Thegiant Towers Over Field in WCOOP PLO Event #3Poker Stars WCOOP Renders Yet Another Guarantee Meaningless as Second Swede Wins |
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Poker Stars doesn't seem to know its own strength, at least when it comes to putting a dollar amount to its guarantees.
Stars' World Championship of Online Poker event No. 3, the $400,000-guaranteed pot-limit Omaha tournament with rebuys, started at noon yesterday and enticed 773 players to pony up the $300+$20 entry fee. The players further bolstered the prize pool by rebuying 987 times and purchasing 501 add-ons, bringing in a total of $678,300 to be won.
Many notable players broke into the money in the event, including Tom McEvoy, who barely scraped by to finish in 87th (with 90 paying places) and take home $1,627.92. Joe Hachem also cashed in the event, ending in 41st, making this his second cash of the WCOOP (his other being in the razz event). Stuart "thedonator" Paterson and apestyles both made very respectable showings when they took 21st and 26th place, respectively, to collect $3,527.16.
A $151,260.90 first prize and 14 karat gold WCOOP bracelet was up for grabs for the first-place finisher as the final table formed. Thegiant led the pack going into the table with $1,955,142, more than twice the stack of his next-closest competitor, bastet2004, at $833,964.
The first elimination came when gnsd22 called all in against lara15fiona's preflop raise and all four of his holecards failed to connect with the board. Pocket aces were enough to send him home in ninth. Barely a minute later, TillerMaN was all in preflop holding A
K
10
7 against nomoballer's K
K J 10 and nomoballer took the hand with jacks up versus TillerMaN's 10s up.
The attractively named AnalAce was next to go, in seventh, when he pushed his chips in the middle on a flop of Q J 5 and was up against thegiant. AnalAce's pocket 10s and straight draws failed to hold up as thegiant raked in the pot with two pair, queens and eights. Sixth-place money would go to bastet2004 when lara15fiona made a full house to beat his trip eights. Another boat showed up to sink doidovarrido in fifth place, shipping nomoballer the pot.
However, neither of the boat makers could stay afloat against thegiant, as they were the next to feel his wrath. Lara15fiona bowed out when her two pair, 10s up, went up against thegiant's jack-high flush to send her to the rail in fourth. Nomoballer, obviously seeing the advantages of holding a jack-high flush, put his up against the giant in the next elimination hand. Unfortunately, thegiant had upgraded his arsenal and sent nomoballer packing with a full house, sevens full of 10s.
And then there were two. Bebop86 had been trying for a deal since at least the fifth-place elimination. He had been insisting on $10,000 more in the chop than a by-the-chips distribution offered him, claiming to have a "12 percent" edge over his opponents in the game and to be looking for a "+EV" deal. He was now at a 3-to-1 disadvantage in chips, coming into heads-up. Thegiant seemed flustered by Bebop86's constant efforts to make a deal for an extra $10,000, Bebop86 even proposing the deal again before heads-up play began. Finally, thegiant decided it wasn't worth making a deal and play continued.
After thegiant slowly whittled down Bebop86's stack, the last hand of the tournament came about after Bebop86 called thegiant's bets on every street until finally calling all in on a board of K K 9 9 10. Bebop86 showed QJ J 2 for a king-high straight. Thegiant one-upped him when he flipped over A K Q 10 for a full house, kings full of 10s, to take the pot and the tournament. Thegiant is the second Swede in two days to take a WCOOP bracelet, Rambo5 claiming the prize on Sunday for the $1.5 million guaranteed no-limit event.
The payouts for the tournament were as follows:
thegiant - $151,260.90
Bebop86 - $92,927.10
nomoballer - $61,250.49
lara15fiona - $43,411.20
doidovarrido - $35,949.90
bastet2004 - $29,166.90
AnalAce - $22,383.90
TillerMaN - $15,940.05
gnsd22 - $10,513.65
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