PokerStars online poker final

The main event of the highly anticipated PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker has been won by British player theVOid. He claimed not only the first place, title and a WCOOP bracelet, but an eye-ball popping $1.2 million – the biggest online prize in history.

Almost 3,000 players logged-on, including JC ‘area23JC’ Tran and Chris ‘Money800’ Moneymaker, to sign-up for the $2,600 tournament which created a $7,495,000 prize pool. The game started on Sunday September 30 and by Monday night the new king of online poker had been crowned.

Those making it to the final table included sponsored Team Poker Stars player Vanessa Roussso – a.k.a LadyMaverick – who did well to battle it all the way to third place, taking down a $463,940.50 prize, but couldn’t quite make it to the top. HelmetSky was awarded $382,245 for his fourth place finish and mpg1000 in fifth, was credited with $307,295.

A tense heads-up battle took place between ka$ino, who started with the chip-lead, and theVOid, who managed to win two all-ins to gain command of his opponent. In the end, ka$ino re-raised with AK and theVOid pushed with KQ. The board came 3 10 J 3 9 giving theVOid a straight, and a bitter-sweet second place consolation prize of $850,782.50 to ka$ino.

Since winning the biggest online poker event of the year, theVOid has been receiving a lot of of attention online not only because of the amount of money won, but because of rumours about his actual identity which remains a mystery, and that it was the first tournament to have been played on this account.

The WCOOP took place over two and a half weeks and involved 17,000 players from 107 countries, 23 independent events and roughly $24 million in prizes. The most successful countries represented at the world championship were the US and Sweden, who receieved nine and four bracelets respectively.