In the first tournament World Championship of Online Poker 2008held in the poker room Pokerstars, 7,211 players from 86 countries took part. Tournament on no limit hold'em had an entry fee of $215 and a prize pool of $1'443'400.
After 14 hours of continuous play, the following final table was formed:
Place 1: - DoV - (3 455 180 chips)
Location 2: CURDOG1KCK (1,258,356 chips)
Location 3: scarface_79 (3,016,834 chips)
Location 4: SilverSocks (4,867,367 in chips)
Location 5: pffwhatever (2,199,042 chips)
Location 6: shane147 (6,854,221 chips)
We met in heads-up shane147 and pfffwhatever... Englishman shane147 goes all-in, holding J
2
... Austrian pfffwhatever I accept the bet I have on hand A
J... Come to the board 2 K Q 4 K
and shane147 becomes the first Briton to conquer the tournament WCOOP... The victory brought shane147 a check for $202'409 and a champion bracelet World Championship of Online Poker 2008.
Results:
1. 
shane147 — $202’409
2. 
pffwhatever — $94’136
3. 
SilverSocks — $136’894
4. 
- DoV - — $110’000
5. 
CURDOG1KCK — $49’075,61
6. scarface_79 — $23’686,20
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