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125 players entered the $10,300 HORSE Event in the WCOOP. A tough contest saw DocHolatchya beat PokerStars Pro aakkari to the bracelet

1 DocHolatchya United States $287,500.00
2 aakkari Brazil $200,000.00
3 crazyjanie United States $150,000.00
4 pycb United States $112,500.00
5 pumped4good United States $75,000.00
6 djk123 United States $59,375.00
7 7CardRyon United States $46,875.00
8 gipsy74 Russian Federation $38,750.00
9 MadCaddy United States $25,000.00
10 Empire2000 United States $25,000.00
11 goodolehank United States $25,000.00
12 MrSmokey1 United States $25,000.00
13 Humberto B. Costa Rica $18,750.00
14 ozenc Netherlands $18,750.00
15 floes United States $18,750.00
16 jerrod United States $18,750.00
17 Exclusive Netherlands $13,125.00
18 double joker United States $13,125.00
19 THAY3R United States $13,125.00
20 LeeNelsonP* New Zealand $13,125.00
21 gibralter11 United States $13,125.00
22 bigjoe2003 United States $13,125.00
23 str8flushin5 United States $13,125.00
24 astarisborn United States $13,125.00

WCOOP $25,500 Heads-up Event

1 stevesbets United States $560,000.00
2 ElkY United Kingdom $320,000.00
3 zivziv Israel $160,000.00
4 GavinGriffin United States $160,000.00
5 LadyMaverick United States $100,000.00
6 VictorRamdin United States $100,000.00
7 PAW717 United States $100,000.00
8 brianm15 United States $100,000.00

WCOOP Event 5 - NL Holdem

A great event to look forward to is Event 5 of the WCOOP on PokerStars on 7th Sept. This is the high roller $10,300 buy-in NLHE.  Standard table size of 9 players at a table.

Currently there are 36 entrants, 13 of which are from Team PokerStars itself.  Those entrants are as follows:

aakkari (Team PokerStars)
Allingomes
Bebop86
Born2Dogbaby
ChadBrownPRO
Dariominieri (Team PokerStars)
DOTTT
Exclusive (Team PokerStars)
GavinGriffin (Team PokerStars)
Goral
holla @ yoboy
HouseeLover
jcamby33
John Duthie (Team PokerStars)
Katja Thater (Team PokerStars)
klslcz
Kravchenko (Team Pokerstars)
LadyMaverick (Team PokerStars)
LucaPagano (Team PokerStars)
MiniTilt
Money800 (Team PokerStars)
Moorman1
nofingclue11
snake8484
stevesbets
stevejpa (Team PokerStars)
stpauli111
taktloss47
Telefonkiosk
THE__D__RY
tjbentham
Tom McEvoy (Team PokerStars)
Tulkaz
VictorRamdin (Team PokerStars)
William

Each player gets 25,000 starting chips and the blind speed is 30 mins per level, starting at 25/50

WSOP Steps on PokerStars

These are a lot of fun, and a good way to attempt to qualify for the WSOP Main Event.

Each step is a 9-seater Sit-and-go

WSOP Step 1
$7.50 Buy-in
1st = Advance to Step 2
2nd = Advance to Step 2
3rd = Repeat Step 1
4th = $1.50 cash

WSOP Step 2
1st = Advance to Step 3
2nd = Advance to Step 3
3rd = Repeat Step 2
4th = Repeat Step 2
5th = Back to Step 1

WSOP Step 3
1st = Advance to Step 4
2nd = Advance to Step 4
3rd = Repeat Step 3
4th = Repeat Step 3
5th = Repeat Step 3

WSOP Step 4
1st = Advance to Step 5
2nd = Advance to Step 5
3rd = Repeat Step 4
4th = Back to Step 3
5th = Back to Step 3
6th = Back to Step 2

WSOP Step 5
1st = Advance to Step 6
2nd = Advance to Step 6
3rd = Repeat Step 5
4th = Repeat Step 5
5th = Back to Step 4
6th = Back to Step 4

WSOP Step 6
1st = $12,500 WSOP Main Event Package (Entry and Expenses)
2nd = $1500 Cash
3rd = $1500 Cash
4th = $1000 Cash
5th = $1000 Cash
6th = $500 Cash

If you dont want to start at step 1, you can join at a later step. For example you can buy-in directly into Step 2 for $27.00

The 12,000 player entry limit was indeed met, and after just over 9 hours of play Schmidl90 took down the PokerStars Turbo Takedown for May

1st Schmidl89 $100,000
2nd Pokerguden $60,000
3rd L_Sprewell $40,000
4th biggboss120 $32,500
5th nevada_nl $25,000

A notable finish for ch0ppy in 17th (a former PokerStars Sunday Million winner), cashing $2500

The unluckiest man of the evening title goes to kendo217, who finished on the bubble in 4001st place (particularly annoying no doubt in such a wide-payment (1/3 of field) system).

None other than crosscourtbh (poker nuts will remember him) finished one further out in 4002nd place

The first of the planned monthly “Turbo Takedown” tournaments on PokerStars is this evening. As we speak only 500 out of the 12,000 spots are left, so it looks very likely to fill completely

Out of the 12,000 entrants, 4000 get paid. A whopping 1/3 of the field.

The buy-in is 5000 FPPs (Frequent Player Points), and there is a $1,000,000 Prizepool. The 1st prize is $100,000

As I say, this is going to be a monthly event, so if you dont make it tonight, look out for it next month

PokerStars are very generously matching all donations by its players towards the relief effort following the recent earthquake and devistation in China. You can donate by simply registering for a pseudo tournament in the PokerStars Special Tournament Lobby. You can donate anything from $1 up to $100 using this method. PokerStars will then match all amounts donated and send the money to The Red Cross.

Some of the players who have very generously donated $100 include

DumpingKGB
aakkari
barryg1
eisenhower1
Feb19
Genius28
Iftarii
luckybacon
MattSuspect
Paolo69
pezi2000
Remi1973
SirWatts
taktloss47
Tmay420
ViennaNights
zangbezan24

Well done to those and others for the philanthropic spirit. Our thoughts are with all those in China affected.

Tim West (aka Tmay420) is one of the best young talents in online poker.  Last night he added to his increasing number of impressive tournament wins, by taking down the weekly PLO on PokerStars.  It is a $215 buy-in and 111 entrants fought it out.

1st Tmay420 $6,660
2nd Summit $4,440
3rd Afferrare $2,541.80
4th Spokey $1,776
5th RandALLin $1,443

This takes Tmay420’s tournament winnings on PokerStars up to an impressive $1,188,306 ($289,240 of which is profit).  Keep up the good work Tim.

Daniel Negreanu has signed for the PokerStars team and will be playing there under the ID ‘Kid Poker’. PokerStars will also be hosting Negreanu’s own poker tournaments such as his prodigy tournament, designed to find a promising young player for him to personally mentor.