Lex Veldhuis, a Team PokerStars Pro veteran and one of the world’s most popular poker streamers, has loads of poker accomplishments, but a title in a Stars’ Championship of Online Poker (COOP) has alluded him. Until today. On Monday, Veldhuis finally broke through, winning the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) $5,200 No-Limit Hold’em Titans event and its $140,278.96 first prize.
It was one of the most intimidating final tables you’ll ever see in an online tournament, with “hello_totti” entering the action as the leader, holding 2,180,863 chips. Yuri “theNERDguy” Dzivielevski and Kahle “ROFLshove” Burns weren’t far behind. Veldhuis sat squarely in the middle of the nine remaining players of the original 128 entries; other heavy hitters included Roman “RomeOpro” Romanovsky and seven-time SCOOP winner and former world number one Patrick “pads1161” Leonard.
let out all the frustrations of COOP’s past with a mighty “YESSSS! Oh my god yes!”
On the final hand, Veldhuis had high stakes pro Ignacio “Nacho124441” Morón out-chipped about 3-to-1 when he got pocket Threes in the big blind. After Nacho raised, Veldhuis put him all-in and Nacho made the call with A-T. It was eerily silent on Veldhuis’ stream as he waited for the community cards to be dealt, but when Nacho’s hand didn’t improve, Veldhuis clenched his fists and let out all the frustrations of COOP’s past with a mighty “YESSSS! Oh my god yes!”
His thousands of fans on his Twitch stream celebrated with him as Lex finally had his first COOP title and the second-largest online cash of his career.
