A weekly Friday night poker game was going strong well into the midnight hour when one of the players from the game returned from a bathroom break with a shocked look to him. "David!" he said with urgency, "Come quick! Your wife is in the bathroom making love to your brother!". "Ok guys" David replied, "this is absolutely the last hand!" Just nine players bought in to this high-stakes Heads-Up Championship making it the only SCOOP event this year to come up short of its guarantee. PokerStars was forced to foot the bill for the extra $25,000, fulfilling their promise of a $250,000 prize pool. With nine players the heads-up format called for seven of those players to receive buys in the first round. K_0_S_T_Y_A and ChrisFun123 were the two unlucky players to miss the chance at a free ride through to Round 2. ChrisFun123 was able to dispatch his opponent in just five levels of play, winning a coin-flip to proceed to the round of eight. Viktor "Isildur1" Blom played this event but couldn't get past his first match with Also11... rake in holdem online