Jonas ‘llJaYJaYll’ Lauck Wins WCOOP Main Event ($1,517,541)

Jonas “llJaYJaYll” Lauck emerged as the World Championship of Online Poker $5,000 Main Event champion, taking home $1,517,541 for his efforts in defeating a 2,091-player field. Lauck is an accomplished live player as well, but this win alone is worth more than his $1.3 million in live cashes. No deal was made at the final table. The WCOOP, the most prestigious online poker tournament of the year, came to a close Tuesday.

Lauck joined a club of past champions that includes Fedor Holz (2014), Yevgeniy Timoshenko (2009), Carter King (2008) and JC Tran (2006).

Official Final Table Results

According to the PokerStars Blog, the final table began with “uknowProsky*” holding a wide chip lead with over 100 big blinds, about double the next-best stack of “Gambler4444”.

Things began anything but promisingly for Lauck as his ace-king fell to the ace-queen of “Olorionek” when the latter spiked a queen on the river. Lauck was left with 2.8 million at blinds of 150,000/300,000. Shortly thereafter, Lauck got it all back when he was dealt aces against the queens of Gambler4444.

Queens did do the …

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