��Reduced Stakes Grinder Wins $1 Million On PokerStars
September 26, 2012 12:33
Reduced stakes online grinder  maratik" from Russia has taken his poker career to a total new level right after taking down the 2012 World Championship of On the internet Poker (WCOOP) $5,200 no-restrict hold'em main occasion for a huge $1,000,907 following 25 hours of play.
Usually the higher get-in tournament would have been far above maratik's bankroll abilities, but the canny Russian made a decision to consider a punt employing only his PokerStars' frequent player factors to satellite into the event. Two days later on and now  maratik" is sitting atop of the world after obtaining initial beaten a one,825 player discipline consisting of some of the toughest players in online poker.
Amongst the notable names cashing in was Bertrand  ElkY" Grospellier in 221st ($12,318), Mickey  mement_mori" Petersen in 190th ($12,755), Jude  j. Source Link thaddeus" Ainsworth in 133rd ($15,056), Michael  Timex" McDonald in 51st ($23,725) and Kyle  KJulius10 Julius in 15th ($48,362).
Then right after 22 hrs of poker action spanning two days, the ultimate table of 9 was set with the blinds now at 40k/80k and the finalists lining-up as follows:
Mike  munchenHB" Telker: 11,907,089
Kakalala: 7,633,941
Jossel2008: six,002,830
Phil  takechip" D'Auteuil: three,783,516
maratik (Russia): 1,935,189
Ryan  TheCart3r" Carter: one,894,230
FOO-92: one,402,455
mitdadu: 999,448
sly caveat: 941,302
Nonetheless, when six-players remained an ICM based deal was struck ranging from half a million dollars up to virtually $one million (maratik: $900,907) leaving an additional $100k for the first area finisher.
Maratik (J-J) then went on to eradicate FOO-92 (five-five) in 6th ($502,992), ahead of a battle of the blinds saw his A-ten take out a brief-stacked munchenHB (10d-9d) shove, who subsequently exited in 4th for $one,000.584.
Eventually, maratik reached the heads-up phase towards Canada's Ryan  TheCart3r" Carter, who at this stage held a four.five to 1 advantage in excess of his Russian opponent. Nonetheless, maratik (Qd-Jd) evened the score against Carter (K-K) on a 10d-Kh-8d-2d-Qh board, and not long following the last hand was played when Carter (J-four) pushed all-in on a 3-Q-J-three board only to see maratik was holding pocket aces. The 4 on the river altered nothing and so Ryan Carter collected $662,516 for his runner-up finish, even though reduced-stakes grinder  maratik" was awarded the WCOOP bracelet and collected $one,000,907 in prize income.