PokerStars’ mainstay tournament series, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), wrapped up its three-week run with the $5,200 buy-in $10 Million Guaranteed Main Event on Tuesday evening.

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For the first time ever, the WCOOP Main Event was contested over a three-day period, starting on Sunday and wrapping up on Tuesday night. At the start, 900 players were virtually seated in the PokerStars tournament arena and players continually streamed in through the late registration phase.

Once late registration closed, 1,995 players made up the field. While the final number of 1,995 was impressive, it required PokerStars to contribute another $25,000 to make the $10 million guarantee on the prize pool.

The carnage of Day One was apparent as the day played out. It only took about eight hours to bring the field under 1,000 players and, two more hours later, that number was cut in half. By the end of Sunday’s action, the money bubble was in sight with AlwaysiNduCeholding down the chip lead with 246 players remaining.

The bubble popped on Day Two when Jonathan Jaffe found his way to the virtual rail with nothing to show for his efforts. After Jaffe’s departure, the players started the parade to the cashout cage, looking to claim their portion of the $10 million prize pool.

Eventually, AlwaysiNduCe eliminated WICKED617(pictured) in tenth place and the day’s play came to a close with AlwaysiNduCe hanging on the coattails of poker pro Alexander joiso Kostritsyn.

The final nine gathered on Tuesday with each player ensured of taking home $100,000 for his three days of work, but the $1,760,500 top prize was the target everyone was shooting for. On the short stack, Coenaldinho7 politicked for a nine-way chop, but no one took him seriously. Surprisingly, one of the start-of-day leaders was among the first to leave the event.

After bindernutnut was eliminated in ninth, Kostritsyn, who had seen his once powerful 19 million chip stack decimated to only about 6.5 million in an hour of play, went into a three-way pot with AlwaysiNduCe and beertjes79. A 10d-8d-5c flop saw beertjes79 get out of the way as AlwaysiNduCe called a million-chip bet from Kostritsyn. They both checked a 4c turn, but when a Jd came on the river, Kostritsyn moved his remaining chips to the center.

AlwaysiNduCe’ didn’t believe him and made the call. AlwaysiNduCe had flopped a set of tens that was still good, as Kostritsyn could only muster a 9-6 for a busted gutshot straight draw. After coming into the day as the leader, Kostritsyn surely was dismayed with his eighth place finish.

After SUICAEDERE, rbdowntown, and Ravic85(pictured) were ushered from the table in seventh through fifth places, respectively, the final four players entered discussions for a deal. After some discussion that saw beertjes79 and Coenaldinho7 give up some money to get AlwaysiNduCe, the money numbers looked like this:

Nolet20 – $1,223,000
Coenaldinho7 – $1,100,000
AlwaysiNduCe – $1,000,000
beertjes79 – $800,000

The players left $200,000 and the WCOOP Main Event bracelet on the table to play for.
AlwaysiNduCe and Coenaldinho7 dominated four-handed play, with Coenaldinho7 taking out beertjes79 in fourth and AlwaysiNduCe knocking off Nolet20 in third. Holding more than a 2:1 chip lead, AlwaysiNduCe couldn’t finish the deal, however, as Coenaldinho7 had flipped the advantage to his side within five minutes of heads-up play. Soon afterwards, the final hand was dealt.

After min-raising from the button and getting a call from Coenaldinho7, AlwaysiNduCe saw a flop of 5-2-10. Coenhaldinho7 check-raised and after a king on the turn, the fireworks were lit. Coenaldinho7 led out with a strong bet of 15 million, one that virtually put AlwaysiNduCe all-in, and after AlwaysiNduCe pushed his stack in and Coenaldinho7 made the call, the cards were shown.

AlwaysiNduCe was in a dominant position with K-5 (two pair), while Coenaldinho7 was left looking for one of two tens left in the deck with 10-7. Stunningly, a ten came on the river to completely reverse the fortunes, with AlwaysiNduCe relegated to the second place position as Coenaldinho7 and his trip tens took the hand and the championship of the WCOOP Main Event:

1. Coenaldinho7 (Belgium) – $1,300,000
2. AlwaysiNduCe (Poland) – $1,000,000
3. Nolet20 (Canada) – $1,223,000
4. beertjes79 (Belgium) – $800,000
5. Ravic85 (Russia) – $400,000
6. Rory “Mr.Kingball” Brown (Ireland) – $273,000
7. K.T.A.-1985 (Czech Republic) – $200,000
8. Alexander “joiso” Kostritsyn (Russia) – $150,000
9. bindernutnut (Canada) – $100,000

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