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The 2008 PokerStars.com World Championship of Online Poker is in the books and Carter “ckingusc” King is the Main Event champion after a grueling two-day event to capture the largest prize on the online poker calendar. The 22-year-old from Columbia, SC was one of only two players to take home a seven-figure payday from the event.
With a guaranteed prize pool of $10 million and a buy-in of $5,000 the event attracted the best of the best in the online poker world. The total prize pool exceeded the guarantee with 2,185 players pushing the purse to $10,925,000, a record for an online poker tournament. A total of 324 players made the money, but in the end only ckingusc could claim the title of WCOOP Main Event champion.
First place was scheduled to pay $1,775,312.50 but the final five players agreed to a chop with “liberace”, the chip leader at the time, taking home the biggest chunk. After some negotiation the final five agreed to split the prize pool with $200,000 and the WCOOP bracelet left to play for.
The final score for ckingusc was $1,265,432 while liberace earned $1,375,249. Coming in third place was Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis for $782,542. Ranked fourth in the BLUFF Magazine Online-Player-of-the-Year race AJKHoosier1 also earned 19,353.03 OPOY points for his finish and may move into third when new rankings are released Wednesday morning as "shaundeeb" failed to earn any points in this event.
The two players at the top of the OPOY race, "Moorman1" and "PearlJammer", failed to make the money, finishing 1,273rd and 1101st respectively. But PearlJammer had himself an excellent WCOOP, recording 10 cashes in 33 events to tie with Stuart “thedonator” Paterson for most cashes.
The entire WCOOP series generated a total prize pool of $39,958,000, which beats the 2007 prize pool by more than $3 million.
WCOOP Main Event Final Table Results
1. ckingusc – $1,065,432
2. liberace – $1,375,249
3. AJKHoosier1 – $782,542
4. Markush13 – $961,718
5. ShoesRDurrty – $801,153
6. Sumpas – $415,150
7. Klslcz – $305,900
8. BOLLPOKER – $196,650
9. Kovi99 – $121,267.50
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