WSOP Wraps 2022 Online Bracelet Events in US Market
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The World Series of Poker just wrapped its online series in the United States. In addition to the online bracelets awarded this summer, another series in September and October gave players in Nevada, New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania a few dozen more opportunities.
We have a list of those winners…most of them, anyway.
How Many Bracelets?
When the WSOP announced its intention to offer a WSOP Online series after the summer WSOP, it put the grand total of bracelets to be awarded in 2022 over the 200 mark. The actual number was 211, which included the 89 awarded in Las Vegas this summer, the 15 soon to be awarded at WSOP Europe, and a total of 107 bracelets online.
That number may not be accurate now, though, because two of the online bracelet events – one in Michigan and one in Pennsylvania, the same exact event actually – has no result listed. The WSOP site no longer has most of the tournament results in the lobby, the Hendon Mob database doesn’t have results for those events, and the WSOP website’s results page doesn’t have any information. (To be fair, the WSOP website results typically only provide partial information anyway.)
Assuming the event did run, that makes 211 bracelets for 2022.
No Totals Yet
But wait, there’s more!
Though not listed on the WSOP website, GGPoker issued a press release informing that the WSOP is awarding several bracelets on its new online poker site in Ontario, Canada. The WSOP site in Ontario is on the GG platform, so it appears that GGPoker took over the announcements for this mini-series.
Ontario’s three bracelet events are running at the end of October as follows:
-$150 buy-in Big 150 Ontario MILLIONCAD$ (October 23)
-$210 buy-in PLO Bounty MILLIONCAD$ (October 30)
-$1,050 buy-in GGMasters Online Championship Freezeout (October 30)
Since this site just recently opened, the WSOP and GG wanted to celebrate its launch in Ontario with bracelet events. “Winning authentic WSOP gold bracelets is one big reason to play on the licensed and regulated WSOP.ca site in Ontario,” WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart said.
Those three put the grand total of bracelets for 2022 at 214 (or 212 if the aforementioned Michigan and Pennsylvania events didn’t run).
And the Winners Online Were…
Other than the Hendon Mob database, there is nary a list of WSOP Online bracelet event winners to be found. Here’s the one for the Pennsylvania market:
| Pennsylvania | |||||
| Event | Buy-in | Tournament Description | Entries | Prize Pool | Winner |
| 1 | $500 | NLHE Monster Stack | 198 | $89,100 | Richard Ali (USA) $20,716 |
| 2 | $365 | NLHE | 255 | $18,605 | Jeffrey Cole (USA) $13,277 |
| 3 | $400 | NLHE Ultra Deepstack PKO | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 4 | $777 | NLHE Lucky 7s | 169 | $124,598 | Boris Kravets (USA) $30,701 |
| 5 | $1,500 | NLHE | 133 | $88,200 | Andrew Voor (USA) $20,507 |
| 6 | $1,000 | NLHE Championship | 129 | $116,100 | Cherish Andrews (USA) $31,986 |
And these are the Michigan market bracelet winners:
| Michigan | ||||
| Buy-in | Tournament Description | Entries | Prize Pool | Winner |
| $500 | NLHE Monster Stack | 174 | $78,300 | Michael Hepworth (USA) $18,205 |
| $365 | NLHE | 247 | $81,016 | George Janssen (USA) $12,963 |
