An Inaugural Champion Will Be Crowned Today in the PokerStars WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event]

Shirley Ang

The PokerStars WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] will commence at 7:05 p.m. CEST with nine players out of 7,105 entries coming back to battle it out for the first-place prize of $504,584. They have all secured $33,638 but will all be looking for a bigger share of the enormous $3,552,500 prize pool.

Thailands "1mSoWeeeaK" comes back with the chip leader badge on their name as they bagged 188,814,169 which is worth 94 big blinds. They are followed by Brazil's Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes with 132,293,151 in and Germany's "$harkFlo" 81,720,936.

Seven countries are represented on the final table with Germany having three runners left. Marcin "cladarth" Pszenniak, "kirbyi17"b, Yuri "Y.Zakharov" Zakharov, Oscar "owilson25" Ramirez, "tzini9", and "ZAR84" are all still in the race for the top spot.

WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] Final Table Players

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	"1mSoWeeeaK"	Thailand	188,814,169	94
2	Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes	Brazil	132,293,151	66
3	"$harkFlo"	Germany	81,720,936	41
4	Marcin "cladarth" Pszenniak	Poland	62,013,826	31
5	"kirbyi17"	Germany	60,537,696	30
6	Yuri "Y.Zakharov" Zakharov	Russia	54,255,060	27
7	Oscar "owilson25" Ramirez	Honduras	48,475,044	24
8	"tzini9"	Romania	47,062,442	24
9	"ZAR84"	Germany	35,327,676	18

When the players return, they will play Level 50 which features a small blind of 1,000,000, a big blind of 2,000,000, and a running ante of 250,000, and play will continue until the inaugural WCOOP champion of the Medium buy-in Main Event has been crowned.

PokerNews will be here from the first raise until the final all-in so sit tight and read along to find out who will become the first Medium Buy-In Main Event Champion.

This is what the 9 players are still competing for: