Day 1 of WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] Takes Off at 7:05 PM CEST
This is what everyone has been waiting for, the final Sunday of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker traditionally has the Main Events on the schedule for that day, and this year it isn't any different. At 7:05 p.m. CEST, WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] is slated to kick off with an amazing prize pool of $2,000,0000 which will ensure many players will flock to the tournament.
According to the poker archives, there was no Medium buy-in for the Main Event ever so the eventual champion of this event will go into the history books as the inaugural one. This year, the tournament has been spread out over four days and with 195 completed events and over $68 million handed out in the prize pools already, a nice chunk will be added today.
Currently leading the Medium buy-in leaderboard is Rinat "Zapahzamazki" Lyapin followed by Murilo "Muka82" Figueiredo, Yuri "theNERDguy" Dzivielevski, Konstantin "krakukra" Maslak, and Jussi "calvin7v " Nevanlinna in the top five. The top 15 of that leaderboard will get rewarded with the winner walking away with an extra $8,500. Lyapin is also leading the overall leaderboard where he stands a chance of winning $25,000 plus a pretty trophy. Dzivielevski is trailing him there by 115 points so there's still all to play for.
Players will get 100,000 chips in their starting stacks and can reenter twice during the late registration period which lasts 24 hours. Day 1 features 25-minute levels and the players need to play 16 levels before they go on break for Day 2. Day 2 is set to start at 7:10 p.m. CEST on Monday, September 21 and the level duration will be reduced to 20 minutes according to the tournament lobby.
Day 2 will end when there are 80 players left and they will resume play at the usual time of 7:05 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22. Play will continue until the final table has been reached. And those 9 players will then return on Wednesday, September 23 at 7:05 p.m. to battle it out for the lion-share of the prize pool.
PokerNews will be following along with all the action every day, so make sure to keep up to date right here.
, Stival check-called the 1,056 continuation-bet of Barausova.
, Stival took over the initiative and led out for 2,000 which was called.
, Stival barreled 10,806 over the line, Barausova shoved for Stival to make the call for the 96,044 he had behind with the 
for the flush but Barausova held the 
for the full house to score the first elimination of the day. 
Reeves check-called the 1,100 continuation-bet of "pargg". 
, Reeves checked again. This time, "pargg" bet 2,200 and Reeves raised to 10,800 for "pargg" to make the call.
Reeves bet enough to put "pargg" all-in who called for the 37,250 they had behind with the 
for two pair but Reeves held the 
for the straight and the elimination to his name.
on the turn. NutsInMacadá" bet 1,612 for Vas Nunez to raise to 5,000. "NutsInMacadá" shoved for Vas Nunez to call for the 49,456 he had behind.
and Tavares shoved for 62,035 which "Floesoe" called. Tavares tabled the 
for the flopped straight to bust Tavares.
and "Costin1206" shoved with the bigger stack for "thipoker10" to fold.
, "MaksiJan1" bet 20,000 and "Clever Clark" called. Baynes shoved for 115,159 for "MaksiJan1" to call for the 79,341 they had behind and so did "Clever Clark" with the bigger stack.
