Gagging sounds replace the echoes of ankle chains clanking against computer tables as the oesophagus becomes reacquainted with food.
PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is over.
The $5,200 WCOOP Main Event attracted 2,236-entrants (inc. 599 re-entries), and would you Adam and Eve it, Talal ‘raidalot’ Shakerchi, led the final nine as temperatures soared to boiling point.
Fountains pens belonging to poker poets bled black ink as Shakerchi attempted to become the first player to win both Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) and WCOOP Main Event titles.
The hedge fund manager from the land of Jack the Ripper didn’t make it, but his sojourn was more chrysanthemums than cacti, finishing a respectable third place, for $846,528.35.
After Shakerchi fell in third, the heads-up action pitted ‘BigBlindBets’ against Brazil’s Danilo ‘dans170’ Demetrio. The former had a huge chip lead and quickly banished the Brazilian to the rail. Both players earned seven-figure scores with Demetrio winning $1,187,553.01, and ‘BigBlindBets’ banking $1,665,962.04.
According to an ‘About Me’ page on the PokerMarket.com forum, ‘BigBlindBets’, is a high stakes cash game player on PokerStars, and has played poker since 2010.
Final Table Results
1 – BigBlindBets (UK) – $1,665,962.04
2 – Danilo “dans170′” de Lima Demetrio (Brazil) – $1,187,553.01
3 – Talal “raidalot” Shakerchi (UK) – $846,528.35
4 – NeedBeat (Estonia) – $603,434.91
5 – 19Pistike93 (Hungary) – $403,148.26
6 – XMorphineX (Belgium) – $306,624.91
7 – Leitnant (Estonia) – $218,572.35
8 – moglimiranda (Germany) – $155,805.59
9 – TheMakrill7 (Sweden) – $111,063.23
WCOOP Stats
Events: 219
Entries: 1,219,969
Prize pools: $104,733,898.76
First prizes so far: $15,765,054.94
In-the-money finishers: 173,364
Russia won the most titles with 28, and Brazil took second place with 23.
Here are the individual leaderboards.
High buy-in:
1 – Rui ‘RuiNF’ Ferreira Netherlands 705 — $7,500 plus trophy
2 – Felipe ‘Zagazaur’ Oliveira Netherlands 700
3 – Jussi ‘calvin7v’ Nevanlinna Finland 675
4 – Joao ‘Naza114’ Vieira UK 600
5 – Yuri ‘theNERDguy’ Martins Brazil 495
Overall:
1 – Jussi “calvin7v” Nevanlinna Finland 1,400 – $20,000 plus trophy
2 – Felipe ‘Zagazaur’ Oliveira Netherlands 1,345
3 – Rui ‘RuiNF’ Ferreira Netherlands 1,280
4 – Timothy ‘TruthBeTold7’ Rutherford Canada 1,205
5 – Shaun ‘shaundeeb’ Deeb Mexico 1,150
6 – Konstantin ‘krakukra’ Maslek Russia 1,050
7 – Dimitry ‘Colisea’ Urbanovich Latvia 1,040
8 – Mike ‘goleafsgoeh’ Leah Canada 955
9 – FONBET_RULIT Russia 880
10 – WTFOMFGOAO Russia 845
Weekend High Roller Winners
Igor Kurganov enjoyed another productive weekend, online.
The PokerStars Ambassador topped a field of 100 entrants (inc, 39 re-entries) in the $2,100 Sunday High Roller on PokerStars. Kurganov won $46,086.94 after conquering a final table that included Michael Addamo (6th), Dominik Nitsche (4th), Jorryt van Hoof (7th) and Ole Schemion (9th). Kurganov beat Luke Reeves, heads-up, for the title.
Addamo then followed up his sixth place with a victory in the $2,100 Sunday Cooldown Turbo PKO for $68,301.12. Addamo, who plays from Thailand, also won a WCOOP title during the most recent series, for $259k.
Another high roller on point this weekend was Michael Soyza. The Triton Champion took down a 52-entrant, $25,000 buy-in event on his native GGPoker for $486,858, a week after finishing third in a similar event for $249,993.
Here is the PocketFives World Rankings #2
PocketFives World Rankings
- Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro – 10,207
- Patrick “pleno1” Leonard – 9,323
- Andras “probirs” Nemeth – 9,177
- Niklas “lena900” Astedt – 9.012
- Johannes “Greenstone25” Korsar – 8,622