WCOOP 2010 Update
Introduction.
With the World Championship of Online Poker 2010 well under way, we thought it time to give you an update on the big winners and games so far. WCOOP is, of course, sponsored by pokerstars and is every online poker players dream event, as anyone might find themselves sitting at a poker table with the top professional players, simply by qualifying through one of the numerous satellite poker games - some of which are even free. With 62 events and a total of $50 million to be won – surely its worth going online and at least seeing if you’re good enough to make some progress in this poker tournament.
The biggest wins so far.
David Shallow - the biggest winner so far at WCOOP 2010.
The biggest wins so far came earlier in September with two games offering a $2 million payout. The first was an afternoon game of No Limit Hold ‘em for high rollers with a buy-in of $10,300, then in the evening there was another NL Hold ‘em game, this time with the buy in at just $215. It might seem odd to have had a high roller game starting in the afternoon to possibly favor Asian players, but in the end the $605k and gold bracelet first place was won by CrabMaki (the young Irishman David Shallow), beating PokerStars own professional Ville Wahlbeck into second place with a diamond flush. In the evening game the Algerian Joao Bauer took the gold bracelet and a check for $316k after beating cmpjo (Carlos Oliveira). This game took a near marathon 20 hours from start to finish and was finally decided by a pair of sevens!
In the lead so far.
Approaching the half way stage and cal42688 (all we know is he’s called Cal and he’s from the USA) is top of the leader board with 190 points with Kroko-dill (the Russian from Full Tilt Poker) is in second place, some way behind on 165 points. USA takes another 5 places in the top 10, with the other three spots being held by Hungary, Netherlands and Greece – so a truly international poker competition is shaping up this year.