On Monday, the Main Event of the 2010 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker(WCOOP) resumed. After 2,443 entrants, a $5,200 buy-in, and two grueling days of play, Tyson POTTERMarks (pictured) came away with the win and earned a hefty $2.2 million. Heading into the event, Marks had already pulled down over $3 million in tournaments tracked for the PocketFives.com Poker Rankingsand won a Triple Crown. Marks beat PokerStars member joeysweetp heads-up on Monday. All was not lost for joeysweetp, however, as he took home a $1.7 million consolation prize and the top three banked seven-figures.

Last December, Marks made headlines after making the final tables of the Full Tilt Poker $1K Monday and Sunday Brawl six days apart for over $110,000 combined. In the final hand of the 2010 WCOOP Main Event, joeysweetp came over the top all-in of a bet by Marks on a board of J-8-2-K with three hearts. Marks called and showed A-4 of hearts for the nut flush, while joeysweetp held 10-7.

In a thread in Poker Discussion tracking the action, Marks told the online poker community, “Thanks everyone for the sweat!!! Wow how unbelievable is this… I’m truly speechless for now.” Potter owns the 247th spot in the Rankings not counting Monday’s win and we’re confident that he’ll approach the top 100 when the leaderboard is recalculated on Wednesday.

Fifth place and a $509,000 bankroll boost went to the United Kingdom’s Jack jackellwood Ellwood. He came within inches of securing his second Main Event title in a major tournament series, as Ellwood trumped the pack in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series’ (FTOPS) feature tournament in February for $237,000. Ellwood also final tabled the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) $2,100 Two-Day Event this year for $206,000.

Community veteran Darren darrenelias Elias (pictured) bowed out in sixth place from the WCOOP Main Event on Monday. Elias picked up $396,000 for his two days’ worth of work and is also a former FTOPS event winner. Elias finished second to Dmitry Gromov in the 2010 Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza III Main Event in Las Vegas for nearly $200,000. Elias ran pocket sixes into joeysweetp’s pocket tens in his final hand and could not draw out when the board came 2-2-8-9-4.

Texas’ romdomtook seventh place and earned $280,000. The Dallas native won the PokerStars Sunday Million in July for $240,000 and owns the 19th spot on the Sortable Rankings for his home state. romdom ran A-K into pocket kings in his final hand.

The final PocketFives.com member to reach the final table was New York’s Grayson gray31 Ramage (pictured), whose eighth place finish was worth $183,000. Prior to Monday, Ramage’s largest online poker score came by virtue of final tabling the Sunday 500 for $51,000 in July 2009. In his final hand, Ramage was all-in with A-10 and up against the pocket jacks of Marks. The better pre-flop hand held and he found the rail.

Here’s how the final table of the 2010 PokerStars WCOOP Main Event cashed out:

1. POTTERPOKER – $2,278,098 (POTTER)
2. joeysweetp – $1,404,725
3. Russian_nuts – $1,019,953
4. dazzy2004- $696,255
5. jackellwood – $509,976 (jackellwood)
6. darrenelias – $396,988 (darrenelias)
7. ROMDOM – $280,945 (romdom)
8. gray31 – $183,225 (gray31)
9. carryhero – $112,989

In the 62 events held as part of this year’s WCOOP, PocketFivers came away with 28 titles for a nearly 50% success rate. In addition, of the 470 final table spots, members of the online poker community could be found in 178 of them, or 38%. The 2010 WCOOP’s $50 million guaranteed prize pool was the largest ever put up by PokerStars.

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