Tag: PokerStars WCOOP 2020

The two Pot Limit Omaha Main Events are enshrined in PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) folklore, with ‘jedimaster82’ and Kahle Burns breezing through the both, breathlessly.

We start with the Daddy.

Event #73: {H} $10,300 Pot-Limit Omaha, 6-Max Main Event attracted 135-entrants like a ball of string to a pawing cat, and after a mere three hours on Day 3, the Swedish online cash game mysteron, ‘jedimaster82’ had the final bow after beating the Norwegian star Ola Amundsgard in heads-up action.

Coming into the final table, all eyes were on the former PocketFives World #1, Andras Nemeth, whose whip snap form had seen him bag two titles before settling in his Herman Miller for his attempt at a third. Ironically, it was his compatriot Laszlo Bujtas that cut that headline to ribbons taking Nemeth apart over a pair of hands.

However, Bujtas was unable to convert those chips into a timeless win, and when the action fell into the four-handed period, ‘jedimaster82’ had more than half of the chips in play. PLO is as swingy as a swing in the middle of a hurricane, but not for the ‘jedimaster’, not on this day.

Final Table

  1. Jedimaster82 – $283,368
  2. Ola Amundsgard – $217,808
  3. D.apollo777 – $167,416
  4. Laszlo Bujtas – $128,683
  5. Andras Nemeth – $98,911
  6. RObetOblancO – $76,027
  7. Sintoras – $59,486

Kahle Burns Wins Event #73: {M} $1,050 Pot Limit Omaha, 6-Max Main Event

Onto the {M} Pot Limit Omaha Main Event, and high stakes star, Kahle Burns, took that one down to Melbourne town. The event pulled in 788-entrants, and the fight from 18 to 1 lasted a mere five and a half hours.

It’s been a cracking 18-months for Burns. He entered the Australian Hall of Fame, won the Global Poker Index (GPI), Player of the Year, for that part of the world, won the AUD 100,000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions for $1.2m, and also collected two World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet events in Rozvadov during the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) event.

Burns this is getting boring.

Give someone else a shot.

Final Table Results

  1. Kahle Burns – $133,757
  2. Guilherme Decourt – $94,178
  3. Ludovic Geilich $66,311
  4. Klem90 – $46,690
  5. ZipOhoy – $32,874
  6. Fish_san – $23,147

The uppercuts, hooks and jabs kept coming in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) on this week, and an online cash game star put a few of the best tournament players in the business on their backs with nothing but stars for company.

The hat dipping is reserved for ‘RaulGonzalez’ after the cash game player trounced a star-studded final table in Event #69: {H} $10,300 8-Game High Roller. The two-day event attracted 67-entrants, and ‘RaulGonzalez’ outlasted the likes of Stephen Chidwick, Joao Vieira, Mike Leah and Andrew Pantling on the way to a $235,531 score – chickenfeed for one of his cash game sessions. Still, an amount not to be sniffed at for an outlay of $10k and change.

Here are the final table results.

Final Table Results

  1. “RaulGonzalez” – $235,531
  2. Stephen Chidwick – $156,001
  3. Joao Vieira – $103,325
  4. Hotmark777 – $68,436
  5. Mike Leah – $45,328
  6. Andrew Pantling – $33,290
  7. No Shock – $28,088

Main Event Update

The Main Events continue across the board, and here are the updates after Day #2.

The $55 buy-in event attracted 38,660-entrants, and ‘benton24’ leads the final 159 players with the most notable name in the top ten chip counts belonging to Akira ‘Clutch Hero’ Ohyama, sitting in the fifth place. The winner gets $186,841.

The winner of the $530 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Main Event will collect a $504,584 first prize before migrating to somewhere in the world where there is no lockdown, killer diseases, and plenty of sunshine. The event pulled in 7,107-entrants, and at the end of Day #2, ‘Pentakilator’ leads the way. The former PocketFives World #1: Chris “ImDaNuts” Oliver sits in the fifth place in that one.

The $5,200 No Limit Hold’em Main Event attracted 1,977 entrants like a coalface to a Welsh miner. Seventy-one remain in the hunt for the $1.5m first prize. Russia’s ‘rzr1st’ leads the way, and Teun Mulder sits in the fourth spot. Robin Ylitalo, Sergio Aido and Simon Mattsson are also in the top end of the thing.

On the Pot-Limit Omaha front, Ludovic Geilich continues his excellent series, leading the final 18 players in the $1,050 Main Event. The winner will pick up $133,757 in that one. Seven hundred eighty-eight entered.

