WSOP 2020 Online Main Event Down to 38 Players
At this point of a typical World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, players are winding up their WSOP schedules. The last of the tournaments draw some players, but many are on their way home after busting the Main Event. Only a few tables remain in that finale.
The poker media is exhausted. Local poker players are trying to milk the last bits of money at cash game tables from the titled players who busted the Main Event. Staff members at the Rio are dismantling tables and shutting down ballrooms. The poker kitchen options are minimal.
And a couple dozen poker players are studying strategy, seeking advice from pro players, and trying to stay relaxed. They are also calling friends and family to stay on alert should a final table be in the near future. Last-minute flights to Vegas may be necessary.
This is 2020, though.
Everything has happened online. The final week will play out online. Players may have traveled to another country to play on GGPoker, but they are still likely playing in their pajamas or sweatpants, as are those who remained home during the series. Members of the live updates crew are busy but comfortable in their own homes.
Only a few days remain in the WSOP 2020 Online, this unique and adaptive poker experience.
To sum up the results so far:
Back to the completed events, we already covered quite a lot of the WSOP 2020 Online tournaments, which are accessible through these links:
—End of 31-event series on WSOP.com in US market
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Let’s see what happened in the last week, with help from live updates by PokerNews, and the few events that remain on the schedule.
Main Event Down to 38 Players
As most know by now, this year’s Main Event offered a half-price buy-in of $5K, an unprecedented guarantee on the prize pool, and up to three entries allowed per player.
That guarantee was $25 million, and as the first dozen or so flights ran their course, it looked as if there could have been an overlay. But leave it up to those with extra money for reentries and those who waited to the last minute, as they catapulted that prize pool into the history books…in a good way.
This was the info from all of the starting days:
–1A: 464 players, 99 survived, Samuel Vousden leads (717,497 chips)
–1B: 114 players, 25 survived, Xuming Qi leads (620,372 chips)
–1C: 110 players, 19 survived, Karim Khayat leads (656,260 chips)
–1D: 68 players, 7 survived, Stuart Wallensteen leads (625,267 chips)
–1E: 83 players, 16 survived, Vlad Martynenko leads (819,099 chips)
–1F: 129 players, 19 survived, Milakai Vaskaboinikau leads (796,176 chips)
–1G: 194 players, 32 survived, Armol Srivats leads (649,699 chips)
–1H: 113 players, 18 survived, Jonathan Dokler leads (1,021,967 chips)
–1I: 233 players, 41 survived, Freez112 leads (749,186 chips)
–Day 1J: 349 players, 66 survived, Christopher Putz leads with 757,963 chips
–Day 1K: 72 players, 9 survived, Mateusz Chrobak leads with 735,959 chips
–Day 1L: 88 players, 8 survived, Kahle Burns with 1,387,282 chips
–Day 1M: 98 players, 18 survived, james5388 leads with 849,104 chips
–Day 1N: 159 players, 36 survived, Martin Ilavsky with 689,711 chips
–Day 1O: 118 players, 21 survived, Thomas Eychenne leads with 791,634 chips
–Day 1P: 239 players, 44 survived, stamina22 leads with 994,190 chips
–Day 1Q: 126 players, 23 survived, Francis Anderson leads with 724,747 chips
–Day 1R: 247 players, 54 survived, Anant Purohit leads with 577,772 chips
–Day 1S: 237 players, 44 survived, TILTTTT1999 leads with 908,569 chips
–Day 1T: 437 players, 83 survived, Warley Galvao leads with 931,221 chips
–Day 1U: 506 players, 101 survived, Ruslan234 leads with 718,427 chips
–Day 1V: 760 players, 155 survived, Bruno Souza leads with 871,335 chips
–Day 1W: 858 players, 242 survived, mrdemidov leads with 668,033 chips
Whew!
The final tally for the 2020 WSOP Main Event was:
Total entries: 5,802
Total prize pool: $27,559,500
Day 2 of the event took place on Sunday, August 30. It began with 1,171 players holding chips, though only 728 were going to get paid. When that money bubble burst, players were guaranteed at least $11,834 for their play.
When GGPoker stopped the clock on Day 2, Allison Eleres of Brazil was the last player at the virtual cashier cage to collect $39,214 for 39th place.
Amidst the tables of players, two starting flight chip leaders remain (Days 1A and 1B), as do two previous bracelet winners – Michael Lech and Arkadiy Tsinis.
