The
PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (
WCOOP) had yet another guarantee-busting event last night, along with a final table full of notable Internet players.
Last night's event, a $500 buy-in (with $30 entry fee) limit Omaha eight-or-better tournament with a $300,000 guarantee, was the eighth event in the
WCOOP series. The tournament found 917 entrants to generate a prize pool of $458,500, which offered a six-figure first-place payday. The list of notable players who finished in the money in the event is incredibly long. The list includes (but is certainly not limited to)
Scott "BigRiskky" Clements (28th, for $1,605),
O.Mustang (second-place finisher to
Greg "FossilMan" Raymer in
event No. 6, the pot-limit Omaha rebuy event; 36th, for $1,605),
amichaiKK (43rd, for $1,605),
PokerSkiBum (58th, for $1,146), and
Mike "SirWatts" Watson (77th, for $917).
There were still quite a few notable players remaining when play got down to the final table.
Matt "ch0ppy" Kay, the current
Card Player Online Player of the Year leader board leader, found his way to the final nine before busting out in eighth place as the short stack when his hand failed to improve against his opponent's two pair. He earned $9,629 and 120 more OPOY points to further his lead in the OPOY race.
Also at the table were
Casey "bigdogpckt5s" Jarzabek,
rkruok (who boasts three final tables at the PokerStars
Nightly Hundred Grand this year, along with a final table at the PokerStars
Sunday Million and the Full Tilt $1 million guarantee), and
copi (who has previously made the final table of the
Sunday Million). Bigdogpckt5s wound up with just one big blind-worth of chips in his stack during sixhanded play and tossed in that chip as an underdog to head away from the table in sixth place ($19,257).
Rkruok and copi both made it to three-way play before rkruok's two pair succumbed to copi's rivered higher two pair. That hand knocked rkruok out in third place, officially earning him $39,890 (he actually made $49,680 as a result of a five-way by-the-chips chop deal). Copi, with a massive stack, then went on to send SKOAL railward to finish in first place and nab the gold
WCOOP winner's bracelet. Copi officially earned $103,804 for first place, but actually collected $87,882 as a result of the deal (which still left him as the overall leading money-winner for the event).
The official results were:
- copi - $103,804
- SKOAL - $57,588
- rkruok - $39,890
- Lystig - $30,949
- SSSHIP_IT - $24,988
- Casey "bigdogpckt5s" Jarzabek - $19,257
- oskar - $14,214
- Matt "ch0ppy" Kay - $9,628
- joeaces - $5,502
Today's event, which is currently running, is the $200 buy-in (with $15 registration fee) $1 million-guaranteed no-limit hold'em rebuy event. Tomorrow
's event, event No. 10, is a $300 buy-in (with $20 entry fee) no-limit hold'em heads-up tournament with a $500,000-guaranteed prize pool. That tournament starts at 3 p.m. ET. To sign up for PokerStars to play in tomorrow's event - or any of the remaining 14 events - and to collect an exclusive deposit bonus through
Card Player, please
click here. For a list of events remaining in the
WCOOP,
click here.
