Germany s Ficho overcame a nearly 6:1 chip deficit to beat Ecuador s Lovejuoo heads-up to win the WSOP Super Circuit Online Series Event #14: $77 LUCKY 7 s for $76,030 and a WSOP Circuit gold ring. Lovejuoo entered the final table with the chip lead and appeared to be cruising from coast to coast for the win. But Ficho won two quick hands during heads-up play while behind before winning the final one while ahead and Lovejuoo instead claimed the runner-up prize of $57,008.
Russia s
Danii AllinFanLOL Maksimchuk also finished on the podium and took home the third-place prize of $42,750.
The event itself was a massive success with 9,966 entries coming just 34 entries short of the event s cap of 10,000 entries and generated a $705,991 prize pool to obliterate the $500,000 guarantee.
Ian potamophobia Matakis battled his way through
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.