As most poker players may know, the World Championship of Online Poker is underway at PokerStars. Event 14, a six-max knockout event, lasted two days and drew 3,568 registrants. With a $265 buy-in, $50 of which was a bounty, a mammoth $713,600 prize pool was created for the taking. The prize pool would be shared by 450 players with the winner set to win $110,609.02.
Of course, there were tons of professionals looking for a piece of the pie. The most famous poker player to take home some money was Daniel Negreanu who placed in 362nd place. Other well-known players included Shane “shaniac” Scleger who placed in 311th, Juan Pastor who placed in 96th and JP Kelly who placed in 22nd.
On day two, the final table began play. The table dynamic was as follows:
Seat 1 – rivichico – 2,646,428 chips
Seat 2 – ghth – 3,159,341 chips
Seat 3 – Tat0chka – 3,532,659 chips
Seat 4 – crispoker10 – 2,052,093 chips
Seat 5 – Hustlaaaaaa – 2,706,787 chips
Seat 6 – probirs – 3,742,692 chips
Hustlaaaaaa, Crispoker10, and Tat0chka were the final three left battling on the virtual felt. Hustlaaaaaa had the chip lead but was sent to the rail in two hands. In the first of these hands, Hustlaaaaaa called Tat0chka’s five-bet shove with AdQh only to lose to aces for 5.9 million chips. Three hands later, he lost with top-pair on a K75-rainbow flop. His Kh2d was completely dominated by Crispoker10’s AsKs. He lost the rest of his chips; crispoker10 and Tat0chka were to play heads-up with Tat0chka entering the contest with more than a 2:1 chip lead.
During the heads-up match, discussions of a deal began to surface. However, Tat0chka couldn’t get the $95,000 she wanted crispoker10 to agree to. Only four hands after the deal discussion, all the chips found themselves in the middle of the table:
The blinds were at 80,000 and 160,000. Crispoker10 opened the action to 320,000 and Tat0chka called. The flop came Js9c8d. Tat0chka checked to the raiser and crispoker10 bet 412,555. Tat0chka raised it to 1,123,550 and crispoker10 called. The turn was a 6c and Tat0chka led out with a bet of 1,576,550. Crispoker10 shoved for the rest of his chips and Tat0chak called showing 9h8c for two-pair. This was a bad time for crispoker10 to have pocket cowboys needing a jack, six, or king to survive. However, crispoker10 missed all eight outs when a 7s came on the river. The WCOOP title was given to Tat0chka who won $110,609.62 for their efforts. Crispoker10 took home $80,993.60 for their runner-up efforts. The rest of the final table finished as follows:
1st – Tat0chka – $110,609.02
2nd – crispoker10 – $80,993.60
3rd – Hustlaaaaaa – $59,585.60
4th – rivichico – $38,177.60
5th – probirs – $23,192.00
6th – ghth – $12,488.00