Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Veldhuis Makes $109 PLO Main Event Final Day; Goh Leads $10,300 NLHE Main Event

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There was action everywhere you looked on Monday night as all six WCOOP Main Events continued on PokerStars, and titles continued to be won in the most prestigious online poker festival around.

Team easywithaces and Team tonkaaaa picked up titles courtesy of Patrick “pads1161” Leonard and Niklas “Lena900” Astedt respectively. This was Leonard’s second of the year and Astedt’s fourth, with both players winning the 11th WCOOP titles of their careers.

Meanwhile, Lex “L. Veldhuis” Veldhuis is the last Team Pro standing in this year’s Main Events, and will be looking forward to play resuming later this evening.

Veldhuis Hunts PLO Main Event Title

Lex Veldhuis

All three PLO Main Events will play down to a winner on October 1, but all eyes will be on WCOOP 111-L: $109 PLO Main Event with just 18 players remaining from a field of 2,103.

Sitting fourth in chips is Lex “L. Veldhuis” Veldhuis who will be licking his lips at the prospect of adding another title and taking home the $31,378 top prize, after winning his first WCOOP trophy earlier this series.

Leading the way is “vavan199212” with the only other WCOOP League participant being Team Spraggy’s Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson who sits eighth in chips.

Rank Player Country Chip Count Big Blinds
1 vavan199212 Belarus 9,768,178 244
2 VasyaVaz Belarus 6,691,509 167
3 legionse Ukraine 5,047,539 126
4 L. Veldhuis New Zealand 4,179,052 104
5 Killinfields Romania 3,514,610 88
6 Sasuke234 Sweden 3,116,327 78
7 Sajmon152 Poland 2,973,068 74
8 C. Darwin2 Sweden 2,618,306 65
9 Grekzorba Poland 2,236,380 56
10 Jojkomojko Slovakia 2,166,058 54

Darrell “FourSixFour” Goh Leads WCOOP 108-H: $10,300 NLHE Main Event

Darrell Goh

There are plenty of notables still in contention in WCOOP’s most prestigious event, with Darrell “FourSixFour” Goh leading the final 40 players. A field of 502 players saw this event squeak past its $5 million guarantee, with the winner walking away with $1,007,059.

Joao “IneedMassari” Simao and Pavel “silentm0de” Plesuv both sit in the top ten, with big online poker names such as Samuel “€urop€an” Vousden and Ole “wizowizo” Schemion still in contention.

WCOOP 108-H: $10,300 NLHE Main Event Top 10 Chip Counts

Rank Player Country Chip Count Big Blinds
1 FourSixFour Austria 8,162,846 136
2 IneedMassari Brazil 6,802,540 113
3 silentm0de Andorra 6,159,435 103
4 AcidVaule Belarus 5,769,561 96
5 Kurfuers✝ Austria 5,249,692 87
6 Carlos levis Brazil 5,136,420 86
7 Gogac sniper Austria 5,111,268 85
8 Natrium111 Belarus 4,909,231 82
9 Durrden Mexioc 4,610,373 77
10 grinder1992 Belarus 4,558,607 76

Former Main Event champion Fedor “CrownUpGuy” Holz fell short of the money, with just 63 places paid. The unfortunate bubble boy was Alexey “avr0ra” Borovkov, with the likes of Ilya “Leqenden” Anatsky and Alexandros “Pwndidi” Theologis finishing in the money.

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“Imbajimbaa” Hunts Back-to-Back PLO Main Event titles

Last year, “Imbajimbaa” took down the $10,300 WCOOP PLO Main Event for $233,532, defeating a field of 100 players. Now, with the tournament down to its final seven, they are in pole position to repeat the feat and defend their title.

They lead the final seven players that include Gruffudd “d.apollo777” Jones, who also chip leads the $1,050 PLO Main Event along with PLO experts Linus “LLinusLLove” Loeliger (pictured), Sami “Lrslzk” Kelopuro and Benny “RunGodlike” Glaser. The winner will take home $199,125.

