At the $2,100 buy-in level, Event #45 sported some of the largest buy-ins of all of the 2014 World Championship of Online Poker. Just a handful of high roller events and the principle Event cost more to enter, making this probably the most more attractive tournaments at the schedule for bagging a large score. It turned out to be a large score, indeed, worth $488,095 to the Finnish player who came out ahead greater than 36 hours after the tournament began.
Day 1 of this two-day event kicked off with 15,000-chip starting stacks, 25/50 blinds, and 30-minute levels. That drew a field of 1,457 players and built a $2,910,000 prize pool that just about doubled the $1.5 million guarantee. The highest 198 players earned a minimum of $3,351.10, with $488K on the top for the winner. The primary day of play ended with these 10 players on the top of the heap:
1. poosnack11 (Canada) 419,501 chips2. gkap13 (Greece) 357,6393. Lateski (Finland) 351,9164. Pro1612 (Germany) 351,7465. RJules12 (Costa Rica) 343,7986. badbeatman06 (Mexico) 332,0737. KKremate (Brazil) 317,9758. hwtd1 (Canada) 297,9449. GoToCa$hier (Portugal) 293,78610. ZeelandBoy (Malta) 291,710
In the top just three of these top 10 players from the start of Day 2 - those sitting in 3rd, 7th, and 9th overall - would stick around long enough to look the overall table.
Team Online's Naoya "nkeyno" Kihara wasn't near the highest when Day 2 began, but he managed to move his short stack into contention because the field shortened to four, three, after which two tables. Living so with regards to the edge, he was just about the overall table bubble boy on this event. He got all-in before the flop with pocket sevens against the pocket aces held by Portugal's GoToCa$hier as one of the crucial shortest of the ten remaining stacks, only to catch a seven at the turn and double right back into contention.
A few orbits later Kihara's A♥ J♣ lost out to the all-in FaceStealer's K♣ J♠ because the latter hit a straight, but Kihara had enough enough momentum left to cruise into the general table. It kicked off at 10:47 p.m. ET, with blinds and antes at 20K/40K/5K and these nine players vying for WCOOP gold:
Seat 1: FaceStealer (1,225,958 in chips) Seat 2: IneedMassari (717,155 in chips) Seat 3: thagrinda444 (3,161,512 in chips) Seat 4: AJacejackAJ (4,117,676 in chips) Seat 5: nkeyno (1,318,717 in chips) Seat 6: Lateski (3,891,392 in chips) Seat 7: GoToCa$hier (860,795 in chips) Seat 8: KungKroon (3,284,372 in chips) Seat 9: KKremate (3,277,423 in chips)
The calm, after which the storm
More than an hour would go by before the primary elimination, however it wasn't for an absence of action. Sweden's KungKroon chipped away at Canada's thagrinda444 early, but then the Canadian struck back and doubled as much as 4.03M with K♠ K♥ against the A♣ 5♠ of fellow Canadian (and Event #37 champion) AJacejackAJ. thagrinda444 ran T♣ T♥ into FaceStealer's A♣ A♥, giving the Costa Rican player a double to 2.15M, and past SCOOP champ GoToCa$hier doubled to 2.72M with J♦ J♥ against Brazilian KKremate's A♦ Q♥ after flopping a set.
Naoya Kihara got in at the action in an excellent spot for a double-up, too, moving all-in for 832K at the 30K/60K/7.5K level with K♣ K♠ to open the betting. KungKroon raised to isolate at the button and showed down A♠ K♥, which needed some help from the board to win the pot. The 5♣ T♦ J♣ gave the Swede four Broadway straight outs to compliment the threes remaining aces within the deck. The 7♠ at the turn was no help, however the A♣ at the river made a couple of aces, giving KungKroon the 1.82M chips within the middle. With that, Kihara's run because the last Red Spade standing resulted in 9th place ($30,014.20).
The next elimination wouldn't take nearly as long. Just three minutes after getting back from the primary break of the overall table, with the blinds and antes newly as much as 40K/80K/10K, Brazil's IneedMassari, a past WCOOP champion, came in for a comparatively modest raise to 176K. AJacejackAJ was within the cutoff and made it three bets all-in for 1.12M, which got the remainder of the table to fold quickly. IneedMassari snap-called with Q♦ Q♥, which was bad news for AJacejackAJ's pure bluff with 9♠ 6♠. The board fell 8♦ 2♥ A♣ T♣ J♥, the queens held up, and AJacejackAJ was gone in 8th place ($55,466).
