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WCOOP Day 14 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Sat, 2008-09-20 17:30
Day 14 of the World Championship of Online Poker, the year's biggest online poker event operated by
PokerStars, marked another strong performance by Betrand Grospellier. “ElkY” failed to achieve victory in event #27, the $500+$30 NL Holdem Triple Shootout, but he did manage to clinch a deep cash position and cut himself a $20k share of the $364,500 total prize-pool.
Event #27 saw a total of 729 players belly up to the virtual tables, amongst whom Chris Moneymaker (who ended up in 36th place eventually for $1,640), Maros Lechman (who finished 15th for $1,640) and Ben Fineman (who busted out in 24th place for $1,640).
The eventual winner of the $500+$30 NL Holdem Triple shootout event was Andrew Glogowski who won three consecutive tables during the tournament. The first prize was $76,545, and the bracelet every WCOOP event winner is entitled to.
Player SgtKyle finished 2nd for a prize of $51,030, followed by Rip_Cheese in 3rd ($36,450) and Jorj95 in 4th ($27,337).
Grospellier finished 5th thus establishing himself as the hottest online player before the start of the $5,200 buy-in WCOOP Main Event.
The other event of the day, #28, was also a $500+$30 buy-in one. It was a FL Omaha Hi/Lo tournament featuring a guaranteed prize-pool of $400k. This one garnered 829 participants who threw together an actual prize-pool of $414,500.
Humberto Brenes and Luca Pagano took part in this tournament finishing in 71st and 83rd places respectively for some extremely meager prizes.
This event ended in a deal which the first two finishers struck. They agreed to split the remaining prize-money, and allot an additional $8k to the winner.
Player Big10 was the one who walked away with the win at the end of the day, and took down a prize of $69,801. Second place went to lolovitch who won $61,801 this way. Flk&nit ended up in 3rd for $41,450, followed by Bonitaines with $31,087.
Porcelet, who finished in 7th place in the previous WCOOP event for $10,206, managed to catch the final table again, this time finishing in 9th and only taking home $5,803 – a rather remarkable performance from this player.
