PokerStars WCOOP 2020

WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max NLHE Main Event]
Day: 1
Event Info

PokerStars WCOOP 2020

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a8
Prize
$186,841
Event Info
Buy-in
$55
Prize Pool
$1,933,000
Entries
38,660
Level Info
Level
63
Blinds
2,500,000 / 5,000,000
Ante
625,000
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
34,426
Players Left
8,336

WCOOP 2020: Heads up! Ankush Mandavia Wins Third Title in $530 TKO HU Zoom

Level 11 : 350/700, 90 ante
Ankush Mandavia
Ankush Mandavia

We’ve grown accustomed to seeing the name “pistons87” late in tournaments on PokerStars, whether in series like the 2020 World Championship of Online Poker or at other times.

That’s the nick of Ankush Mandavia, whom we also got used to seeing at the live tourney tables over the years. Mandavia has a couple of EPT trophies collected in Berlin and Prague, plus another won at the PCA a few years back — just a small part of the more than $5 million he’s earned in recorded live cashes.

We can add another online triumph — and a third WCOOP title (to go along with three SCOOPs) — to Mandavia’s résumé, after he took down Event #12-H, the $530 NLHE Heads-Up Turbo Progressive Total KO Zoom.

Read the full story over at the PokerStars Blog

Spragg Doubles

Level 11 : 350/700, 90 ante

"WhiteBatmen" open-jammed a huge stack from the small blind with {a-Clubs}{8-Spades} and Ben "Spraggy" Spragg called off for 6,655 from the big blind with {a-Spades}{j-Diamonds}.

Both players hit trips after the {4-Spades}{3-Clubs}{a-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}{6-Clubs} ran out on the board but Spragg's kicker came into play to earn him a double-up.

Player Chips Progress
WhiteBatmen ru
WhiteBatmen
49,994
Ben "Spraggy" Spragg
Ben "Spraggy" Spragg
14,030
8,635
8,635

Set of Sixes for Hayward Before the Break

Level 11 : 350/700, 90 ante

It was four-way limped pot before the break that chipped Tom “MajinBoob” Hayward up.

All four players checked after the {9-Hearts}{10-Spades}{q-Hearts} came on the flop. "TheSh0rtStac" bet 2,006. Two players folded before Hayward raised to 6,720. "TheSh0rtStac" called and the {2-Spades} completed the board on the river.

"TheSh0rtStac" check-called a bet of 7,700 and mucked their hand after Hayward turned over {6-Diamonds}{6-Clubs} for a set of sixes.

Meanwhile, Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas doubled his short stack on another table and had more than a starting stack at the break.

Player Chips Progress
Tom “MajinBoob” Hayward nz
Tom “MajinBoob” Hayward
48,133
18,725
18,725
PokerStars
TheSh0rtStac ie
TheSh0rtStac
30,861
Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas
Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas
25,457
17,552
17,552

Level: 11

Blinds: 350/700

Ante: 90

PokerStars Ambassador Chip Update

Level 10 : 300/600, 75 ante
Player Chips Progress
Georgina "GJReggie" James gb
Georgina "GJReggie" James
29,904
-660
-660
PokerStars
Tom “MajinBoob” Hayward nz
Tom “MajinBoob” Hayward
29,408
4,408
4,408
PokerStars
Fintan "easywithaces" Hand
Fintan "easywithaces" Hand
20,824
-4,176
-4,176
Felix "xflixx" Schneiders
Felix "xflixx" Schneiders
14,972
-2,250
-2,250
Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas
Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas
7,905
-16,153
-16,153
Ben "Spraggy" Spragg
Ben "Spraggy" Spragg
5,395
-19,525
-19,525

This Time? Some of the Top Talents Who Have (Inexplicably) Never Won During WCOOP

Level 10 : 300/600, 75 ante
WCOOP players due
WCOOP Players

Just before the 2018 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) got under way, we took a look at five players who were overdue a victory in poker’s premiere tournament series. There was simply no rational explanation for how come all of Niklas “Lena900” Astedt, Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson, Luke “lb6121” Schwartz, Talal “raidalot” Shakerchi and Tobias “kuhns89” Hausen had not, to that point, won a WCOOP tournament.

Two years on, only Astedt has put it right. He won the $530 PLO 6-Max in 2018 to get the monkey off his back.

Today we’re taking a look at another list of brilliant talents who have not yet won a title during WCOOP. But remember as you read the list of nearly men below that Mattsson, Schwartz, Shakerchi, and Hausen are still looking for that WCOOP title too. Perhaps there’s no real shame in all of this.

Check out the full story over at the PokerStars Blog

Ugly Chop for Schneiders

Level 10 : 300/600, 75 ante

Not everyone likes a chop as the saying goes. This is especially true at least for the moment for Felix "xflixx" Schneiders.

Scheidners three-bet jammed from the big blind for 16,322 with {a-Hearts}{a-Clubs} and was up against the {a-Diamonds}{k-Spades} held by "BoLa1987".

The {j-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} put a straight on the board and the two players chopped up the pot.

Player Chips Progress
BoLa1987 br
BoLa1987
89,611
Felix "xflixx" Schneiders
Felix "xflixx" Schneiders
17,222
-3,400
-3,400

Hand and Hayward Re-Enter

Level 10 : 300/600, 75 ante

Tom “MajinBoob” Hayward has just re-entered for his second bullet while Fintan "easywithaces" Hand did the same but is on his fourth and final bullet with only three re-entries allowed in this event.

Player Chips Progress
Tom “MajinBoob” Hayward nz
Tom “MajinBoob” Hayward
25,000
-2,860
-2,860
PokerStars
Fintan "easywithaces" Hand
Fintan "easywithaces" Hand
25,000