Saturday's online finals at bwin would offer up two $8,700 trip packages to the WPT Venice live event, with 42 runners battling it out to see which two players would check, raise, and bluff their way to the trip of a lifetime to Venice, Italy.
Early leaders included Razerzone83, stoffel 78, and groovejc, but they'd all fall by the wayside as action progressed, with the following players still alive with just five players left:
Don Cool: 24,179
PocketPAIRS.: 8,971
voileux1: 51,665
LePtiLutin: 17,686
capri15: 82,820
PocketPAIRS. would finish 5th when he was short-stacked and forced to shove with Q♠ 9♠, but ran into LePtiLutin's pocket queens, with LePtiLutin scooping a nice pot when he also got action from voileux1 as well, who held pocket nines.
LePtiLutin, though, would hit the rails soon after in 4th, when he was all-in preflop with K♣ Q♣ versus Don Cool's 8♠ 8♥, with the pocket 8s holding to eliminate LePtiLutin and set up the following action on the trip bubble with just three players left:
Don Cool: 107,201
voileux1: 25,979
capri15: 76,820
It only took two hands for the bubble to burst, with voileux1 dispatched by Don Cool when Don Cool rivered a straight to knock out voileux1, who'd rivered second pair himself and called Don Cool's bet that put him all in. voileux1 elimination in 3rd (a $540 ticket to a future online finals) meant that Don Cool and capri15 both locked up $8,700 trip packages to the WPT Venice event where they'll represent the bwin Team.
