Jans "Graftekkel" Arends shoved from the early position for 772,692 and was called by Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev on the button. Joao "Naza114" Vieira three-bet shoved for 2,605,700 from the small blind. The big blind folded and Danchev called that one too.
Jans "Graftekkel" Arends:
Joao "Naza114" Vieira:
Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev:
The board ran out for Vieira to flop trips immediately to more than double and claim Arends' bounty.
Javier "que_te_crio" Fernandez raised to 240,000 from the cutoff and Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts three-bet to 840,000 from the button, keeping 118,604 behind. The blinds folded and Fernandez four-bet for Aerts to call for the remainder of his stack.
Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts:
Javier "que_te_crio" Fernandez:
The board ran out to not help Aerts as Fernandez flopped the pair of aces to bust him in seventh place.
Joao "Naza114" Vieira raised to 240,000 from the button and Ryhor "Grisha813" Karapanau opted to defend his big blind.
The flop came , Karapanau check-called the 207,900 bet of Vieira.
The turn was the and this time, Karapanau check-called the 360,000 bet of Vieira.
The river completed the board with the , Karapanau took over the initiative and shoved for 1,430,032 which Vieira called. Karapanau tabled the for the pair of queens but Vieira held for the higher flopped pair of aces to claim his bounty.
"663Daur" raised to 400,000 from under the gun and was called by Joao "Naza114" Vieira on the button. Javier "que_te_crio" Fernandez three-bet shoved for 3,414,500 for "663Daur" to re-shove and Vieira to fold.
Javier "que_te_crio" Fernandez:
"663Daur":
The board ran out for Fernandez to flop the higher pair of aces to double up with.
Mike "SirWatts" Watson raised to 500,000 from the button and Javier "que_te_crio" Fernandez three-bet shoved from the small blind for 7,242,519 for Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev to fold and Watson to call with the slightly bigger stack.
Javier "que_te_crio" Fernandez:
Mike "SirWatts" Watson:
The board ran out for Watson's king-kicker to come into play to bust Fernandez in fourth place.
Joao "Naza114" Vieira raised to 600,000 from the button and was called by Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev in the big blind.
They both checked through the flop to the on the turn. Danchev bet 1,096,875 which Vieira called.
The river completed the board with the and Danchev shoved. Vieira called for the 5,013,122 he had left with the for two pair but Danchev held for the straight to bust Vieira in third place.
Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev limped in on the button and Mike "SirWatts" Watson raised to 1,225,000 for Danchev to three-bet shove and Watson to call for the 9,738,891 he had behind.
Mike "SirWatts" Watson:
Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev:
The board ran out for Danchev to stay ahead throughout the board and even improve to a straight on the river to bust Watson in second place for $152,682 and $45,781 in bounties while Danchev wins $152,682 and $247,813 in bounties.
After starting the final day of WCOOP-02-H: $10,300 [8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Slam] as the chip leader, Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev has also closed it out as the new WCOOP champion by defeating Mike "SirWatts" Watson heads-up for $400,495 which includes a whopping $247,813 in bounties.
Danchev is no stranger to the PokerStars events, the 2013 PCA Main Event winner has had many successes before, with almost $5 million in live cashes and a similar amount online, and gets to add another massive score here today in addition to his first WCOOP title.
In addition to Danchev and Watson, the final table was filled with the crème de la crème of the poker world with players like Joao "Naza114" Vieira, Javier "que_te_crio" Fernandez, and Jans "Graftekkel" Arends on there too for example.
WSOOP-02-H: $10,300 [8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Slam] Final Table Results
Place
Player
Country
Bounties
Prize
Total
1
Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev
Bulgaria
$247,813
$152,682
$400,495
2
Mike "SirWatts" Watson
Canada
$45,781
$152,682
$198,463
3
Joao "Naza114" Vieira
Portugal
$32,031
$103,149
$135,180
4
Javier "que_te_crio" Fernandez
Spain
$32,188
$79,851
$112,039
5
"663Daur"
Kazakhstan
$11,250
$61,816
$73,066
6
Ryhor "Grisha813" Karapanau
Belarus
$13,750
$47,854
$61,604
7
Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts
Belgium
$13,125
$37,045
$50,170
8
Jans "Graftekkel" Arends
Netherlands
$26,563
$28,678
$55,241
9
Andrey "Anjeyyy" Novak
Ukraine
$16,875
$23,608
$40,483
Action of the day
The 17 players who returned today were all secured a share of the $1,500,000 guaranteed prize pool but were all battling for a bigger portion and some more bounties for their bankrolls at the start of this year's WCOOP series. After the first elimination of the day, Danchev knocked both "serggorelyi7" and Scott "Aggro Santos" Margereson out in one hand to increase his chip lead even further.
What followed was a bunch of double-ups and eliminations with Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph, Rob "batoelrob" Hollink, "Aleks Better", and Parker "tonkaaaa" Talbot busting within a few minutes of each other. The final table bubble lasted one hand where Patrick "pads1161" Leonard lost all his chips to Vieira.
Almost an hour after the tournament started, the field was down to the final nine players with Danchev holding a stack of more than three times as big as Watson who was in second place by then. Watson took out Andrey "Anjeyyy" Novak before Arends fell in eighth place. Vieira busted him in a three-way all-in situation where Vieira claimed more of Danchev's chips after having doubled up already just before.
Danchev lost his chip lead for a while with it switching to Fernandez and then Vieira who kept building his stack while Ryhor "Grisha813" Karapanau and Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts fell. Five-handed play lasted 90 minutes where Danchev managed to get his chip lead back when he flopped a wheel against Vieira.
"663Daur" busted to Fernandez before the latter fell a few minutes later to Watson when he got out-kicked. Vieira managed to win one all-in but then got all his chips in on the river when he had hit two pair but Danchev had rivered the straight to get the tournament to the heads-up stage with him having over 70% of the chips in play.
Even though Watson managed to get some extra chips at the start, he raise-called the three-bet shove of Danchev with king-queen and saw he was up against the ace-seven of the latter. The eight-nine-six-trey-five run-out of the board gave Danchev a straight to win it all, claim Watson's bounty, keep his own, and earn all the bragging rights.
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