43 players rubbed the sleep out of their eyes this afternoon returning to the virtual felt twelve hours after they left it to play down to a champion in SCOOP's marathon, two-day Event #8-Medium. 6,274 players bought into this deep-stacked $320 NLHE event creating a massive prize pool of $1,882,200 with a $286,282.63 first place prize at stake. To get up to speed on all the Day 1 highlights, check out the SCOOP Event #8-Medium Day 1 recap.

Action resumed at 16:30 p.m. EDT and it took only a little over 2 1/2 hours to arrive at a final table. Miroborge earned the unenviable title of final table bubble boy, falling to KennyDav in tenth place. Here's a look at how the hand played out:

Chip counts were as follows as the final table got underway:

Seat 1: AlexanderT (16,385,317 in chips)
Seat 2: frankpark9 (1,870,928 in chips)
Seat 3: bayoougieman (4,707,352 in chips)
Seat 4: KennyDav (5,358,765 in chips)
Seat 5: MKKMOO (7,703,971 in chips)
Seat 6: cuthbertt (3,348,794 in chips)
Seat 7: Craps4Dinner (8,874,060 in chips)
Seat 8: dselnick (7,741,573 in chips)
Seat 9: Mark018 (6,749,240 in chips)

Short-stacked frankpark9 was the first to depart the final table. After he open-shoved for his remaining 1,485,928 from early position, cuthbertt re-shoved from middle position to isolate and the two showed down [3d][3s] and [Kh][Kd] respectively, cuthbertt's cowboys holding up on the [Ac][7h][6d][Jd][Js] board to eliminate frankpark9 in 9th place. He took home $14,587.06 for his finish.

With the blinds up to 80,000/160,000/20,000, Mark018 was the final table's new short stack, with just over 20 big blinds remaining. Facing an opening raise to 374,238 from Craps4Dinner in the cutoff, Mark018 decided to make his move, pushing all in from the small blind for 3,204,985 with the[Ac][Jh]. Unfortunately for him, Craps4Dinner had a real hand, snap-calling and rolling over [Qc][Qs]. Craps4Dinner all but sealed the hand up on the flop, hitting top set when it came down [Qh][Td][7d]. The turn was the [6c], the river the [8h] and Mark018 exited in 8th place, for a $22,586.41 return on his $320 investment.

Cuthbertt was crippled when he moved in over the top of bayoougieman's 456,789 opening raise and got called, his [9h][9c] in bad shape against bayoougieman's [Qc][Qh]. There was no help for cuthbertt on the [Tc][8d][4d][5d][7d] board and he was left with less than one big blind when all was said and done. Craps4Dinner claimed the rest of his chips only two hands later, sending him to the rail in 7th place for a $41,408.41 take.

After cuthbertt's elimination, the six remaining players agreed to take a look at chip count chop numbers. At that point, AlexanderT was still the chip leader with 16.5 million, MKKMOO, Craps4Dinner and dselnick were all closely bunched together with between 10.5 and 11.7 million, bayoougieman held 7 million and KennyDav was the short stack with 5.3 million. Though bayoougieman, AlexanderT, Craps4Dinner, and dselnick all agreed to the deal, MKKMOO told his opponents that his backer wasn't keen on the numbers. Though MKKMOO began re-negotiating the payouts with AlexanderT, Craps4Dinner and dselnick, KennyDav put the brakes on all the deal talk when he declared that he wanted a number between third and fourth place money, despite being the shortest stack remaining. His request drew "LOLs" from his opponents and cards went back on the screen, after a full 30 minutes of failed negotiations.

When play resumed it was careful and even a bit passive, the chip counts hardly moving at all, with the exception of Craps4Dinner dipping from the 11.6 million he held during the deal negotiations down to the 8-9 million range and dselnick chipping up to 17 million. After dselnick took the chip lead he practically begged to discuss another deal and although the other four players expressed a desire to resume negotiations, KennyDav, still the short stack, continued to hold out. By now blinds were up to 150,000/300,000 with a 37,500 ante and KennyDav was below 5 million in chips.

For KennyDav, the decision to hold out didn't end up being a wise one. He got the rest of his chips in with [7s][7c], open-shoving pre-flop and getting a call from MKKMOO with [Qh][Qd] MKKMOO flopped a set and turned quads, knocking KennyDav out in 6th place for a $60,230.41 payday.

