"youaremelon" overcame a field of 355 players to capture the win in Event 61-H:$500 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event-High] and become the first ever PokerStars Ontario Championship of Online Poker (ONCOOP) Main Event champion. They came into the day in the middle of the pack of Day 1 survivors, 25th out of an initial field of 48, but quickly caught some heat to surge toward the top of the leaderboard.
"bachelder" finished in second place after being unable to overcome a large heads-up deficit. Day 2 chip leader Matthew "Sucra71" Gillingham rounded out the top three.