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There were 185 tournaments. There were more than 1 million entries and prize pools only a whisker shy of $100 million. Here's the final daily instalment of our 2018 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) round-up as the game's biggest online series goes out with a bang--and names its latest World Champion.
TODAY'S HEADLINES
• 'wann2play' turns $530 satellite ticket into $1.35 million Main Event triumph
• Wins Platinum Pass to PSPC after beating 'eze88888' heads-up
• 'wellingtowap' wins $55 Main Event, locks up leader board for Brazil
• Two players final table Main and $25K High Roller simultaneously
• Macau's 'limitless' wins huge to end 2018 WCOOP
• More than 1 million entries; $100 million in prizes
WANN2PLAY LAYS MAIN EVENT TO WASTE
It took close to 25 hours of play, stretched over three days, and left all of poker's finest scattered to the wind. At then at 3:52 a.m. WET, 'wann2play', a $530 satellite winner from the Netherlands, finally ran out of opponents.
At the start, 2,044 had wann-ed 2 play against him, but now none had any more chips. 'wann2play' was crowned champion of the 2018 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event and took a first prize of $1,352,967.97 plus a Platinum Pass to next January's Poker Players Championship (PSPC) in the Bahamas.
He is the second Dutch champion in consecutive years, following in the footsteps of Steve 'SvZff' Van Zadelhoff, who won this tournament in 2017. If only there was an obvious idiom to describe such an achievement. Got it: Two-Time Netherlands!
The final moments:
'wann2play' had lived up to his name ever since he entered a $530 satellite to the Main Event, which didn't finish until nearly three-and-a-half hours after the major tournament had begun. But he took seat, in on the cheap, and never left it until he cut a heads-up deal with Argentina's 'eze88888' when the pair had seen the dangerous Linus 'LLinusLLove' Loeliger hit the rail in third.
Loeliger has already won one huge tournament during this WCOOP series, and was chip-leader throughout much of this tournament too. But the Austrian came up short in third, winning $764,501. 'eze88888' was chip-leader when the deal negotiations began -- he had 342 million to 'wann2play's 169 million -- and locked himself up a $1,257,203.66 payday. But 'wann2play' came back strongly when they were heads up, pushing 'eze88888' into second.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the #WCOOP Main Event just made a couple of millionaires. The final two players have split all but the last $200K in the following way:
eze88888:$1,257,203.66
wann2play:$1,152,967.97
Now they play for the title, $200K and a #PlatinumPasspic.twitter.com/7RYAqvJ94H
Right now, we don't know much about 'wann2play', beyond the fact that he or she represents the Netherlands and sealed the deal last night with K♦6♣, through a board of 3♥2♣2♦J♠A♠. 'eze88888' only had Q♣8♣. But the shroud of anonymity will lift as the Platinum Pass is awarded and 'wann2play' takes a shot at an even bigger prize next January.
Stick around on the Blog for potential winner's interview, and much more.
The top eight were as follows.
1: wann2play (Netherlands) - $1,352,967.97*
2: eze88888 (Argentina) - $1,257,203.66*
3: Linus 'LLinusLLove' Loeliger (Austria) - $764,501.99
4: PlayaPlz (Costa Rica) - $540.584.85
5: Michael 'mczhang' Zhang (UK) - $382,252.52
6: Noah 'Exclusive' Boeken (Netherlands) - $270,293.45
7: 0409479 (UK) - $191,127.28
8: 4rebmun (Canada) - $135,147.23
In the $55 'low' buy-in Main Event, Brazil's 'wellingtowap' secured a first prize of $192,036.92, beating Russia's 'nafnaf_funny' into second place. Not only did 'wellingtowap' secure the biggest win of his career, but the victory also sent Brazil to the top of the countries leader board for this WCOOP.
Brazilian players won 23 titles, beating the UK's total by one. 'wellingtowap's huge score was decisive.
TODAY'S RESULTS
| Name | Buy-in | Entries | Prize pool | Places | Winner | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58-L: NLHE Main Event | $55 | 39,817 | $1,990,850 | 6,461 | wellingtowap | Brazil | $192,036.92 |
| 58-H: NLHE Main Event | $5,200 | 2,044 | $10,220,000 | 251 | wann2play | Netherlands | $1,352,267.97* |
| 62-L: NLHE 8-Max High Roller | $215 | 4,582 | $916,400 | 751 | WATnlos | Austria | $130,598.18 |
| 62-M: NLHE 8-Max High Roller | $2,100 | 792 | $1,584,000 | 111 | Sam 'Str8$$$Homey' Greenwood | Canada | $268,775.65 |
| 62-H: NLHE 8-Max High Roller | $25,000 | 141 | $3,458,025 | 17 | limitless | Macau | $725,847.48 |
| Daily totals | 47,376 | $18,169,275 | 7,591 | $2,669,526.20 |
*after deal
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
The $25K High Roller constellation: The final high buy-in event of this year's WCOOP, and the last event to conclude, was the $25,000 High Roller hold'em turbo. A late addition to the schedule, it attracted without doubt the densest concentration of poker heavyweights of any event, many of whom had been competing over the weekend in the Poker Masters at the Aria, Las Vegas.