Linus Loeliger
Linus Loeliger

WCOOP 111-H: $10,300 PLO Main Event Final Table

Rank Player Country Chip Count Big Blinds
1 Imbajimbaa Austria 6,942,784 198
2 d.apollo777 United Kingdom 5,046,164 144
3 LLinusLLove Austria 2,364,995 68
4 Lrslzk Finland 1,531,625 44
5 RunGodlike United Kingdom 1,496,843 43
6 DingeBrinker Estonia 966,781 28
7 Suhepxm Austria 900,808 26

WCOOP Main Events

In the other Main Events, “FAL1st” is in a good position sitting 29/80 in the $1,050 NLHE Main Event and 2/18 in the $1,050 PLO Main Event. There’s plenty of WCOOP League interest remaining in the PLO-M Main event, with Team tonkaaaa’s ShipitFTW911 and Jerry “Perrymejsen” Odeen both still in.

Event Entrants Through to Day 3 Prize Pool Chip Leader
$109 NLHE 25,075 159 $2,507,500.00 Andr the gun (Lithuania)
$1,050 NLHE 3,856 80 $3,856,000.00 bal-bruno (Brazil)
$10,300 NLHE 502 40 $5,020,000.00 FourSixFour (Austria)
$109 PLO 2,103 18 $210,300.00 vavan199212 (Belarus)
$1,050 PLO 521 18 $521,000.00 d.apollo777 (United Kingdom)
$10,300 PLO 77 77 $800,000.00 Imbajimbaa (Austria)

WCOOP Results

There were celebrations for both Patrick “pads1161” Leonard and Niklas “Lena900” Astedt as the both picked up the 11th WCOOP titles of their carers on Monday night.

Astedt triumphed in the 110-H: $530 NLHE for $83,541, topping a field of 1,388 players while Leonard won the largest sum of the evening, taking home $103,349 after defeating the 241-player WCOOP 107-H: $2,100 Sunday Warm-Up.

“Silden4filho”, “atredezini” and “AmazingPlay9” all won their second WCOOP titles, while “DrawindDead” won their second of 2024 and third overall.

Event Entrants Prize Pool Winner Payout
WCOOP 106-L: $5.50 NLHE [Sunday Kickoff] 8,904 $43,630 VEGAS120 $6,102
WCOOP 106-M: $55 NLHE [Sunday Kickoff] 4,810 $240,500 JúlioFantin $34,241
WCOOP 106-H: $530 NLHE [Sunday Kickoff] 670 $335,000 Silden4filho $57,031
WCOOP 107-L: $22 NLHE [Sunday Warm-Up] 10,249 $204,980 baller139 $18,023
WCOOP 107-M: $215 NLHE [Sunday Warm-Up] 2,846 $569,200 begines1 $62,219
WCOOP 107-H: $2 100 NLHE [Sunday Warm-Up] 241 $482,000 pads1161 $103,349
WCOOP 110-L: $5.50 NLHE [Progressive KO] 12,257 $60,059 O_VelhoTuba $4,489
WCOOP 110-M: $55 NLHE [Progressive KO] 9,615 $480,750 raphacaix $42,056
WCOOP 110-H: $530 NLHE [Progressive KO] 1,388 $694,000 Lena900 $83,541
WCOOP 116-L: $55 NLHE [Turbo ME 2nd Chance] 5,410 $270,500 AmazingPlay9 $38,460
WCOOP 116-M: $530 NLHE [Turbo ME 2nd Chance] 650 $325,000 lpoc1234 $56,727
WCOOP 116-H: $5 200 NLHE [Turbo ME 2nd Chance] 74 $370,000 RhoNin9 $99,867
WCOOP 117-L: $11 NLHE [Turbo Freezeout] 4,811 $47,148 Elisey87 $5,929
WCOOP 117-M: $109 NLHE [Turbo Freezeout] 1,755 $175,500 atredezini $26,501
WCOOP 117-H: $1 050 NLHE [Turbo Freezeout] 183 $183,000 DrawindDead $36,303
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