Stevan "random_chu" Chew Wins PokerStars WCOOP-56-H: $2,100 NLHE [8-Max, Super Tuesday SE] for $140,595
Day 2 of the PokerStars WCOOP-56-H: $2,100 NLHE [8-Max, Super Tuesday SE] has come to an end after over six hours with Stevan "random_chu" Chew claiming his first WCOOP title by defeating Patrick "thebigdog09" Brooks heads-up for $140,595 in a 386-strong player field which had a prize pool of $772,000.
Chew has over a million in live tournament cashes but has more online as he has been around for many years already crushing the virtual tables and collecting scores left, right, and center. Back in 2015, he had already collected over $2 million in online results and has only added to them over the last years.
In addition to Chew and Brooks, Ludovic "ludovi333" Geilich, Martijn "maztijn" Gerrits, Enrico "WhaTisL0v3" Camosci, Jorge "jorginho88" Abreu, Rodrigo "sonmonedas" Perez, Simon "Igorkarkarof" Ronnow Pedersen, and Kyriakos "9cream4" Papadopoulos took a seat at the final table.
WCOOP-56-H: $2,100 NLHE [8-Max, Super Tuesday SE] Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stevan "random_chu" Chew | Australia | $140,595 |
| 2 | Patrick "thebigdog09" Brooks | United Kingdom | $101,738 |
| 3 | Ludovic "ludovi333" Geilich | United Kingdom | $73,621 |
| 4 | Martijn "maztijn" Gerrits | The Netherlands | $53,274 |
| 5 | Enrico "WhaTisL0v3" Camosci | Italy | $38,551 |
| 6 | Jorge "jorginho88" Abreu | Portugal | $27,896 |
| 7 | Rodrigo "sonmonedas" Perez | Argentina | $20,187 |
| 8 | Simon "Igorkarkarof" Ronnow Pedersen | Denmark | $14,608 |
| 9 | Kyriakos "9cream4" Papadopoulos | Greece | $12,405 |
Today's Action
Out of the 386 entries, 54 players returned today with "Sintoras" min-cashing last night when he busted in the same hand as Leonard "Gerritss" Gerritss to Mathias "Cashcid Linc" Maasberg who came back with the chip lead. By the time the first break came, there were only 29 players left with big names like Niklas "Lena900" Astedt and Shaun "shaundeeb" Deeb gone.
An hour later, ten more had fallen including players like Steven "SvZff" van Zadelhoff, Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson, Thomas "WushuTM" Muehloecker, and Maasberg who just couldn't make things work for him today as he ran his king-jack into the aces of Geilich.
Chew held the chip lead at that point but was overtaken by Gerrits when he took out Shawn "buck21" Buchanan with aces against kings. He then increased that lead when he eliminated Marton "noirduck" Czuczor and fellow countryperson "Prof. Hitman" before Chew took out another Dutchman in Teun "tinnoemulder" Mulder to get the tournament down to the final table.
Papadopoulos had the shortest stack at the start and was also first to go thanks to Chew. Ronnow Pedersen followed immediately after as he ran his kings into the aces of Brooks. Gerrits lost his lead when he paid for one of the many double-ups that happened on the final table but stuck around near the top of the counts for a while. Perez was pushed out by Camosci and Abreu was eliminated by Brooks.
Geilich then rivered a set to score a big double-up through Gerrits who was left short. He doubled up once before Camosci lost all his chips to Geilich who then had almost twice as many chips as Brooks who was sitting in second place. Having picked up a pay jump, Gerrits then left the final table stage.
Three-handed play lasted 90 minutes with the chips flying back and forth with Brooks in the lead in the end as he took out Geilich. Brooks had a commanding 3:1 chip lead but Chew managed to win a few before the players decided to look at the numbers. In the end, they decided to continue without a deal. Chew doubled up with an overpair to take a 2:1 lead before taking Brooks out when he called the three-bet shove of the latter with pocket eights. Brooks held ace-queen and even though he picked up a gutshot on the turn, the river didn't bring him any help.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand again on Wednesday, September 17 from 7:05 p.m. CEST to bring you coverage of the final stages of WCOOP-59-H: $5,200 NLHE [8-Max, Midweek Freeze] and Day 1 of WCOOP-63-H: $2,100 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, Freezeout, Thursday Thrill SE].