7.2.2016, 11:10 | Autor: PokerStars |
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doporučit článekSwiss player wins record prize in Main Event 2016 TCOOP
Swiss player Dinesh ‘NastyMinder’ Alt was last weekend crowned 2016 Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) Main Event champion at PokerStars pocketing a record TCOOP prize.
Swiss player Dinesh ‘NastyMinder’ Alt was last weekend crowned 2016 Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) Main Event champion at PokerStars, an Amaya Inc. (Nasdaq: AYA; TSX: AYA) brand, pocketing a record TCOOP prize of $396,691.43 following a heads-up deal with ‘KungKroon’ from Sweden. The first-place prize surpassed the previous largest – won by ‘Nikki_Hefner’ in last year’s TCOOP Main Event – by just $175.05.
Alt topped a field of 4,077 players after 5hr 34min to win the first major online championship of the year, getting the biggest slice of the $2,711,205 prize pool. The player from Switzerland, who was also the runner-up in TCOOP-11 winning $29,220, finished the series with a total of seven cashes and a sixth-place position on the TCOOP Leader Board. Alt has also previously chopped a Sunday Million in 2014 and was the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Sydney Main Event winner in 2013.
TCOOP-49: $700 NLHE Main Event
Entrants: 4,077
Prize pool: $2,711,205
Places paid: 540
1. NastyMinder (Switzerland) - $396,691.43*
2. KungKroon (Sweden) - $346,181.46*
3. gringenkov (Brazil) - $223,674.41
4. marcasa (Netherlands) - $155,894.28
5. Makuherra (Finland) - $115,226.21
6. anthonyff (UK) - $88,114.16
7. IMFICKLE (Finland) - $61,002.11
8. RSRMCA (UK) - $33,890.06
9. Hurloon (Czech Republic) - $21,689.64
Player of the Year
The TCOOP 2016 Leader Board winner was ‘ouchbadbeat’ from the UK, who achieved 16 cashes – three more than anyone else this series – to finish on 340 points. Australia’s ‘ugritaly’ and Czech Republic’s ‘Zagalo87’ finished tied second on 310 points. For his efforts ‘ouchbadbeat’ receives a Champion’s Trophy and 2015 SCOOP [H] Main Event ticket, with SCOOP tickets of various denominations awarded to players ranked 2nd-100th on the Leader Board.
