The German word “knecht” means laborer in English. That translation is fitting for Kyle “knecht_poker” Knecht, a 20-something pro from Ohio, who won his first WCOOP title in Event $14 $320 NL 6-Max Knockout.

Knecht paid in his dues at the tables the last few years and honed his MTT skills as a live player. At the 2010 WSOP in Las Vegas this past summer, Knecht made one final table and cashed three times in events containing fields with almost 2,000+ players. Most recently, Knecht took second place at the Indiana State Championship in August. And now, you can now add a WCOOP bracelet to his blossoming resumé.

Six-handed tables add a heightened element to any tournament. The short-handed format does not favor nitty play because you can’t play timid, sit back, and wait for a big hand like you can at a full ring table. In a short-handed situation, it is essential to open up your range (and more importantly widen the scope of your opponent’s range), which translates into more playable hands. More hand equals more action. To spice things up a bit more in Event #14, the event included knockout bounties — if you bust a player, then you collect $50 — which is a slick way of distributing an alternative prize pool by rewarding your abilities to terminate your opponents.

Event #14 attracted 3,325 runners. The top 420 were paid out prize money with $104,737.50 set aside for the eventual champion. The $665,000 prize pool included $200 from each player’s buy-in. Meanwhile, $50 per entry was set aside for the bounty pool, which reached $166,250.

Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier, ElkY, Chris Moneymaker, Gaulter Salles, Humberto Brenes all participated in this event, but none of the advanced to the money.

It took less than 6 hours before the field slashed and burned its way from 3,325 to 420 players. Bubble boy honors went to JoaoCastro91, who hit the rail unceremoniously in 421st place.

A trio of Team PokerStars Online Pros cashed including Henrique “Henrique.P” Pinho (120th), Martha “marene” Herrara (234th), and Diego “vgreen22″Brunelli (377th). Marene went out when she lost a flip with [Ad][Qc] against pocket sevens. Short-stacked Henrique.P hit the rail when his [J][9d] lost to [Ac][Td].

Notables players who cashed included EnoBaLL (17th), PremiumStud (18th), dolphin (20th), elitelive (41st), terrelk11 (62nd), and Johnny Bax (71st).

With two tables to go, pitaoufmg by far had the most rambunctious railbirds, and they were all vocally supportive of their fellow countryman. How can you tell there’s a Brazilian at your table? Wait until he wins a hand and every single Brazilian on the virtual rail will clutter the chat box with “Vamooooooooooooooo!’

“Portuguese only at the tables.” joked one player.

“Vamooooo!” one railbird chimed in. “I’m American as apple pie, but I’m gonna keep yelling it. Vamooooooooooo!”

All of Brazil shed a tear when pitaoufmg bubbled off the final table in 7th place. He got it all in with [Ah][Qd] against knecht_poker’s [As][Ad]. After an all-heart flop, Knecht_poker was sweating the outcome because pitamofmg held the [Ah]. He faded the flush draw and pitaoufmg hit the rail. With pitaoufmg’s elimination, all of his boisterous railbirds disappeared and left the chat box virtually silent. As expected, the final table was not treated with a single “Vamooooo!”

Final table chip counts:
Seat 1: a365551 (5,489,386)
Seat 2: knecht_poker (3,049,264 in chips)
Seat 3: Mrazeg (3,263561 in chips)
Seat 4: VM47 (888,422 in chips)
Seat 5: LazersNUTS (810,131)
Seat 6: SCAINS2 (3,124,236)

The final table of six was set. Although a365551 held the overall lead, it quickly slipped out of his hand. Knecht_poker seized the lead after he won a hand with [As][6s] against Mrazeg’s [4c][4s]. He added more chips to his tumescent stack after he clashed with a365551 in what became the largest hand of the tournament at the time. Action folded to a365551 in the small blind. He raised to 144,444, and knecht_poker called from the big blind. The flop was [Qs][8c][7h]. A365551 bet 255,555 and knecht_poker called. The turn was the [Td]. A365551 bet 555,555, and knecht_poker called. The [3d] on the river induced a bet of 1,333,333 from a365551, and knecht_poker called. Holding a mere [Kh][5h], a365551 was firing away with nadda — only King-high. Knecht_poker showed [Kd][Qd] and won the 4.6 million pot with pair of Queens. Knecht_poker rocketed to over 7.1 million, while a365551 slipped to under 2 million.

When the tournament passed the 15th hour of play, Knecht_poker vacuumed up a pot worth almost 2 million against SCAINS2. The leader’s stack climbed past the 8 million mark.

Short-stacked LazersNUTS avoided an elimination and crawled out of the basement when he doubled up with [9c][9s] against a365551’s [As][Qd].

The new short-stack, VM47, didn’t last very long. When action folded to him on the button, he shoved with [7d][4c] and hoped to steal the blinds. Unlucky for him, SCAINS2 woke up with [As][Ad] in the big blind. VM47’s rags were inferior and his tournament had come to a bitter end. VM47 collected $11,803.75 for 6th place.

Two hands later, the other shorty, LazersNUTS, shoved for his last 897,262 and knecht_poker called from the big blind. LazersNUTS showed [As][Ts], but he ran into pocket Aces. Tough break. The flop was [Kc][Jc][3h], and LazersNUTS caught a glimmer of hope with a Broadway gutshot, but whiffed on the turn and the river. Pocket Aces held up for knecht_poker. He won the pot and collected a bounty. LazersNUTS busted out in 5th place and won $23,155.30.

Sitting on a stack worth over 8.4 million, knecht_poker held over 50% of the chips in play with four to go. But it wouldn’t stay four-handed for very long because on the next hand, we had another elimination.

It appeared that a365551 was trying to steal the blinds with a button raise. Russian Mrazege three-bet from his big blind, and A365551 flat called. The flop was [Jc][Ts][8c] with 870,000 in the pot., Mrazeg fired out 560,678, a365551 shoved, and Mrazeg called all-in for his last 1,787,255. Mrazeg was ahead with [Kd][Ks], but he needed to avoid a club because a365551 held [4c][2c] for a flush draw. The [3c] spiked on the turn and a365551 flushed out Mrazeg’s pocket Kings. Mrazeg was eliminated in 4th place and he won $36,242.50.

With three to go, knecht_poker was out in front with 9.4 million, while a365551 jumped up to over 6 million. By default, SCAINS2 was the short stack with 2,194,294, even though he held over 27 BBs.

SCAINS2 chipped away at knecht_poker’s and was gaining momentum, until disaster struck and he lost his entire stack withing seven hands. SCAINS2 made a mistake by getting involved with a365n551 in a pot. The flop was [Qc][8h][7c]. SCAINS2 checked, a365551 bet a heady amount of 420,000, SCAINS2 check-raised to 840,000, a365551 re-raised to 1,300,000, SCAINS2 shoved for 4,912,176, and since a365551 was covered, he called all-in for his last 2,229,054. A365551 flopped two pair and was ahead with [Qs][8d]. SCAINS2 trailed with [Qh][6c], but he picked up outs when the [5c] fell on the turn. He missed his OESD and a365551 won the pot to double up to almost 7.7 million.

Six hands later and down to his last 1 million, SCAINS2 got it all-in with [Ad][8c] against knecht_poker’s [Kd][Qs]. SCAINS2 led all the way until the river, when the [Ks] spiked, crushing his hopes for a comeback. Knecht_poker collected another knock out bounty, meanwhile SCAINS2 busted out in 3rd place. He won $55,860.

A throwback to the Cold War, a heads-up battle was set between America’s knecht_poker and Russia’s a365551.

Heads-up chip counts:
Seat 1: a365551 (7,883,108)
Seat 2: knecht_poker (8,741,892)

Their match lasted only 15 hands. Knecht_poker picked up seven of the initial 10 hands playing small ball, until fireworks ensued on the 11th hand when he won a doozy. The flop was [5c][4c][3c]. Knecht_poker checked, a365551 bet 250,000, knecht_poker check-raised to 758,750, and a365551 called. The turn was the [Qd]. Knecht_poker bet 1,165,500 and a365551 called. The river was the [Qs], and knecht_poker shoved for over 7.4 million. A365551 tank-folded. Knecht_poker won the 4.2 million pot and surged to over 11 million, while a365551 slipped to under 5 million.

On the final hand… both players got it all in pre-flop. For his duel to the death, a365551 took [Ah][8s] to battle against knecht_poker’s [8h][8d]. The flop was [Ks][9c][8c], and knecht_poker further improved with a set eights. Unless a365551 miraculously caught running Aces, he was going to be toast. The turn was the [7c] and a365551 was officially drawing dead. The river was a meaningless [6h]. A365551 was eliminated in 2nd place and won $76,475.00.

For winning Event #14 $320 NL Knockout, Kyle “knecht_poker” Knecht collected $104,737.50. Congrats!

Event #14 NL 6-Max Knockout final table results and payouts:
1. knecht_poker – $104,737.50
2. a365551 – $76,475
3. SCAINS2 – $55,860
4. Mrazeg – $36,242
5. LazersNUTS – $23,155.30
6. VM47 – $11,803.75

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Fourteen hours after Day 1 play wrapped, the surviving 64 players in Event #12, $215 Heads-Up NLHE, hopped back online to play down to a new WCOOP champion. Having already won their first six heads-up matches, each player who made it this far would pocket at least $1,384.20, but to slap on that bracelet and collect the $78,438 first-place prize would take another six straight victories.

David Williams and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier were the only members of Team PokerStars Pro to make it to Day 2 and both of them unfortunately went out in the first round. Williams had sohokid whittled down to about 2,600 when all the chips went in before the flop, Williams holding pocket threes against sohokid’s [Qh][Js]. A queen hit the flop and sohokid doubled up, evening their stacks back up. On the very next hand, Williams called sohokid’s three-bet shove preflop, but his [Ks][Jh] did not improve against [Ah][Qc] and he exited in 43rd place.

A short time later, ElkY’s run ended in 38th place after a swingy match against NDGrinder59. Grospellier called all-in after turning two pair against NDGrinder59’s top pair and a flush draw, but a third spade hit the river, sending the French hoodie aficionado on to the next WCOOP event.

WSOP bracelet winner Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko also met his tournament end in Round VII. Down to six big blinds, he moved all-in with [Qs][5h] and Nos172 called with [Jd][Tc]. Hawrilenko was looking good through the turn, but Nos172 spiked a jack on the river to send him to the rail in 34th place.

Mudvaynes is no stranger to a WCOOP final table. He finished seventh in the 2009 WCOOP Main Event, earning a hefty $268,000 and made another deep run today. After finishing off wrigleypug in Round VIII when his pocket jacks held up against pocket nines, Mudvaynes took on AndyCole in the sweet sixteen. Pocket jacks may have been his savior in the previous round, but they were his destroyer here as AndyCole’s fish hooks gutted Mudvaynes’ pocket tens, ending his run in 13th place.

The final four round pitted AJacejackAJ against Bad_Fidel and IneedMassari against rumnchess. AJacejackAJ moved out to a 7 to 3 chip lead relatively quickly and although Bad_Fidel did his best to hang on, he found himself in kicker trouble on this hand and was eliminated in fourth place.

Over on Table 2, IneedMassari took an early chip lead and at one point, had rumnchess on the ropes with only 1,500 in chips. However, after managing to double back up, rumnchess found another gear and started putting more pre-flop pressure on his opponent. Their stacks evened back up when they saw a [Qs][9d][3h] flop in a limped pot. IneedMassari checked to rumnchess, who bet 200. IneedMassari raised to 550, rumnchess reraised to 900, IneedMassari shoved for 2,417 and rumnchess made the call. Both players turned over monster hands, rumnchess with [As][Qh] for top pair, top kicker and IneedMassari having craftily limped in with pocket kings. The kings held and they were back to square one.

About five minutes later all the chips were in the middle again, IneedMassari’s [As][Kd] dominating rumnchess’ [Ks][Qd]. The board ran out [Kc][6d][3c][9c][5c], and rumnchess departed in third place while IneedMassari advanced to the final table.

Brazilians love a good sporting match, even one played out via blinking screens and mouse clicks. Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari got the party started, letting out a hearty “VAMOOOOOOOOO!” in the chat box in support of his fellow countryman IneedMassari, who hails from Belo Horizonte. The only thing we know about Belo Horozonte is that the New York Times once called it “the bar capital of Brazil” so it is entirely possible Akkari is quite familiar with the locale.

IneedMassari leapt out to a 3-1 chip lead after taking down two significant pots. In the first, AJacejackAJ attempted a triple-barrel bluff with only jack high IneedMassari picking him off with second pair. In the second, AJacejackAJ check-raised a [Kh][Jc][7d] flop, earned a call, and then fired a second bullet on the turn when the [3s] fell. IneedMassari called again. The river was the [Ah] and AJacejackAJ check-folded to IneedMassari’s 1,000-chip bet.

AJacejackAJ made a nice comeback, pulling their stacks back to even when IneedMassari forced another fold on the river in this hand:

IneedMassari induced another big fold from AJacejackAJ only a few minutes later. IneedMassari called AJacejackAJ’s pre-flop min-raise and they saw a [Kh][7c][3s] flop. IneedMassari check-raised AJacejackAJ’s 160-chip bet to 375, only to bet met with a reraise to 720. IneedMassari four-bet to 1,111 AJacejackAJ five-bet to 1,502 and IneedMassari shoved for 7,404 total. AJacejackAJ gave up his hand, electing to save his last 774 in chips.

AJacejackAJ doubled up four hands later with [Jh][Th] against [As][9c] (jack on the river), but his chips were in the middle again on the next deal, his open-ended straight draw up against IneedMassari’s overpair and gutshot. Here’s how the hand played out:

“BRASILLLLLLLLL!” shouted Akkari in the shout box as IneedMassari locked up his first WCOOP title and the $78,438 first-place prize. For his runner-up finish, AJacejackAJ earned $41,526.

WCOOP Event #12 ($215 Heads-Up NLHE) Results

1. IneedMassari ($78,438.00)
2. AJacejackAJ ($41,256.00)
3. rumnchess ($25,377.00)
4. Bad_Fidel ($25,377.00)
5. elitelive ($12,688.50)
6. Ryland1989 ($12,688.50)
7. Atmosphere23 ($12,688.50)
7. AndyCole ($12,688.50)

There is still plenty of time to get in on the WCOOP action and there are satellites available for every bankroll. Check out the WCOOP page for more details and a full schedule. For highlights, interviews, and multimedia goodies, head over to PokerStars.tv.

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Poker champions play the numbers. There is only so much feel or instinct that goes into it. The good players know the math is eventually going to win.

Among those people is Jaime “Xaston” Kaplan, the winner of WCOOP Event #6, a $215 no-limit hold’em turbo freakshow of a tournament. Kaplan won more than $200,000 for first place in that event on talents he acquired reading a few books back in the day.

“I read Winning Low-Limit Hold’em. This taught me to fold bad hands,” Kaplan said. ”Then I read Super System. This taught me to continuation bet even if I didn’t fop top pair or a good draw.  Then I read The Theory of Poker.  This taught me everything else I ever learned about poker.”

So, he’s got a solid foundation in the game. He’s read the important books. He’s made his bones among the best. He’s done what he needs to do. Of course, as far as he’s concerned, it could all be just a bunch of meaningless bits and bytes.

“I think that there’s about a 15% chance that we are all in a computer simulation of 2010 right now, being run on a supercomputer at some point in the future,” he said.

Chew on that for a second while we go back over Kaplan’s past.

See, the kid learned draw poker before he was eight years old. Some years later, he would learn all the dealer’s choice games like Guts and Anaconda. Then his neighbor saw Chris Moneymaker win the 2003 WSOP and introduced hold’em to the mix.

“I hated it. There were no wild cards and you couldn’t trade any of your cards for new ones!” Kaplan admitted. “But I was super competitive. All he was better than me at was swimming and pogo sticking, and I wasn’t about to let him claim no-limit hold’em as another. So, I bought a book on the game and never looked back.”

Now 24, years old Kaplan can look back on that time with a smile. See, in 2009 he took fifth in the WCOOP Main Event for $482,400, to this day his biggest win. Despite that and several other big finishes in his career, Kaplan never had a big first place finish until this week’s bracelet victory. It was a back-climbing monkey he was happy to shake off.

