The subsequent rounds played out as follows, with Skammes emerging as the eventual victor, taking home $360,000

Round 2

Joviant Gent v SWEGIN
molswi47 v Myrabbifoo
raszi v wheresmyroll
Skammes v Sussie Smith
gcnmoo v goatboy1
buck21 v good2cu
BiggestFish v Mosheh
gunning4you v philivey2694

Round 3

molswi47 v SWEGIN
Skammes vs WheresMyRoll
buck21 vs goatboy1
gunning4you vs Mosheh

Semi Finals

Skammes vs SWEGIN
goatboy1 vs gunning4you

Final

Skammes vs gunning4you

Winner: Skammes

After many chip swings in the final, stevesbet finally emerged as the winner.  He collects a first prize of $560,000 for his troubles.

Here is the final hand

PokerStars Game #20418957089: Tournament #200800019, $25000+$500 Hold’em No Limit - Match Round VI, Level VI (3200/6400) - 2008/09/15 1:18:27 ET
Table ‘200800019 1′ 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: stevesbets (398080 in chips)
Seat 2: ElkY (241920 in chips)
stevesbets: posts small blind 3200
ElkY: posts big blind 6400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
stevesbets: raises 12800 to 19200
ElkY: raises 217600 to 236800
stevesbets: raises 161280 to 398080 and is all-in
ElkY: calls 5120 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (156160) returned to stevesbets
*** FLOP *** [Kh 5c 2c]
*** TURN *** [Kh 5c 2c] [7s]
*** RIVER *** [Kh 5c 2c 7s] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ElkY: shows [3h 3c] (a pair of Threes)
stevesbets: shows [8s 8d] (a pair of Eights)
ElkY said, “hgg”
stevesbets collected 483840 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 483840 | Rake 0
Board [Kh 5c 2c 7s 6s]
Seat 1: stevesbets (button) (small blind) showed [8s 8d] and won (483840) with a pair of Eights
Seat 2: ElkY (big blind) showed [3h 3c] and lost with a pair of Threes

stevesbets was looking to have a slight edge over Elky in the final of the WCOOP 25K Heads-up.   However when leading 377K to 262K in chips stevesbet overbet the pot by a huge margin.  It looked a likely misclick, and indeed that’s what stevesbet himself typed in the chat.   Here is the potentially crucial hand

 PokerStars Game #20418196886: Tournament #200800019, $25000+$500 Hold’em No Limit - Match Round VI, Level III (800/1600) - 2008/09/15 0:26:11 ET
Table ‘200800019 1′ 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: stevesbets (377040 in chips)
Seat 2: ElkY (262960 in chips)
ElkY: posts small blind 800
stevesbets: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
ElkY: raises 1600 to 3200
stevesbets: calls 1600
*** FLOP *** [3c Qs 8h]
stevesbets: checks
ElkY: checks
*** TURN *** [3c Qs 8h] [7d]
stevesbets: bets 4800
ElkY: calls 4800
*** RIVER *** [3c Qs 8h 7d] [5c]
stevesbets: bets 121600
ElkY: calls 121600
*** SHOW DOWN ***
stevesbets: shows [Ah Qh] (a pair of Queens)
ElkY: shows [3h 7h] (two pair, Sevens and Threes)
ElkY collected 259200 from pot
stevesbets said, “wow”
stevesbets said, “misclick”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 259200 | Rake 0
Board [3c Qs 8h 7d 5c]
Seat 1: stevesbets (big blind) showed [Ah Qh] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 2: ElkY (button) (small blind) showed [3h 7h] and won (259200) with two pair, Sevens and Threes

stevesbets is good enough to recover, but a mistake such as this is easy to fester elements of tilt into even the most solid player’s game

Round 2 matches

1. zivziv v steamraise
2. Fossilman v Kidpoker
3. #1PEN v LadyMaverick
4. Kravchenko v ahh_snap
5. John Duthie v snake8484
6. PAW717 $tinger88
7. stevebets v philivey2694
8. William v Genius28
9. gunning4you v Vicky Coren
10. GavinGriffin v Goral
11. supernova9 v Hold_emNL
12. idoubleL v VictorRamdin
13. EC10 v LeeNelsonP*
14. ILuvAntonius v ElKY
15. Dariominieri v stevejpa
16. brianm15 v RunThisTable

Round 3 matches

1. KidPoker v zivziv
2. ahh_snap v LadyMaverick
3. John Duthie v PAW717
4. Genius28 v stevesbets
5. GavinGriffin v gunning4you
6. Hold_emNL v VictorRamdin
7. EC10 v ElKy
8.  brianm15 v Dariominieri

Round 4 matches

1. LadyMaverick v zivziv
2. PAW717 v stevesbets
3. Gavin Griffin v Victor Ramdin
4. brianm15 v Elky

Round 5 matches

1. Elky v GavinGiffin 
2. zivziv v Stevesbets

Final

ElKy v stevesbets

560K for 1st, 320K for 2nd

The much anticipated Event 19 of the PokerStars WCOOP is underway. 

 Here are the first round match ups

1. steamraise v Bill Chen
2. zivziv v buck21
3. theASHMAN103 v KidPoker
4. FossilMan v TIJO
5. NoMercy v LadyMaverick
6. #1PEN v barryg1
7. thaaj3004 v ahh_snap
8. AlusivPnkBny v Kravchenko
9. Iftarii v snake8484
10. John Duthie v AMAK316
11. $tinger88 v BrynKenney
12. PAW717 v Tom McEvoy
13. Katya Thater v philivey2694
14. stevebets v CADX2
15. Andy McLEOD v Genius28 (Andy chipped down 1000 chips while sat out for 11 mins)
16. William v thorladen
17. Vicky Coren v -BBJ-
18. Exclusive v gunning4you
19. Goral v westmenloAA
20. samh133 v GavinGriffin
21. Hold_emNL v Dolcetrix
22. aejones v supernova9
23. Sauce123 v VictorRamdin
24. aakkari v idoubleL
25. Allingomes v LeeNelsonP*
26. holla @ yoboy v EC10
27. Ray Rahme v ElkY
28. evanski v ILuvAntonius
29. stevejpa v Empire2000
30. Dariominieri v Zugwat
31. Bebop86 v RunThisTable
32. Money800 v brianm15

More details 
64 entrants
10,000 starting chips
8 players get paid

Structure

 15 min blinds

10/20
15/30
25/30
50/100
75/150
100/200
125/250 25 ante
150/300 25 ante
200/400 50 ante