WCOOP 2008 New Winners

Another year, another World Championship of Online Poker from PokerStars time, this time it’s WCOOP 2008, and here is report from another event day, including those three lucky winners, who got their names (and nicks) in to PokerStars history book.

Monday was a busy day for everyone at PokerStars, including players, who hopefully where trying to include their names in to history of WCOOP and win some cash. Early Tuesday morning, three people accomplished it and claimed their names.

Event 6 $530 No Limit Texas Hold Em

72 returned for the Event 6. It’s just 1% percent of total contestant amount, which is 7,351 players, who started their rush for $3 million money prize and bracelets this Sunday

Back to the Event 6. Poker player from Russian was leading the most time on the table. His nearest competitor wasCalvin23, from United States. Eventually, they eliminated all others and met in the heads-up.

solovka was surpassing his competitor in chip count before the final table started. He had approximately $53,800,000 chips, out of total $73 million chips on table. Unfortunately for Russian player, Calvin23 started slowly and steady building up his chip count.

In the end, solovka moved all-in for $12,500,000 with K-J. Calvin reacted to his all-in with his Q-9. And on the flop nine diamonds dropped.

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Calvin32	$452,086.50
2nd	Solovka	$306,169.15
3rd	Roland_NL	$205,828
4th	adonislee	$169,073
5th	cassie13	$132,318
6th	DUBBZZ	$95,563
7th	randomcrayon	$64,321.25
8th	Yo Burger	$42,268.25
9th	Papio Papio	$25,728.50

Event 7 $215 Pot-Limit Omaha

In total, there were 2,457 hungry poker players, taking part in Pot-Limit Omaha event.

Final standings:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Mary 717	$71,730
2nd	mddgfc	$50,301
3rd	Kev19	$49,861
4th	HORERogHALM	$30,221.10
5th	rkruik	$12,481.56
6th	bearbeer123	$12,481.5

Event 8 $320 Eight-Game Mixed

Impressive battle between 1,128 poker players ended up with victory of Ulett_23.

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Ulett_23	$50,797.28
2nd	Seitz333	$46,797.28
3rd	Booster_JJ	$30,456
4th	osten	$23,688
5th	SC72A	$17,766
6th	Andrejkovics	$11,844

While action more WCOOP events will be played on PokerStars in the near future, you can head to PokerStars and play a little bit of poker. Who knows, maybe today is your lucky day.