Finally, the former PocketFives World #1, Andras Nemeth, is gunning for his third WCOOP title of the series, leading the final table in the $10,300 Pot Limit Omaha Main Event. The Hungarian will have to dispose of the likes of Laszlo Bujtas and Ola Amundsgard if he is to achieve the triple dribble. 135-entrants have created a $283,368 first prize in that one.

When it comes to knitting together a series of streaks, Steve O’Dwyer is one of the best in the business. Still, when Fabiano Kovalski duelled with him, heads-up, in Event #59 {H}: $5,200 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max, Midweek Freeze, the Brazilian had a streak of his own to protect.

Kovalski entered the 2020 PokerStars World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) with wins in each of his two previous series and made it number three after putting O’Dwyer into his grave at the death knell.

Event #59 attracted 97-entrants. More of a robin birdsong than an eagles shriek, but that won’t spoil Kovalski’s enjoyment of seeing his PokerStars bankroll rise by $119,483. It’s not Kovalski’s largest score. That came in 2018 when he won his first WCOOP title, beating 2,077-entrants in a $1,050 No Limit Hold’em event for $310,739.04. His second title came last year when he conquered a field of 767-entrants in a $530 4-Max No Limit Hold’em event for $64,912. Now he has #3.

Kovalski has earned close to $5m playing online multi-table tournaments (MTTs) with the bulk of that dosh coming on PokerStars. He has also won the Sunday Supersonic, the Super Tuesday, and last year, he booked a win in partypoker POWERFEST for a piece of coal shy of $200k.

Kovalski’s win prevented O’Dwyer from winning his third major PokerStars title of the year after adding two Spring Championships of Online Poker (SCOOP) titles to his name earlier this year. In 2018, O’Dwyer bagged a WCOOP title, winning the $2,100 No Limit Hold’em, the same year he won the POWERFEST Main Event for $900,000.

Samuel Vousden and Sam Greenwood also made the final table.

Here are the final table results.

Final Table Results

  1. Fabiano Kovalski – $119,483
  2. Steve O’Dwyer – $92,338
  3. Filipe Oliviera – $71,360
  4. MaxHendrix – $55,148
  5. Samuel Vousden – $42,619
  6. Sintoras – $32,936
  7. Tomi Brouk – $25,453
  8. Sam Greenwood – $19,671

When PokerStars rolls out the World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) red carpet, there’s always someone, swooping in a peregrine blur, catching titles galore in his claw. This year, it’s Yuri ‘theNERDguy’ Dzivielevski.

If you know anything about poker, you know this is a guy you want to swerve on a poker table full of armpit hair or virtual, and he’s pretty nifty in all facets of the game. Dzivielevski collected his third WCOOP title of the series, fourth in total, and his first in the Cadillac of Poker.

The Brazilian star, who calls the online realm his coal face, battled through a field of 192 unique & 75 re-entries to win Event #48 (H): $5,200 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Slam. Dzivielevski defeated his compatriot Bruno Botteon in heads-up action. Botteon has been in scintillating form himself recently, finishing sixth and second in $25,000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet events on GGPoker for a combined million buck haul.

Back to the former PocketFives World #1, and he adds this NLHE title to wins in Event #9 (H) $1,050 No Limit 2-7 Single Draw for $21,938, and Event #20 (H) $1,050 HORSE for $31,115. In 2015, he won a $1,050 Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo title for $59,840, and his largest score to date also came in WCOOP when in 2014 he finished runner-up to Fedor Holz in the WCOOP Main Event locking up a $1.2m prize.

Final Table Results

  1. Yuri Dzivielevski – $245,535
  2. Brunno Botteon – $150,536
  3. Jakob Miegel – $115,269
  4. Anatoly Filatov – $93,506
  5. Christopher Frank – $67,177
  6. Fabio Freitas – $36,953
  7. Talal Shakerchi – $22,535
  8. Boerni21 – $23,447
  9. Thomas Muehloecker – $20,231

Philipp Gruissem Second in Event #48 (M): $530 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max, PKO, Sunday Slam

High stakes star, Philipp Gruissem rolled back the years to finish runner-up in Event #48 (M): $530 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max, PKO, Sunday Slam. ‘Philbort’ waded through a field of 3,856-entrants before losing to Vitor Moreira.

Moreira’s win is the 12th WCOOP title of the series for Brazil, and 25th of all time, to put this year’s showing into perspective.

Final Table Results

  1. Vitor Moreira – $210,237
  2. Philipp Gruissem – $122,786
  3. MrNorberto – $76,852
  4. Tauan Naves – $51,476
  5. Maksym Mamonov – $48,979
  6. Andrey Parugaev – $41,149
  7. Marlon Wilhelms – $22,599
  8. Xnrobix – $20,389
  9. Bruna_bsb – $14,148
Adrian Mateos

Adrian ‘Amadi_017’ Mateos once again underlined his supreme artistry in the field of No Limit Hold’em multi-table tournaments (MTTs), by taking down two World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) titles on PokerStars last week.

