Wcoop 2020



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The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) 2020 is a wrap! The 25-day festival concluded with the three NLHE Main Events playing down to their respective champions.

  1. WCOOP 2020 - The World Championship of Online Poker is the granddaddy of all online poker tournament series.Pokerstars have continuously set the bar since the initial 2002 event, and this year’s no exception.
  2. WCOOP 2020: The Largest Guarantee, the Broadest Schedule, the Longest in Series History PokerStars has revealed the full schedule for its annual extravaganza, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Spanning 25 days starting on Sunday, August 30, WCOOP 2020 guarantees $80 million across 225 tournaments.
  3. Howard Swains September 15, 2020 in News Yuri Martins and Tobias Leknes both won a third title on Monday night This World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) goes from brilliant to even more brilliant. Read on to find out how there are already two triple champions, and another handful of doubles.

Events Scheduled on August 31 On Sunday, the 2020 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) kicked off with the first four regular events of its 75-event, $80,0000 guaranteed offering. Welcome to the official PokerStars Twitch account. Content is intended solely for those over the age of 18. Play Responsibly psta.rs/PlayResponsibly BeGambleAware.org.

There was a score of over half a million for '1mSoWeeeaK' in WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event], who topped the 7,105-player event to bring the title to Thailand. In WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event], Poland's 'klimono' parlayed his $55 investment into a payday of $186,841 after a dominating final table performance. The High Main Event, won by Andre 'PTFisherman23', is covered in a separate article.

With the series wrapped up, the leaderboards have also crowned their winners. Rinat 'Zapahzamazki' Lyapin of Russia claimed top honor in the overall leaderboard, denying Yuri 'theNERDguy' Dzivielevski by a small margin. Lyapin notched a stunning 59 cashes throughout the series and received a bonus of $25,000 for his accomplishment. Joao 'Naza114' Vieira, Jussi 'calvin7v' Nevanlinna, and aleksandrs10 won the High, Medium, and Low buy-in leaderboards.

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'1mSoWeeeaK' Wins WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] ($504,584)

After just over three hours on the final day of the WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event], '1mSoWeeeaK' showed their strength in the end by taking the tournament down for $504,584 by defeating Yuri 'Y.Zakharov' Zakharov heads-up.

The tournament attracted 4,821 unique players who reentered 2,284 times to get to a total of 7,105 entries which created a prize pool of $3,552,500 which easily surpassed the initial $2,000,000 guarantee.

'1mSoWeeeaK' came into the final table with a big chip lead and immediately started increasing it by taking a chunk out of Oscar 'owilson25' Ramirez's stack. That chip lead was in their hands for most of the day but at some points, Zakharov took it too but those stints didn't last long.

In the end, '1mSoWeeeaK' showed no weakness even when things went a bit haywire to take down inaugural Main Event at this buy-in level.

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WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] Final Table Results

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1'1mSoWeeeaK'Thailand$504,584
2Yuri 'Y.Zakharov' ZakharovRussia$359,680
3'$harkFlo'Germany$256,392
4'ZAR84'Germany$182,765
5Rafael 'GM_VALTER' MoraesBrazil$130,281
6'tzini9'Romania$92,868
7'kirbyi17'Germany$66,199
8Oscar 'owilson25' RamirezHonduras$47,189
9Marcin 'cladarth' PszenniakPoland$33,638

'klimono' Wins WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] ($186,841)

The WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] is now in the books with Poland's 'klimono' putting on a dominating performance at the final table to win the $186,841 top prize.

'klimono' went coast-to-coast with the chip lead at the final table en route to their victory. This player stunned the final table playing almost every hand and impressively eliminated every single opponent except for one at the final table with fire and fury in under 90 minutes.

Paulo 'pvss' Silva and Akira 'Clutch Hero' Ohyama were among those that took a seat at the final table. The event drew a total of 38,660 runners and generated a prize pool of $1,933,000.

WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] Final Table Payouts

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1klimonoPoland$186,841
2Tangawi26Belgium$132,093
3ID IMPOSSUnited Kingdom$93,403
4Paulo 'pvss' SilvaBrazil$66,046
5Mr.Skinny.00Canada$46,701
6vrodrguez1Mexico$33,023
7Akira 'Clutch Hero' OhyamaJapan$23,351
8JemisisDenmark$16,511
9benton24Hungary$11,675

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WCOOP 2020 Leaderboard Final Results

For winning the Overall Leaderboard, Rinat 'Zapahzamazki' Lyapin received a trophy as well as a cash prize of $25,000 in addition to the 59 cashes he made this series.

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Joao 'Naza114' Vieira received a bonus of $12,500 for winning the high leaderboard, Jussi 'calvin7v' Nevanlinna got $8,500 extra for scooping the Medium version, while aleksandrs10 won the Low one for $5,000.

Click here for a detailed overview of all the WCOOP leaderboards.

WCOOP 2020 Overall Leaderboard

PlacePlayerCountryPoints
1Rinat 'Zapahzamazki' LyapinRussia1265
2Yuri 'theNERDguy' DzivielevskiBrazil1210
3aleksandrs10Latvia1185
4Jussi 'calvin7v' NevanlinnaFinland1100
5Konstantin 'krakukra' MaslakRussia1090
6Shaun 'shaundeeb' DeebUnited States965
7TTimothy 'TruthBeTold7' RutherfordCanada960
8chininhaltigGermany955
9Joao 'Naza114' VieiraPortugal920
10nilsefGermany865

WCOOP 2020 High Leaderboard

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PlacePlayerCountryPoints
1Joao 'Naza114' VieiraPortugal630
2Mike 'SirWatts' WatsonCanada610
3Yuri 'theNERDguy' DzivielevskiBrazil600
4Niklas 'Lena900' AstedtSweden595
5Talal 'raidalot' ShakerchiUnited Kingdom445
6Andras 'probirs' NemethHungary420
6SintorasGermany420
8Ludovic 'ludovi333' GeilichUnited Kingdom410
9Rinat 'Zapahzamazki' LyapinRussia400
10XD89lol<3Finland395

WCOOP 2020 Medium Leaderboard

PlacePlayerCountryPoints
1Jussi 'calvin7v' NevanlinnaFinland540
2Rinat 'Zapahzamazki' LyapinRussia520
3Yuri 'theNERDguy' DzivielevskiBrazil500
4Murilo 'Muka82' FigueiredoBrazil440
5Konstantin 'krakukra' MaslakRussia420
6chininhaltigGermany400
7Joao Mathias 'joaoMathias' BaumgartenBrazil385
8aleksandrs10Latvia380
9FabahabaFinland375
9nilsefGermany375

WCOOP 2020 Low Leaderboard

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PlacePlayerCountryPoints
1aleksandrs10Latvia590
2B--rabbit444Norway565
3rastafari898Germany530
4Voziyanov15Russia525
5icandodge22Finland490
6manodepiedra51Panama480
7FONBET_RULITRussia455
8LazyPiggy91Hungary450
9Konstantin 'krakukra' MaslakRussia430
9Shaun 'shaundeeb' DeebUnited States430

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