Another PocketFiver made a splash in the 2015 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker(WCOOP), as Frederik Jensen (pictured), known on this site as Brink, finished second the $10,000 Eight-Game event for $200,000 after agreeing to heads-up chop with krakukra.

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With the size of the buy-in and the type of tournament, it was expected that the player turnout would be low, yet the field was dense with accomplished pros. It was a small field for an online tournament, with just 91 players entering, but it did allow the prize pool to build to $910,000, almost doubling the $500,000 guarantee.

As for the strength of the competitors, just look at the final 11 players who entered Monday’s action (the event began on Sunday):

Andrew ClockWyze Pantling
Frederik Brink Jensen
Alexey LuckyGump Makarov
Shaun shaundeeb Deeb
Mike goleafsgoeh Leah
Ronny 1-ronnyr3 Kaiser
Jason treysfull21 Mercier
krakukra
Brian aba20 Townsend
Dan djk123 Kelly
George Jorj95 Lind III

When it got down to heads-up on Monday, Jensen had a fairly sizable chip lead over krakukra, 850,134 to 514,866. But as you well know, in online poker things can change in a hurry. During the Stud Hi/Lo round, krakukra pulled close to even, but Jensen pulled away during No Limit Hold’em, widening his lead to even more than it was at the get-go.

The next round, Pot Limit Omaha, saw krakukra once again make things all square, even taking the lead slightly. It was at that point that the two men decided to pause the action and talk deal.

Their chip stacks were almost equal and the ICM figures had krakukra receiving $800 more than Jensen, but the two ended up deciding to each take $200,000 in prize money and leave $14,050 behind to play for.

When play resumed, Jensen regained the lead, but during the 2-7 Triple Draw level, krakukra pulled away, though Jensen was able to survive multiple all-ins to take the lead. Finally, after more back-and-forth, Jensen was all-in in a Stud round. Jensen started with T-K-Q rainbow against krakukra’s ace-high flush draw, but was never able to improve, ending the hand with just king-high. krakukra made a pair to take the pot and his first WCOOP victory.

The $200,000 will have to be a nice consolation gift to Jensen, as he just missed his second career WCOOP title. He now has nearly $4.4 million in online tournament winnings, about three-quarters of which have come on PokerStars. Once as high as #25 in the PocketFives Rankings, Brink is now a not-too-shabby #209.

And though Brink may be best known on this site for his online player, he has also won $3.6 million in live tournaments and ranks #125 in the Global Poker Index. His most recent big cash was in August when he finished third in the European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event for almost $1 million.

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