WCOOP 2020 Day 25: "1mSoWeeeaK", "klimono" Win Main Events, Lyapin WCOOP Player of the Series

September 24, 2020

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.

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.

"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.

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

Check all the action from the final day in the PokerNews Live Reporting section

"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

Check how "klimono" demolished the opposition to win the Low Main Event

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.

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

WCOOP 2020 High Leaderboard

WCOOP 2020 Medium Leaderboard

WCOOP 2020 Low Leaderboard

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