After Lex “L. Veldhuis” Veldhuis captured his first World Championship of On-line Poker (WCOOP) title earlier within the sequence, and Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot added one other 4 to his tally, Sebastian “peace&loove” Huber is the newest Staff PokerStars member to change into a 2024 WCOOP champion.
Huber has racked up over 50 cashes through the present WCOOP, however none will ever be as memorable as his end result within the WCOOP 88-L: $11 H.O.R.S.E. 6-Max as a result of that’s the occasion the place Huber captured his second WCOOP victory. Huber final received a WCOOP occasion in 2022, taking down the $5.50 No-Restrict Maintain’em 7-Max PKO.
A area of 1,386 generated a $13,582 prize pool, and Huber outlasted all of them. The PokerStars ambassador reeled in $2,097 for his victory and a bagfull of WCOOP League factors. Like how Veldhuis received his maiden WCOOP title, Huber received his whereas streaming on Twitch. The principle distinction was Huber was not dressed like Ali G on the time!
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Huber’s win helped Staff peace&loove add 355 factors to their tally, they usually now maintain a commanding 965-point lead over Staff tonkaaaa. Staff easywithaces are at the moment in third. They closed the hole on Staff tonkaaaa to 235 factors due to Renan “Internett93o” Bruschi triumphing within the WCOOP 88-H: $1,050 H.O.R.S.E. 6-Max for $22,498 and his seventh title.
Staff peace&loove – 6,225 factors (+355)Staff tonkaaaa – 5,260 factors (+280)Staff easywithaces – 5,025 factors (+325)Staff L. Veldhuis – 4,265 factors (+175)Staff Aakkari – 3,680 factors (+110)Staff Spraggy – 3,195 factors (+225)
Time is quickly operating out for anybody to catch Huber and his crew, who have already got one hand on the trophy.
Vlad “dariepoker” Darie Claims $132,607 and His Maiden WCOOP Victory
Romania’s Vlad “dariepoker” Darie received his maiden WCOOP title on September 25, and what a method to get the proverbial monkey off his again. Darie got here out on high in WCOOP 86-H: $5,200 NLHE Tremendous Tuesday and reeled in $132,607 just a few days after serving to himself to a $633,000 rating within the WSOP On-line Worldwide competition.
This $5,200 buy-in occasion drew in 121 entrants who fought it out over the $605,000 prize pool. The highest 15 gamers had been paid, with Adrian “Amadi_017” Mateos popping the cash bubble when he fell in sixteenth place.
By the point the ultimate desk was reached, the 9 surviving gamers had locked in $17,611 and had been solely eight eliminations away from that large high prize.
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Carlos “Carlos levis” Ribeiro busted in ninth and was joined on the rail by Samuel “€urop€an” Vousden, Juan “Malaka$tyle” Pardo, leaving solely six gamers in competition to change into this occasion’s champion.
Alexandros “Pwndidi” Theologis bowed out in sixth, Vyacheslav “VbV1990” Buldygin of Kazakhstan in fifth earlier than Estnia’s “DingeBrinker” ran out of steam in fourth.
Heads-up was set when Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson crashed out in third. Mattsson added $79,604 to his lifetime winnings whereas incomes invaluable factors for WCOOP League picket spoon contenders Staff Spraggy.
Darie then defeated “IAttack95” within the one-on-one battle, thus turning into a WCOOP champion for the primary time and the recipient of $132,607; “IAttack95″‘s comfort prize was $102,743.