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Event #19 of the PokerStars WCOOP sees extreme high stakes action
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2008-09-16 16:45
Event #19 of the World Championship of Online Poker hosted by PokerStars stands out from among the multitude of other online events in several ways. It features a buy-in of $25,000+$500, which alone is enough to limit access to only the best players in the world. This way, the heads-up bracket-structured NL Holdem event always garners an elite field of players, one that never fails to generate more than enough sensation to satisfy the thousands of railbirds and poker fans.
It wasn’t any different this year, as railbirds got more than what they bargained for as far as the online poker show was concerned. Big names like Daniel Negreanu, Tom Dwan and Dario Minieri failed to make it into the top 8 finishing in 15th, 10th and 16th places respectively. The final eight consisted of Bertand Grospellier squaring off against brianm15, Gavin Griffin facing Victor Ramdin, Steven Jacobs vs PAW717 and Vanessa Rousso vs zivziv.
In the first match-up of the final 8, Bertrand Grospellier got the better of brianm15 when the latter ran his Q,Q into his K,K on a board that did nothing to improve either of them.
Gavin Griffin closed Victor Ramdin out on a rather marginal hand. He held a Ks,6s against Ramdin’s Kd, 8h on a flop of 6d,7d,4d. Griffin hit middle pair, and pushed all-in against Ramdin’s flush and straight draw to prevail.
Steven Jacobs pushed all-in against PAW717 holding the higher flush on a board which had 4 hearts in it.
Vanessa Rousso was forced to push her short stack all-in on a Q,4 against zivziv’s Q,6 on a flop+turn of 4,K,6,7. The river didn’t bail Vanessa out and thus she too was eliminated.
In the final four, “ElkY” managed to get Gavin Griffin to commit all his chips against his A,A while holding 9,8 and having made top pair on the flop. No further help came for Griffin who had to settle for 4th and a prize of $160,000.
Steven Jacobs eliminated zivziv in the other semi-final.
The final match between Grospellier and Jacobs came down to a 3,3 vs 8,8 match-up in which the latter held the advantage. ElkY’s 2 outs failed to come to his rescue and thus he finished second for $320,000. Jacob’s prize was $560,000.
