Owen Messere, taking part in on-line as Pr0digy, has gained the inaugural Cash Game World Championship (CGWC) at CoinPoker, ending with a large $590,000 in revenue.
As the primary CGWC champion, Pr0digy may also obtain an engraved Rolex Daytona Ghost and the bragging rights that include beating among the most high-profile gamers within the recreation. That contains Swiss professional Linus Loeliger, who was final 12 months’s largest winner general and who many consider to be the most effective on-line money recreation participant on the earth.
Pr0digy’s win was made much more spectacular contemplating the opening he began in, battling again from every week 1 lack of $22,000. He managed a small revenue in week 2, earlier than battling for the lead from week 3 on.
Top Two Go Head to Head
Things had been too near name between Pr0digy and riggedeck within the remaining week, regardless of the ultimate standings wanting fairly conclusive when all was stated and completed.
In a match, all of it boils right down to the ultimate two gamers going face to face. But in a money video games collection the place gamers can come and go as they please, why would you hassle taking part in in case you’re already comfortably within the lead with time working out?
Fortunately for followers, Pr0digy and riggedeck had made an settlement to play a minimum of 1,000 fingers on every of the final two days of the CGWC, giving whoever was in second a shot at taking chips straight from the chief.
The eventual champion took full benefit of his head-to-head encounters, which included a clear double up whereas holding A
Q
.
At $50-$100, riggedeck opened for $250 after which referred to as Pr0digy’s three-bet to $1,300 from the button, going heads-up into the flop. The A62 gave Pr0digy high pair and the second-nut flush draw. He led out small and riggedeck raised to $1,200. Pr0digy referred to as and the flip was the J
, prompting a verify. His opponent wager fairly large – $3,400 – and Pr0digy simply referred to as to take the pot to $11,900.
The river got here 5
, and Pr0digy checked it as soon as extra earlier than his opponent shoved all in. With $14,000 behind, he had a serious resolution to make, however ultimately discovered the decision and noticed the excellent news as riggedeck solely had pocket eights with a membership.
Most Hands By A Single Player
KevinPaque has supplied fixed leisure all through the CGWC, from his king-high river jam to his $15,000 triple-barrel bluff. He performed essentially the most fingers of any entrant with 72,251, persevering with to battle proper into the ultimate week as he gunned for an outdoor probability of profitable the collection.
His plan nearly backfired. He’s been in a top-four place in each one in every of our weekly recaps, but at one stage discovered himself down $5,000. Somehow, he bounced again all the way in which to fifth with $194,000 in revenue.
One hand which definitely helped was a $44,000 pot in opposition to iWasOnly17. With $50-$100 blinds, KevinPaque opened to $220 with pocket jacks and iWasOnly17 three-bet to $800 within the subsequent seat. The flop got here Q44 and KevinPaque check-called the wager of $700.
The flip was J, giving KevinPaque a full home. He checked and iWasOnly17 wager $2,300 into the $3,100 pot.
KevinPaque sensed his opponent had a hand he wouldn’t be folding, and popped it as much as $8,200. This drew an all in, with iWasOnly17 flipping over AOkay for the royal flush draw. They ran it twice, however KevinPaque unsurprisingly gained each.
Final Leaderboard
| Place | Player | Profit/Loss | Total Hands |
| 1 | PR0DIGY | $590,912.23 | 43,529 |
| 2 | riggedeck | $302,494.63 | 69,799 |
| 3 | LLinusLL0ve | $257,901.13 | 32,978 |
| 4 | asianflushie | $241,568.67 | 32,682 |
| 5 | KevinPaque | $194,271.18 | 72,251 |
| 6 | Enlight | $142,056.29 | 16,330 |
| 7 | DaniilVasilev | $96,528.30 | 11,205 |
| 8 | KayhanMok | $95,326.83 | 16,816 |
| 9 | IgnacioMoron | $75,784.80 | 7,400 |
| 10 | AbsoluteTopUp | $72,762.10 | 35,218 |
| 11 | MunEZStaRR | $57,115.81 | 41,977 |
| 12 | XIAOJUN7777777 | $55,296.23 | 2,266 |
| 13 | Stambolov | $41,404.37 | 928 |
| 14 | DavyJones922 | $35,020.65 | 13,806 |
| 15 | youseffahmed | $30,937.71 | 478 |
| 16 | Schyllae | $28,928.56 | 8,907 |
| 17 | DKaladjurdjevic | $28,105.83 | 21,204 |
| 18 | DarrellGoh | $18,411.18 | 3,498 |
| 19 | JMBigJoe | $10,992.90 | 580 |
| 20 | AlexTrevallion | $6,581.57 | 1,276 |
| 21 | FoldOrDieTrying | $6,327.34 | 192 |
| 22 | ChrisNguyen | $3,443.96 | 9,244 |
| 23 | Iimitlesss | ($7,551.21) | 502 |
| 24 | TaistoJanter | ($8,004.44) | 500 |
| 25 | Freenachos | ($12,093.47) | 68 |
| 26 | Doblou | ($18,546.38) | 1,619 |
| 27 | asHagg | ($42,028.36) | 201 |
| 28 | Ohhimark18 | ($52,556.18) | 5,151 |
| 29 | Stefan11122 | ($71,295.81) | 533 |
| 30 | NaoufelSmires | ($73,042.25) | 2,344 |
| 31 | Brownballa55 | ($78,832.16) | 1,803 |
| 32 | D13SEL | ($89,619.51) | 2,742 |
| 33 | iWasOnly17 | ($93,794.19) | 38,356 |
| 34 | lolvoidaments | ($97,747.83) | 8,881 |
| 35 | BeppeBergomi | ($105,013.57) | 16,062 |
| 36 | JSchusteritsch | ($107,277.79) | 7,742 |
| 37 | JoeAdams | ($111,544.57) | 12,167 |
| 38 | PetrKnopp | ($118,154.12) | 20,248 |
| 39 | MattMarinelli | ($131,525.90) | 16,471 |
| 40 | therock123 | ($196,833.58) | 7,232 |
| 41 | CD9K | ($227,136.64) | 12,583 |
| 42 | TDuthweiler | ($231,692.16) | 9,582 |
| 43 | jasamgale | ($237,827.02) | 12,659 |
| 44 | SeaLlama | ($255,158.61) | 25,014 |
What Next?
While there was no official announcement but concerning a future money recreation collection at CoinPoker, given the excessive quantity of play and massively constructive suggestions from followers, it appears probably the occasion will make a return.
Nik Airball has made a splash together with his personal CoinPoker VIP tables, which opened up in the course of the CGWC, and – throughout a CoinPoker stream – the crew has informally indicated these kinds of VIP video games will proceed. In truth, asianflushie and KayhanMok stored the heads-up motion going at a $200-$400 VIP heads-up desk within the hours after the CGWC ended.
As for CGWC half two? For now, we’ll have to attend and see.
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