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The WCOAP Main Event drew in a crowd of 1,751 players to
partypoker, each paying $109 for the chance to become the tournamentâs champion. This field meant the $150,000 guaranteed prize pool was surpassed by $21,500, which is an incredible result for amateur poker.
Nobody at the final table walked away with less than $2,116 for the initial investment.
Julian Selinger collected this sum when his 6.5 big blind shove with pocket deuces was called by
Shane Pollington in the big blind with ace-ten. An ace on the river busted Selinger in ninth place.
Stephen Prandstatter was the next player to fall. He committed his last six big blinds with ace-king and ultimately lost to Blyeâs pair of twos in the hole that flopped a full house courtesy of the flop falling all sixes.
The
APAT World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP) has reached the halfway stage and the big results just keep on coming. This is whatâs gone on in the WCOAP over the past couple of days.
Adam Snee Wins High Roller Championship
The prizes in the
$265 buy-in High Roller Championship event were definitely on the large side and it was
Adam Snee who banked the biggest of those chunky prizes, the festivalâs first five-figure prize.
Snee topped a field of 284 entrants and the British grinder saw his $265 investment swell to $13,850. Snee defeated Netherlandsâ
Hugo Allen when the tournament was heads-up, resigning Allen to a $9,669 consolation prize.
$750,000 guaranteed APAT World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP), the $55 buy-in
6-Max Knockout Championship.
A bumper crowd of 1,456 players bought into this freezeout event and Totuli outlasted them all. Half the $75,000 prize pool went onto the heads of each entrant with the remaining 50% shared between the top 221 finishers.
Estoniaâs
Guillermo Gordo was the unfortunate soul who burst the money bubble after crashing out in 222nd place. Gordo collected $31.25 worth of bounties along the way so didnât leave empty-handed.
Nobody at the seven-handed final table walked away with less than $1,000 for their $55 investment. All seven seats were filled by players from different countries, showing amateur poker is massive around the world.