In 90 minutes from now, the final day of WCOOP-02-M: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Slam] at the PokerStars 2020 WCOOP will see its digital cards go in the air. Out of an original field of 1,971, only 16 are left standing after two days.
Each of them has $5,133 already guaranteed for their efforts but they'll be gunning for the juiciest slice of the $2,000,000 prize pool, the first-place prize of $130,321, and accompanying WCOOP champion bragging rights that go with it.
Dutchman "Darwinsfish" starts off as the chip leader with 33,411,567 in chips, followed by Yuri "theNERDguy" Dzivielevski (19,958,852) and Rasmus "Powergolf" Zerr (17,031,520). Others still in include Martin "martin12389" Schejtman (13,668,758), Joni "bustoville" Jouhkimainen(13,511,580), Andy "BowieEffect" Wilson (13,508,348), Evan "PURPLE"K"99" Parkes (12,947,125), Eduardo "Eduardo850" Silva (10,134,607), Rinat "Zapahzamazki" Lyapin (8,906,640), Alex "AlexGelinski" Gelinski (7,233,100), Thomas "WushuTM" Muehloecker (5,333,160) and Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves (3,885,429).
Action will resume in Level 37 with 175,000/350,000 blinds and a 45,000 ante. Levels will be 20 minutes throughout until the champ is crowned, and the PokerNews live reporting team will be watching closely to bring you blow-by-blow coverage of this event.