POWERFEST and WCOOP Award Some Huge Prizes During First Week

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Sep 05, 2018 5 min read

The $60 million guaranteed partypoker POWERFEST and $70 million guaranteed PokerStars World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) may have only been running since Sept. 2, but they have still managed to pay out more than $20 million between them over the first couple of days.

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Three $1 million guaranteed POWERFEST Championship Events have crowned their champions to date, the latest coming in the early hours of Sept. 5, and it was a well-known figure who walked away with the $207,978 first-place prize.

POWERFEST #016-SHR: $1M Gtd Championship Event

King’s Casino owner Leon “Leon_Tsoukernik” Tsoukernik was crowned the POWERFEST #016-SHR: $1M Gtd Championship Event champion on Sept. 4 after he outlasted 203 opponents in the $5,200 buy-in tournament.

Thirty-two places were paid at least $10,608 with Team partypoker’s Patrick “Patrick_Leonard” Leonard being one of the stars to reach the money, eventually falling in 11th place for $18,156.

Each of the eight players who reached the final table locked up $23,460 and that is the sum “k2Schogori” collected when they busted in eighth place. They were followed to the rail by “Hahaha_Owned”, British pro Michael Chi “mczhang” Zhang and Swedish online legend Simon “HellmuthTheGr8” Mattsson.

“SplashThePot” busted in fourth place for $79,560 and was the last player not to walk away with a six-figure score. partypoker regular “Chelsea72” saw their tournament end in a third-place finish worth $107,610 which left Mikita “helicopterben82” Badziakouski and Tsoukernik to lock horns heads-up.

It was a battle that Tsoukernic emerged victorious from, thus claiming the $207,978 top prize. Badziakouski netted $150,960 for his runner-up finish, a welcomed addition to his bankroll.

POWERFEST #003-SHR: $1M Gtd Championship Event

The first POWERFEST Championship Event took place on the opening day of the three-week long festival and saw 181 players buy in for $5,200, leaving partypoker nursing a $95,000 overlay.

Several Team partypoker pros reached the money places. Joao “joaosimaobh” Simao finished 22nd for $13,300, Patrick “Patrick_Leonard” Leonard exited in 18th for $13,300 and Roberto “WelshWizard” Romanello busted in 16th for $17,200.

Two other sponsored pros made it all the way to the final table. Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier saw $83,000 added to his bankroll after finishing in fourth place, while Russian sensation Anatoly “NL_Profit” Filatov scooped $159,000 after losing the heads-up battle against “WWWpartyCOM”, the latter banking $221,300 for the victory.

POWERFEST #005-HR: $1M Gtd Championship Event PKO

The player known as “SirStanleyRoyce" walked away with $178,519 for their $5,200 investment after they triumphed in the POWERFEST #005-HR: $1M Gtd Championship Event PKO. Nobody eliminated more players than the eventual champion who busted 17 opponents and then got their hands on their own substantial bounty.

SirStanleyRoyce’s bounty payment weighed in at $83,344, which was much larger than the $67,951 “Tremz77” was awarded for their runner-up finish, going to show how profitable PKO tournaments can be if you go deep or win one.

PokerStars WCOOP-03-H: $2,100 NLHE 8-Max PKO

One of the biggest hauls of the opening few days of PokerStars WCOOP weighed in at an impressive $184,283, the reward Austria’s “naliuj90” received for winning the WCOOP-03-H: $2,100 NLHE 8-Max PKO event.

The $2,100 buy-in tournament attracted 459 entries, leaving a chunky $82,000 overlay for the top 55 finishers to enjoy. A min-cash was worth $2,730 with the prize money boosted to $12,152 for a final table appearance, plus any bounties that the players helped themselves to along the way.

Heads-up saw Germany’s “Armani1974” and naliuj90 fight for the $92,971, but as both had massive bounties on their heads, the champion would scoop more than $180,000. Armani1974 busted in second place to win $72,075 from the prize pool plus almost $33,000 worth of bounties, but naliju90 took home $96,971 from the prize pool for their victory, plus $87,312 from the bounty prize pool.

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PokerStars WCOOP-04-H: $2,100 NLHE

The PokerStars WCOOP-04-H: $2,100 NLHE saw 477 players buy in for $2,100 to leave a $46,000 overlay on the $1 million guaranteed prize pool, not that any of those finishing in the top 62 positions minded as it meant they received better value when they reached the money.

This particular tournament ended in a three-way chop that saw the final trio walk away with a combined $409,223 of the seven-figure prize pool. “StupidFr3nch” of the United Kingdom is credited with finishing third, a result that netted them $138,144, which was the second-largest cash of the tournament.

Sweden’s “liraeik” was the event’s runner-up and they took home $123,695 after the three-way deal, leaving “42ayay” to scoop $147,384 and yet another major title for a Swedish player; what makes them so good?

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PokerStars WCOOP-04-M: $215 NLHE Sunday Million SE

The special edition of the Sunday Million is always a tournament to look forward to and the 2018 WCOOP was no different after 6,794 players created a guarantee-busting $1,368,600 prize pool. Amazingly, despite the tournament only costing $215 to enter and the difference between first and second-place being more than $60,000, there was no heads-up deal struck.

This meant Romania’s “jah1923” now has a massive $193,055 in their PokerStars account, while runner-up “Lapideum” of Germany secured a $132,753 payday, incredible scores for a $215 investment.

“Rsaxo66” of Lithuania finished in third place and walked away with more than $91,000 for their effort.

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Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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