The second weekend of the WCOOP series had 5 events, paying out over a cool $6.6 million.
Saturday’s action started with event 38, the $530 No Limit Hold’em Heads Up tournament. 943 entrants came to play, creating a prize pool of $471,500 and leaving $128,500 to PokerStars to meet the guarantee of $600,000. Day one of the two-day event was paused when the field went down to the final 64 players. The final heads-up match between event’s winner “SixthSenSe19” and runner-up “gipsy74” had a deal of $100,000 for first and $80,000 for second.
Event 39, the most expensive tournament in the series, was the $25,500 No Limit Hold’em High Roller Heads Up tournament. 31 entrants created the prize pool of $775,000 with just the top four finishers getting a return. No deal was made in the final game and “RaiseOnce” was the eventual winner taking home $348,750 over runner up “SkalWalkurr” who won $193,750. “0Human0” and “IMALLIN723” finished 3rd & 4th both receiving $116,250.
Event 40, the $320 HORSE event, had 858 entrants creating a prize pool of $257,400 leaving $42,600 being covered by PokerStars to meet the guarantee of $300,000. The tournament ran just over 13 hours until events winner “Trickey7” took it down for $55,500. The final table results were:
1st place – Trickey7 – $55,500
2nd place – AceQuad – $39,990
3rd place – greg1122 – $30,000
4th place – staknchips83 – $22,500
5th place – pigweed – $15,000
6th place – Allante – $10,500
7th place – r0keta – $6,750
8th place – solody – $4,500
9th place – butwin – $3,450
Event 41, similar to a Sunday Million, was the $215 No Limit Hold’em tournament. 9,587 entrants signed up creating a prize pool over $1.9 million, exceeding the $1.5 million guarantee. It took over 19 hours for the tournament to end. There was a deal made when it got down to 3handed between the events winner “Money_1985” who won $282,798; 2nd place “canucko” who won $180,336 and 3rd place “OliverDK” who took $168,843. The final table results were:
1st place – Money_1985 – $282,798
2nd place – canucko – $180,336
3rd place – OliverDK – $168,843
4th place – 2Maise4U – $95,870
5th place – shipshipit – $76,696
6th place – Legacy10 – $57,522
7th place – LISTILLO – $38,348
8th place – Hape2006 – $21,091
9th place – pimpstackn89 – $14,859
The final event of this weekend’s games was event 42, the $1050 No Limit Hold’em 2 day tournament. The event had a $3 million guarantee and with 3,122 entrants the prize pool totaled $3.122 million. It truly was a star-studded final table with 2 PokerStars Pros making it to the final nine. Chad Brown finished in 9th for $26,537 and Jason Mercier, winner of event 42, and the recipient of $435,862. The final table saw a 3 way chop which also included 2nd place “osten” winning $317,435 and 3rd place “Looser17” winning $367,500.
The final table results were:
1st place – JasonMercier – $435,862
2nd place – osten – $317,435
3rd place – Looser17 – $367,500
4th place – DHUSTLER15 – $179,515
5th place – Justin “APerfectGent” Schwartz – $135,807
6th place – TeamWispy – $104,587
7th place – Bastet2004 – $73,367
8th place – Dani “supernova9” Stern – $42,209
9th place – ChadBrownPro – $26,537