Here's the full list of players making the money, which reads like the entry list to most Super High Roller tournaments across the globe:
1: 'limitless' (Macau) - $725,847.48
2: David 'dpeters17' Peters (Canada) - $561,903.81
3: Luke 'Bit2Easy' Reeves (UK) - $434,989.46
4: Michael 'mczhang' Zhang (UK) - $336,740.74
5: Bartlomeij 'bartek901' Machon (UK) - $260,682.86
6: Andras 'probirs' Namath (Hungary) - $201,803.76
7: Sergio 'zcedrik' Aido (UK) - $156,223.54
8: Linus 'LLinusLLove' Loeliger (Austria) - $120,938.19
9: Justin 'ZeeJustin' Bonomo (Canada) - $99,556.53
10: 'dannagger' (Norway) - $81,955.19
11: Stephen 'stevie444' Chidwick (UK) - $81,955.19
12: Ivan 'Negriin' Luca (Argentina) - $81,955.19
13: 'fr0zZy' (Russia) - $67,465.72
14: Juan 'Malaka$tyle' Pardo (UK) - $67,465.72
15: Mustapha 'lasagnaaammm' Kanit (Austria) - $67,465.72
16: Sami 'Lrslzk' Kelopuro (Finland) - $55,537.95
17: Bryn 'BrynKenney' Kenney (Mexico) -$55,537.95
One of the only players we don't know for certain is the winner, 'limitless'. But as a regular at the highest stakes heads-up online games, and with a location set to Macau, we're guessing even a $725K payday this is not his or her biggest win.
Here's how Fintan and Spraggy saw it:
As if the Main Event wasn't enough: Two players from the final table of the $5,200 Main Event made it clear that playing for a $10 million prize pool wasn't enough for one night. They wanted more. So it was that Linus 'LLinusLLove' Loeliger and Michael 'mczhang' Zhang also played the $25,000 turbo High Roller, and also both made the final table of that. Loeliger's ninth place was worth $120,938.19, while Zhang won $336,740.74 for fourth. That means Loeliger took more than $885,000 from those two tournaments, while Zhang's combined total was about $718,000.
Michael Zhang: Two huge final tables simultaneously
Darn Str8: Sam 'Str8$$$Homey' Greenwood won the $2,100 High Roller, picking up his second career WCOOP title, to add to his two SCOOP wins, a World Series bracelet and near $13 million in live tournament earnings. Greenwood has won Super High Roller tournaments in Monte Carlo and Barcelona, and has a string of other high-profile cashes. He beat Michael 'ImLuckBox' Addamo to this title, winning $268,755.65, and prevailing from a final that also included the on-fire Joao 'Naza114' Vieira, and poker's biggest winner of all time Justin 'ZeeJustin' Bonomo.
Sam Greenwood: Decent final day at the WCOOP tables
STAT TRACKER
There's no getting away from it, this WCOOP was enormous. According to the stat tracker, we had more than 1 million entries and close to $100 million in prize pools!
Events completed: 185
Total entries: 1,101,677
Total prize pools: $99,539,195
Players in the money: 150,239
First prizes awarded: $15,112,664.08
Numbers subject to official confirmation
COUNTRIES LEADER BOARD
In the end, no one could beat Brazil. Despite becoming the go-to destination for displaced Italians, French and Spanish poker players, the UK could only muster 21 victories during this WCOOP series, allowing the ever-dominant Brazilians to run out top of the countries leader board.
'wellingtowap' won the low buy-in Main Event last night, on a day where the UK failed to find a champion. They'll be sambaing around Rio tonight.
Here's the top 12 on a pie-chart (minimum four wins each):
WCOOP tournament wins by country (minimum four wins)
Final countries total: Brazil (23 wins); UK (22); Russia (14); Germany (13); Canada (12); Finland, Austria (10 each); Sweden (9); Mexico, Netherlands (7); Hungary, Belarus, Lithuania (4); Romania, Belgium, Poland, Latvia, Ireland (3); Norway, Malta, Greece, Chile, Cyprus, Costa Rica, Bulgaria, Switzerland (2); Thailand, Slovakia, Japan, Georgia, Estonia, Denmark, China, Argentina, Peru, Czech Republic, Uruguay, Croatia, Taiwan, Ukraine, Macau (1).
INTERVIEW! INTERVIEW! INTERVIEW!
