With the PokerStars SCOOP festival building towards its now-extended finale,  one of the biggest events  left in the schedule is Event #73. Costing $2,100 to enter, it has seen plenty of big names pony up the funds to stack up some starting chips and saw a very busy Day 1 end with 37 players heading through to Day 2 to gloat at those left in their wake.

In the event otherwise known as the Sunday Warm-Up, 501 players took part across nine hours of action on PokerStars, which saw commentary on the action provided by Joe ‘Stapes’ Stapleton and Matt ‘The Waster’ Broughton, the two men back in tandem for the first time in a while and bringing back happy memories to EPT fans as they did so.

Play grew from just four tables of players at the start of the tournament, with a $750,000 guarantee eventually being comfortably surpassed to see a $1,002,000 prizepool confirmed, and a massive top prize of $177,965 now up for grabs for the eventual SCOOP event winner.

Play kicks off at 1.05pm ET / 6.05pm BST today, and will restart with ‘zivziv’ leading the pack with a chip mountain of 3,684,880 chips. They are just under 500,000 chips ahead of nearest challenger ‘boerni21’, but behind them, it reads like a who’s who of poker players you’d like to avoid having a lot of chips in a tournament you’re playing in.