| $400 | NLHE Ultra Deepstack PKO | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| $777 | NLHE Lucky 7s | 153 | $107,100 | Thomas Metz (USA) $26,389 |
| $1,500 | NLHE | 170 | $76,500 | Andrew Korby (USA) $17,786 |
| $1,000 | NLHE Championship | 142 | $127,800 | Jonathan Schiller (USA) $31,490 |
And finally, the Nevada/New Jersey market offered 33 bracelets. And these were the winners:
| Nevada & New Jersey | |||||
| Event | Buy-in | Tournament Description | Entries | Prize Pool | Winner |
| 1 | $400 | NLHE Series Kick-Off | 474 | $271,800 | Ori Hasson (Israel) $58,491 |
| 2 | $500 | NLHE Monster Stack | 508 | $314,100 | Benjamin Garrick (USA) $64,590 |
| 3 | $3,200 | NLHE High Roller | 99 | $376,960 | Drew O’Connell (USA) $96,087 |
| 4 | $1,000 | PLO 6-Max | 273 | $245,700 | Soheb Porbandarwala (USA) $57,125 |
| 5 | $500 | NLHE Turbo Deepstack | 515 | $231,750 | Christopher Castiglia (USA) $44,704 |
| 6 | $800 | NLHE Ultra Deepstack | 393 | $282,960 | Vito Distefano (USA) $57,355 |
| 7 | $365 | NLHE | 571 | $299,722 | Jeremy Ausmus (USA) $51,807 |
| 8 | $1,000 | NLHE 6-Max | 384 | $345,600 | Jesse Lonis (USA) $73,370 |
| 9 | $600 | NLHE Deepstack Championship | 515 | $279,100 | Timothy Faro (USA) $50,864 |
| 10 | $2,500 | NLHE | 153 | $355,725 | William Romaine (USA) $79,753 |
| 11 | $400 | PLO 6-Max | 365 | $131,400 | Tanner Bibat (USA) $29,460 |
| 12 | $400 | NLHE Ultra Deepstack | 763 | $274,680 | Jesse Yaginuma (USA) $47,520 |
| 13 | $1,000 | NLHE | 365 | $328,500 | Nathan Zimnik (USA) $69,741 |
| 14 | $500 | NLHE 6-Max | 561 | $252,450 | Jeremiah Williams (USA) $48,698 |
| 15 | $365 | NLHE Turbo Deepstack | 701 | $229,944 | Tanner Bibat (USA) $42,054 |
| 16 | $500 | NLHE Deepstack | 555 | $249,750 | Connor Stuewe (USA) $45,679 |
| 17 | $777 | NLHE Lucky 7s | 564 | $394,800 | Michael Holtz (USA) $76,157 |
| 18 | $1,000 | NLHE Turbo Deepstack | 344 | $309,600 | Michael Gagliano (USA) $62,756 |
| 19 | $1,500 | NLHE | 332 | $456,500 | Jordyn Miller (USA) $96,915 |
| 20 | $500 | NLHE Turbo | 479 | $215,550 | Mark Dibello (USA) $41,580 |
| 21 | $600 | NLHE 6-Max | 448 | $241,920 | Maxx Coleman (USA) $46,666 |
| 22 | $500 | NLHE Big 500 | 462 | $333,900 | Matthew Paoletti (USA) $61,070 |
| 23 | $1,500 | NLHE | 244 | $335,500 | Michael Mercaldo (USA) $68,005 |
| 24 | $7,777 | NLHE Lucky 7s High Roller | 88 | $649,716 | Jared Strauss (USA) $181,769 |
| 25 | $2,000 | NLHE 8-Max | 162 | $421,800 | Evan Sandberg (USA) $94,568 |
| 26 | $3,200 | NLHE High Roller 6-Max | 111 | $452,960 | Christopher Staats (USA) $111,609 |
| 27 | $500 | NLHE Super Turbo | 411 | $184,950 | Patrick Eskandar (USA) $37,489 |
| 28 | $365 | NLHE Monster Stack | 790 | $259,120 | Desmond Haynes (USA) $44,828 |
| 29 | $1,000 | NLHE Championship | 542 | $487,800 | Frank Funaro (USA) $94,097 |
| 30 | $5,300 | NLHE High Roller | 85 | $425,000 | Brian Kim (USA) $119,000 |
| 31 | $600 | NLHE Deep Freeze | 366 | $197,640 | Qinghai Pan (USA) $36,148 |
| 32 | $10,000 | NLHE Super High Roller 8-Max | 52 | $499,276 | Justin Saliba (USA) $154,752 |
| 33 | $500 | NLHE Fall Finale | 640 | $288,000 | Hung Truong (USA) $52,675 |
Note that Tanner Bibat was the only multiple bracelet winner of this series. He claimed two of them by winning Events 11 and 15.
With those events in the books, the only bracelet winners yet to be discovered are the three in Ontario and the 15 of WSOP Europe that starts this week at King’s Casino in Rozvadov.