It’s not always been so easy for the young man. He says that as an adolescent he had some inpatient therapy for a while.

“I thought life sucked,” he said, “but then I saw people who had real problems and have loved life ever since.”

It’s a philosophical diet based on the TV series The Wire, the novel Shantaram, and the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, and one that’s led him to look at poker as a simple game, a three-act play in which he plays the protagonist. He looks at what he has, figures his opponents’ range, and then combines the two to make the best play based on that he knows.

“Rinse and repeat,” he said.

Thus, it’s a happy, easy life Kaplan leads these days. He’d call himself a full-time pro (because he only earns his money playing cards) but he says he’s too lazy to even call what he does working. Still he has the money to buy a Chevy Volt in a couple of months and, if he manages to double what he’s won so far in this year’s WCOOP, he plans to book a $200,000 Virgin Galactic space flight.

As of this moment, Kaplan sits atop the 2010 WCOOP leaderboard. As far as many other people are concerned, he could as easily be sitting atop the world.

But then there’s that whole playing-the-numbers thing. If we’re to accept Kaplan’s self-professed assumption that we are 15% likely to just be part of a matrix-ish simulation, the math would tell us to proceed as if we’re not.

But then you have to think about it a little bit. Here we are, a bunch of addled poker players playing a simulation of the game on a computer. Our money and buy-ins go across the table as little packets of simulated information. To a degree, we’re controlling the money’s destiny and conducting our own little three-act plays on virtual tables in a virtual poker world. And yet, it’s as real as the $2 million the winner of the main event will get in a couple of weeks.

So then, even if we are a simulation as Kaplan suggests is a possibility, should we act any differently than we would if all of this were real?

“It’s interesting,” Kaplan concludes.

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Almost exactly one year ago, it took Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov nearly 24 straight hours of poker to capture the WCOOP heads-up title. Katchalov won 11 consecutive matches during this feat of endurance and should probably have received a medal, a stiff drink, and a new puppy along with his his bracelet for making it through the marathon session. For WCOOP 2010, however, the powers that be at PokerStars showed their players (and bloggers) some mercy and transformed Event #12, $215 Heads-up NLHE, into a two-day event. After an extremely manageable nine and a half hours of play, the 2,307-strong field was cut to the 64 runners who will return to the virtual felt tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. EDT to play down to a new WCOOP champion.

Over 30 members of Team PokerStars Pro and Team PokerStars Online came out to prove their heads-up prowess and compete for a share of the $461,400 prize pool. Among them were Barry Greenstein, Anh Van Nguyen, Thierry Van Den Berg, Anders “Donald” Berg, David Williams, Bertrand Grospellier, George Danzer, Gualter Salles, Jason Mercier, Joe Cada, George “jorg95″ Lind III, J.P. Kelly, Daniel Negreanu, Marcello Del Grosso, Chris Moneymaker, Randy “nanonoko” Lew, Orel Hershiser, Steven “stevejpa” Paul, Tom McEvoy, Vicky Coren, Victor Ramdin, and Steven “stevesbets” Jacobs. 256 places paid and the 64 players who survived Day 1 were all assured a payday of at least $1,384.20. Four Team Pros finished in the money– Marcello Del Grosso (205th), Jason Mercier (96th), Tae Joon Noh (74th), and Steven Paul (72nd)– while David Williams and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier will return for Day 2.

The Red (Spade) Army

Barry Greenstein won his Round II match when starcity85 moved all-in on the turn after making tens up when the board paired fives. Greenstein called with pocket jacks and they held up to send him through to the next round. His third-round match against fydor_8 ended in a coinflip, Greenstein’s pocket fours holding up against [Ah][8s]. However, Greenstein finished outside the money in 384th place when his ten-high straight fell to N00000ooooo’s king-high straight.

Marcello Del Grosso made quick work of his Round 4 opponent, winning his match in only five hands. All the money went in before the flop, Del Grosso’s [5d][5h] trailing MCLegend’s [9d][9c]. Del Grosso, though, got lucky and flopped a set. In the final hand of his Round V match, Del Grosso tried to move his opponent off top pair, shoving over Aptok’s his check-raise with only [Ah][2h] on a [Kh][3c][2s] flop. Aptok called with [Kc][8c] and made trips on the turn when the [Ks] fell. The river was the [Th] and Del Grosso exited in 205th place.

Jason Mercier won a flip for all the bones in his Round II match, his [Kh][Qs] rivering top pair against 1$sickDisea$e’s pocket eights. In the third round, Mercier called a pre-flop raise with [Kh][4d], then made trips when the flop came down [8d][4c][4h]. Mercier check-raised the flop, got a call, then got two more streets of maximum value after Nanette-1965 made top pair on the turn. Round IV saw Mercier get it in bad pre-flop, his [Ad][7s] dominated by [As][Jd]. However, Mercier flopped a seven and turned another one, taking down the match with trips. Winning Round V also took another stroke of luck as Mercier rivered trips against an opponent who made aces up. Check it out.

Mercier met his tournament end in the final round of Day 1, moving all-in with [7h][8h] on a [9h][8d][2d] flop. Xxndavisxx called with [7c][Tc], turned a straight when the [6d] fell, then rivered a better straight with the [Jc], sending Mercier to the rail in 96th place.

Steven “stevejpa” Paul was able to win five matches, but not a sixth. Paul lost most of his stack when he five-bet shoved pre-flop with [Ac][3h] only to run in to GoGators86’s pocket kings.

“Sigh i’m the worst,” he said as the board blanked out.

Paul was eliminated on the next hand after turning top two pair only to have his opponent river a broadway straight. His run ended with a 72nd place finish.

The Texan and the Frenchman

David Williams won his Round III match when he rivered a king-high flush against SizouSayz’s queen-high flush. In the fourth round, his decisive hand came when he three-bet shoved over morten85’s 120-chip min-raise. Morten85 called the additional 4,002 with [Ac][Kd], but Williams’s pocket sevens flopped a set. The last of morten85’s chips went in on a [5h][Qc][Kd][Qs] board, Williams making the call. Although morten85 turned trip queens with [Qd][Jh], Williams had [Kh][Kc] and took down the match with kings full.

The decisive hand of Williams’ Round V match saw all the money go in on a [Qs][2s][Th] flop, Williams holding top two pair with [Qc][Ts] while ezhik09 was in dire shape with [Qd][4c]. A short time later, Williams punched his ticket to the final 64 when he called a four-bet shove with [As][Ac] and saw his hand hold up against MagicMan111’s [Ah][Qs].

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier took down his third-round match when his pocket jacks held up against pocket eights. Grospellier sealed up his Round IV match when his straight draw came in against a set, then scored another KO in Round V with pocket kings against [As][Qs]. In the sixth round, ElkY had pulled out to a 4-1 chip lead when DEEZZZ_NUTS decided to make a move. DEEZZZ_NUTS led out for 120 on the [Js][Jd][5h] flop, Grospellier min-raised to 240 ad DEEZZZ_NUTS shoved for 1,784. Grospellier made an easy call and he advanced to the final 64 once the [9c] hit the turn and the [6d] fell on the river.

The best of times, the worst of times

So, you know that sick, anxious malaise that comes over you when you’ve bluffed off all your chips drawing dead? Mattsim23 had to be drowning in it after he made an ill-timed move on Kevin “BeL0WaB0ve” Saul in their Round V match.

Saul, however, was eliminated in the sixth round on a wicked cooler. Innamon opened for a min-raise to 100, Saul three-bet to 325 and innamon called. Saul led out for 342 on the [As][Tc][9s] flop, and innamon called. The turn paired the board with the [Ts] and Saul fired again, making it 755 to go. Innamon shoved for 4,461.

“I hate hero folding,” Saul said as he called off the rest of his stack.

Both players turned over trip tens, but innamon had the better kicker with [Qh][Th] while Saul held [Td][6d]. The river was the [5d] and Saul exited in 128th place, earning $922.80.

#1 Lucky who?

Dope West was so tardy to his Round IV match that his opponent #1_Lucky_One had no choice but to allow him to be blinded off after sitting out for as long as he could.

