Online Poker -- Jaffe Wins WCOOP Heads-Up High-Roller Event

The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) attracted a field of 36 for its high-roller $25,000 buy-in heads-up tournament, creating a total prize pool of $900,000.

Some of the game’s most elite players entered, and when the dust cleared, Jonathan “Iftarii” Jaffe (pictured below right) was the last man standing.

Jaffe defeated an all-star cast of talent on his way to the finals against the likes of Steve “stevesbets” Jacobs, Alex “mistakooll” Keating, Scott “gunning4you” Seiver, and Olivier “Adonis112” Busquet.

The final match saw him pitted against Allan “Sifosis” Bække, who had beaten some stiff competition of his own, including Barry Greenstein and Alec “traheho” Torelli.

Bække struck first, quickly building a 2-1 chip lead, but Jaffe held strong and gradually chipped his way back to the top. The final hand was a bit of a cooler, with Bække flopping top and bottom pair only to see Jaffe wake up with bottom set. No miracles came, and Jaffe earned the bracelet, along with $315,000.

Predominantly a heads-up player, this was the third six-figure score of Jaffe’s very young career. He reached the semi-finals of the 2008 World Series of Poker heads-up championship, and the third-place finish banked him a cool $108,288. Then, last November, Jaffe finished runner-up to Jonathan Little at the WPT World Poker Finals in Foxwoods, scoring another $670,635.

Here are the final results:

1. Jonathan “Iftarii” Jaffe — $315,000
2. Allan “Sifosis” Bække — $180,000
T3. Olivier “Adonis112” Busquet aka livb112 — $90,000
T3. Sorel “zangbezan24” Mizzi aka Imper1um — $90,000
T5. Alex “mistakooll” Keating aka Kadabra — $56,250
T5. joiso — $56,250
T5. Adam “skilled_sox” Ewenstein — $56,250
T5. Peter “PeteEastgate” Eastgate — $56,250

Check out the action below with the WCOOP report.

Watch WCOOP 2009: Event 27 – $25,500 NL Hold’em [Heads-Up] on PokerStars.tv

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