Thursday
September 09, 2010
Like we earlier reported, WCOOP 2010 is going fast forward at PokerStars, and many winners are crowned daily. Today a familiar name from Full Tilt Poker's High Stakes games, Alexander "PostflopAction" Kostritsyn ("joiso" at PS) took down the Event #9 for $269,285.
This event was a two day No-Limit Hold'em tournament with a $1050 buy-in, and a total of 1612 players participated in this tournament.
Below you can see how the last hand of the tournament was played (from PokerStars Blog):
"Heads-up play then began nine hours into the day with the following counts:
Seat 1: joiso (7,331,410 in chips)
Seat 9: 7Be/eC7 (4,758,590 in chips)
Neither player was going to allow the tournament to end without a fight, and 7Be/eC7 put up a grand one, gaining ground at times and even flirting with the chip lead. But joiso always came back with more aggression.
The final hand came down to a raise and reraises, with joiso moving all-in and putting his opponent to the test. 7Be/eC7 decided to make the call for his final 2,223,349 chips with A♠7♣, and joiso showed J♣J♠. The A♣T♣2♣ flop gave 7Be/eC7 the pair of aces and the lead but also provided a flush draw for both players, joiso having the higher club. The 5♠ on the turn was innocent enough, but the 5♣ on the river made that flush, and joiso's jack of clubs gave him the winning hand."
Our stats show Kostritsyn up over $1,6M for the year. He hasn't played lately much big cash games at Full Tilt Poker, but hopefully this great score will now inspire him to do so.
-The 2010 WCOOP has a total of 62 events and $50M in guarantees. The official WCOOP website has a plethora of information about the entire series, and PokerStars TV and Blog offers tournament highlights.