Aussie Millions Winner Ami "UhhMee" Barer Wins WCOOP Title
Written by
Teemu - Thursday, September 15, 2016,
Online poker
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Ami "UhhMee" Barer recently won his first World Championship of Online poker title after taking down the $320 buy-in 6-handed NL Hold'em event.
A total of 1,602 players registered for the event, and after 926 re-entries, the final prize pool showed $758,400 for the $250,000 guaranteed event.
This was the first WCOOP title for the Canadian pro, who won the Aussie Millions Main Event in 2014 for AUD$1,6 million. Barer has also won two SCOOP titles in 2012 and 2014.
Other notable recent WCOOP winners include Dzmitry "Colisea" Urbanovich and 2015 EPT Monte Carlo €25K High Roller winner Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrell. Urbanovich claimed his fourth COOP title and over $54K first-place prize in the Event #25 ($1,050 buy-in NL Omaha Hi/Lo Championship), while Carrell took down Event #31 ($215 buy-in rebuy NL Hold'em) and a first prize of $60,000.
All the new WCOOP winners with winner reports can be found from PokerStars Blog.
WCOOP-25 ($1,050 NL Omaha Hi/Lo Championship, 6-Max) results
Entrants: 283
Prize pool: $283,000.00
Places paid: 29
1. Dzmitry "Colisea" Urbanovich (Poland) $54,217.80
2. Edgy420 (Canada) $39,883.07
3. Billy "crocky" Argyros (Australia) $29,338.41
4. Benny "toweliestar" Spindler (Austria) $21,581.66
5. zzwwzzwwzz (China) $15,875.70
6. PoluKalos (United Kingdom) $11,678.33
WCOOP-31 ($215+R NL Hold'em) results
Entries: 733 (512 rebuys, 612 add-ons)
Prize pool: $385,091
Places paid: 98
1. Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel (United Kingdom) $60,040.79*
2. Luciano S.H (Brazil) $52,756.75*
3. Kurt "kurt23x" Fitzgerald (Costa Rica) $34,970.72
4. G's zee (Canada) $25,633.46
5. TTPlayer18 (Germany) $18,789.24
6. yuhsuan (Australia) $13,772.47
7. Dzmitry "Colisea" Urbanovich (Poland) $10,095.19
8. FreelancerZZ (Czech Republic) $7,399.75
9. highblaze (United Kingdom) $5,424.00
*Denotes heads-up deal that left $7,702 in play for the winner
WCOOP-33 ($320 NL Hold'em [6-Max]) results
Entries: 2,528 (1,602 entries, 926 re-entries)
Prize pool: $758,400
Place Paid: 311
1. Ami 'UhhMee' Barer (Canada) $111,221.19
2. bartek901 (United Kingdom) $72,701.05
3. Dominik 'Bounatirou' Nitsche (United Kingdom) $47,522.63
4. Aftret (Norway) $31,064.21
5. Jas931 (Austria) $20,305.78
6. Rose Gambit (Brazil) $13,273.28