669 entries to win his first World Series of Poker Circuit Ring in
Event #12: $800 Pot Limit Omaha Championship. The guarantee for this event was set at $250,000, but they more than doubled that with the 335 unique entries and 334 rebuys putting $508,440 into the prize pool.
While this is Matakis first win, he s no stranger to online poker glory. He has more than $1 million in online cashes, with almost $900,000 of that from the GGPoker network. This score looks to be his second-biggest online score after a $330,467 2nd place finish in
High Rollers Super MILLION$ $10K, $20M GTD [2-day event] in June of 2020.
Matakis has also racked up almost $500,000 in wins on the live circuit, with more than $90,000 in wins from WSOP events over 11 cashes live and online. His biggest live cash was just slightly bigger than today s win at $100,417 for 2nd place in
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.