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Events 21 and 22 were played to completion a few days ago in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker and a total of nine players added six-figure scores to their bankrolls.

WCOOP 21 was a NLHE Two-Day tournament with a $200 buy-in and a guaranteed prize pool of $1.25 million. As has been the standard in the 2011 WCOOP, the guarantee was greatly exceeded. A whopping 8,484 players bought their seats, generating a prize pool worth just under $1.7 million.

Just 60 of those players made it to Day 2. The most notable player was Athanasios Polychronopoulos, who gained fame over the summer by winning a bracelet at the WSOP. Despite holding one of the biggest chip stacks, he suffered some bad beats and hit the rail in 27th place.

A deal was struck at the final table between the remaining five players. Despite finishing in first place, gregor7878′s prize of $158,627 was smaller than third-place finisher Gnostan’s $169,324. Prot0 ($145k), borvik ($116k) and BlockWinner ($147,099) rounded out the top 5.

The single biggest score of the day belonged to Flying Smile, who managed to finish first in WCOOP 22 – another NLHE Two-Day, this time with a buy-in of $500. Only 131 of the 3,739 players that started Day 1 made it to Day 2 with a prize pool of just under $1.87 million at stake.

Although a deal was discussed at length at the final table, Mad4it4life, Paul Van Nunes and Flying Smile ultimately decided to finish the event without an agreement. Flying Smile bagged over $293k, while runners-up Van Nunes and Mad4it4life earned $219k and $154k, respectively. Van Nunes entered online poker infamy last August when he scored $234k for winning the Sunday Million.