After 65 events, the 2012 World Championships of Online Poker wrapped up in the early hours of September 25th, with Russian player ‘maratik’ being crowned the $5,200 Main Event Champion after parlaying 40 Frequent Player Points into $1,000,907.26 and the bracelet!
According to the PokerStars press release, a six-way deal was negotiated at the final table, which saw ‘maratik’ initially getting $900,907.26, but he added an additional $100,000 to his haul after defeating the final 5 players to collect the title and cash left in the middle.
Looking at the final numbers, those playing from Canada racked up a total of 2,166 cashes over 15,726 entries across the series; totaling in a massive $9,567,359.96 in winnings. Canada placed first across the board, scoring 14 bracelets to runner up Russia’s 8, who comparable had less than 1000 entries over the WCOOPs.
Canada also claimed 80 final table finishes, while Russia rang in at 55 for second place.
Below are our final table cashes for events 35 through 65; while the 2012 WCOOP Canadian Final Table Finishes for Events 1-34 can be found by clicking on the link.
Congratulations to all 80 final table appearances!
WCOOP-65: $5,200 NL Hold’em Main Event – $5 million GTD Prize pool: $9,125,000 Entries: 1825
2nd Ryan ‘TheCart3r’ Carter (Canada) – $662,516.39*
8th Phil ‘takechip’ D’Auteuil (Canada) – $136,875
(* denotes six-way deal)
WCOOP-64: $10,300 8-Game [High Roller] – $400,000 GTD Prize pool: $930,000 Entries: 93
1st Jason Mercier (Canada, Team Pro) – $253,425
3rd Daniel ‘KidPoker’ Negreanu – $130,200
6th Scott ‘gunning4you’ Seiver – $48,825
WCOOP-63: $215 NL Hold’em – $1 million GTD Prize pool: $1,913,800.00 Entries: 9,569
1st jakz101 – $281,524.39
WCOOP-62: $2,100 HORSE – $200,000 GTD Prize pool: $330,000 Entrants: 165
1st babyjess28 – $71,775
WCOOP-60 : $700 PL Omaha Heads Up $100,000 GTD Entrants: 418 Prize pool: $280,060
5th (tie): Gakn29 – $8,961.92
WCOOP-59 : $215 NL Omaha H/L – $100,000 GTD Entrants: 927 Prize pool: $185,400
2nd glockwood81 – $24,102.00 5th broken_jia – $9,344.16
WCOOP-58: $1,050 FL Hold’em [6-Max] – $150,000 GTD Entrants: 261 Prize pool: $261,000
5th Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet – $15,660.00
WCOOP-57: $530 NL Hold’em [1R1A] – $600,000 GTD Entrants: 846 Prize pool: $1,009,000
4th jliberta146 – $73,657 9th Jymaster11 – $12,915.20
WCOOP-55: $530+R NL Hold’em – $600,000 GTD Entrants: 744 Prize pool: $1,088,500
1st youaremelon – $199,739.75
7th Ami ‘UhhMee’ Barer – $34,832 8th sms9231 – $23,947
WCOOP-53: $320 PL Omaha H/L – $150,000 GTD Entrants: 932 Prize pool: $279,600
3rd G’s zee – $27,121.20
5th Ari ‘BodogAri’ Engel – $14,091.84
WCOOP-52: $215 NL Hold’em [Big Antes] – $300,000 GTD Entrants: 2,164 Prize pool: $432,800
4th Mike ‘Tîmex’ McDonald (Canada) – $26,833.60
WCOOP-51: $215 NL Hold’em [1R1A] – $300,000 GTD Entrants: 1,112 Prize pool: $500,200
8th 4rebmun – $10,004
WCOOP-50: $1,050 NL Hold’em – $750,000 GTD Entrants: 1,308 Prize pool: $1,308,000
8th Mike ‘goleafsgoeh’ Leah – $25,506.00
WCOOP-49: $530 Razz – $100,000 guaranteed Entrants: 387 Prize pool: $193,500
1st Justin ‘ZeeJustin’ Bonomo (Canada) – $36,765.16
6th hummylun – $6,772.50
7th Shawn ‘buck21’ Buchanan – $4,837.50
WCOOP-48: $320 Mixed NL Hold’em/PL Omaha – $200,000 GTD Entrants: 1,132 Prize pool: $339,600
1st mookstar – $59,362.08
5th Jason ‘Taknapotin’ Somerville (Canada) – $16,980
WCOOP-47: $265 NL Hold’em [Turbo, KO] – $400,000 GTD Entrants: 3,339 Prize pool: $667,800 + $166,950
6th birddy420 (Canada) – $22,037.40
WCOOP-46: $320 NL Hold’em [2x Chance] – $500,000 GTD Entrants: 2,218 Prize pool: $869,400
3rd Kora Fett – $78,246
WCOOP-44: $2,100 NL Hold’em – $1.25 million GTD Entrants: 1,387 Prize pool: $2,774,000
4th d0r1t0s – $250,000* (* reflects 4-way deal)
WCOOP-43: $10,300 NL Hold’em – $200,000 GTD Prize pool: $640,000.00 Entries 64
1st Adonis112 – $224,000.00
2nd Helio TYF – $128,000.00
WCOOP-42: $215 NL Hold’em – $1 million guaranteed Entrants: 8,342 Prize pool: $1,668,400
7th briankrause1 – $35,870.60
WCOOP-40: $320 NL Hold’em – $250,000 GTD Prize: $698,100.00. Entries: 2,327
7th jknack10 Canada – $9,075.30
9th Pthelegend – $9,075.30
WCOOP-39: $700 NL Hold’em [Heads-Up] – $250,000 GTD Entrants: 720 Prize pool: $482,400
WCOOP-38: $215 PL pre/NLH post-flop – $100,000 GTD Entrants: 1273 Prize pool: $254,600
2nd smokin27 – $31,825 3rd donut604 – $24,161.54
WCOOP-37: $530 FL Omaha H/L – $125,000 guaranteed Entrants: 429 Prize pool: 214,500
5th Vanessa ‘V.Selbst’ Selbst – $12,012
WCOOP-36: $215+R NL Hold’em – $500,000 guaranteed Entrants: 1483 Prize pool: $826,000
3rd thegrinda444 (Canada) – $76,405
4th Adam ‘Roothlus’ Levy (Canada) – $56,168
9th snake8484 – $8,507.80
