One of the tournament's most dangerous threats has just been eliminated. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier got his remaining 62,352 chips in preflop with and "log1c007" called from the small blind with . The Frenchman came up empty on the board and he exited in 135th place for just over $15,000.
It marked the end of successful WCOOP for Grospellier. He cashed 13 times in the series and finished just short of his third bracelet by taking fifth place in Event #59 on Sunday.
...is what Greg Mueller would be yelling from the rail right now after his buddy Shawn "buck21" Buchanan pulled a nice little suckout.
In a blind vs blind battle, Buchanan shoved from the small blind. In the big blind was "streadle" who woke up with and called all in for 87,050. Buchanan was well behind with , but that changed in a hurry when the flop came down to give Buchanan a flush. The turn locked it up for him, with the river merely a formality.
Alex "Assassinato" Fitzgerald just got healthier by eliminating a short-stacked "Fofan10." Fitzgerald opened to 10,250 from early position and Fofan10 moved all in for 65,530 with . Fitzgerald called with and the board gave him a pair of kings to send the Russian to the rail.
After "Grekzorba" opened in middle position to 10,500, Jamie "TheCronic420" Rosen re-raised to 23,990 in the hijack. Action folded back to "Grekzorba" who shoved for 150,047.
Rosen called for majority of his stack with , flipping with "Grekzorba's" . The flop and turn came , good for Rosen, but the spiked on the rier to leave Rosen with two big blinds.
He picks up aces and tripled up the following hand, but fell shortly thereafter.
Ryan "ryanghall" Hall opened to 11,500 in early position. Greg "gregior" Howard three-bet to 30,000 in the cutoff and action folded back to Hall who jammed for 167,500. Howard called immediately with and had Hall's drawing thin.
Marton "noirduck" Czuczor opened to 10,600 in early position and action folded to "iamadumbnoob" in the small blind who shoved for 62,141. Czuczor mulled it over briefly before calling with , flipping against .
The board rolled out , giving Czuczor a straight to score the elimination.
Welcome to Day 2 of PokerNews' coverage of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Main Event. Yesterday, a field of 1,627 took to the virtual felt with hopes of capturing WCOOP glory. A total prize pool of $8,135,000 was generated with first place set at $1,464,300. After 22 levels of play on Day 1, only 167 players remain.
Leading the way into Day 2 is "NUTZBOT" with 649,769, but there are plenty of big names still in the thick of things. Eugene Katchalov (273,015), Matthias "mattidm" De Meulder (254,378), Johnny Lodden (231,518), Mickey "mement_mori" Petersen (177,253), and s short-stacked Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (42,426) are still in representing Team PokerStars. Also still in the field are Luke "lb6121" Schwartz (465,817), Terrence "Unassigned" Chan (332,029), David "Gunslinger3" Bach (226,848), Shawn "buck21" Buchanan (214,943), Steve "gboro780" Gross (201,117) and Tom "kingsofcards" Marchese (193,915).
Play resumes at 2pm ET, about 35 minutes from now, so be sure to keep it here at PokerNews throughout the day as we provide you the play-by-play of all the happenings until a winner is crowned.
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and "log1c007" called from the small blind with 
. The Frenchman came up empty on the 
board and he exited in 135th place for just over $15,000.
and called all in for 87,050. Buchanan was well behind with 
, but that changed in a hurry when the flop came down 
to give Buchanan a flush. The 
river merely a formality.
board gave him a pair of kings to send the Russian to the rail.
, flipping with "Grekzorba's" 
. The flop and turn came 
spiked on the rier to leave Rosen with two big blinds.
and had Hall's 
to give Howard the pot.
, flipping against 
