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World Championship of Online Poker
More than $50,000,000 awarded at the 2009 WCOOP!
The biggest ever online poker tournament series has now finished, with 45 new WCOOP Champions crowned, and a total series prize pool $51,652,800. Players from 140 countries around the world took part, with a total of 112,739 buy-ins and 43,973 unique players sitting down to play. The series ran for 18 days and provided the best online poker action anywhere. Congratulations to everyone that took part. You made the 2009 WCOOP the greatest online poker tournament series in history.
Jovial Gent wins Main Event
Yevgeniy ‘Jovial Gent’ Timoshenko outlasted a field of 2,144 of the world’s best online players to claim the coveted WCOOP title, and $1,715,200 in first place prize money. The total prize pool for the two-day $5,200 Main Event came to $10,720,000, which meant the top 306 players got paid, including million dollar pay outs for the top two finishers Timoshenko and ‘Udon Wannit’. The final heads-up battle ended when Timoshenko’s K-6 flopped two pair to beat ‘Udon Wannit’s middle pair. The runner-up spot was still good for an incredible $1,286,400 in prize money.
ElkY, djk123 and g0lfa double up
Three players lit up the 2009 WCOOP with their performances. Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Daniel ‘djk123’ Kelly and Ryan ‘g0lfa’ D’Angelo all won two bracelets each, a huge achievement for any poker player. ElkY’s came in Event 38: $530 No Limit Hold’em [1R1A] and Event 43: $215 No Limit Hold’em, djk123 won Event 2: $215 Razz and Event 44: $10,300 HORSE High Roller, while g0lfa scooped Event 18: $320 8-Game and Event 29: $320 Mixed Event [PL Hold’em, PL Omaha].
However it was djk123 who came top of the Player of Series Leader Board, thanks to a fourth place in the Main Event to go with his two tournament wins. That final table finish took his total winnings for the series to $956,956, and he also wins the WCOOP Player of the Series trophy and a 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Premium Package.
Check out djk123’s HORSE win in the video below.
Watch WCOOP 2009: Event 44 - $10,300 HORSE on PokerStars.tv
Catch up on all the action
This year PokerStars launched WCOOP.com - a dedicated site with details of everything you need to know about the world’s most prestigious online poker series. The site features detailed statistics and results from every single tournament, as well in-depth tournament coverage from our team of expert bloggers, video highlights and analysis, and a history of previous year’s action. This is your one-stop shop for all things WCOOP.
You can also catch up on everything that happened in the 2009 WCOOP with the PokerStars Blog, as well as PokerStars.tv, which has highlight shows with expert commentary and analysis
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