#1_Lucky_One: used 50 secs of my clock
#1_Lucky_One: and waited max time every hand all i can do
#1_Lucky_One: stealing i clould have bsuted him already ***
1_Lucky_One: I could have blinded him out already 100%
#1_Lucky_One: I could speed hit call
#1_Lucky_One: everyhand
#1_Lucky_One: Instead of waiting max time
#1_Lucky_One: waiting seems fair
#1_Lucky_One: 64 secs left on my clock
#1_Lucky_One: giving him cachance

As #1_Lucky_One waited for dope west, the observer chat seemed to indicate that the man behind the screen name was actually 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth. However, since #1_Lucky_One did not confirm his identity, we cannot definitively say it was him. What we can tell you is that once dope west showed up and read some of the chatter, he was flabbergasted at the potential identity of his opponent.

dope west: what happen
dope west: he was easy on me?
#1_Lucky_One: Yes I folded anf doled
dope west: OH MAN
dope west: phil hellmuth?
dope west: seriously my idol
dope west: PHIL THANK YOU FOR INSPIRING and being a gentleman and waiting
#1_Lucky_One: whoever i am, your welcome
#1_Lucky_One: lol

Dope west ended up busting #1_Lucky_One. All the money went in before the flop, dope west with [Kh][Kd] and #1_Lucky_One holding [Ac][Qc]. Dope west flopped top set but #1_Lucky_One could not live up to his name and pull out a miracle.

Make sure to check back in at 5 p.m. EDT tomorrow for the final six rounds of play. If you have yet to get in on the WCOOP action, well what are you waiting for? Head over to the WCOOP page for more information and a complete schedule. If multimedia is your thing, make your way over to PokerStars.tv for the best of WCOOP in moving pictures.

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Many years ago, I walked into one of the L.A. card barns and picked up a pamphlet for a tournament series. The series included an event called “Headhunter Hold’em” was. I corralled a staff member who explained that each player in that event had a bounty on their head. Anyone could collect the bounty by eliminating the player.

I’m not sure anyone calls them “headhunter” tournaments anymore – not even in the rough-and-tumble L.A. poker rooms. PokerStars calls them knockout tournaments, and this year included four knockout tournaments on the WCOOP schedule for the first time. Event #10, $265 Pot-Limit Omaha (Knockout), was the first up in the rotation. The format seems to be popular with players, as 1,493 registered for Event #10. 198 of them would split the main prize pool of $298,600. The knockout pool of $74,650 would be carved up $50 at a time, going to the bounty hunters fortunate enough to knock out other players.

27 members of Team PokerStars Pro and Team PokerStars Online channeled their inner Boba Fett and registered for this unique format. Only four hit pay dirt. Team Pro Martin “AABenjaminAA” Hruby and Team Online player Steven “stevejpa” Paul both went out in the bottom half of the money. Fellow Team Online player Jorge Arias significantly improved on Paul’s finish, making it all the way to the final two tables before bowing out in 17th place.

Then there was Team Pro Jason Mercier, a man who happens to have won a WSOP gold bracelet in PLO. He stayed in the top 20 counts for most of Event #10 and was one of the nine players that assembled on the final table:

Seat 1: JasonMercier (569060 in chips)
Seat 2: PieniFisu (390377 in chips)
Seat 3: tirre_66 (975498 in chips)
Seat 4: zenman (831236 in chips)
Seat 5: IamBuddhaa (833771 in chips)
Seat 6: Surrey Rock (589643 in chips)
Seat 7: nilsef (1573939 in chips)
Seat 8: F.Briatore (970116 in chips)
Seat 9: Pylusha (731360 in chips)

The first final-table elimination occurred on the third hand of play. F.Briatore’s opening raise to 33,900 was three-bet by the short stack, PieniFisu, from the big blind. F.Briatore called to a flop of [tc][2c][5h], where the rest of the chips went in. PieniFisu showed aces and a wheel draw, [as][ad][jc][4h]. PieniFisu need that to hold against F.Briatore’s [9c][8c][5s][3s], a pair and a flush draw. The turn [ts] took away a few of F.Briatore’s outs, giving PieniFisu two pair aces and tens. It didn’t matter; the river [5d] made trip fives for F.Briatore to snatch a pot worth more than 1 million in chips and a $50 bounty. PieniFisu was gone in ninth place.

Mercier was the new short stack but doubled through Surrey Rock to give himself space to work. Surrey Rock went out a few hands later in by “bink”ing the turn and getting bonked by the river:

The rest of the players treaded water until F.Briatore and Pylusha went to war. Each flopped a pair and a straight draw on a [8d][6s][8c] flop, Pylusha with [ac][9s][7c][7s] and F.Briatore with [ad][5d][6h][7h]. This round went to F.Briatore when the turn blanked and the river came the [4c]. Pylusha exited in 7th place, while F.Briatore took over the chip lead and picked up a second final-table bounty.

“I really wish my rail was allowed to type,” said Mercier when play moved to six-handed. He called out several friends by screen name who were sweating the action but unable to type anything into the chat box.

Through a series of small pots, the medium stacks of IamBuddhaa, zenman and tirre_66 evened out at about 800,000. F.Briatore’s 2.5 million was in the pole position, with nilsef sitting second behind 1.8 million. That put Mercier in the position of short stack again, with about 650,000. He didn’t seem concerned; he spent a solid 15 minutes typing the lyrics of “Bed Intruder Song”, the latest viral video sensation, into the chat box.

He gon find you, he gon find you…

The players were still six-handed when the next scheduled fifteen-minute break arrived. Upon the resumption of play, the eliminations came rapid fire. tirre_66 got things rolling by taking the worst of it with double-suited aces against double-suited aces:

A few hands later, nilsef put an end to “Bed Intruder Song” – and to Mercier – when the two engaged in a series of pre-flop raises that left Mercier all in. He showed [qh][jh][9d][8h] against nilsef’s aces, [ad][as][6h][2h]. Mercier flopped an inside straight draw, [3c][5s][7d], and turned a pair and another inside straight draw with the [jd]. But he couldn’t bink the river, a [3d] that secured the pot for nilsef. Mercier exited in fifth place, collecting $14,631.40.

Exactly seven hands after Mercier’s elimination, zenman flopped top two pair against F.Briatore’s bottom set. It didn’t end well for zenman, who was unable to spike his four-outer or any running draws to overtake F.Briatore. Fourth place was worth $20,304.80 for zenman and left three players in the running: F. Briatore with 4 million, nilsef with 2.7 million and IamBuddhaa with 650,000.

F.Briatore found himself on the other end of the same situation a few hands later, flopping top and bottom pair with [ad][kh][qc][3c] against nilsef’s top set, [qh][qd][th][9c], on a [qs][4d][3h] board. The chips were all in the middle and all slid to nilsef after the [6c] turn and [5h] river, launching nilsef to 5.4 million.

F.Briatore was still alive but cut down to 1.25 million. His stack rapidly dwindled from there, first by doubling up IamBuddhaa and then through a series of small losses. He found himself all again against IamBuddhaa once, rivering a queen to stay alive. But shortly thereafter he moved in his last ten big blinds on a flop of [tc][8c][3d] with a pair of eights, [5d][js][8s][6h]. nilsef flopped two pair, [8h][th][jd][qc] and took the pot when the board came running aces.

Despite having a 6-to-1 chip lead, as soon as the tournament was heads-up nilsef offered to deal with IamBuddhaa.

“You serious?” IamBuddhaa replied. “What are you offering?”

nilsef suggested a chip-count chop, but the chip-chop numbers would only give IamBuddhaa an extra $1,500. IamBuddhaa quickly declined and play resumed.

With 22 big blinds and no antes, IamBuddhaa could be patient, as had been the case throughout most of the final table, and pick good spots. Taking a flop of [8c][9h][9d] holding [5s][7c][8h][8s] must have seemed like a great spot, especially when nilsef was only too eager to get the chips in. But it turned out to be the worst kind of cooler as nilsef showed down [9s][8d][7h][3h] to leave IamBuddhaa drawing stone dead on the flop (something that’s exceedingly difficult to do in PLO). After perfunctory turn and river cards, nilsef delivered the final knockout, collected one last $50 bounty, and was declared champion of WCOOP 2010 Event 10.