Only 13 more minutes can be needed for the third knockout of the general table to come back to pass. After 17 consecutive six-figure pots, two short stacks would face off against one another. FaceStealer opened the action with a minimum raise to 160K at the button, then called when thagrinda444 re-raised all-in to 1.13M within the big blind. FaceStealer had the advantage with 9♠ 9♥ to thagrinda444's A♥ 8♣, and the pair held up for the 2.37M-chip pot on a 6♠ 2♣ K♥ 6♦ 3♣ board. With that, thagrinda444 left the tournament in 7th place ($84,506).
Six how you can Tuesday
After that relatively quick burst of activity, the chips were distributed like so:
Seat 1: FaceStealer (2,841,401 in chips) Seat 2: IneedMassari (4,061,921 in chips) Seat 6: Lateski (4,097,705 in chips) Seat 7: GoToCa$hier (3,254,850 in chips) Seat 8: KungKroon (3,275,155 in chips) Seat 9: KKremate (4,323,968 in chips)
Everybody had no less than 35 big blinds to work with, and the 30-minute levels meant there has been quite a few room for patient play. As a result, it could take another hour before the following knockout came along. Lateski survived an all-in moment with K♥ K♠ against KKremate's A♦ Q♦, good for a double to 3.76M, then won another 2.2M pot from the Brazilian to transport into the chip lead. But rather then that the confrontations mostly stayed small.
There were not more all-in confrontations until 1:18 a.m. ET, at the 60K/120K/15K level, when KungKroon opened for 240K under the gun and FaceStealer jammed for 1.7M within the cutoff. KungKroon was the one caller and showed A♣ K♥, which had FaceStealer's A♦ T♦ dominated. Both players' kickers played at the 3♦ 8♣ 8♥ 5♥ 4♣ board. KungKroon's king won the 3.67M-chip pot, and FaceStealer was out in 6th place ($113,646).
The next 18 minutes saw GoToCa$hier grab three seven-figure pots to transport as much as the lead with 7.87M chips. Then the Portuguese player had the risk to knock out KKremate, calling for 1.3M total after opening for 270K and having the Brazilian move all-in from the small blind. GoToCa$hier's A♥ T♦ had the lead but lost out at the 2.79M-chip pot when KKremate's K♥ Q♦ caught good at the Q♥ 9♦ 8♣ 7♥ 9♥ board.
GoToCa$hier jumped right back ahead a couple of hands later with another seven-figure pot, this one won at the turn and not using a showdown. However the Portuguese player reached new heights on a hand with nearly identical action to the last big win. GoToCa$hier opened for 270K under the gun with 8♣ 8♥ after which called after IneedMassari jammed within the small blind for 2.64M with A♦ K♦. The eights were under siege from the J♣ Q♠ 4♣ flop, which gave IneedMassari eight outs twice. However the J♠ turn and 4♥ river were safe, and IneedMassari hit the rail in 5th place ($142,786).
The haves and the have-nots
That left the last four players broken into clear strata:
Seat 6: Lateski (6,758,840 in chips) Seat 7: GoToCa$hier (9,312,384 in chips) Seat 8: KungKroon (3,001,742 in chips) Seat 9: KKremate (2,782,034 in chips)
The remainder of the table set to the duty of chipping away at GoToCa$hier's lead, and two seven-figure pots, first for KKremate after which for Lateski, actually gave the latter the chip lead. From there the balance held until the break on the end of the hour, the fourth of the overall table. At the first hand back, which kicked off the 70K/140K/17.5K level, that lead would serve Lateski well.
The Finn opened the hand in question with a gap raise to 291K at the button, then called KungKroon's re-raise to 2.47M within the big blind. Lateski called with 3♦ 3♠, and the classic race with KungKroon's Q♦ J♥ was at the. board came down A♦ [invalid card] 5♣ 8♥ K♥, the treys were good, and KungKroon departed in 4th place ($198,152).
That gave Lateski 10.7M chips to GoToCa$hier's 8.09M and KKremate's 3.04M as a full of life period of three-handed play commenced. GoToCa$hier jumped into the lead way to a 7.7M-chip pot when both players caught top pair at the 2♠ 6♣ Q♣ flop, the Portuguese player with A♦ Q♦ and Lateski, out of position, with Q♥ T♠. Then KKremate survived a flip with A♣ K♣ against GoToCa$hier's 7♠ 7♥, doubling to 4.08M and bringing the 2 big stacks back to within a few big blinds of each other. Soon enough, KKremate had taken over the lead through steady aggression.
