Negreanu, Geilich and Winter Win WCOOP Titles
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The final day before the 2016 World Championship of Online Poker Main Event proved to be a profitable day for high-stakes players like Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu and Sean "Nolez7" Winter.
After suffering a big loss a day earlier in the big mixed cash games on PokerStars, Daniel Negreanu managed to defeat Viktor "Isildur1" Blom heads-up to win the $2,100 buy-in HORSE Championship for nearly $62K and his first WCOOP title.
It was a profitable day for Romanian high-stakes player Sean "Nolez7" Winter as well, who took down a WCOOP title after outlasting nearly a thousand other players in the WCOOP 2016 Event #66 ($2,100 NL Hold'em Progressive KO 50%, Thursday Thrill Special Edition) earning a total of $228,933.23.
However, the biggest score of the day went to Ludovic "ludovi333" Geilich from United Kingdom, who managed to take down WCOOP's first ever $21,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha 6-max High-Roller event for over $460K. Geilich had to face players like Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen and Dani "supernova9" Stern in the final, so it was an impressive win for him to say the least.
WCOOP-66 ($2,100 NL Hold'em Progressive KO 50%, Thursday Thrill Special Edition) results
Entries: 983
Regular prize pool: $983,000.00
Bounty prize pool: $983,000.00
Places paid: 107
1. Sean "Nolez7" Winter (Romania) $161,275.53 + $67,657.70 in bounties
2. NEED100KFAST (Sweden) $118,214.30 + $50,221.66
3. Emilohlsson (Sweden) $86,650.76 + $26,208.98
4. Bluf_To_Much (Moldova) $63,514.77 + $19,718.75
5. kukuchacha11 (Canada) $46,556.05 + $15,855.46
6. thehushpuppy (United Kingdom) $34,125.43 + $21,921.87
7. Antoine "A. Saout" Saout (United Kingdom) $25,013.81 + $18,593.74
8. Michael "Skämmes" Tureniec (Sweden) $18,335.01 + $22,710.93
9. Michael Chi "mczhang" Zhang (United Kingdom) $13,439.47 + $10,265.62
WCOOP 2016: Event #70, $21,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (6-Max, High-Roller)
Entrants: 93 (64 entries, 29 re-entries)
Prize pool: $1,906,500
Places paid: 9
1. Ludovic "ludovi333" Geilich (United Kingdom) $462,182.17
2. Fabrizio "SixthSenSe19" Gonzalez (Uruguay) $355,730.97
3. Jens "Jeans89" Kyllonen (Finland) $273,797.80
4. Dani "supernova9" Stern (Canada) $210,735.93
5. Connor "blanconegro" Drinan (Mexico) $162,198.53
6. MITS 304 (Cyprus) $124,840.47
WCOOP-71: $2,100 HORSE Championship - $200,000 Guaranteed
Entrants: 147 (34 re-entries)
Prize Pool: $294,000
Places Paid: 15
1. Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu (Canada) $61,865.47
2. Viktor "Isildur1" Blom (United Kingdom) $48,112.18
3. WTFOMFGOAO (Russia) $37,416.40
4. L1TE-BR1TE (Canada) $29,098.41
5. Mike "goleafsgoeh" Leah (Canada) $22,629.59
6. Kashmir_uzi (United Kingdom) $17,598.81
7. Connor "blanconegro" Drinan (Mexico) $13,686.46
8. Childers (United Kingdom) $10,643.82