WCOOP 2010 Event 10: $265 Pot-Limit Omaha (Knockout) results:

1st place: nilsef ($50,015.50)
2nd place: IamBuddhaa ($36,578.50)
3rd place: F.Briatore ($27,620.50)
4th place: zenman ($20,304.80)
5th place: Jason Mercier ($14,631.40)
6th place: tirre_66 ($11,645.40)
7th place: Pylusha ($8,659.40)
8th place: Surrey Rock ($5,673.40)
9th place: PieniFisu ($3,075.58)

Ten events have been completed at the 2010 WCOOP, but there are still more than 50 to be played. Get the schedule and all the up-to-date WCOOP statistics at the WCOOP home page. Also be sure to check out PokerStars.tv for more reports on all of the action.

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One could expect a guy to get cocky after winning more than half a million dollars in one of the most important online poker tournaments around. It’s not uncommon for people like that to find themselves floating around on a cloud of delusion that has a special seat for their particular brand of poker-deism. Or, in plainer terms, a lot of big winners think they’ve got it all figured out.

So when David “CrabMaki” Shallow took down the high-rolling $10,000 buy-in Event #2 of the 2010 World Championship of Online Poker, he didn’t climb up to the mountaintop and declare himself Zeus. He didn’t point and poke at runner-up Team PokerStars Pro Ville Wahlbeck and say anything nasty. When given the chance to talk nice-nice about himself, Shallow didn’t dare. He knows the score and it fits right in with his basic poker philosophy.

“Dont be results orientated. Don’t tilt,” Shallow said. “Just because a load of good players think something is right, doesnt make it right. Think independently.”

Such a philosophy almost sounds humble, doesn’t it? And humble is as humble does, it appears. Shallow took his screen name from a sushi roll (er…raw fish). As early as six years ago when he started playing poker, he described winning his WSOP seat as luck and his performance as, in his words, “useless.”

And yet, he sensed he might have something. The man from England gave up law school to play poker. He flirted with the big time and just missed some big scores in live events. Then he found online pot-limit Omaha and a goldmine that has afforded him some six-figure days.

Still, until this week, he had nothing like a six-figure score that began with the number six. Indeed, it was a $605,655 win that he scored heads-up against Wahlbeck, a man who gives credit where it’s due.

“I really would have wanted to win it, especially since I am a new Team PokerStars Pro and I’m kind of eager to prove them that they signed a first rate player,” Wahlbeck said. ” But CrabMaki played great and he deserved the win. I had my lucky breaks during the tourney, so if I look back, I’m happy with the second place.”

Shallow may have had some big success this week, but his ambitions are as varied as the rolls at his London sushi joints. He’s made it through some early interviews on The Apprentice. He wants to own a restaurant. He wants a lot and he aims to get it. He knows it will just take some time and adherence to his way of looking at his present money-maker.

“Poker is an unsolved game, so be creative,” he said.

For more on Shallow’s win, see: CrabMaki King of Event #2 ($10,300 NLHE)

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Introduced by PokerStars less than a month ago, Triple Stud has already proven a popular choice on the site. Players of stud games — in which the order of things often changes with every street — are used to making constant adjustments. Add to that the necessity to shift through three different stud variants — seven-card stud (high only), razz, and stud high/low eight-or-better — and you have a true challenge of poker acumen.

Got a cool name, too. Way cooler than referring to it as “H.O.R.S.E.’s back end.”

As further proof of Triple Stud’s popularity, 788 players entered the $215 buy-in WCOOP Event #8. That added up to a prize pool of $157,600, with the top 104 finishers getting paid. The eight players making the final table were all guaranteed at least $2,364, with the winner due to take $29,550, the bracelet, and the honor of being the first-ever WCOOP Triple Stud stud.

For the tournament, play rotated between stud, razz, stud H/L (in that order), with the game changing every 20 minutes along with an increase in antes and stakes. After an hour of play, Team PokerStars Netherlands pro Marcel Luske had surged into second place, with his fellow team members George Danzer and Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu both hovering just outside the top 20.

Nominees Talk Poker Hall of Fame

Negreanu was seated at Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein’s table in the early going, and the many railbirds gathering gave their table a “feature table” kind of feel. The WSOP recently announced who were the top ten most nominated players for this year’s Poker Hall of Fame, and both Negreanu and Greenstein were among that group. An observer congratulated the pair, and a discussion began among both those watching and those playing about the upcoming vote for the 2010 class.

One observer suggested Negreanu (aged 36) to be too young at present to be inducted. “It’s the only time I’ve had an edge on daniel by being older,” quipped Greenstein in the chatbox.

Kid Poker responded by saying if he had a vote he’d pick Jennifer Harman and Eric Drache, the WSOP’s first tournament director and significant contributor to tournament play, the creation of satellites, and a guiding force behind the establishing of many Vegas poker rooms. Greenstein agreed with Negreanu’s endorsement of Drache, and as the conversation continued it was noted that Drache has played for high stakes for a number of years, with his chosen game being — appropriately — stud.

Amid the gabbing, players continued to fall, and at the three-and-a-half hour mark the field had already been chopped in half. Luske continued his good start, sitting with the most chips at that point out of the 394 remaining. Bill Chen had cracked the top thirty as well. However, both Luske and Chen — as well as Greenstein and Negreanu — would fall short of the cash, as would all of the other PS pros (16 in all) who entered Event #8, save one.

Making the Money

The money bubble finally burst just after the six-hour mark, with serbie, megastacks, JBROO, albari, and VietCutie all at the top of the counts. Darus Suharto of Team PokerStars Canada was on the list, too, in 70th place out of the 104 remaining. An hour later they were down to 50 players, with naumans out in front as the only player with more than 200,000 chips, and Suharto still kicking just outside of the top 30.

With about 40 players remaining, Podlodka2001 moved into the chip lead after claiming half the pot in a wacky four-way Stud H/L hand with GLF13, Mercury7077, and valdemaar74. The four players each put three bets in on third street, then the fun continued all of the way to seventh where GLF13 finally stepped aside. Watch as both Mercury7077 and valdemaar74 make wheels, while Podlodka2001 hits a one-outer on seventh street to claim the high half of the pot.

Suharto finally succumbed in 32nd place, knocked out in a Stud H/L hand by PairStars. Meanwhile, Podlodka2001 continued to be aggressive, increasing his lead as the tourney moved toward the final table. Sensor, who won a WCOOP bracelet in 2008 in a $215 H.O.R.S.E. event and who final tabled another stud event in the WCOOP in 2007, was eliminated in 15th place. And McMang, winner of
the 2010 SCOOP #29-High event ($3,150 8-game mix) back in May, would go out in 11th.

Trouble on the Bubble
An interesting situation arose on the final table bubble when the game changed from Stud H/L to Razz. CianoMar won a couple of hands early in the level, and had a stack of more than 325,000, a bit below average at the time, but enough for middle of the pack. Then things got weird.

First CianoMar took a hand to sixth street showing Q-9-J-4 before folding. Then CianoMar fired away starting K-T, eventually making it all of the way to the river before mucking. It was evident CianoMar hadn’t noticed the switch to razz, and suddenly was in danger of bubbling the final table with less than 100,000 chips!

CianoMar recovered, however, and had built back to nearly half a million by the end of the level. Meanwhile, mddgfc and mercury7077 had slipped to the back of the pack on the other table. At last, almost exactly 10 hours after the tourney had begun, Anna “VietCutie” Wroblewski eliminated mercury7077 in a stud H/L hand, and the final table was set.

Seat 1: CianoMar — 636,516
Seat 2: mddgfc — 288,861
Seat 3: miw210 — 165,374
Seat 4: ozenc — 979,464
Seat 5: GVOZDIKA55 — 344,440
Seat 6: Podlodka2001 — 576,319
Seat 7: Glücksi203 — 411,767
Seat 8: VietCutie — 537,259

From Eight to Four

Still in the stud H/L level, it wasn’t long before a huge three-way hand developed between VietCutie, GVOZDIKA55, and chip leader ozenc. After each put in two bets on third (calling GVOZDIKA55’s raise), the betting was capped on fourth street, with VietCutie pushing the action. Her two opponents then called VietCutie’s bets on fifth, sixth, and seventh, with the final bet putting GVOZDIKA55 all in.

