TheV0id is the screen name used by an unnamed poker player who won the
PokerStars
PokerStars is an online poker cardroom that was a part of The Stars Group until it was sold to Flutter Entertainment on May 5, 2020. It can be accessed through downloadable poker clients for the Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It is the l ...
2007
World Championship of Online Poker
The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is an online poker tournament series sponsored by PokerStars. It is played on the PokerStars website in September.
Established in 2002, WCOOP is PokerStars' attempt to establish the online equivalen ...
, beating a field of 2998 players to the first place and $1,378,331.00 on October 1, 2007 (then the largest ever
online poker
Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a huge increase in the number of poker players worldwide. Christiansen Capital Advisors stated online poker revenues grew from $82.7 million in 2001 t ...
prize).
The account registered to Natalie Teltscher, who is the sister of English poker pro
Mark Teltscher, was subsequently disqualified and Kyle "ka$ino" Schroeder was promoted to first place winning the $1,378,330.50.
Micky Doft, writing for PokerNews on 2 September 2010 wrote
Natalie Teltscher attempted to regain the funds originally won in this tournament and took
Poker Stars to court, however, admitting that she never played the tournament and had an "agent" play on her behalf, left her in violation of Stars' rules.
Subsequently Poker Stars released the following:
The final table lineup consisted of highly successful online players, including professionals
Josh Arieh (nitbuster) and
Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Ashley Rousso (born February 5, 1983) is a French-American attorney and professional poker player, DJ, and television personality. Born in White Plains, New York, Rousso holds dual citizenship with the United States and France. Rousso ...
(LadyMaverick). Rousso moved up to second place as a result of TheVOid's disqualification, taking a prize of $700,783.
Later on, Teltscher attempted further legal action against the online poker room but later dropped the lawsuit in 2008.
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