The
2020 GGPoker World Series of Poker Winter Online Circuit has come to an end with the $1,700 Main Event playing down to a winner. It took just under three hours to determine a champion and Macau-based high-stakes cash game player
Paulius Plausinaitis went wire-to-wire, defeating turkey1 in heads-up to claim his maiden WSOP Circuit ring and the
top prize worth $1,236,361.
The flagship tournament of the entire schedule drew
a total of 6,395 entries including 974 re-entries to surpass the $10 million guarantee, and the top 700 finishers earned a portion of the
$10,327,925 prize pool.
Plausinaitis walked away with the only seven-figure payday, which
turkey1 missed by not much after earning a payday of $923,165. It was also the biggest MTT top prize for any poker player in the history of his home country Lithuania thus far. WSOP bracelet winner and former WSOP Main Event finalist
At the time of writing, the very ambitious eight-figure guarantee of $10 million in the
2020 GGPoker World Series of Poker Winter Online Circuit $1,700 Main Event was surpassed thanks to
more than 6,300 total entries. The final two turbo heats with levels of five and four minutes each were yet to conclude their 20 levels and more than 900 players had locked up a seat for the final day.
All those who have chips at their disposal will return to their seats at
6.30 p.m. UTC when the top 10% of the overall field will take home a portion of the huge prize pool. At least six players had been able to turn their 50,000 starting stack into more than 1 million in chips with the Isle of Man s
Super MILLION$ 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.
The first of Melognoâs five eliminations was that of
âRogerScrutonâ. Melogno opened to 575,000 from under the gun with what turned out to be pocket queens. RogerScruton three-bet all-in for five million in the big blind and was called. Melognoâs queens were up against pocket tens and they held as they board failed to provide any drama.
Finlandâs
Joakim Andersson was laying in wait with queens in the hole. Voudsen didnât connect with the board and headed for the exits in seventh place.
Blinds were now 200,000/400,000/50,000a and
âMK-Ultraâ min-raised to 800,000.
Phillip âtazmania888â Mighall three-bet shoved for 7,595,700 and was instantly called. Mighall flipped over ace-jack of spaces but needed help as MK-Ultra held pocket jacks. No help arrived as the five community cards ran out king-high and the player count reduced by one.
The first of Melognoâs five eliminations was that of
âRogerScrutonâ. Melogno opened to 575,000 from under the gun with what turned out to be pocket queens. RogerScruton three-bet all-in for five million in the big blind and was called. Melognoâs queens were up against pocket tens and they held as they board failed to provide any drama.
Finlandâs
Joakim Andersson was laying in wait with queens in the hole. Voudsen didnât connect with the board and headed for the exits in seventh place.
Blinds were now 200,000/400,000/50,000a and
âMK-Ultraâ min-raised to 800,000.
Phillip âtazmania888â Mighall three-bet shoved for 7,595,700 and was instantly called. Mighall flipped over ace-jack of spaces but needed help as MK-Ultra held pocket jacks. No help arrived as the five community cards ran out king-high and the player count reduced by one.