At the showdown, VietCutie showed [6s][7h][5c][4d][As][8d][Jh], an eight-high straight and a 7-6-5-4-A low. She was best both ways, as both ozenc and GVOZDIKA55 mucked, with the latter going out in eighth place. Taking that massive 760,000-chip pot meant Wroblewski had wrested the chip lead from ozenc, moving up to 1.24 million to ozenc’s second-place 810,464.

The next elimination would come near the end of the subsequent level in stud (high) hand. After Podlodka2001 brought in for 7,500 with the [2d], miw201 made it 25,000 to go with [8d]. The others got out, and Podlodka reraised. miw210 then reraised again, Podlodka followed suit, and miw210 called all in for 8,374.

miw210 held [Kd][8h][8d], while Podlodka2001 had [Ac][Qs][2d]. miw201 would pick up two aces by seventh street to make two pair, but Podloka2001 drew out [Js][3d][Ts][Kc] to end with a Broadway straight, eliminating miw210 in seventh.

The game changed to razz, at which point mddgfc — who had been nursing a short stack for a while — decided to call CianoMar’s opening raise on third street. mddgfc would call again on the next three streets, finally putting the last chips in on sixth. By then, CianoMar held (A)-(2)-6-Q-6-5 and mddgfc (4)-(2)-5-K-7-4. The river brought CianoMar a king, making for a not-so-great queen-low. But mddgfc paired up again, drawing a seven on seventh, and thus hit the rail in sixth place.

That hand pushed CianoMar up to 955,338 and past Podlodka2001 into second place, not far behind leader VietCutie who had a bit more than 1.03 million. Meanwhile, ozenc had become the short stack with less than 400,000, and when the game changed to stud H/L, ozenc — down to 160,901 chips (at 40,000/80,000 stakes) — found a hand with which to try to turn things around.

With the [Qc] up ozenc raised, and Glücksi203 reraised with the [Jh] showing, prompting further reraises until ozenc was all in. The down cards were flipped over to show that both players had paired their door cards, putting ozenc in front to start. But by the time all streets were dealt, ozenc had failed to improve on that pair of queens, while Glücksi203 picked up a second pair of aces. ozenc was out, and just four remained.

From Four to Two

Glücksi203 would win a few more stud H/L hands, taking the lead away from VietCutie. Soon those two would push out further, while the stacks of Podlodka2001 and CianoMar began to shrink to just a couple of big bets each. With the stakes 50,000/100,000 and the game stud (high), CianoMar was all in on third street against VietCutie. The remaining cards were dealt:

CianoMar: (Th)-(As)-6c-7d-Ac-4s-(8d) — a pair of aces
VietCutie: (9c)-(Qh)-2c-Qd-7s-2h-(Kh) — two pair, queens and deuces

And CianoMar was out in fourth place. About ten minutes later the game was still stud (high), and a series of raises put Podlodka2001 all in on third street, this time against Glücksi203. And here’s how that battle went.

Podlodka2001: (7d)-(3h)-Ac-Kh-9d-7s-(6s) — a pair of sevens
Glücksi203: (Kd)-(2d)-2c-2h-6d-5h-(Jd) — three deuces

Podlodka2001 was done in third, and the tourney had arrived at heads-up.

Heads-Up

Glücksi203 and VietCutie were nearly even in chips to begin their duel, with Glücksi203 at 2,032,297 and VietCutie 1,907,703.

The pair began with stud (high). Wroblewski — also known as the “Poker Pixie” — started out taking an early advantage, but soon began to slip. After 11 minutes they’d reached the end of the stud level, with
Glücksi203 up to 2.52 million to VietCutie’s 1.41 million. Fifteen minutes later they’d nearly finished the next razz level when they arrived at a scheduled break. By then, Glücksi203 was up close to 3.38 million and VietCutie down to just over 560,000.

Play resumed, and soon — a little over 12 hours after the first hands of the tournament were dealt — the end would finally arrive. They’d moved to stud H/L, and VietCutie was down to just 294,703 chips when the hand began, while Glücksi203 had 3,645,297. With the [8d] showing, VietCutie brought in for 24,000, and Glücksi203 made it 80,000 to go with the [Ts]. VietCutie called. Glücksi203 would lead with bets on fourth and fifth, and VietCutie called both times, the last bet putting her all in. Their down cards were turned over to show VietCutie with ([4s])-([6h])-[8d]-[Td]-[9d] and Glücksi203 with ([Jc])-([8h])-[Ts]-[Qd]-[8s].

Glücksi203 would pick up two kings on sixth and seventh — [Kd][Kc] — making two pair, while VietCutie would draw [Th][Qc], leaving her with just a pair of tens and no low.

Congratulations to Glücksi203, 2010 WCOOP Event #8 Champion!

WCOOP Event #8 ($215 Triple Stud) Results
1st place: Glücksi203 ($29,550)
2nd: VietCutie ($21,276)
3rd: Podlodka2001 ($15,760)
4th: CianoMar (11,820)
5th: ozenc ($7,880)
6th: mddgfc ($5,516)
7th: miw210 ($3,546)
8th: GVOZDIKA55 ($2,364)

Be sure to check out PokerStars.tv for more reports on all of the action. Check out the WCOOP site for the full schedule plus all of the results. And come back here to the PokerStars blog for ongoing coverage of the biggest online poker tournament series in the world!

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by Victor Ramdin
I predicted I was going to have a big World Series this year, and I came through for myself. I had the best World Series of my life. I had six cashes in only 16 events, and one final table. I cashed for over $75,000 total which, in a year when so many players went 0-fer, I am incredibly grateful for. Of course, I would like to bring home my first bracelet, but the second best thing is having a winning series.

My charity, Guyana Watch, ended up a winner this year as well. After the World Series, Dan Goldman, of the Poker Player’s alliance, myself, and several others all set course for Guyana almost immediately after this year’s WSOP. We saw 3,456 patients over the course of eight days, and through the efforts of Guyana Watch, we were later able to perform 15-20 more surgeries at the Westchester Medical Center in New York.

I did want to take a second to talk about a mistake I made, and is commonly made by a lot of players. Sometimes you’ll be deep in a tournament, and with decent chips, and the following situation occurs: someone min. raises your big blind.

In this particular case, it was in a $1,500 event at this year’s WSOP, and we were down to the last 35 players. I had 900k in chips, when blinds were at 10k/20k. I had [8c][2c] – a hand I would never play. But because this guy was min. raising, and I had plenty of chips, I decided I should see a flop.

Well, the flop came 10-8-2 and we managed to get it all in on the flop. He had A-10, and he binked an Ace on the turn. I had 900k in chips before starting that hand, and I lost 600k. That hand kept me from making my second final table at the WSOP this year.

Just because you have pot odds, it’s not always right to call a raise out of position with a stupid hand. You can’t let the odds get into your head all the time. With the blinds and antes, I thought I had the right odds. Even though I was ahead on the flop, I knew I was way behind pre-flop. I got myself into a situation where I was playing for the majority of my stack with only 35 players to go. Even though I got my money in good, I regret playing that hand, and definitely consider it to be a mistake on my part.

Up for me now: WCOOP. In addition to my World Series prediction, I also predicted that I would have the best online year of my life. I would say that I’ve already exceeded these expectations this year, but you can’t talk about a year in online poker without talking about the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker.

Every year with the WCOOP, PokerStars puts on the biggest online event of the year. Last year it broke all kinds of records for prize pools, payouts, and entries. I’m sure it’ll do the same this year. I’ll be playing as many of these events as I can, and just because I like a good deal – I’ll probably try to satellite my way in as practice. You can win your way into just about any event for just a couple of bucks. Sounds like a good deal to me.

Until next time, look for me on PokerStars during WCOOP. See you there!

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Five-card Draw. Although the rules are similar, this is not quite the same as the “Jacks or better to open” variation that your grandparents taught you at the kitchen table. This six-handed incarnation featured pot-limit betting, which guaranteed a rapid pace and appealed to fearless players with a proclivity to nonstop action.