With four WCOOP titles to his name, the Winamax pro proves that using the away changing rooms presents no problem for a man of his stature. The first of Mateos’s victories came when he stomped all over the 201-entrant field in Event #28 (H) $2,100 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max, Turbo PKO Freezeout. He then followed that up with a whopper.

Event #25 (H): $25,000 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max, Super High Roller Sunday Slam attracted 71-unique entrants, and 35 re-entries and Mateos defeated Fedor Holz, heads-up, for the title, after the pair had secured a pretty even-steven heads-up deal.

The win means Mateos joins Dzmitry Urbanovich, ‘nilsef’, Andrey Zaichenko, Gleb Tremzin and Joao Vieira as a four-time WCOOP champion. The Spaniard has also won three World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and a European Poker Tour (EPT) title.

Mustard.

You don’t just see it on slices of roast beef.

In taking second, Holz continued his impressive streak of running well that has seen him collect a second WSOP bracelet after winning the $25,000 No Limit Hold’em Heads-Up title on GGPoker for a million bucks. In 2014, Holz won the WCOOP Main Event, so PokerStars is a happy stomping ground for the young German star.

A special shoutout also goes to Luke ‘Bit2Easy’ Reeves who booked a third-place win for $353,117 while finishing second to the PocketFives World #1: Conor Beresford in Event #33 (H): $5,200 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max, High Roller.

Final Table Results

  1. Adrian Mateos – $543,686*
  2. Fedor Holz – $515,294*
  3. Luke Reeves – $353,117
  4. Kahle Burns – $271,111
  5. Tzuzteutezu – $208,149
  6. Wiktor Malinowski – $159,810
  7. Pauli Ayras – $122,696
  8. Artur Martirosian – $94,202
  9. Chris Hunichen – $78,787

*Indicates a heads-up deal.

If there was any heartache over his failure to win a World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) title, it’s ash as Conor Beresford adds those five words to his resume.

PokerStars is a happy hunting ground for the PocketFives World #1, winning more than half of his $14m online fortune on the world’s largest online poker platform. Included in that haul are three Spring Championships of Online Poker (SCOOP) titles, and now this damsel in distress.

Beresford vanquished a field of 155-entrants to claim victory in Event #33 (H): $5,200 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max, High Roller, including beating his compatriot Luke Reeves, in heads-up action.

Final Table Results

  1. Conor Beresford – $162,674
  2. Luke Reeves – $125,932
  3. Boootsy – $97,488
  4. Mike Watson – $75,469
  5. Alexandru Papazian – $58,423
  6. Mirza Muhovic – $45,228
  7. Sergei Koliakov – $35,012
  8. David Cabrera – $27,104
  9. Ole Schemion – $22,312

Preben Stokkan Wins Event #21: $5,200 No Limit Hold’em 6-Max, Progressive KO

Preben Stokkan locked up his second career WCOOP title after taking down the 108-entrant Event #21: $5,200 No Limit Hold’em 6-Max, Progressive KO. The Norwegian star overcame a final table glimmering with stars like Talal Shakerchi, Michael Gathy and Alexandru Papazian (who finished fifth in Beresford’s triumph).

Stokken adds this win to the WCOOP title he collected in 2017 after taking down the much larger 976-entrant field in a $2,100 buy-in of similar DNA that netted him a $160,824 windfall.

Final Table Results

  1. Preben Stokkan – $140,110
  2. Alexandros Theologis – $75,813
  3. Passiveaggro – $44,844
  4. Talal Shakerchi – $35,820
  5. Michael Gathy – $26,001
  6. Zas91 – $23,607
  7. Michel Dattani – $19,228
  8. PedersenC – $9,474
  9. Alexandru Papazian – $19,162

Leslie Groves Wins Event #16: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max Progressive KO, High Roller

Finally, a Russian-based player going by the name of ‘LeslieGroves’ earned a WCOOP stripe after disappearing the souls of 95-entrants in Event #16: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max Progressive KO, High Roller. Once again, the cream rose to the top in that one with the likes of Adrian Mateos, Artur Martirosian and David Peters all making the final table cut.

Final Table Results

  1. Leslie Groves – $263,628
  2. Rodrdigo Seiji – $161,597
  3. Adrian Mateos – $78,678
  4. Artur Martirosian – $106,186
  5. Bruno Botteon – $65,999
  6. Thomas Boivin – $39,583
  7. Joao Vieira – $39,851
  8. Ole Schemion – $31,592
  9. David Peters – $16,543

We have three PokerStars World Championship of Poker (WCOOP) results to bring you up to speed on, all of which resulted in a second WCOOP triumph for each last man seated.

