Members of the PocketFives.com community finished strong in PokerStarsWorld Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) events on Wednesday. In fact, the 48th, 49th, and 50th events on the 2010 WCOOP docket all saw PocketFivers come away with wins, including Massachusetts’ LeonP, who took down a $1,050 No Limit Hold’em Two-Day Event for a cool $214,000. The field numbered 1,224 in Event #48 and LeonP edged out vluff heads-up for the WCOOP bracelet. In June, LeonP turned in his first six-figure score by final tabling the PokerStars Sunday Million for $147,000.

Fourth place in Event #48 went to Phil USCphildoCollins. Phillip walked away with $87,000, adding to an online tournament resume that already includes a March win in the Full Tilt Poker$1K Monday for $89,000 and a PocketFives.com Monthly PLB badge. Rounding out the Two-Day Event’s final table was Nick Grip Grippo, the 76th player in the Online Poker Rankings. Grippo banked $14,000 in his first 2010 WCOOP final table:

1. APowers1968 – $213,955 (LeonP)
2. vluff – $155,448
3. Timinator6 – $116,280
4. USCphildo – $86,904 (USCphildo)
5. antesvante – $61,200
6. WatchTheSea – $48,960
7. TH@NKS_U – $36,720
8. AlwaysFelted – $24,480
9. GripDsNutz – $14,076 (Grip)

Event #49 was a $215 No Limit Hold’em Cubed contest that saw 1,654 players go to battle for their share of a $753,000 prize pool. Another PocketFiver came out on top of this one, Ohio’s dcg30. The win was worth $123,000, his largest to date. Late last month, dcg30 won the PokerStars $22 Cubed for $17,000, perhaps serving as a prelude to his victory last night. He edged out SteadyCash, another Midwesterner, heads-up; SteadyCash pocketed $90,000 for second place.

Three other community members reached the final table of Event #49, including Russia’s alexalex, who finished in sixth place. In January, alexalex final tabled the PokerStars Super Tuesday for $25,000; his cash on Wednesday was worth about $3,000 more. Minnesota’s babyshark33, the 81st ranked player in the world, added to his trophy case by taking seventh place for $20,000.

Jonathan xMONSTERxDONGx Karamalikis, who has dominated the Australian poker scene, took eighth place for $13,000 on Wednesday. Karamalikis is fresh off a win in the Victorian Poker Championship High-Stakes Event for $89,000 and he won the Australia-New Zealand Poker Tour’s (ANZPT) High-Roller Event in Sydney in April for $108,000. Here’s how the $215 No Limit Hold’em Cubed’s final table cashed out:

1. dcg30 – $123,628 (dcg30)
2. slvrmountn – $90,432 (SteadyCash)
3. gerd85 – $67,824
4. Shippotamus – $50,491
5. ariitapu – $35,796
6. alex987 – $28,260 (alexalex)
7. babyshark33 – $20,724 (babyshark33)
8. MONSTER_DONG – $13,188 (xMONSTERxDONGx)
9. Vitorbrasil – $7,536

Following a three-way deal, Illinois’ Joel gittindrunk Shulruf (pictured) took down a $215 No Limit Hold’em Big Antes event (#50) on Wednesday for $91,000. The tournament failed to meet its $600,000 guarantee, as 2,933 players showed up. Shulruf is a former Triple Crown winner on PocketFives.com and was the runner-up in the Cake Poker $125,000 Guarantee flagship event in January for nearly $19,000.

Claiming seventh place on the Event #50 leaderboard was Sweden’s kvartasligg. His reward for final tabling the WCOOP event was $14,000 in cash. Here’s how the final table wound up, with payouts reflecting the three-way chop:

1. Feltin’Donks – $91,000 (gittindrunk)
2. jison300 – $64,504
3. anisimov – $60,496
4. 40kw33 – $35,094
5. Radje – $26,100
6. FisFarfar – $20,100
7. SUNDAYKING – $14,100 (kvartasligg)
8. chess87 – $8,700
9. AAKKina – $5,100

As if you needed any more reasons to play on PokerStars, three tournaments are in the hopper for today:

WCOOP Event #52: $300+20 No Limit Hold’em Turbo
$400,000 Guarantee
Thursday at Noon ET

WCOOP Event #53: $500+30 No Limit Hold’em with Rebuys
$1,000,000 Guarantee
Thursday at 2:00pm ET

WCOOP Event #54: $2,000+100 Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max Two-Day
$800,000 Guarantee
Thursday at 5:00pm ET

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