WCOOP Event #19 Results

Event number 19 of the World Championship of Online Poker was a $25,000 buy-in Heads-up No Limit Hold’em tournament. The event had a $1.6 million guaranteed prize pool and quite a few players entered. However no byes were allowed so the playing field was cut down to sixty four players. Among those players were professional greats of the online variety as well as live players.

Several poker pros made it to the sweet sixteen matchup but would fall short of cashing out, those players were:  Daniel Negreanu, Chris Lee, Tom Dwan, John Duthie, Alex Venovski, ahh snap, Scott Seiver and Dario Minieri.

The top eight matchups were:

Vanessa Rousso against zivziv

PAW717 against Steven Jacobs

Victor Ramdin against Gavin Griffin and

brianm15 against Bertrand Grospellier.

The first two poker players to make it to the final four were Grospellier and Steven Jacobs. Griffin and zivziv would be the next two to make it to the final four. The four who were eliminated earned a cool 100,000 for their time.

The final four matchups were Griffin against Grospellier and Steven Jacobs against zivziv. Grosspellier would move on to the final match after beating Griffin with pocket aces. Jacobs would take out zivziv after earning most of his chips. The two cut during this match up earned $160,000.

Jacobs and Grospellier would play each other for the win very quickly. On the final hand Grospellier would have pocket threes against Jacobs pocket eights. The threes would not hold up and Jacobs would take the win and the $560,000 first place prize.

Finals results:

Winner: Steve Jacobs — $560,000
Runner-up: Bertrand Grospellier — $320,000
3rd-4th: zivziv, Gavin Griffin — $160,000
5th-8th: Vanessa Rousso, Victor Ramdin, PAW717, brianm15 — $100,000