Brazilian professional Gabriel Tavares reached the heads-up of the most expensive tournament on Tuesday (8) of WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) on PokerStars. The performance earned the player the main Brazilian prize in the session of the traditional online festival.
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Leading the account “gtavares10”, Gabriel Tavares finished in second place in the field of 23 entries of Event 15-High (US$ 10,300 NLH Super Tuesday High Roller), earning US$ 65,799 for the campaign. The only one who managed to surpass him was Johannes Straver “Jepser8”, who took US$ 106,622 for the title. Niklas Astedt “Lena900” (3rd, US$ 38,651) and João Vieira “Naza114” (4th, US$ 18,926) were the other prize winners.
Speaking of Brazilian titles, the main one on Tuesday came in the 9-Medium (US$ 530 NLH PKO Bounty Builder HR), which had a strong presence from the country in the final stretch. Willian Ribas “willianortiz” won among 436 entries for US$ 38,923, with Kelvin Kerber “Kelvin_FP:AR” in third for US$ 14,662.
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Still in this contest, the country had two other players doing well. Gabriel Medeiros “Gremio CEM” finished fifth for US$ 13,096, while Diego Falcone “TheGrinderØ” was sixth, taking home US$ 8,021.
Brazil also performed well in Mixed Games. Guilherme Decourt “guilherme12” won the 10-High (US$ 1,050 World Championship of HORSE), overcoming 51 entries to pull US$ 19,489. Finally, in the 14-High (US$ 1,050 5-Card PLO8), Murilo Milhomem “Fruble” was second out of 91 for US$ 16,911, with Mário André “mario4ndre” in third (US$ 12,886) and Bernardo Dias “bedias” in fifth (US$ 7,481).
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See more Brazilian results on PokerStars:
| Name | Position | Field | Tournament | Prize |
| João Biancolini “Jbiancolini” | 4th | 233 | 13-H: US$ 530 NLH PKO Bounty Builder HR | US$ 8,540 |
| “gganbu” | 1st | 34 | 16-H: US$ 530 Limit Badugi | US$ 8,357 |
| Guilherme Barbosa “guipioi” | 3rd | 3,622 | 9-L: US$ 55 NLH PKO Mini Bounty Builder HR | US$ 7,952 |
| Geraldo César “GeraldoCesar” | 2nd | 300 | 17-H: US$ 215 NLH 7-Max Turbo PKO | US$ 7,503 |
| Daniel Yamaki “D.japaa” | 3rd | 300 | 17-H: US$ 215 NLH 7-Max Turbo PKO | US$ 5,146 |
| “caiosultanum” | 2nd | 1,079 | 17-M: US$ 75 NLH 7-Max Turbo PKO | US$ 6,998 |
| “mTk_LM” | 1st | 590 | WCOOP Edition: US$ 75 Daily Cooldown | US$ 5,689 |
| Peter Patrício “pitaoufmg” | 1st | 600 | WCOOP Edition: US$ 55 Daily Supersonic | US$ 5,528 |
| Diego Costa “Dih21” | 2nd | 161 | WCOOP Edition: StacKOsaurus US$ 215 | US$ 5,262 |
