First Rebuys At World Championship of Online Poker

While WCOOP 2008 is in full swing, yesterday was the first rebuy event - No-Limit Texas Holdem, the most common and classic poker game nowadays. The event was just pure madness, some people lost loads of cash, while some profited nicely and brought home some money.

Personally for me, the rebuy events are the most fun poker events to watch. It’s just madness, people get crazy and are ready to take any risk, even loosing their last $100 bill, only to feel one thing - take the pot!

Especially the first parts of games, before the rebuy period ends. It reminds more like cash game, rather than serious poker tournament.

Yesterday was the first rebuy event of the biggest online poker tournaments from PokerStars - WCOOP 2008, the $215 No-Limit HoldEm. This event attracted pretty big amount of contestants - 2,234 poker players tried their luck for the biggest prize - $1 million guaranteed. Pretty amazing, but there were more rebuys than contestants, to be exact, tournament saw 2,635 rebuys, which only added additional cash to prize pool. Thanks to rebuys prize pool increased to $1,278,600 million in the end.

lrdvoldemort was leading the end of the event. At 7:30 AM he was already leading by 2-1 chip advantage, and within 10 minutes, he was already leading with 4-1 chip advantage. After more than 17 hours from start, lrdvoldemort won his first WCOOP bracelet and kicked out moe32746 in heads-up. lrdvoldemort flopped triple fives, while moe32746 flopped pair of nines.

Here are the final table standing:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	lrdvoldemort	$207,772.50
2nd	moe32746	$253,432
3rd	nitbuster	$110,215.32
4th	omalos	$74,158.80
5th	imcastleman	$61,372.80
6th	BeLOWaBOVE	$48,586.80
7th	Sykoen	$35,800.80
8th	TheKaas	$23,014.80
9th	ACESEDAI	$14,192.46

Congratulations to Irdvoldemort with winning his very first WCOOP bracelet and winning $207,772.

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