While WCOOP Soars Other Poker Sites Suffer

As you may have already read here, the Poker Stars World Championship of Online Poker is having phenomenal success this year. Last week, this success didn't seem to hinder the other poker sites much, Party Poker even having more entrants in its Sunday Million Guaranteed tournament than it had the previous week. This week was a different story.

Party Poker missed the mark by $11,400, meaning it had to overlay that amount to match its guarantee. Ultimate Bet again missed its guarantee this week, gathering 818 entrants to its $200,000 guaranteed tournament. Ultimate Bet had to fork over $36,400 to meet the guaranteed prize pool, meaning the site lost $24,130 on the tournament, after entry fees were counted to offset the overlay. Full Tilt was the only site to provide a prize pool above its guarantee, but just barely. Full Tilt wrangled 1,287 entrants to its tournament, 37 more than needed to meet its guarantee, to build a prize pool of $257,400.

Party Poker Sunday Million Guaranteed

Party Poker's Sunday Million Guaranteed final table was short-lived, as has been happening more and more often with its new deal-making software in place. All 10 players seated at the final table had over $1 million chips with the biggest stack, BIGEUG333 sitting with $3,708,627. These chip counts meant that the big stack at the table had less than three times that of the short stack, and everyone had a fair shot at taking down the tournament.

Top2boys' chances at taking the $160,000 top prize were cut short as he pushed all in preflop and was called by athletenc87. Top2boys showed A K while athletenc87 flipped up pocket queens for the lead. The flop came out J 6 5, giving top2boys plenty of outs with a heart, ace, or king to take the lead away from athletenc87. The turn put the 9 on the board and the river was the 6, sealing the deal for athletenc87 and busting top2boys from the tournament in tenth ($6,200).

At this point, the remaining players paused the tournament to go into the deal-making chat. None of the proposed deals gained unanimous approval, mainly because of the dissent of bigdogpckt5s, and play resumed. Athletenc87 took particular offense to bigdogpckt5s' refusal of a deal and a written battle ensued between the two in the chatbox. Both players calmed down just before the next elimination.

In another preflop all-in situation, this time bigdogpckt5s pushed his chips in and was against the current chip leader, mrcall912. Bigdogpck5s showed A Q and found that he was dominated when mrcall912 turned over A K. The board put out an ace but otherwise improved neither players' hands and bigdogpck5s was eliminated in ninth, netting him $11,000.

The remaining players again went into the deal-making dialogue, eventually agreeing on a by-the-chips chop, leaving mrcall912 the ultimate winner of the tournament.

The final standings were as follows:

mrcall12 - $115,294.61
athletenc87 - $76,257.02
OLDGREYGHOST - $61,796.32
BIGEUG333 - $55,731.01
franzzz_ - $44,785.47
whipcord - $40,086.08
ai1979 - $40,021.20
jnrsmit - $23,528.34
bigdogpck5s - $11,000
top2boys - $6,200

Full Tilt $250,000 Guaranteed

Full Tilt's Sunday tournament was over in a relatively short 7 hours, 41 minutes. Despite the blinds being fairly large compared to the stacks, it took quite a while before any eliminations took place.

During heads-up play, stakklr had a lead of more than 3-to-1 on his opponent, FatalBullet. This all changed when FatalBullet went all in on a flop of 9 8 7 and was called by stakklr. FatalBullet showed 9 6 for top pair and a flush and open-ended straight draw. Stakklr flipped up J 9 for the lead, but FatalBullet was the odds-on favorite to win the hand. She pulled into the lead when the turn put the 5 on the board, and kept it when the 8 fell on the river. FatalBullet's stack was now virtually even with stakklr's.

Stakklr regained a bit of ground to increase his lead again before going into the final hand. FatalBullet pushed all in preflop and was called. FatalBullet showed pocket eights and found that it was a race against stakklr's K J. The flop put a jack on the board to give the lead to stakklr and the turn and river were no help to FatalBullet as she was sent to the rail in second. Stakklr took the pot and the first place prize.

The final standings in the tourmanent were:

stakklr - $56,628
FatalBullet - $36,036
Doyle_Unger - $26,512.20
RolexRounder - $20,913.75
crapface82 - $16,087.50
SLOLRANGER - $11.583
Trapper511 - $7,722
SpanishKey - $5,791.50
roninwarlord - $4,118.40

Ultimate Bet $200,000 Guaranteed

The Ultimate Bet $200,000 guaranteed tournament failed to meet its guarantee again this week, this time by 182 entries. One of the players at the final table, Roothlus, who eventually came in third, busted very near the final table in one of this weekend's World Championship of Online Poker Poker Stars events. He was eliminated 11th in event No. 9, the $400,000 guaranteed pot-limit hold'em tournament. Combined with his finish here, he took home over $22,000 in poker tournaments this weekend.

DrBluff1 took down the first-place prize of $45,000 in the tournament with a bad beat. DrBluff1 called TheMasterJ33's preflop all in and showed pocket fours. TheMasterJ33 showed a commanding lead when he flipped up pocket aces. The flop was no help for DrBluff1, when it came K 6 6, leaving him with only an 8 percent chance of hitting the 4 he needed to take the hand. The turn further worsened his chances when it came the Q. The river defied the odds by putting out the 4 to give DrBluff1 the pot and eliminate TheMasterJ33 in second.

The results for the tournament are as follows:

DrBluff1 - $45,000
TheMasterJ33 - $27,000
Roothlus - $18,500
tbt4653 - $13,000
Laptopmasher - $11,000
jorgesdaddy - $9,000
dickholdem - $7,000
Ayune - $5,000
l33t_hax0r - $3,500
NuTStr844 - $2,000

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