WSOP Winter Online Circuit
The ambitious cooperation between GGPoker and the World Series of Poker was once again a thorough success and just one of the 18 tournaments experienced a minor overlay. A total of 17 WSOP Circuit rings have been awarded and among the notable champions were Joaquin Melogno, Christian Jeppsson, Anson [email protected] Tsang, Niklas Astedt, Yuri Dzivielevski, Michael Addamo, and Samuli BeastsSag A Sipila.
However, the $1,700 Main Event will shatter all prize pools and top prizes as all Day 1 survivors will return to their seats in one hour from now to race towards the money. Below are all winners of the festival and a link to the respective live coverage.
Pulkit Goyal, Wtfisthis , and
Seungmook 7high Jung have all already claimed their Circuit Rings in this festival and another 6 are to be awarded this year.
As this is a progressive bounty tournament, a bounty of at least $75 will be awarded for each player that gets eliminated while the other 50% of the bounty will be added onto the bounty of the player who wins the all-in. Players can reenter up to three times during the late registration period which will last until 9:20 p.m. GMT.
Players will get 25,000 chips in their starting stack with equals 125 big blinds during the first level of the day. Level duration will be at 15 minutes for the first 12 levels and then decrease to 10 minutes each. Players who have registered before the start of the day will benefit from the early bird feature which gives players bubble protection. This means that if they get eliminated during the bubble, their buy-in will be compensated.
The Action of the Day
If the opening minutes were any indication of things to come, they were spot on indeed. GGPoker ambassador Felipe Ramos had his queens cracked by king-queen in the very first hand and subsequently re-entered without having any major impact. Many others such as Aku Joentausta, Dara O Kearney, Jack Salter, Daniel Dvoress, and Kenneth Smaron hit the rail much earlier than they were hoping for as the field raced towards the money bubble.
During the frantic registration period, the field was cut down to one third already and the only time there was no all-in and call for five minutes was during the scheduled breaks. The likes of Christian Rudolph, Chris Moorman, Rainer Kempe, Guillaume Nolet, Thomas Muehloecker, and Simon Lofberg all headed home without a portion of the cash pool.
GGPoker as it took him three bullets to take
WSOPC #4: $800 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold em down for
$140,472 by defeating Andrew Xu heads-up in a 1,395-strong field. The $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool attracted 934 unique players who reentered 461 times to get to a total prize purse of
$1,060,200.
This win here today takes Zhang to almost $500,000 in tournament winnings on just GGPoker and those results eclipse his live results according to
The Hendon Mob as those accumulate to just over $42,000. Zhang started the final table with the chip lead after taking out
Guillaume Nolet in tenth place and displayed an impressive performance to also close the tournament out with the win.
Super MILLION$ won by Joaquin Melogno for $636,072
Super MILLION$ won by Joaquin Melogno for $636,072
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Another thrilling GGPoker Super MILLION$ final table saw the chip leader going into the day, Uruguay’s Joaquin Melogno win the day as he triumphed against Russian player Andrey Kotelnikov to seal the deal heads-up and win the top prize of $636,072.
With a bumper field of 511 entries, that meant the prizepool again sailed past $5 million, with a massive half a million dollars on offer to both first and second places. That created plenty of action on Day 1 and left Melogno as the man to beat coming into the final day’s play.