Probably the most well-known player of those remaining, as well as the overall chip leader at the end of Day 2, is American player Bryan Piccioli. Michael Kane of the UK is second in chips, followed by Stoyan Madanzhiev of Bulgaria.
Day 2 of the @WSOP Main Event ends with 38 players returning Saturday, September 5 at 1430 ET
Bryan Piccioli (@theczar19) starts Day 3 as chip leader.
A recap of Day 2 posted soon at https://t.co/dH05mBDaFH /KM pic.twitter.com/udreBgQMEd
— GGPoker (@GGPoker) August 31, 2020
GG Event 70: $25K NLHE Poker Players Championship
This was one of the tournaments that attracted a sizeable online poker rail, especially for the final table. Many of the best names in poker participated. In addition, a rare WSOP 2020 event that didn’t hit its guarantee, which gave the high-stakes players an overlay.
Buy-in: $25K
Total entries: 407
Prize pool: $10 million ($28,500 overlay)
Paid players: 55
Minimum payout: 57,592
Winner: Christian Rudolph (Germany) $1,800,290
2nd place: Chris Hunichen (US) $1,332,097
3rd place: Shankar Pillai (US) $979,138
4th place: Aleksejs Ponakovs (Latvia) $719,700
5th place: Aram Zobian (US) $529,005
6th place: Brunno Botteon (Brazil) $388,837
7th place: Jason Koon (US) $285,808
8th place: Paulius Plausinaitis (Lithuania) $210,079
9th place: Aliaksei Boika (Belarus) $154,416
A dominant final table performance for Christian Rudolph means a 7-figure score in the $25,000 Poker Players Championship /KM pic.twitter.com/pQGyrC6jnz
— GGPoker (@GGPoker) August 29, 2020
GG Event 71: $50 NLHE Big 50
A second two-day event in a row, this one was the opposite of the high-roller before it, offering a chance at a bracelet for just $50. Many players participated in the starting flights to get through to Day 2, and it paid off for one competitor in the largest WSOP field ever.
Buy-in: $50
Total entries: 44,576
Prize pool: $2,050,496 (more than double the guarantee of $1M)
Paid players: 2,300
Minimum payout: $203
Winner: Huahuan “F7588” Feng (China) $211,282
2nd place: Xue Qiao Zhao (China) $159,705
3rd place: Ronald Haverkamp (Netherlands) $114,237
4th place: Daniel Montagnolli (Austria) $81,714
5th place: Max Veyga (Argentina) $58,450
6th place: Di Lu (China) $41,809
7th place: Xiong Huang (China) $29,906
8th place: Dean Lipscombe (UK) $21,392
9th place: Wade Gillett (Thailand) $15,302
GG Event 72: $1,500 LHE Championship
Limit Hold’em fans rejoiced and got into action for this LHE event, and the small crowd produced a relatively small prize pool but more than a few well-known players at the final table.
Buy-in: $1,500
Total entries: 337
Prize pool: $480,225
Paid players: 47
Minimum payout: $3,312
Winner: Ajay “Ross_Geller” Chabra (US) $77,475
2nd place: Carter Swidler (Canada) $65,737
3rd place: Apti Dzhabrailov (Russia) $48,296
4th place: Kosei Ichinose (Japan) $35,483
5th place: Mike Watson (Canada) $26,069
6th place: Dzmitry Yasiukevich (Ukraine) $19,153
7th place: Kevin Liu (Luxembourg) $14,071
8th place: Rich Dixon (US) $10,338
9th place: Shannon Shorr (US) $7,595
GG Event 73: $1K NLHE 6-Handed
Some six-handed action brought players to the GGNetwork tables. And the winner appeared to have been a player with no previous entries live or on GGPoker.
Buy-in: $1K
Total players: 2,202
Prize pool: $2,091,900
Paid players: 314
Minimum payout: $2,145
Winner: Jim “grousegrind” Lefteruk (Canada) $299,511
2nd place: Endrit Geci (UK) $223,978
3rd place: Jorge Abreu (Portugal) $161,042
4th place: Ivan Luca (Argentina) $115,791
5th place: Andrii Derzhpilskyi (Ukraine) $83,254
6th place: Markku Koplimaa (Estonia) $59,861
GG Event 74: $1,500 PLO
Another Canadian took down this event, making it two in a row for the Northern part of North America.