Prior to the glorious poker boom in the early part of the 21st Century, Five-card Draw is what most people conjured up in their heads when you mentioned poker, mainly because of the steady integration of draw poker into television and movies. It wasn’t until Rounders hit the big screen in the late 1990s that no-limit Texas hold’em captured the attention of the poker playing public. After Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 WSOP Main Event championship, no-limit hold’em blew up across the board. It became the only game on the radar of mainstream poker audiences as hold’em attempted to corner the market on popular culture.

Draw poker didn’t translate very well to online play, which is why the pot-limit betting function spiced up what many considered to be an “old man’s game” that WWII vets played at American Legion halls. PokerStars didn’t add five-card draw to their cash game lobby until a few years ago. 2007 became the first year that a Five-card Draw tournament was introduced into the WCOOP schedule. These days, it’s hard to think about the yearly festival of poker without the throwback game. The first three titles were won by spielraum.at (2007), ImBillMcNeal (2008), and CesarSPA (2009).

Event #7 $215 PL Five-card Draw at the 2010 WCOOP attracted 596 runners. The prize pool squeaked past the $100K Guarantee. The top 78 places paid out, and the winner would take home $22,648 out of the $119,200 total prize pool.

Team PokerStars Pro JP Kelly playing in the WSOP Main Event

For most of the afternoon, Team PokerStars Pro JP Kelly drew a tough table with Zoutechamp, Gordo16, and shahmat all seated to his left. Gordo16 sat in the lead pack, while shahmat held the lead during the early stages of the tournament. Anders “Donald” Berg was the only other pro with a deep run, but along with Barry Greenstein, Marcel Luske, and ElkY, they all failed to advance to the money. JP Kelly got it all in pre-draw with a pair of Aces against two pair. His hand did not improve and he headed to the rail in 99th place.

Bubble Boy honors in Event #7 went to Science, better known as the guy who fell alseep during the middle of a SCOOP Omaha hi/lo event, yet still went on to win it. Science finished in an unfortunate 79th place.

Tom “luvgamble” Schneider, former WSOP Player of the Year, was one of the few notables who went deep in this event. On his bust out hand, Kroko-dill opened to 3,800, luvgamble raised to 14,600 from the big blind, Kroko-dill re-raised to 44,800, and luvgamble called all-in for his last 5,952. Kroko-dill drew only one card and luvgamble discarded three. At showdown, luvgamble’s pair of Jacks failed to improve and he lost to Kroko-dill’s two pair. Luvgamble was eliminated, but cashed in 39th place.

With three tables to go, Ig123456789 held the chip lead and maintained his place in front of the chase pack with two tables to go. Action slowed down, particularly leading up to the final table. On the bubble, hand-for-hand play included tables with four and three players respectively.

WiLDmAn75 bubbled off the final table in 7th place. He opened to 40,000, nyc_bullets raised to 70,000, and WiLDmAn75 called all-in for 9,297. Both players drew three cards, and yadda yadda yadda… WiLDmAn75’s pair of tens could not beat nyc_bullet’s pair of Jacks. The final table of six was set.

Final table chip counts:
Seat 1: Do4Love (499,183)
Seat 2: Poskromiciel (499,025)
Seat 3: Ig123456789 (1,312,153)
Seat 4: nyc_bullets (291,775)
Seat 5: danistiofi (206,648)
Seat 6: Kroko-dill (171,216)

Ig123456789 began the final table with the chip lead, in the same spot that he had occupied for the previous three hours. If anyone else was going to win this event, they would have to successfully launch an assault on Ig123456789’s massive stack.

Nyc_bullets, a young player from New York City, made his first final table and his third cash at this year’s series. His run in this event finally came to an abrupt end when he opened win a min-raise to 20,000. Danistiofi re-raised to 60,000, nyc_bullets re-raised to 130,000, danistiofi re-popped him to 290,000, and nyc_bullets called all-in for 116,296. Danistiofi stood pat, while nyc_bullets discarded two and prayed for an improvement. His trip treys and [3h][3s][3d][Jc][5c] were not good enough to win. The poker gods were very kind to danistiofi, who got dealt delicious offering of [Ad][Qd][Jd][9d[5d]. He dragged the pot with an ace-high flush. Nyc_bullets was eliminated in 6th place and won $3707.12.

Short-stacked Kroko-dill was the next player to hit the rail. Kroko-dill open-shoved for 48,716 and got called by Do4Love in the big blind. Kroko-dill drew 3 cards, but did not improve on a pair of sevens with [7c][7s][Ac][Qh][2d]. Do4Love discarded two, and won the hand with trip nines and [9s][9c][9d][As][Ks].

With four to go, Ig123456789 held more than 50% of the chips in play after he chipped up to over 1.5 million. His remaining three opponents were all treading water with 500K. Just when it seemed as though Ig123456789 was about to race past the 2 million chip mark, his initial advance was thwarted. Danistiofi made a tremendous stand and avoided elimination when he doubled through Ig123456789. His [Qd][Qc][Qs][7s][6d] for trip Queens bested Ig123456789’s [Ks][Kd][5c][4s][3h] and a pair of Kings.

Poskromiciel finally got into fracas when he won a 294,000 pot after being dealt a full house. He stood pat with [6s][6h][6d][Qc][Qs] and beat out Ig123456789, who mucked his losing hand. Poskromiciel improved to 857K, while Ig123456789 slipped to 1.2 million.

It didn’t take too long before Ig123456789 re-acquired his chips when he won a 602K pot with trip Kings against Poskromiciel. That hand triggered a chain of events as a sickly Poskromiciel was on death watch the rest of the tournament with a short stack. Ig123456789 won another pot against Poskromiciel with trip sevens, which propelled Ig123456789 over 2 million. Poskromiciel sunk to under 100K.

Poskromiciel finally reached his fate when he shoved all-in pre-draw for his last 31,469. Danistiofi called. Both players discarded three cards. At show down, danistiofi tabled [Td][Tc][6s][6d][4d] for two pair, which beat Poskromiciel’s [5s][5d][As][7s][2d] and a pair of fives. Poskromiciel won $8,344 for fourth place.

With three to go, Ig123456789 continued his chokehold on the lead with almost 60% of the chips in play. If Do4Love and danistiofi did not pick up any significant ground, then they were going to become distant memories as Ig123456789 sped up his march toward the WCOOP title.

Danistiofi started the final table as the short stack and clawed his way into the final three. He found himself on the brink of elimination more than once and fought back including a timely double up with two pair against Ig12345678. Alas, that was not enough.

Ig123456789 opened to 48,000, danistiofi shoved for 136,806 and was all-in pre-draw. Ig123456789 had him way covered and called. Ig123456789 drew only one card, and danistiofi discarded three. Danistiofi’s pair of Aces and [Ah][Ac][Kc][7s][5c] did not improve against Ig123456789’s two pair and [8s][8d][2h][2d][Tc]. Danistiofi was eliminated in third place. He took home $12,218.

Heads-up chip counts:
Seat 1: Do4Love (253,786)
Seat 3: Ig123456789 (2,726,214)

Heads-up match was set up. It could have been David vs. Goliath, but that was only if the serious under-advantaged Do4Love could mount a tremendous comeback. Essentially, with over 91% of the chips in play, the WCOOP title was Ig123456789’s to lose.

Do4Love did what he could to make it a contest and won five out of the first eight hands. However, Ig123456789 won 11 out of the next 12, including a 300K pot with a pair of Aces holding up against a pair of fours. That hand killed any momentum that Do4Love had built up at the onset of their heads-up match.

It took 38 hands before a winner was decided, but due to the overwhelming gap in chip counts, it seemed to end a lot faster than it did. On the final hand… Ig123456789 in-raised to 32,000, Do4Love re-raised to 104,000, Ig123456789 bumped it up to 256,000, which put Do4Love all-in for the rest of his 81,787. Both players discarded three cards. At showdown, the players revealed…

Do4Love: [Qh][Qd][Ac][Jd][8s]
Ig123456789: [As][Ad][9c][9h][Kh]

Do4Love’s pair of Queens were not good enough, and Ig123456789’s won the hand with two pair. You can also view the final hand in our fancy replayer. Just a reminder that RSS readers have to click through to this post to view the replayer.

Do4Love finished in second place and collected $16,688. Ig123456789 won the WCOOP title and received $22,648 for first place.

