WCOOP: #4-ranked ‘veeea’ Wins Progressive KO for Second WCOOP Title
WCOOP: #4-ranked ‘veeea’ Wins Progressive KO for Second WCOOP Title

Anybody who closely follows the PocketFives Rankings knows that every time the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker rolls around, the Rankings see some seismic shifts. With Day 2 of WCOOP now in the books, it looks like there is already going to be some movement near the top.

Russia’s ‘veeea‘, the #4-ranked player in the world, might find himself moving up after taking down Event #4 ($1,050 Progressive KO) for a $97,389.47 score plus over $100,000 in bounties. The final table included
the second 2017 WCOOP final table for Adrian ‘Amadi_017’ Mateos, the #1-ranked player from Boznia and Herzegovina, Alen ‘lilachaa’ Bilic and the #1 player from Cyprus, Andreas ‘daskalos20’ Christoforou. This is the second career WCOOP title for ‘veeea‘. He won a $320 buy-in WCOOP Stud title in 2013.

That was one of three WCOOP (High) events that wrapped up on Tuesday.

Pascal ‘Päffchen’ Hartmann beat out 1,164 other players to win Event #5 ($215 Six Max Pot Limit Omaha) for $37,015.66 and his first COOP title. Germany’s ‘Schinken777‘ finished runner-up.

The #2-ranked Croatian, ‘josip1313‘, topped the 1,180-player field in Event #7 ($530 Eight Max NLHE) to win $93,988.27. The final table included PocketFivers ‘Powergolf‘, the #2-ranked Finnish player, Tomi ‘elmerixx’ Brouk and Russia’s ‘s3c3_1978’.

Event #5 (High) – $215 Six Max Pot Limit Omaha
Entries: 1,165
Prize pool: $233,000

  1. Pascal ‘Päffchen’ Hartmann – $37,014.66
  2. Schinken777 – $25,966.63
  3. *FlipMyJinx* – $18,216.40
  4. Pucuttnyul – $12,779.39
  5. Mr_Giiba – $8,965.16
  6. torscotr06 – $6,289.34
  7. Slaventii003 – $4,956.91

Event #6 (High) – $1,050 Progressive KO NLHE
Entries: 1,221
Prize pool: $610,500 + $610,500 in bounties

  1. veeea – $97,389.47 + $100,514.32 in bounties
  2. PSMozak – $70,710.30 + $13,514.41 in bounties
  3. Jâmes – $51,340.05 + $4,687.50 in bounties
  4. Adrian ‘Amadi_017’ Mateos – $37,275.97 + $16,164.07 in bounties
  5. sleepnot – $27,064.68 + $3,937.50 in bounties
  6. Alen ‘lilachaa’ Bilic – $19,650.59 + $4,093.75 in bounties
  7. Jussi ‘calvin7v’ Nevanlinna – $14,267.56 + $10,718.75 in bounties
  8. elmerixx – $10,359.14 + $3,562.50 in bounties
  9. Andreas ‘daskalos20’ Christoforou $7,521.36 + $2,437.50 in bounties

Event #7 (High) – $530 Eight Max No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 1,180
Prize pool: $590,000

  1. josip1313 – $93,988.27
  2. Powergolf – $68,038.50
  3. Tomi ‘elmerixx’ Brouk – $49,253.55
  4. s3c3_1978 – $35,654.99
  5. GooDrone – $25,810.96
  6. Poeira4 – $18,684.76
  7. Maxi ‘Pachila25’ Gallardo – $13,526.04
  8. 444446 – $9,791.58
  9. Mahon 32 – $7,746.34