We start with Ludovic Geilich.

The Scotsman, wore his partypoker patch with pride, as he outlasted a 94-entrant field in Event #10 {H}: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max High Roller for $238,966. It’s the second time Geilich has won a WCOOP title with the words’ high roller’ in the event headline. In 2016, the partypoker pro beat 93-entrants in a $21,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max High Roller for $462,182.

The final day of the two-day event lasted less than six hours, and as you can see from the results, Geilich had to overcome a final table brimming with some of the most talented No-Limit Hold’em players in the world.

Final Table Results

  1. Ludovic Geilich – $238,966
  2. Ole Schemion – $184,676
  3. Chris Hunichen – $142,719
  4. Mikita Badziakouski – $110,295
  5. Thomas Muehloecker – $85,237
  6. Timothy Adams – $65,872
  7. Filipe Oliveira – $50,907
  8. Fishbones11 – $39,341
  9. Pieter Aerts – $31,510

Niklas Astedt Wins Event #39 (H): $5,200 No Limit Hold’em Progressive KO, High Roller

Niklas Astedt also binked a second WCOOP title.

The Swedish online star won Event #39 (H): $5,200 No Limit Hold’em Progressive KO, High Roller for $201,055, and in doing so prevented Gleb Tremzin from winning his fifth WCOOP title.

Astedt has been on the top of the online multi-table tournament (MTT) world several times (as ranked by PocketFives) and has accrued more than $21m in online earnings, supplemented by a big win in August, defeating 100-entrants in a $10,300 event in the PokerStars Stadium Series for $230,434.70.

Final Table Results

  1. Niklas Astedt – $201,055
  2. Gleb Tremzin – $120,898
  3. Wesoly78 – $86,103
  4. Christian Rudolph – $67,843
  5. Bayaraa1002 – $49,579
  6. Alexandros Theologis – $41,267
  7. Manuel Ruivo – $44,380
  8. Igor Yaroshevskyy – $20,849
  9. Ognyan Dimov – $28,346

Andras Nemeth Wins Event #37 (H): $5,200 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max High Roller

From one multiple PocketFives World #1 to another, and Andras Nemeth collected the second WCOOP title of his career. Both of them came within a week of each other. Firstly he topped a field of 294-entrants to win the $530+R 8-max event for $79,655.48, and then he went on and won the $5,200 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max High Roller for $140,506.

Nemeth conquered high stakes Pot Limit Omaha star, Richard Gryko, heads-up, for the title. Laszlo Bujtas, Joao Vieira and Shaun Deeb also featured on the final table.

Final Table Results

  1. Andras Nemeth – $140,506
  2. Richard Gryko – $107,761
  3. Laszlo Bujtas – $82,648
  4. Us_Alex – $63,387
  5. Aku1206 – $48,614
  6. Joao ‘Naza114’ Vieira – $37,285
  7. Shaun ‘shaundeeb’ Deeb – $28,596

With the World Series of Poker (WSOP) winding down on GGPoker it’s time for PokerStars to enter the mental moorland of online poker mega multi-table tournament (MTT) series’s with the return of the World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP).

It was a fantastic opening night for PokerStars with one of their own bagging his first-ever WCOOP title. Benjamin ’Spraggy’ Spragg delighted his Twitch stream who bore witness to his victory in a $5.50 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max. ’Spraggy’ conquered a field of 12,192-entrants to claim the $4,349.41 first prize. He also finished 9/1091 in the $530 version of that event in what would have been an incredible double.

On the high roller front, the biggest tournament of the first two days saw two former PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event winners trying to deprive each other of a WCOOP title.

The $10,300 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max, PKO Sunday Slam, attracted 136-entrants, and Dimitar Danchev out-duelled Mike Watson for the $400,495 first prize and WCOOP honours. The Bulgarian #1 in the All-Time Money List on The Hendon Mob claimed victory after A7o beat KQc when all-in pre-flop. Danchev began the heads-up phase with the dominant chip lead and collected a hefty purse thanks to gathering close to a quarter of a million bucks in bounties. It’s Danchev’s first WCOOP title, and in winning it, he denied Watson his third.

Watson comes into the WCOOP on the back of winning three titles in this year’s Spring Championships of Online Poker (SCOOP), taking his total SCOOP title account to five.

Here are the final table results.

Results

  1. Dimitar Danchev – $400,495
  2. Mike Watson – $198,463
  3. Joao Vieira – $103,149
  4. Javier Fernandez – $112,039
  5. 663Daur – $73,066
  6. Ryhor Karapanau – $61,604
  7. Pieter Aerts – $50,170
  8. Jans Arends – $55,241
  9. Andrey Novak – $40,483