Online Poker: Carter 'ckingusc' King Wins 2008 WCOOP Main EventCardPlayer Online Player of the Year Frontrunner Alex Kamberis Finishes Third |
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The Main Event took place Monday night in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Read the event recap below to find out who took it down, and check out the entire WCOOP schedule and results list on CardPlayer.com.
WCOOP Main Event: $5,000 + $200 No-Limit Hold'em
A total of 60 players survived day one of the 2008 WCOOP Main Event. All had already played 12 hours of poker to get that far and without a doubt each player had their eyes set on the $1,775,312 first-place prize.
4
and Grospellier showed A
K
. The board ran out A
10
K
A
2
and Woolf was eliminated in 43rd place, earning $19,665.
After losing a monster pot holding pocket queens against Matt “ShoesRDurrty” Swoboda’s KQ
, Ryan "Daut44" Daut was eventually eliminated a short while later by Nick “ahh_snap” Van Newkirk. Daut held A
2
in a battle of the blinds and ahh_snap called with K
J
. The board provided not one, but two jacks and Daut was eliminated in 34th place, earning $20,757.
Coming into the day as the chip leader, Alexander "august35" Kostritsyn couldn't get much going and eventually faltered in 23rd place. The 2008 Aussie Millions winner pocketed $22,942 for his efforts.
Grospellier had been on a sick run thus far in the WCOOP finishing in the top-20 six times. The running joke had been that Grospellier was untouchable and furthermore, incapable of taking a bad beat. He proved the rail wrong, however, on his final hand when he got it in good against Fluffdog87. Grospellier held pocket nines against his opponent’s pocket sevens, but the flop gave Fluffdog87 the two-outer he needed to bust Grospellier in 21st place. He earned $22,942, bringing his WCOOP total to $407,285.
7
2
and liberace checked. m3tph bet 700,000 and klslcz folded. liberace raised to 2,750,000 and m3tph called all in. liberace showed 7
7
for a flopped set and m3tph was in trouble with pocket queens. The turn and river bricked and liberace vaulted up the leader board with over 7 million in chips.
J
3
A
8
and King rivered eights full to steal the pot away from Kamberis.
10
. The turn brought one of liberace’s many outs and Harder was busted in 11th place, earning $87,400.
Seat 2: klslcz — 4,841,175
Seat 3: Carter “ckingusc” King —8,069,086
Seat 4: liberace — 13,124,107
Seat 5: Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis — 3,713,250
Seat 6: BOLLPOKER — 3,323,739
Seat 7: Sumpas — 2,972,856
Seat 8: Matt “ShoesRDurrty” Swoboda — 6,560,232
Seat 9: Markush13 — 11,446,207
K
. King was in major trouble holding A
J
but the board came 7
7
4
7
A
to give him the pot and redistribute the chips a little.
At this point the players took some time out to discuss a deal. Kamberis wasn’t happy with the by-the-chips chop numbers and requested liberace to give up some cash. liberace complied, as did the rest of the table and the numbers were agreed upon. Here is how the chop broke down, leaving $200,000 and the bracelet for the eventual champion.
Carter “ckingusc”
Markush13 — $961,718
Matt “ShoesRDurrty” Swoboda — $801,153
Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis — $782,542
Kamberis' comeback finally came to an end when he doubled up King. The end result left Kamberis severely short stacked and his run stopped a few hands later. Kamberis moved in with ace-rag only to run into King's pocket nines. Kamberis is currently leading CardPlayer's Online Player of the Year race. This finish gives him 1,600 more points, putting him more than 1,700 points ahead of his next closest competitor. With less than four months remaining in the race, it will be tough for anybody to catch him.
Here were the chip counts before heads-up play began:
liberace — 34,666,379
Carter "ckingusc" King — 19,958,621
A few hands into play, King held an overcard and a flush draw against liberace's pair of queens. Both the overcard and the flush came and King traded chip counts with his opponent.
The final hand saw King holding A8
against liberace's K
J
. The flop hit both players, but King's pair of aces held to give him the title, the bracelet and an extra $200,000, bringing his two-day total to a whopping $1,265,432.