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PokerStars: Weekend Tournament Report

The regular Sunday schedule wasn’t on this weekend, due to the much anticipated 9th annual WCOOP kicking off. PokerStars was full of  professional players online on Sunday.

We saw the first 3 events kick off Sunday:

* $215 6max No Limit Hold’em
* $10,300 High Rollers No Limit Hold’em
* $215 No Limit Hold’em

Event 1:

The guaranteed prize pool of $1.25 million was well exceeded, with 9001 entrants making it just over $1.8 million. A massive 18 hour tournament went to a heads-up chop between “AlexKP” for $257,000 and “Tutanhamon1” for $198,274. The final table results were:

1st place – AlexKP – $257,000

2nd place – Tutanhamon1 – $198,274

3rd place – Stevie444 – $130,514

4th place – ROOJAR_M – $76,508

5th place – inhidonks – $40,504

6th place –Drateks – $27,003

Event 2:

One of the most star-studded events in the WCOOP is the high roller, which brought out Poker’s elite to compete for a prize pool over $3.1 million. If you were railing this event you could open any table and recognize players left, right and center. The guaranteed prize pool was $2 million and we saw over a 50% increase. Almost 16 hours went past until the eventual winner “CrabMaki” was crowned winning a whopping $605,655. PokerStars Team Pro Ville Wahlbeck came as close as possible with 2nd place for $453,850.

The final table results were:

1st place – CrabMaki – $605,655

2nd place – V. Wahlbeck – $453,850

3rd place – bmwmcoupe – $344,300

4th place – Also11 – $258,225

5th place – Vick Is God – $178,410

6th place – LooneyGerbil – $137,720

7th place – sms9231 – $106,420

8th place – pokerjamers – $75,120

9th place – antesvante – $54,775

Event 3:

Same as the past 2 events, the guaranteed prize pool was surpassed by over 20%, making it just over $2.4 million. The largest field of the 3 events, 12,066 players spent their $215 to take their shot at a first prize of over $350,000. After 19.5 hours we saw another heads-up deal made between the event’s winner “joao bauer” for $316,702 and second place “cmpjo” $260,298. The final table results were:

1st place – joao bauer – $316,702

2nd place – cmpjo – $260,298

3rd place – tteopepe88 – $168,924

4th place – I need bond$ – $120,660

5th place – twinshark – $96,528

6th place – Alekseri1990 – $72,396

7th place – binhoeji – $48,264

8th place – jampiriki – $24,132

9th place – Bdbeatslayer – $15,203

With just 3 events completed PokerStars has already paid out over $7.7 million with much more to come.

Poker News Daily will be covering all the WCOOP events as they take place.

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