Buy-in: $1,500
Total entries: 972
Prize pool: $1,385,100
Paid players: 134
Minimum payout: $3,412
Winner: Thi Truong (Canada) $215,938
2nd place: Enrico Camosci (Italy) $165,414
3rd place: Dante Goya (Brazil) $120,041
4th place: Joao Simao (Brazil) $87,113
5th place: Laurynas Levinskas (Lithuania) $63,218
6th place: Kyle Bowker (US) $45,877
7th place: Frank Crivello (US) $33,293
8th place: Sean Winter (US) $24,160
9th place: Johannes Toebbe (Germany) $17,533
GG Event 75: $300 NLHE Double Stack
Another No Limit Hold’em event, this time with double stacks for more play.
Buy-in: $300
Total entries: 3,552
Prize pool: $991,008
Paid players: 440
Minimum payout: $709
Winner: Trygve “FullSendWig” Leite (Norway) $130,100
2nd place: Emanuele Monari (Italy) $101,292
3rd place: Anjali Agrawal (India) $72,204
4th place: Eliyahu Elyshiv (Israel) $51,470
5th place: Gregory Ronaldson (South Africa) $36,689
6th place: Paul Lozano (Spain) $26,154
7th place: Jiahuan He (China) $18,643
8th place: David Mitchell (US) $13,290
9th place: Connor Drinan (US) $9,473
GG Event 76: $400 NLHE Forty Stack
A Lithuanian won his first bracelet this weekend in the Forty Stack event.
Buy-in: $400
Total entries: 4,461
Prize pool: $1,677,336
Paid players: 548
Minimum payout: $960
Winner: Gediminas “NeverGambol” Uselis (Lithuania) $211,282
2nd place: Andrew Wilson (UK) $159,705
3rd place: Yaniv Bohadana (Israel) $114,237
4th place: Silviya Kaymakchieva (Serbia) $81,714
5th place: Espen Jorstad (Norway) $58,450
6th place: Yucheng Xiao (China) $41,809
7th place: Michelle Roberts (Mexico) $29,906
8th place: Guilherme Dos Santos (Brazil) $21,392
9th place: Nicolau Villa Lobos (Brazil) $15,302
Gediminas Uselis adds a @WSOP bracelet to add to his WSOP Circuit ring he earned on GGPoker earlier this year. /KM pic.twitter.com/0uqyUO2Bud
— GGPoker (@GGPoker) August 31, 2020
GG Event 78: $1K NHLE 8-Handed Turbo
To end the weekend, the WSOP offered some reasonably-priced NLHE but with a turbo edge. And when it was all over in about seven hours, a player from Finland claimed his first bracelet.
Buy-in: $1K
Total entries: 1,910
Prize pool: $1,814,500
Paid players: 278
Minimum payout: $2,108
Winner: Adnan “Bolazar” Hacialioglu (Finland) $259,842
2nd place: Robin Berggren (Argentina) $197,274
3rd place: Tim West (US) $143,162
4th place: Niko Koop (Russia) $103,893
5th place: Jargo Alavali (Estonia) $79,395
6th place: Andriy Lyubovetskiy (Ukraine) $54,714
7th place: Soo Jo Kim (South Korea) $39,706
8th place: Tuen Bui (Canada) $28,814
One Week, Seven New Events Remaining
A few more bracelets remain up for grabs this week, including the Closer with its unlimited reentries. Action will be fast and furious as the 2020 WSOP comes to a close.
Event 79 on September 1 / 14:00 ET: $25K NLHE Heads-Up (People’s Choice)
Event 80 on September 2 / 14:00 ET: $600 NLHE 6-Handed (Pros’ Choice)
Event 81 on September 3 / 14:00 ET: $1,050 NLHE Bounty 6-Handed
Event 82 on September 5 / 14:00 ET: $1,050 NLHE Beat the Pros Bounty
Event 83 on September 6 / 14:00 ET: $10K NLHE WSOP Super Millions ($5M GTD)
Event 84 on September 6 / 14:30 ET: $100 NLHE WSOP Millions (final day, 1 reentry/flight, $2M GTD)
Event 85 on September 6 / 16:00 ET: $500 NLHE Closer (unlimited reentries)
Of course, Event 77 – the aforementioned Main Event – will continue next weekend. Of the massive prize pool, there will be $12,578,911 awaiting the nine finalists. And it will be divvied up as follows, creating four millionaires:
1st place: $3,904,686
2nd place: $2,748,605
3rd place: $1,928,887
4th place: $1,353,634
5th place: $949,937
6th place: $666,637
7th place: $467,825
8th place: $328,305
9th place: $230,395
