\"youaremelon\" overcame a field of 355 players to capture the win in Event 61-H:$500 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event-High] and become the first ever PokerStars Ontario Championship of Online Poker (ONCOOP) Main Event champion. They came into the day in the middle of the pack of Day 1 survivors, 25th out of an initial field of 48, but quickly caught some heat to surge toward the top of the leaderboard. <\/p>\n
\"bachelder\" finished in second place after being unable to overcome a large heads-up deficit. Day 2 chip leader Matthew \"Sucra71\" Gillingham rounded out the top three.<\/p>\n
Final Table Action <\/p>\n
Though Day 2 began with 48 players, it did not take long for that field to be whittled down to a final table of nine. Coming into the final table as the shortstack was \"neclord-doom\", so it was not surprising to see them make the first exit, their suited ace-king unable to overcome the ladies of Gillingham. <\/p>\n
\"jadedjason\" was the next to go, finding themselves on the bad end of a preflop cooler against a rampant Gillingham. Not long after, start of day chipleader \"Iri$shPoet\" was sent to the rail in seventh place when their eights were outflipped by \"youaremelon\". <\/p>\n
\"fahdsmom\" had been near the top of the leaderboard for much of the tournament but their run came to an end in sixth place when their Ace-Nine could not beat the fives of \"youaremelon\". \"InTheAyers26\" had been short for some time before eventually getting felted by \"wonogos\" after their eights failed to hold. <\/p>\n
It was none other than \"wonogos\" who was next to crash out, first getting whittled down to a short stack before being finished off by Gillingham. It was Gillingham who had dominated the final table up to three-handed play, amassing a sizable chiplead. That all came toppling down in quick order after losing several pots to \"youaremelon\" before running his ace-queen into the rockets of \"youaremelon\" in the biggest pot of the tournament. <\/p>\n
Heads-Up Play<\/p>\n
Gillingham's elimination set the stage for a heads-up battle between \"youaremelon\" and \"bachelder\". \"youaremelon\" began with a more than 7:1 chiplead and never looked back. It did not take long for them to wrap up matters, outflopping the Ace-Nine of \"bachelder\" to secure $36,865 and the title of ONCOOP Main Event champion. <\/p>\n
This concludes Event 61-H:$500 [8-Max, Main Event-High]. Be sure to keep it with the PokerNews team for coverage of your favorite poker tournaments all over the world.<\/p>\n
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