WCOOP High Roller Event Won by Sumpas
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The High Roller event of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker has ended and it was online player Sumpras who came out victorious. 299 players paid the $10,300 buy-in and upped the $2 million guarantee to $2,990,000. Only thirty six players would cash out in this event with first place earning just over $611,000 and a champions bracelet.
Several Team PokerStars players participated in the event including Vanessa Rousso, Joe Hachem, Peter Eastgate and Barry Greenstein, among many others. Although PokerStars was represented very well, only two members were able to finish in the money. Anton Allemann who finished in 10th place and John Duthie who made the final table.
The final table would begin with nine players and online player Sowerss would have the chip lead. During final table play Vanessa Rousso, the host, as well as Joe Hachem and Vicky Coren, popped in to chat up the players as they competed.
Exiting in ninth place would be DDBeast followed closely by John Duthie in eighth. Festivuss, KevBoyStar, Belabacsi and SCTrojans would follow, leaving BeLOWaBOVe, Sowerss and Sumpas to compete in three way play.
Sumpas would make a move on BeLOWaBOVe where both would end up all in. Sumpas rivered a straight on the hand and BeLOWaBOVe was out in third place. heads up play would then begin between Sumpas and Sowerss, with Sumpas in a strong lead.
Though Sowerss was down by almost 2 million chips he would fight hard and heads up play would last almost one hour. In the final hand the flop would show K-4-4 with Sowerss eventually moving all in. Sumpas called and showed his K-10 while Sowerss showed J-10. The turn was a 7 and the river a 3 which left Sowerss out in second and Sumpras to claim the victory.
Final Results:
1. Sumpas $611,455
2. Sowerss $448,500
3. BeL0WaB0Ve $337,870
4. SCTrojans $254,150
5. Belabacsi $173,420
6. KevBoyStar $134,550
7. Festivuss $104,650
8. John Duthie $74,750
9. DDBeast $56,810
PokerStars RPT Moscow Win claimed by Vitaly Lunkin
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The PokerStars Russian Poker Tour stop in Moscow has ended and Vitaly Lunkin of Russia was able to outlast the field and take the first place win of the tournament. The event started out with 206 players posting the $7,000 buy-in to compete and by the time final table play began all players seated at the table were from the native land of Russia.
When final table play began Evgeny Onishuk an online PokerStars qualifier was the first to be eliminated after he raised with 7-6. He was re-raised by Ivan Demidov who had pocket tens. Onishuk called and the flop fell 9-7-4 and Demidov raised again which Onishuk called but quickly learned that Demidov had the higher pair. Onishuk was out in ninth place.
Alex Kravchenko would go out next when he went all in against four other players. Three folded and Lunkin stayed in to try his luck against Alex. Lunkin’s pocket jacks bested Alex’s 7-4 and he was out in eighth.
Dmitry Vitkind would be next followed by Ivan Demidov, Sergey Artamonov, Oleg Shamardin and Alexander Khoustov. This left Vyacheslav Goryachev and Lunkin to compete in heads up play. The blinds sat at 20,000/40,000 so heads up play would not last very long. Lunkin held a significant lead with 2,790,000 chips to Goryachev’s 310,000. On the final hand Goryachev went all in with A-6 and was called by Lunkin who had pocket tens. The board came Q-8-6-4-8 and Lunkin was named the winner.
Final Table Payouts (in rubles):
1. Vitaly Lunkin, 14,323,000
2. Vyacheslav Goryachev, 7,877,000
3. Alexander Khoustov, 4,028,000
4. Oleg Shamardin, 3,133,000
5. Sergey Artamonov, 2,685,000
6. Ivan Demidov, Team PokerStars Pro 2,238,000
7. Dmitry Vitkind, 1,790,000
8. Alex Kravchenko, Team PokerStars Pro, 1,342,000
9. Evgeny Onishuk, 895,000
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SCOOP Event #1 Results
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Spring has sprung and that means that PokerStar new tournament series is in full swing. The new Spring Championship of Internet Poker has begun and on the first day players were able to compete in event #1 with three different levels so players with different size bank rolls could participate. In event #1 41,916 players competed in the three levels of game play.
The lowest level had a buy-in of $5.50 with rebuys and six players were able to compete at each table of the no limit hold’em event. 27,134 players competed in this event and 45,438 rebuys and 14,434 additions were paid to change the $50,000 guaranteed prize pool to $435,030. Online Eetu100 did not have the chip lead going into final table play but he was able to gain more chips and take the win.
Results of $5.50 buy-in:
1. Eetu100 $41,562.77
2. MrWhite $29,364.53
3. bakter9 $17,401.21
4. jw32123 $8,700.61
5. canucko $4,350.31
6. AragonX $3,045.22
The middle tier had a buy-in of $55 and saw 4,057 players who bought 6,009 rebuys and 2,761 add-ons. The players increased the buy-in from a $200,000 guarantee to $641,350. westmeloAA was able to hold off the field and take the almost $100,000 win for the $55 buy-in tier.
Results of Middle Tier:
1. westmenloAA (United States) $97,805.88
2. KidCardiff6 (United Kingdom) $70,548.51
3. prinzprosper (Germany) $51,308.01
4. MKKMOO (United Kingdom) $33,439.99
5. phil steve (Canada) $19,240.51
6. t soprano (USA) $10,902.96
The largest tier of event #1 had a buy-in of $530. The poker tournament prize pool was guaranteed for $500,000 but in the end the prize pool had increased to $1,109,500. 672 players participated with 983 rebuys and 564 add-ons. BongBob stayed strong during the twenty hour tournament to take the top prize of almost $200,000.
Results of Largest Tier:
1. BongBob $191,135
2. AceSpades11 $175,000
3. MrTile $113,723.75
4. Jagz7 $77,665
5. deamon10 $55,475
6. pusteblume $35,504
PokerStars Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP)
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The world’s largest online poker room, PokerStars.com, has released the schedule for the first annual Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). From April 2nd to the 10th, 2009, members of PokerStars will be able to participate in the 10-day All-Stakes Tournament Series, competing for massive guaranteed prize pools.
Featuring 22 events, with at least 2 events per day, the PokerStars.com SCOOP series will offer three buy-in levels to accommodate online poker players of all skill levels and bankroll sizes. Every participant will have a chance to earn major cash prizes with an overall guaranteed prize pool of $30 million up for grabs.
PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker will be hosting two High Rollers events throughout the online poker tournament series, including a $25,500 Heads-Up NL Hold’em tournament and a $10,300 High-Roller H.O.R.S.E. event. Other unique events along the series are an 8-Game Mixed Tournament, 6-Max NL Hold’em, Mixed Hold’em and 6-Max PL Omaha with 1 Re-buy and 1 Add-on.
Set t be the largest online poker series of the year thus far, with $30 million guaranteed, PokerStars expects to attract a multitude of online poker fans from around the world. Buy-ins range from as little as $5.50 to as high as $25,500 in the Heads-Up challenge, with most prize pools starting at a minimum of $500k.
“Tournament series events such as the PokerStars.com WCOOP and now SCOOP,” proclaimed 2005 WSOP Champion and Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem, “are the ultimate way to improve your game and experience the excitement of big tournament play.”
Satellites and Sit’n’Go Qualifiers are already on the tournament roster at PokerStars, giving online poker players a chance to enter all SCOOP events at a much more cost-effective rate. The SCOOP Main Event, with a massive guarantee of $5,000,000, will take place on April 12th, 2009 at PokerStars.
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