Rory 'DeosOner' Young won the first WCOOP tournament of his career when he took down the $109 NLHE Super Tuesday last week, out-lasting a final table that also featured Mikita Badziakouski and Jeff Gross. Jack Stanton caught up with Young to hear his side of the story after such a tremendous win. 'I honestly don't remember any tough spots in the whole run,' Young said.
TOP TWEETS
It's been an inspirational few weeks for @clawztrophobia watching from the rail. This time next year. This time next year...
I have to say, I've been really inspired by everyone's WCOOP efforts, If I reach a set goal next year before it rolls around, I'd definitely love to look into splitting rent w/ someone outside the US to put myself to the test of winning a title. Excited for what the future holds!
— Alexander Romano (@clawztrophobia) September 18, 2018At the same time, @MartyMath isn't done with this one yet:
things I've done post-WCOOP:
-long walk with dog on beach
-play video games first time since april (rocket league seems fun)
-book dog vacation with private chef
-rode bike to steakhouse with dog
-realize there's still a $215 WCOOP to late-reg to get unstuck
-keep grinding
Meanwhile Connor 'blanconegro' Drinan made the final table of the $55 WCOOP Main Event, but also entered the $25,000 High Roller, without success. That explains this:
Well on a positive note at least I can say I did something no ones probably ever done before, final tabled a 'wcoop main event' and had my biggest losing coop day of my life 🤔
— Connor Drinan (@ConnorDrinan) September 19, 2018TWITCH WATCH
Yesterday was all about the rock star Lex Veldhuis. Today was all about Lex Veldhuis too. But this time, things weren't quite so jubilant for the man from the Netherlands. Veldhuis fired two bullets in the $25,000 High Roller Turbo, and neither of them went anywhere near their target. Don't watch the clips below. You know you don't want to. OK, maybe from behind the couch.
LEADER BOARD UPDATES
There were various leader boards contested during the series. The highest of which was the Player of the Series.
As well as the Overall winner, there were High, Medium and Low categories. You can find all the final standings on the WCOOP 2018 leader board page.
Then there were those other leader boards, collating Return on Investment, Knock outs, and In The Money finishes in all the Low and Medium Events.
Our alternative leader board page has all the final standings, including the answer to that burning question: Which Team Pro topped the KO rankings.
(Hint: It wasn't Spraggy)
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Perhaps the best rule of thumb for the WSOP is that the prize pools have kept going up while the average ages of the main event winners have steadily declined. When Moss took down the first event (with only seven players) he was 63, and no one even knows how much he won (or what his final hole cards were). The second year the field slipped to six players, Moss won again at age 64 with pocket 6s and collected $30,000. In 2009 Joe Cada became the youngest champion ever at age 21, and pocketed $8,574,649.
Here is the data for the champions that followed: In 1972 the winner was Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston. There were eight entrants, his winning cards were K J, and he took home $80,000.
Walter “Puggy” Pearson followed in 1973. There were 13 entrants, he won with A♠ 7♠ and won $130,000.
Moss, now 67, won for the third time in 1974 holding 3♥ 3♠. The field kept inching up. There were now 16 players and he got the entire $160,000 prize pool. There were 21 players and a $210,000 pay-out when Brian “Sailor” Roberts won in 1975 holding J♠ J♥.
Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson (who got his colorful nickname when Jimmy Snyder mispronounced his name) stepped up and won in 1976 and 1977, both years holding a 10-2. Brunson would go on to become the first player to chalk up $1 million in career earnings, eventually winning 10 bracelets and more than $6 million in 50 years of tournament play.
Bobby “The Owl” Baldwin, later to become a casino executive, won in 1978 holding Q♦ Q♣. This time there were 42 players with a total prize pool of $420,000, and it was the first year when it was not winner take all. Baldwin’s share was $210,000.
Hal Fowler became the first non-professional to win the championship in 1979, and he did it by beating Bobby “The Wizard” Hoff, regarded as one of the best no-limit players of his time. On the final hand, Fowler held just 7♠ 6♦ against Hoff’s pocket aces. He flopped a gut-shot straight draw, hit it on the turn, and won $270,000. By now the field had grown to 54 players.
Now coming on stage was Stu Ungar, widely regarded as the greatest nolimit and gin rummy player of all time. Ungar had two nicknames, “Stuey” and “The Kid,” because he was only 27 when he won his first of three championships in 1980. There were 73 entrants, he held 5♠ 4♠, and his win was worth $385,000.
Stuey made it two in a row in 1981. There were 75 players, he held A♥ Q♥ and his win got him $375,000. Jack “Treetop” Straus won the next year holding A♥ 10♠. His win was mem-orable because earlier in the tournament he was down to one chip, which led to the familiar poker saying, “A chip and a chair.”