Final table results and payouts:
1. Ig123456789 – $22,648
2. Do4Love – $16,688
3. sanistiofi- $12,218
4. Poskromiciel – $8,344
5. Kroko-dill – $5,960
6. nyc_bullets – $2,707.12

Congrats to Ig123456789 for winning Event #7 $215 PL 5-Card Draw.

For stimulating visual coverage of the 2010 WCOOP, visit PokerStars.tv. Don’t forget to peruse the WCOOP homepage for the remaining schedule, event results, current player-of-the-year stats, satellite information, and much much more.

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Supersonic poker.

That’s the charm of turbo tournaments — fast paced and built for adrenaline junkies who don’t want to grind it out in a deep stacked tournament with structure so slow that you’re folding hand after hand after hand ad nauseam for 16 hours straight. Add the re-buy element and you have a recipe for a poker junkie’s nirvana. Where can you play a 1,600+ player tournament in less than four hours with a prize pool topping over $1.3 million?

Jamie “Xaston” Kaplan won this all-out sprint to claim his first WCOOP title. If his name sounds familiar, well, it is. Xaston made the final table of the WCOOP Main Event last year and finished up with an impressive 5th place performance, which netted him close to a half of a million dollars.

Xaston didn’t wait very long this year to make some noise. He beat former tennis pro Raj “BadcardsAA” Vohra heads-up in order to win Event #6 $215 NL Turbo. Because of the fast-paced structure, this might be the quickest run tournament at this year’s WCOOP. I know that we’re only six events in, but it’s going to be tough to finish a tournament faster than 3 hours and 49 minutes.

Event #6 attracted 1,667 thrill seekers. They added 3,918 re-buys and 937 add-ons to the $1,304,400 total prize pool. The top 216 places were paid out with $214,986.82 awarded to first place.

The turbo format featured escalating blinds every five minutes with the re-buy period lasting a full hour. Daniel Negreanu, Humberto Brenes, ElkY, and former major league baseball player Orel Hershiser were a few of the familiar faces who faded into oblivion before the money bubble burst. As expected, the players quickly raced toward the money. From the time cards went in the air, it took a mere 2 hours and 14 minutes before SkillVille bubbled out in 217th place, and the remaining 216 players were guaranteed a pay day.

George Lind III went the deepest among the Team PokerStars Pros with a 26th place finish. Several other Team PokerStars Pros made the money including Chris Moneymaker (60th), Steven-Paul Ambrose (87th), Barry Greenstein (146th), Randy “nanonoko” Lew (189th), and Sebastian Ruthenberg (206th).

Notable players who cashed included AJKHoiser1 (14th), Andy McLEOD (22nd), 2009 WCOOP Main Event champion Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko (30th), Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul (33rd), 2010 WSOP November Niner Joe “subiime” Cheong (95th), charder30 (119th), ShaunDeeb (124th), Dan “Lenny” Heimiller (194th) and JohnnyBax (213th).

With two tables to go, Xaston snapped off Kings with pocket nines. Yep, you guessed it — a nine on the river to sunk knecht_poker’s Kings. The perturbed player went out in 13th place, while Xaston rocketed to the top of the leaderboard with almost $3 million.

The dubious final table bubble boy honors went to Quebec’s Phil “takechip” D’Auteuil. The French Canadian pro got crippled on the previous hand before Xaston took him out in 10th place. Xaston began the final table as the chipleader, but with blinds rapidly increasing, the title was within the reach of any of the final nine players.

Final Table Chip Counts:
Seat 1: Xaston (3,040,016)
Seat 2: spikedag (1,555,676)
Seat 3: “0PIGGYBANK” (874,555)
Seat 4: SHAKAJAMES (1,761,008)
Seat 5: MeFishUShark (1,571,586)
Seat 6: AndASodaPop (824,166)
Seat 7: Schappuscha (1,116,651)
Seat 8: BadcardsAA (1,250,372)
Seat 9: BradL (1,986,970)

AndASodaPop, the shortest stack at the final table, was the first player to hit the road. MeFishUShark opened with a min-raise. AndASodaPop shoved all-in for 704,166. Sitting in the big blind, BadcardsAA re-raised all-in to 1,507,872. MeFishUShark folded, which left AndASodaPop fighting for his tournament life with [As][Qs] against BadcardsAA’s [Ac][Kd] and. BadcardsAA’s Big Slick held up to win the pot. AndASodaPop was eliminated in 9th place and won $13,044.

Short-stacked Schappuscha shoved with [Qh][Js]. Xaston called from the big blind with [Kc][2c]. The board ran out [Tc][7s][5h][8h] [4s] and he won the pot with just King-high. Schappuscha went out in 8th place and collected $22,827.

The game did not last seven-handed very long after two players busted simultaneously, with Xaston once again on the winning side of this melee. MeFishUShark open-shoved for 653,342. Xaston re-raised all-in from the small blind for almost 3.6 million. Spikedag called from the big blind with his last 1,363,176. The board ran out [5c][3s][2d][3d] [8d]. Xaston won the pot with [Ts][Tc]. His pair of tens won a flip against Spikedag’s [As][Kh]. MeFishUShark’s [Js][Th] was also futile. Spikedag finished in 6th place and won $48915.00,, while MeFishUShark busted in 7th place and won $35871.00.

“0PIGGYBANK” bottomed out shortly after when he shoved from the button with pocket eights and BadcardsAA insta-called from his big blind with [Ac][As]. “0PIGGYBANK” could not flop a set or catch a miracle. As a result, “0PIGGYBANK” went busto in 5th place, good enough for a $61,959 payout.

With four players to go, Xaston led the pack with almost 6 million before he claimed another victim. Short-stacked BradL lost a battle of the blinds when he shoved from his small blind with [Jd][8d] and Xaston called with [Js][Ts]. Xaston flopped a pair of tens, which held up. BradL was knocked out in 4th place and took home $87,394.80.

With three to go, it was a matter of time before Xaston and BadcardsAA got rid of SHAKAJAMES. On the decisive hand, SHAKAJAMES raised to almost 1.6 million from the small blind with [Qh][4s]. BadcardsAA called with [Ac][Kh] from the big blind. The board ran out [Jd][Td][5s][3d][Qs]. BadcardsAA rivered a Broadway straight to win the pot. SHAKAJAMES headed to the rail in 3rd place, but not before collecting $117,396 for his efforts.

When heads-up play began, Xaston had a 2.7 million lead over BadcardsAA, but one hand and BadcardsAA could easily be back in the event.

Event #6: Heads-Up Chip Counts
Seat 1: Xaston (8,348,844)
Seat 8: BadcardsAA (5,632,156)

On the 6th hand of heads-up play, an aggressive Xaston struck first to set the tone of the match. Xaston opened to 300,000 and BadcardsAA called. The flop was [Ac][Kd][3c]. BadcardsAA checked, Xaston bet 400,000, BadcardsAA check-raised to 980,000, but Xaston re-raised to almost 2 billion. BadcardsAA reached for more ammo and raised to 3.36 million. Xaston shoved all in for over 7.9 million and… Badcards folded. Xaston won the pot worth over 4.5 million and extended a 6-1 lead over BadcardsAA.

On the 16th hand of heads-up play, Xaston finally ditched BadcardsAA. Xaston shoved for over 12 million and BadcardsAA called. Xaston was ahead with [Kh][8c] against [Js][Tc]. Xaston’s King-high held up, he won the pot, and knocked out BadcardsAA.

For hisrunner-up performance, BadcardsAA won $156,528. Xaston collected $213,986.82 for first place, in addition to his first scoop title.

Event #6 $215+ R NLH Turbo Final Table Results:
1. Xaston – $213,986.82
2. BadcardsAA – $156,528
3. SHAKAJAMES – $117,396
4. BradL – $87,394.80
5. “0PIGGYBANK” – $61,959
6. spikedag – $48,915
7. MeFishUShark – $35,871
8. Schappuscha – $22,827
9. AndASodaPop – $13,044

For more coverage of the 2010 WCOOP head over to PokerStars.tv. Don’t forget to visit the WCOOP homepage for the full schedule, results, player-of-the-year stats, satellite information, and more.

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