WCOOP-02-M: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Slam], $2M Gtd
Dia 1 Começado
PokerStars WCOOP 2020
WCOOP-02-M: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Slam], $2M Gtd
Dias: 1
Welcome to Day 1 of WCOOP Event-02-M: $1,050 NLHE PKO Summer Slam, $2M Gtd.
Welcome to Day 1 of the 2020 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) at PokerStars. The festival guarantees more than a whopping $80 million guarantee across 75 events broken out into Low, Medium, and High events for a 225 tournament schedule.
Today's opening day features many big events and PokerNews will be covering two of the biggest including this coverage of the three-day WCOOP-02-M: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Slam], $2M Gtd.
Also being covered at PokerNews is the High version of this event with a $10,300 buy-in and a $1.5 million guarantee which you can follow here.
Read More: Everything You Need to Know About the 2020 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP)
The $1,050 KO event kicks off at 1:05 p.m. ET / 6:05 p.m. BST / 7:05 p.m. CET with players starting off with 100,000 in chips and blinds going up slowly every 20 minutes.
A $500 bounty is placed on each player's head. Since this is a progressive bounty tournament, players will collect half the bounty of any player they eliminated directly into their PokerStars account while the other half will be added to their personal bounty for others to poach on.
In addition, players can re-enter twice if they so choose during the 305-minute late registration period provided they have lost all their chips.
Today's Day 1 action will conclude after 7 hours and 45 minutes of play. Surviving players will then return on Monday, Aug. 31 at 1:05 p.m. ET / 6:05 p.m. BST / 7:05 CET and play down until there are just 16 players remaining. Players will then return for one more day of action on Tuesday, Sept. 1, and continue until one player remains.
Stay tuned at PokerNews for all three days of coverage of what promises to be a huge WCOOP event.
Nível: 1
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 60
Cards in the Air!
Nível 1
: 250/500, 60 ante
The action has just kicked off with 617 entrants to enter when the first cards went in the air.
This figure will grow exponentially with late-registration open for more than five hours during which time players can reenter up to two times.
Early Entrants
Nível 1
: 250/500, 60 ante
Here is a look at some of the players to register before the action began.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
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100,000 | |
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100,000 | |
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100,000 | |
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100,000 | |
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100,000 | |
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100,000 | |
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100,000 | |
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100,000 | |
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100,000 | |
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100,000 |
Hand Joins the Action
Nível 1
: 250/500, 60 ante
PokerStars Team Online member and streamer Fintan "easywithaces" Hand just joined the action.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
"nomolice" Takes an Early Pot from Hand
Nível 1
: 250/500, 60 ante
Fintan "easywithaces" Hand opened to 1,250 from the hijack before he called a three-bet by "nomolice" in the big blind to 7,000.
"nomalice" opted to bet 7,365 after the 
came on the flop which was good enough to win the hand and chip up.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
111,328 | |
|
|
91,950 | -8,050 |
Table Change Doesn't Help Hand
Nível 1
: 250/500, 60 ante
Fintan "easywithaces" Hand lost chips at his first table and it has gone even worse at his second table early in on this event.
Hand opened from the cutoff to 1,500 before he called a three-bet by Simon "DaDumon" Grabenschweiger to 6,375 from the big blind.
Grabenschweiger bet 4,490 after the 
came on the flip and Hand called.
The 
came on the turn and Grabenschweiger fired out for 21,620 and once again Hand called.
Schweiger jammed for more than 60,000 after the 
completed the board on the river and won the pot after Hand folded.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
128,445 | |
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59,285 | -32,665 |
Nível: 2
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Field Grows to More than 900 Entrants
Nível 2
: 300/600, 75 ante
The field grew to 911 entrants with 897 players remaining to start Level 2.