Tod Wood Wins WCOAP Online Main Event
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Tod Wood: WCOAP Online Champion
Englishman Tod Wood won the main event of the Online World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP), beating fellow midlander Brian Yates; who took the Silver Medal and Alan Armitage who took the Bronze. Tod; who finished runner up in the United Kingdom Amateur Poker Championship at Grosvenor Walsall at the start of the season, took the Championship title, Gold medal, prize money and a seat at a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event worth over £1,000.
The event was the culmination of the four event WCOAP festival and provided an extraordinary finale to the ten event online season.
Yates and Armitage, pulled level with long time rankings leader Grant Cook on reaching the final three runners in the main event and they effectively played a last longer for the season three rankings title and a seat at a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event.
It was Yates who succeeded in securing the additional point and the Silver medal, capping a fantastic season which saw him win the Irish Amateur Championship in Dublin, the Welsh Online Championship and get selected for England in the European Amateur Team Championship. In taking the Bronze medal, Armitage finished joint second in the rankings alongside Cook.
Elsewhere in the WCOAP festival, Chris O’Connor took the opening event; the WCOAP Omaha Championship. O’Connor; Captain of the Glasgow team who will play in Divison One of the APAT National League in season four, beat Welsh International Leigh Wiltshire heads up, with Ian Thompson taking the Bronze.
WCOAP Champions: Tony Ross, Chris O'Connor, Gordon Casey
In the WCOAP Six Max Championship, Scotsman Gordon Casey took the title, beating Bobby Morton heads up, with Dave Lea taking Bronze.
Tony Ross; the Silver medalist in the 2008 World Amateur Poker Championship at the London Victoria Casino, won the WCOAP Stud Championship, beating Mike Lott heads up, with Tony Trippier taking Bronze.
Season Three will culminate with the UK Team Championship at the G Casino in Manchester on January 23rd & 24th. Following this event, the Online and Live Schedules for season four will be announced.
