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This post is dedicated to the last and biggest event of the WCOOP 2009 the Main Event with a buy-in of $5,200 NL Holdem – and to congratulate the winner Yevgeni „Jovial Gent“ Timoshenko that won $1,715,200 in prize money, a WCOOP gold bracelet and a trip to the Bahamas for the next PCA.

This was a 2-day event of online poker full of action and I just want to bring to you some of the highlights. There were together 2144 entrants with a prize pool of $10,720,000. That’s “only” ten times more than the usual Sunday Million of Pokerstars.com!

It has started on 20th September at 17.00 ET and has finished on 22nd September at 2.47 ET. Only the top 306 players in this tournament were in the money and they would take a “piece of the pie”. The huge payout was prepared for the final table, especially first two finishers, who would end up millionaires .

There were 178 players after the first day of the tournament ready for the 2nd battle. Here you can have seen many know players as J.C. Tran, PokerStars Pro Jan Heitman, winner of the Five-Star World Poker Classic WPT Championship 2009 Yevgeni “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko or Daniel “djk123″ Kelly, who was fighting for his 3rd WCOOP 2009 bracelet.

It was Daniel “djk123″ Kelly who was playing very solid poker game and created a good spot for himself as a chip leader in the 2nd day of the tournament, but few moments before the final table it was Yevgeni who started to fight back for the 1st position. Here you can see structure of the final table on the WCOOP 2009 event:

Seat       Name              Amount of chips
1          reddeevil         4.222.220
2         Mudvaynes       700.486
3         Jovial Gent      10.616,564
4         djk123            12.160.610
5         Udon Wannit    4.549.346
6         Chong94           3.857.482
7         Xaston               2.150.576
8         PeachyMer        3.617.956
9         Supa4real         1.004.760

The final table was very interesting and had the pleasure of having a lady with nick “PeachyMer” amongst all the guys. Unfortunately she has been eliminated by the chip leader djk123 and took the 9th place with $96,480.
The 4th place has been taken by the djk123, owner of already two WCOOP 2009 bracelets. After some action, 2 players end up heads up. Jovial Gent as a chipleader with about 32 Mill. in chips and Udon Wannit with about 10 Mill. in chips.

Here is the final hand – After a mini-raise from Wannit the flop was [6s] [Kc] [8h]. He was holding [6c] [5c] and has raised after Gent’s check. He got re-raised which forced him to shove all the remaining chips in. Jovial Gent showed 2 pairs with [Kd] [6d] and this hand made him the winner of the WCOOP 2009.

Daniel “djk123″ Kellly won title Player of the Series WCOOP 2009 and the Yevgeni “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko claimed the Main Event championship title.

Here is the final standings and prizes:

1 - Jovial Gent from United States - $1,715,200.00
2 - Udon Wannit from United States - $1,286,400.00
3 - reddeevil from Norway - $933,712.00
4 - djk123 from United States - $643,200.00
5 - Xaston from United States - $482,400.00
6 - Chong94 from United States - $375,200.00
7 - Mudvaynes from United States - $268,000.00
8 - Supa4real from Netherlands - $182,240.00
9 - PeachyMer from United States - $96,480.00
10 - slammedfire from Canada - $75,040.00

Looking into Yevgeni “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko past successes we can see that he is doing very well!
He has won the online tournament Sunday Million run by Pokerstars.com, he has won the PokerStars daily $100 rebuy for over $30,000, then the PokerStars Sunday $200 rebuy for over $60,000 and got another good result in the PokerStars Million – finishing fifth for $59,000. I can also mention a final table in the FullTilt 1k Monday for $14,000 and a fifth place in the UltimateBetSunday $200k for $11,000. I have to say Yevgeni „Jovial Gent“ Timoshenko knows about poker and he is indeed very skilled. His game speaks for him.

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