Online poker room UltimateBet.com announced yesterday that it has added Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp to its stable of sponsored pros. Kopp, a 23-year-old student at the University of Kentucky, has enjoyed success both online and in major land-based tournaments, winning over $2.6 million in a few short years thanks to his trademark loose-aggressive style.

The last $896,000 or so of that total came from Kopp’s most recent score in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, where he finished in 12th place. On the final day of play this July, Kopp looked to be well on his way to becoming one of the November Nine. He had knocked out two former Main Event champions, Peter Eastgate and Joe Hachem, and with just twelve players left and the big blind worth 240,000 he had over 20,000,000 in his stack. Then he found himself on the wrong end of a cold deck at one of the worst points any poker player can imagine.

On his final hand Kopp opened for 600,000 in early position holding 5 3, and only Darvin Moon, who had Kopp covered by a little under eight big blinds, called from the small blind. The flop of K 9 2 gave Kopp a flush, and when Moon checked Kopp bet out 750,000. Moon called and the turn was the 2; again he checked. Kopp bet 2,000,000 and then Moon check-raised to 12,000,000; when Kopp moved all-in Moon called without hesitation holding Q J for the bigger flush, ending Kopp’s run in an instant and propelling Moon into a dominant chip lead.

Kopp may have been drawing dead when he three-bet all-in on the turn, but his overall WSOP performance, which featured a final table and an 11th-place finish in preliminary events, gave him outs to a sponsorship. That draw came home Tuesday with the announcement from UB that he would be joining the ranks of the site’s sponsored pros. Poker fans can now play with Kopp on UB under the name billy_kopp, or follow him on Twitter as patrolman35.

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