"DEAL ANYONE?" asked dselnick as soon as KennyDav's avatar disappeared from the screen. However, before they could get everyone to agree to pause the tournament, Craps4Dinner went out in fifth place with a one-two punch. Bayoougieman shoved for 4,338,388 from early position and Craps4Dinner moved all in behind him for 7,814,010. The rest of the table got out of the way, Craps4Dinner turning up [9s][9h] to bayoougieman's [Ac][Ts]. The [As][5d][4c] flop, however, paired up bayoougieman, leaving Craps4Dinner drawing only to the two remaining nines in the deck. The [Kh] hit the turn, and the river fell the [Kc], bayoougieman earning the 9.3 million pot with aces up.Craps4Dinner was left with 3.4 million in chips and two hands later, open-shoved from UTG, earning a call from MKKMOO. His [8s][9d] could not improve against MKKMOO's [Ac][Js] and he exited in fifth place for $79,052.41.

Immediately after Craps4Dinner's elimination, the tournament was paused so the chip count chop numbers could be re-run. After 20 minutes of negotiations and fine-tuning, the four remaining players arrived at a deal. The rest of the tournament would be played out for an additional $30,000, the title, and the Champion's Watch.

With the vast majority of the prize money settled up, our final four started gambling it up. AlexanderT took a huge coinflip against dselnick for nearly his entire stack, his [7h][7s] holding against [Ah][Ks] to double him up. Take a look at how the hand played out:

After that hand, dselnick was left with 4.7 million while AlexanderT took the chip lead with nearly 28 million.

Bayoougieman decided to make his move when AlexanderT opened for 800,000 and he looked up at the [Ah][Jd] on the screen. He moved all in for 10,254,046 perhaps in the hope of chasing him away, but AlexanderT called. Bayoo's [Ah][Jd] was dominated by AlexanderT's [Ac][Qc], the chip leader making an ace-high flush on the [Ts][4c][2c][3c][7h] board. With that, bayoougieman hit the rail in fourth place for a $148,490.80 payday while AlexanderT took a commanding chip lead with over 40.5 million, more than three times the stack of his closest competitor.

Short stacked dselnick did his best to mount a comeback, but couldn't get any traction. In his final hand, AlexanderT opened for a min-raise to 800,000, MKKMOO called from the small blind and dselnick called from the big. On the [Td][6d][3s] flop, MKKMOO checked, dselnick moved all in for 3.6 milllion, AlexanderT min-raised to isolate, and MKKMOO gave up his hand. Dselnick's [8d][9h] was no match for AlexanderT's top pair with [Qh][Th] and with blanks falling on the turn and river, dselnick exited in third place for a tidy haul of $191,335.64.

As heads-up play commenced, AlexanderT held a better than 5-1 chip lead over MKKMOO:

Seat 1: AlexanderT (51,900,711 in chips)
Seat 5: MKKMOO (10,839,289 in chips)

After playing a few small pots, AlexanderT put MKKMOO away on the 13th hand of heads-up play. MKKMOO got his remaining 10.1 million in pre-flop with [Ah][5s] only to have AlexanderT wake up to [Jc][Js]. The board ran out [Ts][8d][4h][Qs][7s] and after two days of play, AlexanderT finally had all the chips in front of him, earning a coveted SCOOP title, $206,369.17, and a SCOOP Champion's Watch. For his runner-up finish, MKKMOO earned $204,931.56, no doubt delighting his backer.

Results for SCOOP Event #8-Medium, $320 NLHE

1. AlexanderT ($206,369.17)*
2. MKKMOO ($204,931.56)*
3. dselnick ($191,335.64)*
4. bayoougieman ($148,490.80)*
5. Craps4Dinner ($79,052.41)
6. KennyDAV ($60,230.41)
7. cuthbertt ($41,408.41)
8. Mark018 ($22,586.41)
9. frankpark9 ($14,587.06)

*= reflects a four-way deal that left aside $30,000 for the champion

There are still six full days of SCOOP events remaining. Hit up the SCOOP page for more information on tournaments and satellites or check out the leaderboard page to see how your favorite players are faring. If you missed any of the action, check out the SCOOP channel over on Pokerstars.tv for all the highlights.

