High stakes cash game regular “BigBlindBets” is the latest PokerStars World Championship Of Online Poker Main Event champion. He won $1,665,962 for his victory. Many viewers’ attention was focused on Talal “raidalot” Shakerchi, who had the opportunity to become the first player to win the main event SCOOP and WCOOP. Unfortunately, this did not happen for Shakerchi, he took the third place and got $846,528.
BigBlindBets started playing online poker in 2010, mostly playing freerolls and cash games $0.02/$0.05 and sit & go with friends. In 2011, he set a goal to achieve NL100. He began to take the game more seriously with progressing to $1/$2.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BigBlindBets | United Kingdom | $1,665,962 |
| 2 | Danilo “dans170’” de Lima Demetrio | Brazil | $1,187,553 |
| 3 | Talal “raidalot” Shakerchi | United Kingdom | $846,528 |
| 4 | NeedBeat | Estonia | $603,434 |
| 5 | 19Pistike93 | Hungary | $403,148 |
| 6 | XMorphineX | Belgium | $306,624 |
| 7 | Leitnant | Estonia | $218,572 |
| 8 | moglimiranda | Germany | $155,805 |
| 9 | TheMakrill7 | Sweden | $111,063 |
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