TheV0id Takes Down WCOOP Main Event

Filed in archive Internet Poker on October 2, 2007

Ever thought you could win $1.2 million dollars while lounging around in your Spice Girls boxers while taking in the fifth looping of Sportscenter highlights at home?

Enter PokerStars' World Championship of Online Poker Main Event. For just $2,500 + $100 your name could have been thrown into the virtual poker ring with 2,998 others for a chance at the $1.2 million dollar first prize plus a nifty bracelet to show your significant other that missing work the next day because the tourney lasted over 22 hours, was worth it.

Team PokerStars represented once again at the final table with Vanessa Russo as "Lady Maverick" pulling in a fourth place showing after her slow-played flopped two pair came back to nip her at the river when Ka$ino nailed a runner runner flush.

The V0id takes down one of the riches prizes awarded online after a 2-hour marathon heads up contest took place against the runner up Ka$ino. For details on the final table head over to PokerStarsBlog.com, or read the final hand description below:

The tournament has nearly been running for 22 hours. Even the toughest among the railbirds wondered how...no, if it would end. Like a flash of heat lightning on a hot night, the final hand came from nowhere and ended the tournament with a $1.2 million clap of thunder. With the blinds at 300000/600000/60000, TheV0id came in for a raise to 1.4 million. Ka$ino re-raised to 4.4 million. The V0id pushed all-in and got an instant call from ka$ino. TheV0id held KsQh to ka$ino's AcKd. The flop, 3cJhTs, was foreboding. The turn was a quick reprieve from what now seemed inevitable. The river was the thing...the nine of spades, giving the straight and the WCOOP championship to TheV0id.