On Thursday night, Shawn Buchanan (pictured), known on PokerStarsas buck21, made history by becoming the first player ever to win a Triple COOP title, taking down TCOOP, SCOOP, and WCOOP events. On Thursday, he won a TCOOP $82 Razz event for $14,000 to complete the Triple COOP.

The Canadian defeated a field of over 1,000 entrants in the Razz event and was one of two North Americans at the final table. He was one of four short-stacks to begin the final eight, but doubled up twice down the stretch to land in second on the leaderboard. By the time heads-up play rolled around, Buchanan sat with a 2:1 lead after busting the third place player and ultimately edged out Iran’s jickgh_ty heads-up.

According to Buchanan’s Twitter feed, he has performed exceptionally well in Razz events recently. He posted, “Just binked the Razz TCOOP. My last 4 Razz MTTs I think I came 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 1st on Stars.”

Buchanan’s first Triple COOP win came seven years ago in the WCOOP. That year, he won a WCOOP $530 Pot Limit Omaha tournament for $97,000, the second largest haul for Buchanan in a COOP event. In 2012, he rounded leg #2 after winning a SCOOP $2,100 Razz tournament and putting away $44,000. Buchanan actually began heads-up play in the SCOOP Razz event with a slight deficit and the field weighed in at 81 players.

Buchanan won another SCOOP title last year in a $2,100 No Limit Hold’em 10-Max Shootout for $118,000. That tournament’s final table featured a gauntlet of poker talent including Shaun shaundeebDeeb (pictured), Dani ansky451Stern, and Dan KingDan Smith. Buchanan also owns a World Poker Tour title, taking down the series’ Mandalay Bay Poker Championship in 2007 for over three-quarters of a million bucks.

According to PokerStars, next up for Buchanan and a handful of other players is a Grand Slam title: “With the first Triple COOP winner crowned, the race is now on to become the first PokerStars Grand Slam winner, which requires all three COOP titles and a Sunday Million win… Buchanan, David Gunslinger3 Bach, and Andrey Kroko-dill Zaichenko are the only three players who are one title away.” Bach and Zaichenko lack a TCOOP title, while Buchanan needs a victory in the Sunday Million.

Bach posted on Twitter, “20th in TCOOP leaderboard points with 4 days left, but now chasing the tough @shawnbuchanan1 #digdeep.”

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