SCOOP Round Up: Schwartz, Watson and Deck Bag a Brace; Mercier Leads High Charts

Another round up of news from the PokerStars Spring Championships of Online Poker: including braces from Luke Schwartz, Mike Watson, and Woody Deck, and Jason Mercier continues to perform brilliantly at the top of the High Leaderboard.

Mike ’SirWatts’ Watson is having a quite marvelous Spring Championships of Online Poker (SCOOP) series. He is currently sitting third in the (H) Leaderboard and third in the (M) Leaderboard after making a series of final table appearances and bagging two titles.

His latest victory came in Event #37: $2,100 (H) Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) Hi/Lo. 142 entrants created a total prizepool of $284,000, and Watson defeated Team PokerStars Pro Naoya ‘nkeyno’ Kihara in heads-up action to take the first prize of $65,320.

Before this season Watson had failed to win a SCOOP title. Now he has two, with his maiden victory coming in Event #29 $215 (M) PLO Re-Entry, after defeating 228 players to capture the first prize of $58,368.