![]() The final hand came when Brian Jones moved all in for about 17 big blinds with Jd5d and Mcewen found pocket nines to make the call. Kopp won the first hand of heads up, took the chip lead, and never gave it up. That hand seemed to right the ship for Kopp who took a nearly-even chip stack into heads-up play and never looked back. McEwen moved all in with pocket sixes but ran into the pocket aces of Kopp. However, for a while, it was Brian Jones who was winning all the pots, holding half of the chips in play before Preston McEwen's final hand. Still, though he had taken a blow, he composed himself and got back to work. Before that I was opening lots of hands, putting ICM pressure on." "I had to ease up a bit after that one," said Kopp. ![]() McEwen made a pair on the river, and suddenly all three stacks were even. Kopp had ace high and an open ender as backup, but McEwen had a combo draw. Kopp correctly called a pot-sized, all-in semi-bluff from McEwen on the turn. That is, until three-handed play.Ī key pot that nearly thwarted Kopp's plans was when he faced Preston McEwen during three-handed play. It looked as if nothing could stop him on his path to victory. He got paid on all three streets to hold about one-third of the chips in play 10-handed. Soon thereafter, he flopped trips against fellow big-stack Lam Nguyen, who was also the start-of-day chip leader. ![]() He was the overwhelming chip leader once that final 10 were set. Kopp continued running hot over the next few levels, eliminating both John Galleher (13th) and Cody Stanford (11th) to reach the final table. Kopp won one of those when he made a flush in a three-way all in with AdKd that propelled him toward the final table. In fact, there was an elimination at all three tables on the very first hand off the deck at each one. When 19 players came back for today's final day, it didn't take long to work down to the final table. It took less than 90 days to one-up that high score with a new one here in Cherokee. That bracelet came earlier this summer when he took down Event #66: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better for $259,549. This marks Kopp's third WSOP ring to go along with his one bracelet. A total of 1,623 entrants took part in the $1,700 event, building a prize pool of $2,458,845, obliterating the $1.5 million guarantee. Players turned out in droves the entire series, but the Main Event itself attracted numbers that would make any tournament player water at the mouth. This one is quite a hefty payday for the Ohio native. Billy Kopp Wins WSOPC Cherokee Main Event and 3rd Circuit Ringīilly Kopp continued an outstanding poker year with his latest victory at the WSOP-C stop in Cherokee, North Carolina at Harrah's casino.
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