WCOAP: Italy’s Dorina Clocan Wins Opening Bracelet Event
WCOAP 2016, DAY 1: Italy’s Dorina Clocan has won the first bracelet of the 2016 World Championship of Amateur Poker. Clocan; partner of three times bracelet winner Gabriel Iemmito, struck Gold in event #3 Shootout, the first to complete on day one of this year’s WCOAP.
Elsewhere, Ibraham ‘JJ’ Abashei took a bracelet in event #1 No Limit Hold’em, while event #2 8 Game Championship played down to a final table, which will resume at 2pm today.
Full results on the opening day were as follows;-
#1 Holdem Championship
| Position | Player | Ranking Pts | Payout |
| 1st | J J | 9 | £1,470 |
| 2nd | Matthew Gilland | 8 | £1,015 |
| 3rd | Danny Strange | 7 | £650 |
| 4th | Chan Kong Ha | 6 | £480 |
| 5th | Nathan Whiteman | 5 | £360 |
| 6th | Vincent Samuel And | 4 | £285 |
| 7th | David Whiteman | 3 | £240 |
| 8th | Ken Lemchi | 2 | £190 |
| 9th | Cornei Miu | 1 | £145 |
| 10th | Frank Adams | £105 | |
| 11th | Lee Champion | £105 | |
| 12th | Luke Fuller | £105 |
#2 8-Game Players Championship – Final Table
1 168k Jen Yue Chiang
2 251k Gianluca Farabella
3 349k Ady Lovelock
4 219k Alex Kiy
5 275k Haresh Thaker
6 880k Dai Llewellan
7 444k Dann Williams
#3 Shootout Championship
| Position | Player | Ranking Pts | Payout |
| 1st | Dorina Clocan | 9 | £850 |
| 2nd | Giuseppe Maggisano | 8 | £575 |
| 3rd | Germano Maurizio Cerve | 7 | £375 |
| 4th | Tim Kenyan | 6 | £300 |
| 5th | Jay Harwood | 5 | £225 |
| 6th | Andrew Marshall | 4 | £175 |
| 7th | Richard Palser | 3 | |
| 8th | John Black | 2 | |
| 9th | Emil Georgiev | 1 |
