WCOOP Day 17: Mayu "marroca5" Roca Uribe Denies Anders "Donald" Berg a Fourth Bracelet

Mayu Roca Uribe

Day 17 of the 2011 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker nearly saw WCOOP history unfold. Earlier in the 2011 WCOOP, Anders "Donald" Berg won a bracelet and tied the all-time record of three. Yesterday, Berg was in the mix again, final-tabling Event #47, $500 Stud Hi/Lo.

PokerStars WCOOP 46 - $300 Mixed Pot-Limit Hold’em/Omaha ($225K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$300+$20917$275,100

Event #46, the only dual game pot-limit mix tournament on the schedule, drew a field of 917 players. It was a grueling road to the final table, nearly 11 hours, but a final table was reached. Here were the chip counts at the start:

SeatPlayerChips
1PJShark781,227,520
2freshleo111689,313
3Tim Piper465,667
4luetch1474,252
5Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger231,954
6sootedacerag576,659
7C12SLY226,611
84uvixa287,034
9Azkiy405,990

Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger was the first to fall, doing so during pot-limit hold'em. "4uvixa" opened in early position with AK and a short-stacked Benger picked up JJ in the small blind. As you'd expect, Benger's chips found their way into the middle. The board rolled out 7754K, spelling the end for Benger when the king hit the river. Not long after, "C12SLY" was felted. It was during pot-limit Omaha and action folded to "C12SLY" in the cutoff. With just more than eight big blinds, "C12SLY" raised pot. Next to act, "4uvixa" re-raised enough to cover "C12SLY's" stack. The blinds folded, leading "C12SLY" to call all-in with A1096. For a PLO hand, "C12SLY" was in unusually bad shape, all-in preflop against "4uvixa's" AA106. The board ran out K762K, ending "C12SLY's" tournament in eighth place.

Despite dispatching the first two players from the final table, "4uvixa" exited in seventh place — cooler style. Action folded to "4uvixa" who min-raised on the button. "PJShark78" called in the big blind and a K66 flop hit the board. A bet and a few raises later, "4uvixa" called all-in with A1064 for trips. "PJShark78" turned over trips, as well, but was trailing with 9763. That didn't last long, though, as the 9 turn gave "PJShark78" a leading full house. As if that wasn't enough, the 9 river improved "PJShark78" to an even better full house to score the knockout.

Exiting in sixth place was "sootedacerag". Down to two blinds, "sootedacerag" got it in with 77 against "freshleo111's" K3. A K6524 board appeared and locked up the pot for "freshleo111." Three minutes later "luetch1" fell to "freshleo111", as well. Holding a three-big-blind stack, "luetch1" made a stand with Q10. However, "freshleo111" tabled a dominating K10 and made the nut flush when the board fell AJ259. The heater for "freshleo111" continued, doubling through chip leader "PJShark78" and then eliminating "Azkiy" in fourth place. A J93 flop provided a lot of fireworks as "Azkiy" wound up all-in with KJ. Tabling 99, "freshleo111" was well in front and officially took it down when the 7 turn and 8 river landed.

However, three-handed play did not go well for the eventual third-place finisher, none other than "freshleo111." A huge PLO hand with "Tim Piper" shifted the momentum in Piper's favor. A series of raises between the two led to Piper five-bet shoving with AAQ2. Having committed a lot of chips already, "freshleo111" called with JJ108. The A98106 board hit both players, but "Tim Piper" had the better of it with top set. Shortly thereafter, "freshleo111's" elimination left a heads-up battle between "Tim Piper" and "PJShark78." After a deal and a mere eight hands, "Tim Piper" took it down during pot-limit hold'em. Both hit top pair on a Q87 flop, but "Tim Piper's" Q10 had "PJShark78's" Q6 outkicked. The 7 turn left a few outs to a chop, but the 3 river secured the WCOOP bracelet for "Tim Piper."

PlacePlayerPrize
*1Tim Piper$45,795.67
*2PJShark78$39,485.33
3freshleo111$26,684.70
4Azkiy$19,944.75
5luetch1$13.865.04
6sootedacerag$11,114.04
74uvixa$8,363.04
8C12SLY$5,639.55
9Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger$3,438.75

*denotes heads-up deal

Notable Finishes: Andras "probirs" Nemeth (17th - $1,788.15), Alexey "LuckyGump" Makarov (27th - $1,265.46)

PokerStars WCOOP 47 - $500 Stud Hi/Lo ($50K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$500+$30262$131,000

Newsflash: Team PokerStars is having a very good WCOOP. So it was little surprise to see Anders "Donald" Berg with the chip lead to start the final table of Event #47, the $500 Stud Hi/Lo. Berg, who going into the final table was tied for the most bracelets in WCOOP history with three, already has a victory in the 2011 WCOOP, winning Event #16. How would he fare at this final table? Here were the chip counts to start:

SeatPlayerChips
1Anders "Donald" Berg466,905
2Ilya "ilushan" Gorodetsky223,710
3rockstar2374,059
4Itto223,720
57PRS101,866
6Mayu "marroca5" Roca Uribe184,628
7SonnyRamone223,511
8ramondemon77166,601

Mayu "marroca5" Roca Uribe scored the first elimination, sending "7PRS" away in eighth place. In a three-handed pot, Roca's 28/3972/2 was good enough to take the entire pot as neither "7PRS" nor "Itto" made a low or beat Roca's trips. Losing that pot left "Itto" low on chips, and shortly thereafter, "Itto" was on the rail. All-in on third street with A4/2, "Itto" faced Ilya "ilushan" Gorodetsky's 66/K. Gorodetsky improved to queens and sixes, while "Itto" made an inferior two pair of nines and deuces with no low to finish in seventh place.