Typically, in these early hours of Monday morning, we've just finished crowning a new Sunday Million champion, one lucky PokerStars player having turned the proverbial matchstick into a lumberyard after weaving through a thousands-deep field. The Million is beloved by online players the world over for its generous structure and hefty prize pool and this weekend, with SCOOP in full swing, PokerStars took that deep-stacked structure one step further with the "medium" buy-in installment of Event #8, a two-day, $1.5 million guaranteed NLHE affair. The 6,274 players who ponied up the $320 buy-in enjoyed 10,000 chip starting stacks, 20-minute levels and blinds beginning at 25-50. The prize pool easily surpassed the guarantee, swelling to $1,882,200, and 900 places were paid, with first place prize money of $286,282.63 on the line. Now that's a lot of bang for your tournament buck.

It took nearly seven hours of play before alloverbaby was eliminated on the money bubble in 901st place. Even then, players still had another six hours to go before play would be halted at the conclusion of Level 33.

Team PokerStars Pro was out in force for this event, with Alexandre Gomes, Andre Akkari, Bertrand Grospellier, Chris Moneymaker, Dario Minieri, Katja Thater, Leo Fernandez, Marcin Horecki, Maria Mayrinck, Noah Boeken, Peter Eastgate, Steve Paul-Ambrose, Vanessa Rousso, Victor Ramdin, William Thorson, and Ylon Schwartz all taking seats along with Friends of PokerStars Darus Suharto, Gualter Salles, and Tom McEvoy. Only Thorson and Gomes managed to make the money, however, finishing in 654th and 805th places respectively. Other notable screen names finishing in the money included Genius28 (117th), R_Brenes (225th), Mr_BigQueso (244th), USCPhildo (271st), Prefontaine (273rd), All_in_at420 (316th), kwob20 (359th), steamraise (407th), Assassinato (417th), ka$ino (541st), liberace (648th), #1PEN (655th), SirWatts (721st), and t soprano (729th).

If you're a fan of the high-stakes cash game action on PokerStars, the screen name str8flushin5 will no doubt ring a bell. Often found sitting at the $500-$1,000 and above 2-7 triple draw and H.O.R.S.E. tables, str8flushin5 made a huge run in this event, vaulting to near the top of the leaderboard after winning this key three-way all in:

With ten tables remaining, Guimp seized the chip lead when his top pair, top kicker was able to fade his opponent's open-ended straight draw. Guimp picked up even more steam only a short time later, getting his massive stack all in with [Ad][6d] on a [9c][8d][2d] flop against Strider1001's [Ah][Ks]. The [6c] on the turn paired his kicker and he collected the 1.6 million pot when the river blanked out with the [Js], increasing his stack to over 3,000,000. Guimp ended the night fifth in chips with just over 2.6 million.

Limpnfold24 had a healthy stack throughout most of the late evening and took the chip lead after a flop raising war with DPKRHUSTLER netted him a 1.6 million chip pot without having to show his cards. Limpnfold24 opened for 63,775 from early position, DPKRHUSTLER reraised to 147,999 from the small blind, and limpnfold24 called. DPKRHUSTLER led out for 147,999 on the [Td][7c][Ac] flop, limpnfold24 raised to 392,855, DPKRHUSTLER three-bet to 659,999, and limpnfold24 moved all in for the 1,591,656 he had behind. DPKRHUSTLER gave up the ghost and limpnfold took down the pot, increasing his stack to 2.6 million.

As if that wasn't a nice enough windfall for him, limpnfold24 made a straight flush only a short time later and was able to extract maximum value out of his opponent, taking his stack past the 4 million mark:

43 players will return to the virtual felt tomorrow at 16:30 p.m. EDT to play down to a new SCOOP champion. They'll return to blinds of 17,500/35,000 with a 4,375 ante, the average stack at 1,459,069. Though the $286K and the bracelet is still on everyone's minds, these players can rest easy tonight knowing that they've at least made ten times their buy-in. Not bad for a day's work... even a long one. Get some rest, guys.

SCOOP Event #8-Medium Top 10 Chip Counts

1. limpnfold24 3,808,035
2. hymo1234 3,311,405
3. jimbo1994 2,660,004
4. smokinaces81 2,626,611
5. Guimp 2,616,976
6. KennyDav 2,616,330
7. bayoougieman 2,555,480
8. DPKRHUSTLER 2,109,207
9. oN PErKS 2,006,428
10. miraginox 2,003,643

There is still plenty of time to get your SCOOP on-- there are satellites and events for every bankroll. Check out the SCOOP page for more information and follow the progress of your favorite players on the SCOOP player of the series leaderboard. If you missed out on any of the action, no worries. Pokerstars.tv's SCOOP channel has all the highlights.