After a big weekend of online poker action, there were two quarter-million scores and a double title winner in the latest SCOOP events played by the best of the best.

Kanit is king as Genoese wins third SCOOP

Back in 2015, Italian poker sensation Mustapha Kanit, known by his amusing online pseudonym ‘lasagnaaammm’, won the SCOOP Main Event for $1.3 million. It was a year earlier that Kanit, who hails from Alessandria near Genoa in Italy, had claimed his first SCOOP title, when he won the $2,100 NL Hold’em Turbo Re-Entry event for $376,920. Kanit took home his third SCOOP title in the 2020 version of the Spring Championship of Online Poker Event #26 just the other day, which cost $10,300 to enter and brought up a trio of impressive online victories.

With just 15 players coming back to the final day, Kanit was not the front runner, sitting mid-way through the chipcounts. By the time the final table came round, Kanit was short-stacked, but ground his way up the leaderboard throughout the final table and proved he has the chops to deal with the pressure at any level.