-Up as a chipleader and then secured himself the biggest paycheck of more than 1.2 million dollar by chopping with PCA Champion Harrison “gibler321“ Gimbel.
The Payouts of the SCOOP Main Event:
1. Charlie „Epiphany77“ Carrel (United Kingdom) $1,200,899.97*
2. Harrison „gibler321“ Gimbel (Canada) $1,122,873.99*
3. th’Kick (Switzerland) $690,348.58
4. Garrin4e (Ukraine) $492,542.82
5. Ola „Odd_Oddsen“ Amundsgaard (Norway) $351,414.75
6. Connor „blanconegro“ Drinan (Mexico) $250,723.93
7. Simon „C. Darwin2“ Mattson (Sweden) $178,863.39
8. Samuel „€urop€an“ Vousden (Finland) $127,628.42
9. Emil „Maroonlime“ Patel (Finland) $91,058.81
* = denotes a two-way deal leaving $100,000 for the winner
Watch the Rise of Charlie Carrel Video here:
Recently Charlie met up for an interview with a TV show in the UK, where he tells his unbelivable story himself:
