WCOOP Day 22: Sweden’s 'compris' Wins 8-Game High Roller for $247K
The 2017 World Championship Of Online Poker played out its penultimate day at Pokerstars on Sep. 24 and what a day it was. Several players helped themselves to potentially life-changing sums of money and Sweden’s “compris” was one of them, scooping a cool $247,975 by winning the WCOOP-75-H: $10,800 8-Game High Roller.
Let's take a look at some of the day's winners.
WCOOP-75-H: $10,800 8-Game High Roller Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compris | Sweden | $247,975 |
| 2 | Yuri “theNERDguy” Martins | Brazil | $166,075 |
| 3 | RunGodLike | United Kingdom | $127,400 |
| 4 | Luke “lb6121” Schwartz | England | $86,450 |
| 5 | Antonio7 | Canada | $63,700 |
| 6 | ShipitFTW911 | Sweden | $47,775 |
Event 75 attracted a compact field of 60 players who made 31 reentries between them to take the total entries to 91. The $910,000 prize pool was shared among the top 12 finishers, with the likes of Matthew “MUSTAFABET” Ashton and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom returning home with prize money; Blom busted the final table by finishing in seventh place.
One of two Swedes at the final table, “ShipitFTW911”, was the first casualty of the final table. "ShipitFTW911" exited during a round of Razz at the hands of his fellow countryman, “compris”, to bust in sixth place, which was good for $47,775.
Next to fall was “Antonio7” during a Stud Hi/Lo round. After losing a huge pot with a pair of kings and nines against Yuri “theNERDguy” Martins’ aces and sevens, Martins took the rest of his stack when he made it to seventh street with 7♦3♠5♠5♥4♣4♥10♠ against Antonio7’s pair of kings.
It was during a limit hold’em round that Luke “lb6121” Schwartz’s tournament ended. Schwartz made a stand with king-rag against “RunGodlike” who held ace-jack and improved to a jack-high straight.
Heads-up was set when "RunGodlike" busted in a hand of Razz. "RunGodlike" was all in on sixth street holding 3♥6♠/6♦Q♠A♥4♦ against 8♣J♠/8♦K♥2♠J♣. The river was no help to RunGodlike and he exited in third place for $127,400.
According to the PokerStars Blog, "compris" held a 3,098,958 to 1,420,042 chip lead over Martins and although Martins got close to even during a Stud Hi/Lo round, it was during Triple Draw that Martins fell.
On the final hand, Martins held 6-5-4-3-2 going into the second draw and discarded his six on the third draw only to pull a king. Compris turned over J-T-7-6-3 to eliminate Martins in second place and win the massive $247,975 first-place prize.
Other WCOOP Day 22 Highlights
- ”SkaiWalkurrr” won the $116,008 first-place prize of the WCOOP-76-H: $1,050 NLHE 6-Max Turbo PKO plus an addition $94,805 in bounties.
- ”Futti18”came out on top of the WCOOP-74-H: $530 NLHE and walked away with $85,815.
- Armenia’s “gugom” turned $215 into $25,205 by taking down the PLO Heads-Up Progressive Total KO Zoom.
- Russia’s “ImluckNuts” is at the top of the WCOOP leaderboard with 815 points; his nearest rival is now Jens “Fresh_oOD” Lakemeier of Germany who has 760 points.
Day 22 WCOOP Winners
| Event | Buy-in | Prize pool | Champion | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #69 LHE-L | $55 | $41,700 | Dragon_JD | $6,215 |
| #70 NLHE-L 6-Max | $27 | $201,629 | Juchem1006 | $28,310 |
| #71 FLO8-L | $55 | $54,100 | BRAZZMONKEY | $8,693 |
| #72 PLO-H HU Total KO | $215 | $281,800 | gugom | $25,205 |
| #72 PLO- HU Total KO | $11 | $74,620 | dav8429 | $3,430 |
| #73 NLHE-H | $215 | $251,800 | reyals_rs | $39,319 |
| #74 NLHE-H | $530 | $525,000 | Futti18 | $85,815 |
| #75 8-Game-H | $10,300 | $910,000 | compris | $247,975 |
| #76 NLHE-H 6-Max PKO | $1,050 | $1,522,000 | SkaiWalkurrr | $210,813 |
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