Gorodetsky was eliminated in sixth place. He lost most of his chips to Anders Berg. With A7/7, Berg improved to aces up by hand's end. Gorodetsky, meanwhile, held XxXx/K83J/Xx and couldn't best Berg's two pair to be left with half of a big bet. The Russian fell two hands later. At one point during five-handed play, Berg held more than half of chips in play. Perhaps the key hand at the final table, for reasons that will be obvious later, was between Mayu Roca Uribe and "rockstar2." Roca was all-in on fifth street and both had very similar short stacks.

Mayu "marroca5" Roca Uribe: 56/832
"rockstar2:" JJ/Q92

Roca was freerolling for the entire pot and got there when the 4 on seventh street gave him a straight. A few hands later "rockstar2" departed in fifth place. "SonnyRamone" fell a little while later in fourth place, getting chopped up by Roca and "ramondemon77." All-in on third street with 84/5, "SonnyRamone" improved to an 8-7 low with a pair of fives. However, the other three opponents each went all the way in the hand. Roca was all-in pre-fifth street and took half the pot with a 6-4 low, while "ramondemon77" won the high with tens full of kings to end "SonnyRamone's" tournament.

Roca staged an excellent comeback, at one point finding himself with just 4 percent of the chips during three-handed play. A lengthy back-and-forth battle between the final three resulted in "ramondemon77" finishing in third place.

"ramondemon77:" 88/729K/10
Anders "Donald" Berg: A3/26J6/3

Berg called and check-called down to sixth street before seizing control of the pot with a bet. "Ramondemon77" called all-in and led for the high with eights, but failed to improve on seventh street. Berg, meanwhile, made two pair on seventh street to score the elimination. The chip counts to start heads-up play were 1,522,940 for Roca, while Berg commanded a stack of 442,060. Unable to gain much traction, Berg came up short in his bid for WCOOP bracelet No. 4.

Mayu "marroca5" Roca Uribe: Q6/AQ7
Anders "Donald" Berg: AK/453

The majority of Berg's short stack went into the pot on fourth street and the rest on fifth. With a low and wheel draw, Berg missed on both, only making a pair of threes on seventh street. Roca's queens held up to win the pot and award the Colombian his first WCOOP bracelet.

PlacePlayerPrize
1Mayu "marroca5" Roca Uribe$25,545
2Anders "Donald" Berg$18,995
3ramondemon77$14,410
4SonnyRamone$10,480
5rockstar2$7,205
6Ilya "ilushan" Gorodetsky$5,240
7Itto$3,930
87PRS$3,275

Notable Finishes: Alex "Kravchenko" Kravchenko (12th - $2,620), Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (20th - $1,310)

PokerStars WCOOP 48 - $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Two-Day ($600K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$1,000+$501,013$1,013,000

Following 24 levels on Day 1 of Event #48, a $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Two-Day affair, 49 players remain from a starting field of 1,013. During the last level of play on Day 1, chip leader Simeon "IamBuddhaa" Naydenov tangled with "CoooKay."

An under-the-gun "CoooKay" min-raise was called by "jostein77" in the small blind and Naydenov in the big blind. A 986 flop hit the board and "jostein77" checked. Naydenov bet, with only "CoooKay" calling to see the K hit the turn. "CoooKay" called another bet from Naydenov, this one just more then half the size of the pot. The 4 fell on the river, leading to Naydenov's third bet at the pot. This time, he bet 47,211 into a pot of 64,346. "CoooKay" called for a third time and was relieved to see Naydenov table Q10 for a missed double gutter (and overs). With A9, "CoooKay" grabbed hold of the chip lead going into Day 2. Here are the top ten stacks:

PlacePlayerChips
1CoooKay412,531
2ZeelandBoy370,749
3Simeon "IamBuddhaa" Naydenov362,400
4Noobladonk357,197
5AJacejackAJ318,464
6EDWARDHOPPER281,842
7Roma-Tilt277,662
8GJ1515277,367
9João "Naza114" Vieira271,441
10He3HaiKa246,157

Among those still in the hunt include Grayson "gray31" Ramage, Jason "jdtjpoker" Wheeler, Jose "nachobarbero" Barbero, Michael "Skämmes" Tureniec, Kevin "KevBoyStar" Stani, and Jason "jakoon1985" Koon.

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