Tom McEvoy set a record when he became the first champion to win his buy-in through a satellite. There were 108 players in 1983, his win came to $540,000, and his winning hand was Q♦Q♠.
In 1986, with a field of 132, “Gentleman” Jack Keller won with 10♥10♠. His prize money was $660,000.
Bill Smith was the winner in 1985, beating a field of 140. His winning hand was 3♠ 3♥ and his prize was $700,000.
In 1986 Berry Johnston won with A♠ 10♥. There were 141 entrants. His share was $570,000. Johnny “Orient Express” Chan now arrived and won the next two years. In 1987 he won $625,000 in a 152-player field holding A♠ 9♣, repeating next year and winning $700,000 in a field of 167 with J♣ 9♣.
The year 1989 brought onstage Phil “The Poker Brat” Hellmuth, who would become the reigning bracelet-winner with 13 to date. He scored his championship win holding 9♠ 9♣. The field was 178, his payout $755,000.
Mansour Matloubi took home $895,000 in 1990 with 6♥ 6♠. There were 194 entrants.
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From 1991 through 1999 there were a series of $1 million pay-outs for first place. Brad Daugherty was the first to achieve this milestone when he won with K♠ J♠, competing in a field of 215.
Next millionaire was Hamid Dastmalchi. There were 201 players, and his winning hand was 8♥ 4♣. In 1993 Jim Bechtel scored with J♣ 6♥.The field was 220.
Russ Hamilton triumphed with K♠ 8♥ in 1994 when there were 268 players.
Dan “Action Dan” Harrington beat a field of 273 in 1995 holding 9♦ 8♦. Huck Seed was the next to win $1 million. He held 9♦ 8♦ and the field had inched up to 295.
The year 1997 saw the triumphant return of Stu Ungar. Holding A♥ 4♣ as his final cards, he became the only player ever to win three freeze-out championships (one of Moss’ three victories came by vote). The field was 350 in 1998 when Scotty “The Train” Nguyen, also called “The Prince of Poker,” beat a field of 350. His hole cards were J♦ 9♣.
Englishman Noel Furlong was the winner in 1999. He held 5♣ 5♦, The field was 393.
In 2000, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson put his famous bad beat on T.J. Cloutier, catching a 9 to his A♠ 9♣ and outdrawing Cloutier’s A Q. By now the number of players had grown to 512. In 2001, when Carlos “El Matador” Mortensen won with K♣ Q♣, the field had grown to 613, and now the championship pay-out had increased to $1.5 million. First place jumped to $2 million and the number of when Robert Varkonyi won with Q♦ 10♠ in 2002.
The WSOP explosion began in 2003 after Chris Moneymaker won with 5♦ 4♠. He was credited with revolutionizing poker by becoming the first to win his seat on an online poker site. The field that year was 839 and his win amounted to $2.5 million.
By the following year the number of entrants had zoomed to 2,576 and Greg “Fossilman” Raymer collected $5 million. His hole cards were 8♠ 8♦.
The entrants more than doubled the next year, to 5,619, when Joe Hachem collected $7.5 million, winning with 7♣ 3♠.
Jamie Gold’s prize was a current record of $12 million in 2006 when there were 8,773 players. He held Q♠ 9♣.
Jerry “The Shadow” Yang won with 8♦8♣ in 2007. His share was $8,250,000 and there were 6,358 players. In 2008 Peter “Isser” Eastgate held A♦ 5♠ when he won $9,152,416. There were 6,844 players. Joe Cada won in 2009. He held 9♦ 9♣, there were 6, 494 entrants and his prize was $8,574,649.
Jonathan Duhamel was the champion in 2010. There were 7,319 players, he won $8,944,310 and his winning cards were A♠ 2♣. In 2011 the champion was Pius Heinz. There were 6,865 players, he held A♠ K♣ and his win amounted to $8,715,638.
In 2012, the winner was Greg Merson who held K♦ 5♦ and collected $8,531,853 by outlasting 6,598 players.
In 2013, the winner was Ryan Riess who held A♥K♥ and won a total of $8,359,531 by outlasting 6,352 players.
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In 2014, the winner was Martin Jacobson who held 10♥ 10♦ and collected $10,000,000 by outlasting 6,683 players.
In 2015, the winner was Joe McKeehen who held A♥ 10♦ and collected $7,683,346 by outlasting 6,420 players.
In 2016, the winner was Qui Nguyen who held K♣ 10♣ and collected $8,005,310 by outlasting 6,737 players.
In 2017, the winner was Scott Blumstein who held A♥ 2♦ and collected $8,150,000 by outlasting 7,221 players.
And, finally, a last year’s first-place winner was John Cynn who held K♣ J♣ and collected $8,800,000 by outlasting 7,874 players.
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