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I made a case a while back (with lots of evidence) of why RaiseOnce on Pokerstars was very probably Phil Ivey. See this RaiseOnce Ivey post. But now I am essentially going to confirm it.

RaiseOnce was registered in the 10K WCOOP 8-Game (and sat out) and not registered for the running $5K WCOOP Main Event. The WSOPE Main Event in London was still running at the time (with Ivey still in it). Then when the WSOPE ME concluded for the evening about 20 mins later RaiseOnce sits into the WCOOP 8-Game and registers for the $5K WCOOP Main Event AND Ivey joins a table of $300/$600 PLO on Full Tilt within the same few minutes. The writing is on the wall. It is confirmed in every way shape and form apart from actually coming out of Ivey’s lips.

As a later after-note to this post: At 19.43 ET - he disconnected at both Stars and FTP at precisely the same time. Final confirmation really.

A very dramatic final table took place in the WCOOP Main Event on PokerStars, with many swings and bad beats taking place. The players agreed a chop with 5 players remaining. Here are the details of the agreement:

StaffBryanS [Host]: ckingusc: $1,065,432
StaffBryanS [Host]: liberace: $1,375,249
StaffBryanS [Host]: AJKHoosier1: $782,542
StaffBryanS [Host]: ShoesRDurrty: $801,153
StaffBryanS [Host]: Markush13: $961,718

They carried on playing with ckingusc picking up the win and the extra $200,000 left on the table

1st: ckingusc - $1,265,432
2nd: liberace - $1,375,249
3rd: AJKHoosier1 - $782,542
4th: Markush13 - $961,718
5th: ShoesRDurrty - $801,153

WCOOP 2008 Main Event

This is the current online MTT stats of the final table players

ckingusc $55,623 profit
liberace $79,181 profit
AJKHoosier1 $379,240 profit
Markush13 - Negative ROI from 333 MTTs, Qualified via a $215 satellite
ShoesRDurrty - Negative ROI from 11 MTTs, ABI $20!
Sumpas - Negative ROI from 335 MTTs, Qualified via a $215 satellite
klslcz - Negative ROI from 558 MTTs
BOLLPOKER - Negative ROI from 125 MTTs
kovi99 - Negative ROI from 801 MTTs

Event, Entrants, Winner, and 1st Prize

1. NL Holdem [6-max]
4610
samh133
$155,560.73

2. PL 5-Card Draw
857
spielraum.at
$26,265.54

3. PL Omaha [6-max]
1818
jalla79
$67,739.58

4. 2-7 Triple Draw
649
Donald
$32,450.00

5. NL Holdem
6025
AB_illusive
$398,648.93

6. PL Omaha w/rebuys
772
FossilMan
$168,362.40

7. Limit Holdem
2059
Cardinal7
$67,933.49

8. Limit Omaha H/L
917
copi
$87,882.76

9. NL Holdem w/rebuys
2188
ruthan
$198,125.66

10. NL Holdem Matchplay
1886
ugotmeyet?
$82,054.00

11. Razz
1176
OnlyPlayRagz
$41,136.79

12. HORSE
1639
jaliks
$72,116.00

13. PL Holdem
1090
antroff
$117,175.00

14. NL Holdem
3325
mig.com
$580,212.50

15. 7 Card Stud
696
Ubsolute
$25,000.00

16. PL Omaha H/L
1536
tiger76
$61,419.17

17. NL Hold’em [6-max]
2873
pes4fans
$167,553.36

18. 7 Card Stud H/L
598
BigLL
$48,367.32

19. PL Omaha
1046
buck21
$97,262.78

20. NL Hold’em Triple Shootout
729
lyerly
$76,545.00

21. HORSE
177
hairos
$202,921.00

22. Limit Holdem
616
Sowerss
$120,184.95

23. NL Hold’em Main Event
2998
ka$ino
$1,378,330.50

WCOOP 2007 Schedule (World Championship of Online Poker, held on PokerStars)

EVENT No DATE DAY TIME EVENT BUY-IN GUARANTEE
1 Sep.14 Friday 15:00 NL Hold’em [6-max] $215 $400,000
2 Sep.14 Friday 16:30 PL 5-Card Draw $215 $100,000
3 Sep.15 Saturday 15:00 PL Omaha [6-max] $215 $200,000
4 Sep.15 Saturday 16:30 2-7 Triple Draw $215 $100,000
5 Sep.16 Sunday 16:30 NL Hold’em $530 $2,000,000
6 Sep.17 Monday 15:00 PL Omaha w/Rebuys $320 $400,000
7 Sep.18 Tuesday 15:00 Limit Hold’em $215 $100,000
8 Sep.19 Wednesday 15:00 Limit Omaha H/L $530 $300,000
9 Sep.20 Thursday 15:00 NL Hold’em w/Rebuys $215 $1,000,000
10 Sep.21 Friday 15:00 NL Hold’em Match Play $320 $500,000
11 Sep.21 Friday 16:30 Razz $215 $100,000
12 Sep.22 Saturday 15:00 HORSE $215 $200,000
13 Sep.22 Saturday 16:30 PL Hold’em $530 $400,000
14 Sep.23 Sunday 16:30 NL Hold’em $1,050 $2,000,000
15 Sep.24 Monday 15:00 7 Card Stud $320 $100,000
16 Sep.25 Tuesday 15:00 PL Omaha H/L $320 $200,000
17 Sep.26 Wednesday 15:00 NL Hold’em [6-max] $320 $400,000
18 Sep.27 Thursday 15:00 7 Card Stud H/L $530 $200,000
19 Sep.28 Friday 15:00 PL Omaha $530 $300,000
20 Sep.28 Friday 16:30 NL Hold’em Triple Shootout $530 $200,000
21 Sep.29 Saturday 15:00 HORSE $5,200 $500,000
22 Sep.29 Saturday 16:30 Limit Hold’em $1,050 $200,000
23 Sep.30 Sunday 16:30 NL Hold’em Main Event $2,600 $5,000,000

The WCOOP is a series of online poker tournaments, staged at Poker Stars.

It is widely regarded as the best of all online poker series. Part of the reason for this is that it is held just once a year, and part is because of the large guaranteed prizepools, and deepstack structure of all events. Skillful poker players should revel in this series. Some events last 15-20 hours, so it is far from the usual online donkfest. Highly recommended if you know what you are doing.

WCOOP stands for World Championship of Online Poker