Monday, Sept. 17, 2007

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$3 million up for grabs at WCOOP Event 5

By Sarah Polson

With a $2 million guaranteed prize pool, the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Event 5 was expected to be a big one. It didn't disappoint as 6,025 loyal poker players showed up to play in the No-Limit Hold'em event.

Not only did the massive playing field boost the prize pool up over $3 million, it kept play going for more than 20 hours - not quite a PokerStars record for longest tournament in history, but a record for a WCOOP tournament.

In the end, the top two players would chop the remaining prize pool, but it would be AB_illusive from Denmark who would get the $150,000 they chose to leave for the winner as well as the WCOOP bracelet.

After chopping the pot and leaving the required 5% to play for, AB_illusive and taktloss47 got down to business. The two battled back and forth for the chip lead and then it came down to a final hand where taktloss47 went all-in with K-Q.

AB_illusive called with pocket threes, and the board brought nothing for taktloss47.

The final-table results were:

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1st	AB_illusive	Denmark	$398,649.93
2nd	taktloss47	Germany	$260,184.82
3rd	glynda	United States	$162,373.75
4th	wNwNw1	Finland	$126,525
5th	Bill Ivey	United States	$96,701.25
6th	fredmainiac	Germany	$69,287.50
7th	dankhank	United States	$49,706.25
8th	debrisfish	Italy	$30,125
9th	666 INRI	Germany	$18,677.50

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