The number of double Spring Championship of Online Poker winners reaches 13 after successes from Kahle Burns, Michael Gathy and Matheus Zilberknop, Takanza goes deep in defence of his Main Event title, and XL Inferno ends.

Apart from the lucky buggers, today will feel as empty as a man standing at the prison gates waiting for them to open, when all he wanted was to stay inside with his mates, for life.

The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is nearly over. It’s been a Beethoven busting, Ganymede giant, Playboy porn star of a poker series, and only a few lucky blighters have some play left in them as the Main Events draw to a close.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.