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The World Championship of Online Poker, sponsored by PokerStars, is now in full swing and a number of legendary pros from both the live and online poker scenes emerged to win five-figure and six-figure sums. Chief among them was Jonathan Karamalikis, who earned his first major WCOOP title after defeating an all-star final table including Martin Staszko of the 2011 November Nine.

Karamalikis’ win came in WCOOP Event 6, a $200 buy-in NLHE Turbo that included rebuys. A total of 1,589 players enrolled in the tournament, creating a $1.01 million prize pool that more than doubled the $500k guarantee. Other notable finishers in the event included medmar, who finished in second for $131k, and the aforementioned Staszko, who landed in fourth place for $73k.

The biggest cash win of the day, however, belonged to K_O_S_T_Y_A, the Russian player who ended up winning the two-day NLHE event known as WCOOP 3. A staggering 10,107 players paid buy-ins of $200 plus tournament fees to create a prize pool in excess of $2.02 million. K_O_S_T_Y_A survived a field that included O-Totoro, Yoggi744 and Brendan Reid to take home an incredible $289k. O-Totoro and Yoggi744 finished in second and third to win $212k and $150k, respectively.

The WCOOP diverged from the Hold’em format for Event 4, a PLO tournament with a $300 buy-in and just under 1,700 registrants. Despite entering the final table with on of the lower chip counts, bratpack1979 was able to speed past a number of notable Omaha grinders to score a flush and secure the $83.5k first-place prize.

Other six-figure scores came in finale of WCOOP 1, a 6-Max NLHE tournament with a $200 buy-in and a $1.5 million prize pool. The top three spots belonged to Miguel Use, Fisherman903 and Mrazeg, who struck a three-way deal to take home $211k, $171k and $112k, respectively.