An Inaugural Champion Will Be Crowned Today in the PokerStars WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event]
The PokerStars WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] will commence at 7:05 p.m. CEST with nine players out of 7,105 entries coming back to battle it out for the first-place prize of $504,584. They have all secured $33,638 but will all be looking for a bigger share of the enormous $3,552,500 prize pool.
Thailands "1mSoWeeeaK" comes back with the chip leader badge on their name as they bagged 188,814,169 which is worth 94 big blinds. They are followed by Brazil's Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes with 132,293,151 in and Germany's "$harkFlo" 81,720,936.
Seven countries are represented on the final table with Germany having three runners left. Marcin "cladarth" Pszenniak, "kirbyi17"b, Yuri "Y.Zakharov" Zakharov, Oscar "owilson25" Ramirez, "tzini9", and "ZAR84" are all still in the race for the top spot.
WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] Final Table Players
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "1mSoWeeeaK" | Thailand | 188,814,169 | 94 |
| 2 | Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes | Brazil | 132,293,151 | 66 |
| 3 | "$harkFlo" | Germany | 81,720,936 | 41 |
| 4 | Marcin "cladarth" Pszenniak | Poland | 62,013,826 | 31 |
| 5 | "kirbyi17" | Germany | 60,537,696 | 30 |
| 6 | Yuri "Y.Zakharov" Zakharov | Russia | 54,255,060 | 27 |
| 7 | Oscar "owilson25" Ramirez | Honduras | 48,475,044 | 24 |
| 8 | "tzini9" | Romania | 47,062,442 | 24 |
| 9 | "ZAR84" | Germany | 35,327,676 | 18 |
When the players return, they will play Level 50 which features a small blind of 1,000,000, a big blind of 2,000,000, and a running ante of 250,000, and play will continue until the inaugural WCOOP champion of the Medium buy-in Main Event has been crowned.
PokerNews will be here from the first raise until the final all-in so sit tight and read along to find out who will become the first Medium Buy-In Main Event Champion.
This is what the 9 players are still competing for:
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $504,584 |
| 2 | $359,680 |
| 3 | $256,392 |
| 4 | $182,765 |
| 5 | $130,281 |
| 6 | $92,868 |
| 7 | $66,199 |
| 8 | $47,189 |
| 9 | $33,638 |
, they all checked to the 
on the turn. Moraes checked, "1mSoWeeeaK" bet 8,480,000 which only Ramirez called.
, "1mSoWeeeaK" bet 10,497,300 which Ramirez called after tanking for a while but he mucked his hand when "1mSoWeeeaK" tabled the 
for the rivered straight to taken them to over the 200 million mark
for Pszenniak to not get any help as he was eliminated in ninth place.
for Zakharov to score another elimination to his name as he flopped the higher pair than Ramirez to bust him in eighth place.
for Zakharov to hold with the jacks to take another player out on the final table in seventh place this time.
