The Sunday Briefing: Paul "paulgees81" Volpe Wins WCOOP HORSE Title; Main Event Underway
Sep 29, 2014
4 min read
Last updated Oct 01, 2014
The most anticipated day of the year for many online poker pros is the start of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event at PokerStars . In years past, several players have walked away with seven-figure paydays from the event, and we'll witness the same again this year as the 2,142 players created a prize pool of $10,710,000. The eventual winner on Monday night will pocket $1,820,700.
When play ended Sunday night only 271 remaining, meaning only one player exit empty-handed with the top 270 places receiving money. Isreal's "Viking8844" will enter Day 2 as the chip leader with 613,924 in chips. Several notables are still in contention, including Viktor "Isildur1" Blom , recent WPT champ Darren "darrenelias" Elias , Isaac "westmenloAA" Baron , Jake Cody , Andre "aakkari" Akkari and Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo .
We will have a full recap of the WCOOP Main Event at the completion of play, so check back here on Tuesday!
In other WCOOP news, Paul "paulgees81" Volpe collected his first WCOOP title by winning Event #63: $2,100 HORSE . Elior "Crazy Elior" Sion , Huck “octane190” Seed and Taylor "tRaMp$d0PrAy" Paur also reached the final table of that start-studded tournament.
Meanwhile, "kiiski" took down Event #65: 8-Game Re-Entry High Roller for $231,200 after chopping heads-up with Noah "Exclusive" Boeken .
Here's a full look at the results from the Sunday Majors on PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker , partypoker and WSOP.com :
WCOOP Event #62: Six-Max Progressive Knockout ($1M Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$332.50+$332.50 +$35 2,245 $1,492,925
Place Player Prize Bounties
1 Afterpub $114,901* $38,757
2 Yaba $90,376* $21,767
3 ILS007 $65,315 $16,807
4 Ken “kenny05” Smaron $42,921 $5,873
5 CONCRETE1990 $27,992 $6,153
6 sousinha23 $15,660 $10,535
*Reflects heads-up deal
Notable Finishes: Peter "Belabacsi" Traply (7th - $10,450), Joris "Tyren0" Ruys (8th - $10,450), Sami "Lrslzk" Kelopuro (9th - $10,450), Joel "Odonkor1" Nordkvist (13th - $5,075), Marty "TheLipoFund" Mathis (19th - $4,030)
WCOOP Event #63: HORSE ($200K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$2,000+100 173 $346,000
Place Player Prize
1 Paul “paulgees81” Volpe $66,442*
2 nilsef $62,442*
3 Elior "Crazy Elior" Sion $41,520
4 Fresh_oO_D $29,410
5 üä-qaypö.wsx $19,030
6 Huck “octane190” Seed $15,570
7 Taylor "tRaMp$d0PrAy" Paur $12,110
8 Creatiff111 $9,515
*Reflects heads-up deal
Notable Finishes: Kevin "iacog4" Iacofano (14th - $6,055), Ami "UhhMee" Barer (20th - $4,325), Maria "Femmeonfelt" Ho (22nd - 4,325), Sebastien “Seb86” Sabic (23rd - $4,325)
WCOOP Event #65: 8-Game Re-Entry High Roller ($500K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$10,000+300 104 $1,040,000
Place Player Prize
1 kiiski $231,200*
2 Noah “Exclusive” Boeken $221,200*
3 Andrey "Kroko-dill" Zaichenko $135,200
4 Matthew “MUSTAFABET” Ashton $88,400
5 Rory "Mafews" Mathews $67,600
6 Alexey “LuckyGump” Makarov $46,800
*Reflects heads-up deal
Notable Finishes: Stephen “stevie444” Chidwick (8th - $33,800), George "jorj95" Lind (9th - $33,800), BrynKenney (10th - $22,360), Theo “Theo J” Jorgensen (11th - $22,360), Marco "NoraFlum" Johnson (18th - $13,520)
Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$500+30 1,236 $618,000
Place Player Prize
1 Fabian "fabstinho" Quoss $103,236
2 Christian "eisenhower1" Jeppsson $75,396
3 morans350 $56,856
4 pappadogg $42,024
5 OMGitshunt $30,282
6 810ofclubs $24,102
7 znake77 $17,922
8 Aftret $11,742
9 Anjeyyy 6,427
Notable Finishes: Ami "UhhMee" Barer (10th - $5,253), Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev (12th - $5,253), Elio "smokrokflock" Fox (26th - $2,472)
Get in on the Sunday Majors action yourself by visiting PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker and PartyPoker .
$109 Sunday Rebuy ($225K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$100+9 1,391 $421,000
Place Player Prize
1 NeverHoldz $76,134
2 Darren "darrenelias" Elias $55,164
3 yasunori66 $42,110
4 Marcelosrf $31,582
5 paulinhoo988 $22,107
6 Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh $17,896
7 Hucky69 $13,685
8 David "sexygee" Gent $9,474
9 Kyle "KJulius10" Julius $ $5,895
Notable Finishes: Sam "KingKobeMVP" Stein (14th - $3,158), Dan "HundoFight" O'Brien (18th - $2,316), Elior "Crazy Elior" Sion (24th - $1,684)
PartyPoker 200K Guaranteed Sunday
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$200+15 1,045 $200,000
Place Player Prize
1 kickbox100 $27,400
2 Barron1899 $16,500
3 lnghrdsrfr $9,800
4 Ragoo007 $7,400
5 PAXTER $5,300
6 NoSc00pForU $3,900
7 Fortunatus3 $2,900
8 JIMBOFINIGAN $2,400
9 PrettySteph $1,920
Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$200+15 1,794 $358,800
Place Player Prize
1 znake77 $58,861
2 10111420 $43,056
3 Rasmus "RasA86" Agerskov $32,292
4 Pimmss $24,039
5 oliveirallin $17,043
6 Ami "UhhMee" Barer $13,455
7 caaaaamel $9,867
8 myrinho0777 $6,279
9 Siewas $3,588
Notable Finishes: Shannon "basebal1b" Shorr (10th - $2,834), Alex "mistakooll" Keating (19th - $1,399), Phil "MeSweets28" Galfond (22nd - $1,399)
The Sunday Major ($150K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$200+15 1,333 $226,600
Place Player Prize
1 duffmon $45,320
2 extranando $30,183
3 phounder $21,527
4 SPRAGGS $16,088
5 zdubbs22 $12,009
6 Tom "hitthehole" Middleton $8,837
7 Kevin "KevBoyStar" Stani $6,571
8 Jacob "baseman" Bazeley $4,758
9 borisdm $3,399
Notable Finishes: Stefan "random_chu" Chew (12th - $2,266), Jordan "Jymaster11" Young (13th - $1,722), Jimmy "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy (23rd - $974), Russell "rdcrsn" Carson (27th - $974)
Sunday Brawl ($100K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$240+15 720 $144,000
Place Player Prize
1 hkhk $29,520
2 sumdumjer $20,160
3 Rayan "rkruok" Nathan $15,134
4 Ott-Man87 $11,520
5 inhoo $8,352
6 Ben "bonafidedonkey" Palmer $5,904
7 Jonas "donut604" Mackoff $4,320
8 Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov $3,312
9 ftpballerstatus $2,448
Notable Finishes: Justin "looshle" Pechie (12th - $1,656), Kevin "KevBoyStar" Stani (17th - $892)
$25,000 Weekly Sunday Guarantee (New Jersey)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$200+15 121 $25,000
Place Player Prize
1 nowitsover $7,000
2 uknowigotit $4,050
3 itWasThatOr0 $2,325
4 jetsfan14 $1,875
5 MakemeFold $1,575
6 black_ivey09 $1,325
7 randomrags24 $1,050
8 BoomBoom $700
9 Jumpin1 $525
$15,000 Weekly Sunday Guarantee (Nevada)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$200+15 70 $15,000
Place Player Prize
1 INEFFABLE $4,350
2 smrtwntcrzy $2,550
3 aggie69 $1,800
4 FishN.chips $1,500
5 C_MURDA $1,200
6 izzy383 $1,035
7 mnbass1 $885
8 cantfakeit $735
9 VPIHokie1970 $525
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