ECOOP Results from Events 1 – 5
(Credit: Titan Poker)
The European Championships of Online Poker (ECOOP) kicked off December 1, 2007 with a $150,000 NLHE tournament. 1049 people paid to play driving up the prize pool to $209,800. majstorex held a massive chip lead as heads-up play got underway due to his elimination of jessica86 in third place. After five minutes of heads-up play, majstorex had widened the lead. Donkaments went all-in with a Q,J of spades. majstorex made the call with the A,3. On the turn, a queen fell giving Donkaments the lead. However, the river would prove to be a cruel mistress for Donkaments. The ace fell, giving majstorex the title and more than $40,000. Here are the results: 1) majstorex - $44,059 2) Donkaments - $23,078 3) jessica86 - $16,784 4) wasolexxx - $12,588 5) Blussky - $10,490 6) Playboy12 - $8,392 7) bearbeer - $6,294 8) cesarionII - $4,196 9) ChipSilo - $2,937 On Saturday, December 2, 2007 540 players headed to the tables for the PLO Hi/Lo tournament at the ECOOP. They purchased 400 rebuys. TitanPoker put up $6,000 to meet the $100,000 Guarantee. BSinclair, the tournament's eventual winner, was instrumental in the knockouts of at least three players at the final table. He earned his $23,000. These are the final facts, folks: 1) BSinclar - $23,000.00 2) PJBACES - $13,500.00 3) cindy74 - $8,000.00 4) Balaganov2 - $6,000.00 5) No2Bookie - $5,000.00 6) yz2a - $4,000.00 7) cadopiaaa - $3,000.00 8) MARKENNENKZ - $2,000.00 9) mannmannmann - $1,400.00 10) meteorit - $1,100.00 1491 entrants sat down to play at the beginning of the $350k Guaranteed NLHE Freezeout that was Event #3 at this year's ECOOP. They pushed the prize pool up to $372,750. It took about ten hours for the final table to be decided. Then, the first two folks were eliminated from the table in the first two hands. Yup! A million dollar pot decided foggen's fate. He bid his table mates adieu in sixth position. As the heads-up match-up got underway, Addict1968 had the lead. He held onto it, making a seven-high straight on the final hand to win the title, the ECOOP bracelet and more than $78,000. Here are the results: 1) Addict1968 - $78,277.50 2) antroff - $41,002.50 3) bigpat60 - $29,820.00 4) pinozaurus - $22,365.00 5) ChelseaIan - $18,637.50 6) foggen - $14,910.00 7) Dnors47 - $11,182.50 8) faucon666 - $7,455.00 9) VicMakey - $5,218.50 10) momoski74 - $3,727.50 Event #4 was another Pot Limit Omaha tournament. This rebuy event featured the high version of the game only. 672 people drove up the prize pool to $120,200, more than $20,000 than the posted guarantee. LuckyPlayCoolie had a big chip lead as final table action began, holding onto that lead all the way to heads-up with AmichaiKK. These are the final facts, folks: 1) LuckyPlayCoolie - $27,646 2) AmichaiKK - $16,227 3) bakircioglu - $9,616 4) Rims - $7,212 5) THEDARKL0RD - $6,010 6) Flyingdagger - $4,808 7) fishbuster1 - $3,606 8) DeadParrot9 - $2,404 9) Roffson - $1,682 10) Deltoid - $1,322 The fifth tournament at the 2007 ECOOP had a whopping $200,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool. The NLHE tournament took close to ten hours to complete. 409 players signed on to play, paying the $750 buy-in. OmarIShere played solid poker throughout, taking out jonas79 in third place and entering the heads-up match against Arakas with 1.7 million chips. Arakas had only 350k left but managed to hang on for more than half an hour before succumbing to the pair of kings OmarIShere made on the final hand. Here are the results: 1) OmarIShere $76,687.50 2) Arakas $46,012.50 3) jonas79 $24,540 4) Ace11Spade $18,405 5) fhauggen $15,337.50 6) Vitjushka $12,270 7) ominiekss $9,202 8) PresidentPalmer $7,668 9) Vladislava88 $6,135 10) ANGEL660 $4,601