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Day 1 of PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker started yesterday. Even though the buy-in was as high as $5200 the tournament still attracted a big starting field. 2144 players signed up for the WCOOP Main Event, many of them won their seat through satellites starting from just a few dollars. Thanks to that so many people took part in the tournament the prize pool became greater than the $10,000,000 guaranteed by PokerStars.

Out of 2144 players, 178 made it to Day 2 of the tournament. All of them are already guaranteed to get more money than the buy-in back. Among the survivors we find no one else than former WCOOP champion J.C. Tran (picture). He showed what a great player he really is on the bubble (before the money). J.C. Tran called a quite big raise from the player "MaxErosAmore" before the flop. The flop came 768. Both players checked. On the K turn, Tran betted 7,500 and "MaxErosAmore" mini-raised him. Tran didn't think for long before he went all-in. "MaxErosAmore" decided to fold after some time going through possible hands JC could have. Tran shows 44 for a bluff and hell breaks loose in the chat. "MaxErosAmore" calls J.C. Tran a lot of bad names. Tran took it all very relaxed and simply replied "It was good, right?".