Although the UK poker player Charlie Carrel is relatively considered as a newcomer to the online poker world, he took down the Event 31 of the 2016 World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP). The young player known also under the nickname “Epiphany77” managed to get his first WCOOP title and consolidated the beliefs that a great career is expecting him.
Currently, Carrel is known as one of the most promising young players in the poker world. He usually prefers playing with small deposit, but still managed to accumulate a bankroll of $500,000. The last couple of years were quite successful for the player. He not only took down the WCOOP title, but also previously won several other competitions, including the EPT Grand Final €25,000 High Roller, the EPT Dublin Single Day High Roller as well as the 2014 GUKPT Grand Final.
The Event 31 of the 2016 World Championship Of Online Poker – $215 Buy-in No Limit Hold’em Rebuy – attracted a customer base of 773 entrants, who accumulated a prize pool estimated to a total of $385,091, after the participants purchased 612 add-ons and made 512 re-buys. The prize was distributed among the top 98 finishers in the competition.
Only 18 players were left at the time of the 25th level of the tournament. At this point, Charlie Carrel was sixth in chips and in fact, with realistic chances of winning the event’s title. The young UK player got third in chips at the final table, when there were only nine players left. In fact, this was when Carrel seemed as the player who was most likely to win the tournament event.
Players were eliminated one by one, including the Polish player Dmitry “Colisea” Urbanovich, who was occupied the fifth position. The US-based player Kurt “kurt23x” Fitzgerald fell by the wayside, too, and took the third place.
This way only two players were left at the final table – Carrel and the Brazilian player Luciasno “Luciano S.H” Santos de Hollanda. The two of them discussed a two-way deal to split the remaining prize pool and reached an agreement to leave an extra share of $7,702 to the eventual winner of the event.
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Harry Evans
