Bernardo "BernardoDG" Granato in Pole Position on the Final Table of WCOOP Main Event - Medium: $1,050 NLHE, $5M Gtd
After three days of play, the $1,050 NLH World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event on PokerStars has whittled the 4,646 entrants down to the final table of nine. Atop the chip counts is Brazilian Bernardo "BernardoDG" Granato who starts the final table with a staggering 92,228,446 chips, good for 92 big blinds. Also in contention for the coveted title are high-stakes online crushers "Goran "mandza17" Mandic, Ryan "planty07/08" Plant and Alexios "J0hnny_Dr@m@" Zervos.
$1,050 WCOOP Main Event Final Table Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bernardo "BernardoDG" Granato | Brazil | 92,228,446 | 92 |
| 2 | "Goran "mandza17" Mandic | Croatia | 65,070,799 | 65 |
| 3 | "paoronaldo" | Brazil | 56,632,037 | 56 |
| 4 | Ryan "planty07/08" Plant | Ecuador | 54,977,996 | 55 |
| 5 | "rObetOblancO" | Austria | 43,792,336 | 43 |
| 6 | Alexios "J0hnny_Dr@m@" Zervos | United Kingdom | 43,692,856 | 43 |
| 7 | "dibmestre" | Brazil | 43,080,672 | 43 |
| 8 | "Royal Mind" | United Kingdom | 32,881,413 | 32 |
| 9 | "Twicyyy" | United Kingdom | 32,243,445 | 32 |
Day 2 chip leader "Twicyy" sat amongst the top 10 stacks throughout the majority of Day 3 and comes into the final table as the shortest stack, albeit with 32 big blinds to work with as does "Royal Mind", also from the United Kingdom. Seventh in chips is "dibmestre" from Brazil who remained pretty quiet throughout Day 3 but managed to bag up an impressive 43,080,672 which gives them 43 big blinds to start the final table with.
Another big name comes in sixth in chips, Alexios "J0hnny_Dr@m@" Zervos found himself bottom of the chip counts with around 50 players remaining but surged up the counts when his ace-nine beat jack-ten all in, busting "iBreakU_U" in 12th place.
Austrian "rObetOblancO" comes back in 5th place with 43,792,336 chips and will be pleased to make the final table as with 16 players left he found the positive side of variance when his ace-five outdrew "Marusia1980"'s ace-king all in. It was this hand that helped his passage to this final table.
U.S. born Ryan "planty07/08" Plant comes back to the final table in 4th place with 54,977,996 (55 big blinds) after this hand versus Austrian high stakes pro Florian "Gaugi444" Gaugusch propelled him to the chip lead with 12 players remaining. From here, Plant was able to navigate safely to the final table.
Completing the final 9 is "paoronaldo" from Brazil with 56,632,037 chips, sitting third in the counts. "paoronaldo" won a huge flip, finding an ace on the river, versus fellow countryman "carafalo" with 17 players remaining.
Cards hit the air at 5:30 p.m. GMT today with blinds resuming at 500,000/1,000,000 with an ante of 125,000.
Day 4 will play down until a winner is crowned so be sure to stay here as the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all of the final table action live as it happens.