Online Poker: WCOOP H.O.R.S.E. and PL Hold'em Event Conclude

Sensor and poker1O1 Take Respective Bracelets

Last night’s two events in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker featured H.O.R.S.E. and pot-limit hold’em. Read the event recaps below to find out who the winners were, and check out the entire WCOOP schedule and results list on CardPlayer.com.

WCOOP Event No. 17: $500 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Hold’em

A six-handed pot-limit hold’em tournament was the first WCOOP event to kick off last night. The event had a $500 buy-in and a $400,000 guarantee, and it became the 2008 WCOOP tournament to come closest, thus far, to not hitting its guarantee when 960 entrants bought in, generating $480,000 for the prize pool. (That says something when the worst-performing event, as far as the amount it beats its guarantee by goes, is one that has a prize pool 20 percent larger than guaranteed.) Team PokerStars pros Chad Brown (pictured at left) and Luca Pagano (pictured below) made it deep in the event, eventually finishing in 20th ($3,024) and 33rd ($2,016), respectively.

The first-place prize in the event was more than $80,000, and play got to heads up without any kind of deal being made. YanniYankiev went up against poker1O1 for the title and the lion’s share of the money in the heads-up match, and one of the two players would leave the table with $20,000 less than his opponent. Poker1O1 had a nearly 4-1 chip advantage going into heads-up play, and he sealed the deal when his K Q came out on top against YanniYankiev’s A 10. Poker1O1 earned $80,400 and a WCOOP bracelet for winning the event.

The final results were:

poker1O1 — $80,400
YanniYankiev — $60,000
QUEEN KAZU — $45,600
mikek15 — $31,200
Str8$$$Homey — $20,592
Kory “s00tedj0kers” Kilpatrick — $14,400

WCOOP Event No. 18: $200 H.O.R.S.E.

The next event of the day was the $200 buy-in, $300,000-guaranteed H.O.R.S.E. event. It lured 2,091 entrants for a total prize pool of $418,200, which made for a first-place payday of a little more than $67,000. Team PokerStars member Barry “barryg1” Greenstein (pictured at left) made it very deep in the event, ultimately finishing on the final-table bubble in ninth place ($3,973). Poker pro Anna “VietCutie” Wroblewski (pictured below) also made the final two tables of the event, finishing in 14th place ($3,137).

Once 2,091 H.O.R.S.E. players became two, it was Sensor and LittleRedElf duking it out for the bracelet. The two decided to work out a by-the-chips chop deal with $6,000 left on the table (per the PokerStars chopping rules), and that guaranteed Sensor $51,522 as the chip leader and LittleRedElf $47,797. The final hand occurred during a seven-card stud round. Both players started the hand with an unlikely pair of split aces, and LittleRedElf got all of his chip in on sixth street. Sensor called and revealed that his aces had a better kicker, and he wound up with two pair on the river to knock out his final foe. Sensor collected the extra six grand to put his total winnings at $57,422 to go along with his gold WCOOP bracelet.

The final results were:

Sensor — $57,422*
LittleRedElf — $47,797*
Raymond “troyomac” McClure — $25,928
BabyJeebus99 — $16,728
Obender — $8,573
tennisklause — $7,319
Steve “Rabscuttle” Cowley — $6,064
BackdoorNutz — $4,809
* Payout reflects a two-way deal made at the final table with $6,000 left on the table for the eventual winner.


Today features two WCOOP events, one of which is a two-day event. The first is a $25,000 high-roller heads-up no-limit hold’em tournament with a $1.6 million guarantee. With a supremely stacked field all but guaranteed, railbirds can start watching the event when it starts at 2:30 p.m. ET. Then, two hours later is a two-day $1,000 no-limit hold’em event with a $3 million guarantee. The event will conclude tonight after 22 levels of play (about 12 hours) and continue tomorrow.

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News Added: 15 September, 2008

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