"robinsex" First to be Eliminated, "ShipitFTW911" Crosses Eight-Figure Mark
"ShipitFTW911" raised to 168,000 from the button and faced a three-bet to 560,000 from small blind"robinsex". "ShipitFTW911" paid the extra chips and the two saw a flop of 7?2?2?. "robinsex" put out a bet of 422,440 and "ShipitFTW911" raised to 928,000.
"robinsex" then three-bet all in for 2,764,960 and "ShipitFTW911" quickly called.
"robinsex": Q?Q?
"ShipitFTW911": A?10?
"ShipitFTW911"s flush draw would miss, but the K?A? runout rivered him a pair of aces instead, beating the pair of queens from "robinsex", who consequently would fall in 38th place as the first elimination of the day.
The penultimate day of the 2023 $10,300 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event is set to kick off at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Out of a total of 600 entries, only 38 players still find themselves with chips on the virtual tables when they log in to their PokerStars account today. They have all secured a payout of $32,632 already, but all eyes will be on the $1,047,257 that comes with capturing the title of World Champion. However, many of them will have to settle for lesser portions of the $6,000,000 prize pool, as the tournament will play down to a final table of nine players on Day 3 first.
Remaining Payouts
Place
Prize
Place
Prize
1
$1,047,257
10-12
$76,287
2
$765,389
13-15
$61,965
3
$559,385
16-23
$49,894
4
$408,827
24-31
$40,350
5
$298,792
32-39
$32,632
6
$218,372
7
$159,598
8
$116,642
9
$94,330
Still among those in contention is PokerStars AmbassadorSam "SamSquid" Grafton. The talkative Brit is sitting in 25th place on the leaderboard, with 2,721,816 in chips. Despite finding himself in the lower regions of the leaderboard, the deep structure of the WCOOP Main Event means that he still has over 30 big blinds to play with when the tournament recommences today.
However, his stack dwarfs in comparison to the overwhelming chipleader Ivan "ILS007" Stokes. Grafton’s fellow countryman amassed a gargantuan stack of 16,606,251 chips on Day 2, nearly twice that of second place, Swedish online legend Niklas "Lena900" Astedt, who sits down with 9,996,387 at the start of Day 3. The top-three is completed by Jamil "Jamil11" Wakil (9,799,062), while notable names like "ShipitFTW911" (6,761,987) and Kayhan "KayhanMok" Mokri (6,431,244) also find themselves with a comfortable top-ten stack.
Top 10 Chip Counts at the Start of Day 3
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Ivan "ILS007" Stokes
United Kingdom
16,606,251
208
2
Niklas "Lena900" Astedt
Sweden
9,996,387
125
3
Jamil "Jamil11" Wakil
Canada
9,799,062
122
4
"BigCsabi"
Hungary
7,850,116
98
5
"Thurpan"
United Kingdom
7,563,718
95
6
"ShipitFTW911"
Sweden
6,761,987
85
7
Kayhan "KayhanMok" Mokri
Norway
6,341,244
79
8
"ContraSpemSper0"
Ukraine
4,713,328
59
9
Juan "xPastorcitox" Pastor
Argentina
4,662,556
58
10
"PAX176"
Poland
4,319,200
54
Ivan Stokes
As one can expect from a WCOOP Main Event, the rest of the field is not filled with slouches either. Leonard "Grozzorg" Maue (3,981,436), Kelvin "Kelvin_FP:AR" Kerber (2,829,571), Daniel "Oxata" Dvoress (2,816,829), Sami "Lrslzk" Kelopuro (2,760,132), and Andras "probirs" Nemeth (2,232,651) will all sit down at the start of Day 3 as well, trying to maneuver their way onto the final table of nine.
Day 3 will start at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and the field will play as many 30-minute levels, starting from 40,000/80,000 with an ante of 10,000, necessary to whittle the 38 players down to one final table of nine. At that point, they will all have secured $94,330 and will continue playing on Day 4, on October 4th.
PokerNews will provide a live report from the start of the day until the very end, as well as for the $10,300 PLO Main Event, which plays down to a winner today. So stay tuned to both pages to not miss any of the biggest online poker action of the year.
