Wcoop Main Event 2016
The WCOOP Main Event ended this week as Jonas “llJaYJaYll” Lauck held firm on his ICM deals and took down the first prize. (Photo: WSOP)
- Players will be allowed one re-entry for the Main Event as well. These are, of course, just a few events from the full schedule. Like every year, WCOOP 2016 will be a truly action packed period filling up the schedules of poker tournament players across the globe. Mini WCOOP 2016 announced.
- PokerStars liked the story so much they gave him a free seat into the $5,000 buy-in $10m Guaranteed WCOOP Main Event. Zaichenko’s victory moves him into third place in the 2016 WCOOP Player.
- The WCOOP Main Event, Event #78, will cost $5,000 and will be held on September 25th. It will have a $10 million guaranteed prize pool with $1.5 million guaranteed to the winner.
- A thrilling, three-day ride came to a close tonight as Germany's llJaYJaYll defeated 2,091 runners to win the 2016 WCOOP Main Event and a life-changing $1,517,541.25. It capped off a record-setting series, with $73,504,875.79 in prize money awarded across 82.
The PokerStars WCOOP has survived grumbles about payouts and re-entries (or lack of) to end with a bang. The 2016 online showpiece finished this week with a Main Event worthy of the series.
Facts and Figures WCOOP Main Event 2016. Buy-in: $5,000; Entries: 2,091; Prize pool: $10.052.879; Places paid: 224; First prize: $1.517.541. ElkY and Andrei „I am Bobbie“ Streltsou bubble. Day 2 of the 2016 WCOOP Main Event started with 309 players and 224 places were paid. It didn’t take very long until the bubble was reached.
The latest World Championship of Online Poker ended with a $5000 Main Event, following 81 tournaments of varying buy-ins and talent pools. And it was Germany’s Jonas “llJaYJaYll” Lauck who capped off a great series with the Main Event trophy.
Lauck won $1,517,541.25 for his troubles after a protracted and complicated ICM deal. And it looked at the final table as though Jonas Lauck wouldn’t be following in the footsteps of compatriot Fedor Holz, the 2014 WCOOP Main Event champion. “llJaYJayll” was on around 8.3 million chips going into the final nine, some way behind “Gambler4444” on 16.8 million and “uknowProsky” on 32.3 million chips.
And the German was in trouble early on when he ran his A-K into “Olorionek”‘s A-Q. A queen on the river doubled the short-stack and crippled Lauck even more. He was left with just nine big blinds.
Aces Save “llJaYJayll”‘s Day Again
Lauck was thrown a lifeline when he found aces against “Gambler4444″‘s queens. “Let’s start from the beginning,” the winner quipped as he regained his FT starting stack.
After “deadfizh” and “gorodski” departed in 9th and 8th, things started to get exciting. Again, “llJaYJayll” picked up aces and shoved after a re-raise from “uknowprosky” with jacks. The board ran in the German’s favour and he found yet another timely double-up.
“llJaYJayll” finished the player off with a flush a few hands later, and took the chip lead to boot. With five players left a deal was attempted but “R_Scientist” was the lone voice wanting to carry on playing. Even after “axpitos_86” bust in fifth, a deal wasn’t made. Even after a four-handed deal was close, “llJaYJayll” decided he had the momentum to keep going. And soon he was up to 50 million chips.
Wcoop Main Event 2016
“Gambler4444” fell in fourth to cap a great online series for him. The player recorded three final tables in all over the 82 events. And “llJaYJayll” would dispatch “R_Scientist” soon after with K-J against 8-8.
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“llJaYJayll” Makes Heads-Up Count
The decision not to make a deal turned out to be a good one for “llJaYJayll” as he headed into the heads-up phase with a 61 million-to-42 million chip advantage. After an hour’s play, the advantage had nearly been closed before a key pot emerged.
After a raise, three and four-bet, and all-in, the chips were in the middle as “llJaYJayll” flipped over A-K. “0409479” was in slightly bad shape with A-Q, and the king on the flop was enough to leave “0409479” with just a single big blind.
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Predictably, the final bb was in the middle on the next hand, “llJaYJayll” sealing the deal with A-7 against 4-8. A $1,101,278.90 payout was still a huge consolation for the runner-up.
For Lauck, the win added to what is already an impressive live haul. The German pro has over $1.3 million in live tournament cashes. Just this year he has racked up cashes on the EPT, LAPT and WSOP.
WCOOP Sets Record For Turnouts
2,091 runners (including re-entries) had turned out online to battle for the $1,517,541.25 Main Event first prize this year. 224 players shared out the prize cash, with everyone at the final table guaranteed a six-figure payout. The runner total was 100 up on last year’s (1,995) but slightly down on the year before.
In all, however, the 2016 WCOOP managed to pay out over $73.5 million across its 82 events. That marked a record for PokerStars and sets them up well for next year’s series.