Five things from this week on PokerStars.

After greater than three weeks the sector Championship of Online Poker came to a detailed on Tuesday when German player Jonas "llJaYJaYll" Lauck won the principle Event. The sector of 2,091 amounted to a prize pool in way over $10 million, which meant Lauck's share was greater than $1,517,541.

Meanwhile within the player of the Series race Fabrizio "SixthSenSe19" Gonzalez who took top spot with a very good Championship that put him nearly 200 points away from second placed Connor "blanconegro" Drinan.

Throughout WCOOP we had final table recaps of each event at the side of player interviews, all of which you could make amends for by visiting our WCOOP pages. You may also find leader board standings and statistics at the WCOOP homepage.

This week we announced details of the following $1 Million PokerStars freeroll arising in October. It is the second event of its type and is open to all PokerStars players who qualify via one of the crucial challenges (present in the Challenges Window within the PokerStars lobby).

You can already qualify with an opportunity to take action each day until the development itself on Sunday October 9, 2016. Details of the way to qualify, and everything else about this enormous event, are available at the $1 Million PokerStars Freeroll homepage.

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The week began wither news from Uruguay where the LAPT Main Event came to a detailed. It was won by Pedro Claus from Argentina who topped a field of 438 players to assert a primary prize of $90,630.

Our reporters were available from the start, and you'll make amends for the entire news from Uruguay here, or jump ahead to the overall table recap here.

This week's podcast features some (hilarious and disturbing) anecdotes from Team Pro's Celina Lin...

"The World Championship of Online Poker is finally over. James and Joe recap the primary Event with Celina Lin, who covered the overall table continue to exist the PokerStars Twitch channel. In addition to talking WCOOP, Celina relives an unfortunate encounter with a monkey in Hong Kong and describes the devastating effects of exploding glass tea pots.

"There's a summary of the recently announced revisions to the recently confirmed changes to the eu Poker Tour payout structure (it's less confusing than it sounds), plus details of the forthcoming EPT Malta Spin & Go promotion. And vintage games is the topic of this week's 'Superfan vs Stapes' contest, as Robert Adams from California competes for some prizes."

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Click here to hear this week's podcast

After Uruguay, next up at the PokerStars calendar was Eureka Hamburg, which kicked off earlier this week. The Blog is ringside with live updates through to the general on Sunday. To this point the limelight was hogged by Team Pro George Danzer who won the High Roller event to kick things off, after which bagged up the primary Event chip lead last night.

Play continues today. Follow all our live coverage from Hamburg here.

Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog. Follow him on Twitter: @StephenBartley.

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