2018 WCOOP winner "wann2play" on Pokerstars disqualified 18 months later -- but who is it?

[Dan Druff]

Timeline:

Sept 2018: Mysterious Dutch player "wann2play" wins the WCOOP for $1.35m on Pokerstars: https://en.clubpoker.net/wann2play-w...-million/n-948

July 2019: A Twitter user claims that wann2play was multi-accounting in the tournament, and is a "well known pro", and debates outing him.

Embedded Tweet

https://twitter.com/twt/status/1150784952058990592

February 2020: wann2play is disqualified and money confiscated. Everyone is moved up a place in the tournament.

Embedded Tweet

https://twitter.com/twt/status/1233420762171805697

So who is/was wann2play?

He is listed as being from The Netherlands. The tweet from 2019 claims he's a "well known pro". Any guesses?

Here's the list of the biggest live tournament cashers from The Netherlands: https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/ranking/208/

[duped_samaritan]

Noah Boeken is most likely culprit from that list.

He was one of the original multi accouters. Back in like 2005ish he got caught multi tabling and winning the TLB under Marcel Lusks account, 'El Captin'. There was more to it, and I think some future dramas. I can't remember the details though (maybe he was a stars pro at the time?) I think Gank originally called him out.

[duped_samaritan]

Edit: Looks like it was NOT Noah Boeken


Look what I found: WCOOP 2018: Results


edit:

Ok, this is surprising

Final Table of WCOOP ME:

1: wann2play (Netherlands) - $1,352,967.97*
2: eze88888 (Argentina) - $1,257,203.66*
3: Linus "LLinusLLove" Loeliger (Austria) - $764,501.99
4: PlayaPlz (Costa Rica) - $540.584.85
5: Michael "mczhang" Zhang (UK) - $382,252.52
6: Noah "Exclusive" Boeken (Netherlands) - $270,293.45
7: 0409479 (UK) - $191,127.28
8: 4rebmun (Canada) - $135,147.23


https://www.pokerstars.com/en/blog/o...d-176270.shtml


Has anyone else brought up his name? I was literally just taking a blind stab from the hendon mob dutch players list...



edit:

Noah played in WCOOP 2019, so he either didn't get caught for a whole year, or he didn't get caught, or he wasn't involved.


Looks like wann2play managed to play a single mtt a few weeks after his score. Doesn't really make sense. You'd think he'd have most of the million off there by then. And why would it take Stars nearly 1.5 years to adjust the payouts?

[shoeshine box]

i like Noah.. met him at Binions 2003.' with patrik Antonius..who got huge.

[duped_samaritan]

i like Noah.. met him at Binions 2003.' with patrik Antonius..who got huge.

Jungleman has accused Noah of letting Antonius play on his stars account also. (the hitman talk is nothing I think)

https://www.highstakesdb.com/5034-no...ect-debts.aspx

[Hockey Guy]

Technically, I'm a multi-accounter on Party Poker back in the day. I had an account on 1 of their skins, Empire, before Party took them over & they fucked me out of a bunch of player points & made a new account on Party not knowing how it all worked. I later realized it was Party that fucked me over those points but I was doing too well on the site to abandon it on principal.

Unless he entered that tournament multiple times under different accounts like Justin Bonomo used to do, I see no problem.