The key pot of three-handed play came when Lateski opened at the button for 297K and GoToCa$hier three-bet to 854K within the small blind. Lateski called with 5.81M behind, bringing a Q♦ 4♦ 6♦ flop. GoToCa$hier opened for 665K, then jammed for 7.6M after the Finn raised to 1.7M. Lateski called with Q♥ J♥ for high pair, and GoToCa$hier held A♦ 9♠ for the nut flush draw with additional outs to a couple of aces. The 6♣ turn and 4♥ river were safe for the pair of queens and Lateski survived to earn the 13.5M-chip pot.
Three minutes later the short-stacked GoToCa$hier survived a primary all-in attempt, calling with A♠ K♥ after Lateski bluff-raised from the small blind with T♠ 3♦. That got the Portuguese player back to 3.11M. Five hands later GoToCa$hier was at the button and raised the minimum to 320K, getting a lone call from Lateski within the big blind. Lateski checked the 4♣ 5♥ 3♦ flop before raising all-in; GoToCa$hier called for 2.05M total with A♣ 5♣ which had the lead and stayed there after the Q♥ flop, though not without generating a bevy of outs to dodge at the river. Unfortunately for GoToCa$hier, the 6♦ was a type of outs, and Lateski won the 4.89M chips within the pot with a couple of sixes. With that, GoToCa$hier was out in 3rd place ($269,545).
End of the line
Finland had the advantage over Brazil within the heads-up chip counts:
Seat 6: Lateski (15,488,800 in chips) Seat 9: KKremate (6,366,200 in chips)
The heads-up component of play stood out in comparison to the remainder of the overall table, because it took just 17 minutes and 27 hands to finish. Nevertheless it wasn't without its own drama.
KKremate was in a position to make a match of it with a 7.2M-chip win at the sixth hand of the match. The Brazilian called a Lateski raise with 8♦ 6♣, check-called a big gamble after picking up an open-ended draw at the 5♥ 3♦ 7♣ flop, after which led out when the Q♠ hit the turn. Lateski called that bet, however the deception disguised a nine-high straight after the 9♦ came at the river, getting the Finn to name a 2.07M-chip bet at the river. Lateski mucked, KKremate won the 7.25M-chip pot, and the 2 players were within 2.04M of every other.
KKremate slipped from there but kept things close enough that one double-up could seize the lead. Twelve hands later it would, way to another straight, this time turned in place of rivered, and an all-in river bluff by Lateski at precisely the wrong moment. The resulting 15.2M-chip pot gave KKremate the advantage and put Lateski at the defensive. But just two hands later, a turned flush for Lateski was ok to retake the lead after the Finn called KKremate's semi-bluff with a couple of fives and a straight draw that was drawing dead.
KKremate was left with 9M chips and still had most of it seven hands afterward the button. The Brazilian opened the pot for a minimum raise to 320K and called Lateski's out-of-position three-bet to 909K, bringing a 5♣ 2♦ J♥ flop. Lateski led there, at the 5♠ turn, and at the A♠ river, and KKremate called all of the way, showing A♣ 2♣ for 2 pair, aces and fives. But Lateski's pre-flop raise had fidguised 7♦ 5♦ within the hole, good for trip fives and the tournament.
KKremate's final prize as runner-up was $356,965, a brand new career best for the previous chess player. Lateski's prize, besides a spiffy WCOOP bracelet, was $488,095. Congratulations to both players for outlasting a tricky field, including a four-hour final table, on this latest high-dollar WCOOP event.
WCOOP 2014: Event #45, $2,100 No-Limit Hold'em1,457 entrants$2,914,000 prize pool198 places paid
1st place: Lateski (Finland) $488,0952nd place: KKremate (Brazil) $356,9653rd place: GoToCa$hier (Portugal) $269,5454th place: KungKroon (Sweden) $198,1525th place: IneedMassari (Brazil) $142,7866th place: FaceStealer (Costa Rica) $113,6467th place: thagrinda444 (Canada) $84,5068th place: AJacejackAJ (Canada) $55,4669th place: Team Online's Naoya "nkeyno" Kihara (Japan) $30,014.20
Jason Kirk is a contract contributor to PokerStars Blog.
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