JohnnyGstaks wins USACOOP Main Event, $140,743

Chalk up another huge online score for a Minnesota grinder.

‘JohnnyGstaks’, from St. Paul, took down the PokerStars $530 buy-in United States Championship of Online Poker on Monday night, outlasting a field of 1,650 players for a $140,743 payday.

1. trainwrecks – $140,743 (JohnnyGstaks)
2. JohnFR – $108,294 (JohnFR)
3. dreedog – $125,013
4. TheTaker – $67,000
5. gboro780 – $47,500 (gboro780)
6. ChAtBan – $37,500 (ChAtBan)
7. schnizeltoe – $27,500
8. Baeras – $17,500
9. 10IsTheYear – $10,000

Here’s a write-up from PocketFives.com:

In the Main Event of the inaugural PokerStars USA Championship of Online Poker, or USA COOP, 1,650 players bought into a $530 No Limit Hold’em contest. A hefty $175,000 overlay was up for grabs in the $1 million guaranteed tournament and, when the smoke cleared, Minnesota’s JohnnyGstaks (pictured) walked away with the win following a three-way chop. He also banked $140,000, his largest cash tracked for the Online Poker Rankings
by a wide margin. The two-day tournament, which began on Sunday, wrapped up at 4:00am ET early Tuesday morning.
This month, JohnnyGstaks finished second in the Full Tilt Poker $100 Rebuy for $21,000 and took fourth in the Absolute Poker $1K for another $17,000. Now, you can add a $140,000 cash infusion to his credit. All told, he’s piled up nearly $200,000 in Rankings-eligible tournaments this month alone and won an online poker Triple Crown back in 2008.