One of many largest assured occasions of the PokerStars WCOOP Boot Camp wrapped up on August 11, the $75 buy-in, $400,000 assured No-Restrict Maintain’em Thriller Mission. The event proved exceptionally in style, with 6,403 entrants constructing a $436,556 prize pool the place half was shared by the highest 1,031 finishers and the remaining 50% divided up into thriller bounty funds.
The entire juiciest thriller bounties had been pulled on Day 1, together with 5 value $10,000 and one jackpot bounty tipping the scales at a cool $20,000. That princely sum is nestled within the PokerStars account of 257th-place finisher “BigStick91” of Canada, whose whole haul was the second-largest payout of the event.
Loads of family names helped themselves to prize cash on this occasion. They included Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson, Staff PokerStars’ Sebastian “peace&loove” Huber and Marle “MarlzTV” Spragg, Steven “SvZff” Van Zadelhoff, Lucio “WizardOffAz” Lima, and Niklas “Lena900” Astedt.
Every of the 9 finalists took dwelling greater than $2,000 for his or her troubles, with 5 of them strolling away with five-figure prizes. Sixth-placed “cffoley” of Eire captured a $17,877 prize, thanks largely to opening a thriller bounty envelope containing a $10,000 payday.
PartyPoker-sponsored professional, Matt “MattStaples” Staples, put collectively a formidable run that led to a fourth-place exit value $10,627 to the Canadian. Third place and $14,421 went to Lithuania’s “Genyss13.” Their demise despatched the event into the heads-up stage.
Brazilian “Chacal JF” locked horns with “bah23” of Bulgaria in a battle for the $26,525 high prize. The previous emerged unscathed and with a complete haul value $30,179, leaving the runner-up to move into the night time with $21,065 to point out for a few days of grinding.
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$1 Million Assured Throughout Two Essential Occasions on August 17
A pair of No-Restrict Maintain’em WCOOP Boot Camp Essential Occasions shuffle up and deal at 6:00 p.m. BST on August 17. The primary is a $109 buy-in affair with $600,000 assured, with the second costing $1,050 and guaranteeing $400,000.
Each Essential Occasions have dozens of satellites feeding into them, giving everybody a shot at glory. Three $11 buy-in satellites, every with 100x $109 seats assured, kick off at 6:05 p.m. BST on August 16 and at 3:15 p.m. BST and 4:05 p.m. BST on August 17.
These on the lookout for a cut-price means into the $1,050 version ought to take a look at the $55 buy-in satellite tv for pc at 4:05 p.m. BST on August 17, which has eight $1,050 seats assured, or the $109 buy-in, 10-seat assured satellite tv for pc at 5:05 p.m. BST on August 17.
Every Essential Occasion spans two days, with Day 1 wrapping up seven hours and 55 minutes after it begins. Those that progress to Day 2 return to the motion at 6:05 p.m. BST on August 18 to conclude these enormous occasions.
PokerStars WCOOP Boot Camp Outcomes So Far
Develop the desk beneath to find who the champions are from the primary 80 WCOOP Boot Camp occasions.
Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker business since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he grew to become the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from dwell reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his function of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.