WPT Champion Wins WCOOP Heads-Up Event
TourneyMan on September 14th, 2009
The Poker Stars 2009 World Championship of Online Poker is still raging and after a power-packed weekend, there are several online poker players a heck of a lot richer. For example, one Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov is $140,000 richer after taking down Event #24, the $530 Heads-Up event. He beat out JakusKhan, who took the $120,000 second prize. The thing is, Katchalov already has over $3 million in poker winnings, including a World Poker Tour title.
In 2007 Katchalov, hailing originally from Kiev, Ukraine and more recently from Brooklyn, New York, won the Bellagio Cup III and its $118,785 top prize. But he won most of his nearly $3 million in December of 2007 with an almost $2.5 million win at the World Poker Tour Season 6: WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
The WCOOP HU event had a $1 million guaranteed prize pool, and was the first at this year’s PokerStars WCOOP to have an overlay (1,564 players came up short $218,000.
