The World Series of Poker is the storied franchise, that of Doyle, Johnny Chan, Stuey, Hellmuth, Moneymaker, and gold bracelets. While it is still the biggest show on Earth, the WCOOP at PokerStars has surpassed it in online cache. And how do you solidify that you have a great event? With a great winner. Jason “strassa2″ Strasser, the senior at Duke who was primed to be the final table representative from his home game until a donkified runner-runner flush took out his pocket aces and Doug Kim made it instead, took top honors in yesterday’s $1k NLHE event. UK pro Barny Boatman finished third, and Jason took home $442,440 a little after 5:00AM this morning. “I have class at 8:30, which I’ll probably skip, then a job interview at 10:15. I’m going to go get some breakfast now”
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