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McDonald Running Deep in $51k WCOOP Super High Roller
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2015-09-21 11:53
Mike McDonald, one of the high stakes tournament regulars, had announced his retirement from poker a few years ago, before bouncing back and putting in several noteworthy performances. It looks like McDonald has a knack for sort of attempting to stay away from poker, but then becoming wildly successful nonetheless. His latest exploit seems to confirm this as well: the WCOOP's $51k Super High Roller generated quite a bit of interest in high stakes circles obviously and players bought into the
tournament in droves the other day when it got going. For his part, McDonald almost missed the start, buying in in the last possible moment, after he had initially decided against playing. He is now leading the pack with a stack of 237.7k chips and with just 8 players remaining.
The reason he registered so late wasn't that he was trying to make a Phil Hellmuth-like entrance. Rather, McDonald says he had found the field extremely tough, but as a number of weaker players registered towards the end of the registration period, he changed his mind.
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Joe Angel Latorre made the final 8 in second place, with 214.5k chips to his name. David Peters from Canada is 3rd with 195.2k, followed by fellow countryman Ben Tollerene, who has some 193.9k chips and a lot of eyes on him. Fedor Holz made the final stretch as well, with 145.2k chips. Nikita Bodyakovskiy rounds out the top 6 and the list of "name" players still in contention. In 7th and 8th places we have "Nopaleva" and "cuffme" who are both only known by their online monikers. Two of the players from the final 8 will still go home empty-handed, while the first player to bust in the money will get $126.5k.
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