The World Series of Poker in Las Vegas completed its WSOP 2022 live series in mid-July, and the WSOP Europe doesn’t begin until late October. That doesn’t mean there is any downtime for WSOP players, though, as there are WSOP Online series running now in several American states, and the international series on GGPoker just wrapped.
WSOP Online doesn’t get the time or attention of the live series because…well…you’d have to as the World Series of Poker about that. But it is tougher to cover online events because of their speed and the relatively anonymity of many of the players.
Sometimes, WSOP bracelet winners fail to get their due recognition for winning that WSOP gold.
To be honest, we don’t have much information about most of these players, either. The WSOP doesn’t provide pictures of most of them, and there is little coverage outside of the final standings for each event.
What we do have is a list of the results for the WSOP Online International played on GGPoker.
WSOP Online Winners
GGPoker again hosted the WSOP Online for international players. The 33-event series started on August 14, just one month after the wrap of the WSOP 2022 in Las Vegas. And the online series ended at the end of September.
There were some familiar names atop the bracelet winners list, like Ami Barer, Dimitar Danchev, and Joni Jouhkimainen. And there was one double bracelet winner for this series. Claas Segebrecht of Austria took down Event 2 for more than $102K and then wrapped the series by winning Event 31 for another $54K and some change.
This is a list of the events and their winners:
Event
Buy-in
Tournament Description
Entries
Prize Pool
Winner
1
$500
NLHE Housewarming ($2,022,000 GTD)
5,099
$2,422,025
Stefan Schillhabel (Germany) $296,410
2
$1,111
NLHE Every 1 for War Relief Charity
730
$811,030
Claas Segebrecht (Austria) $102,152
3
$2,500
Limit Hold'em Championship
124
$294,500
Rafael Caiaffa (Brazil) $64,671
4
$1,050
NLHE Bounty Deepstack
986
$986,000
Jacopo Olivieri Achille (Italy) $39,862
5
$315
NLHE Bounty 6-Handed
2,312
$693,600
Jon Garde (France) $28,356
6
$800
NLHE Monster Stack
1,797
$1,365,720
Jonas Lauck (Germany) $173,224
7
$210
NLHE Mystery Bounty ($10M GTD)
51,003
$10,200,600
Tapio Vihakas (Finland) $348,723
8
$5,000
NLHE 6-Handed Championship
430
$2,042,500
Pieter Aerts (Belgium) $400,213
9
$525
PLO Bounty
1,142
$571,000
Ami Barer (Canada) $23,711
10
$10,000
NLHE Heads-Up Championship
97
$940,900
Dimitar Danchev (Bangladesh) $327,668
11
$400
NLHE Bounty Double Stack
3,550
$1,349,000
Gustavo Mastelotto (Brazil) $51,498
12
$10,000
NLHE Super MILLION$ HR ($5M GTD)
593
$5,752,100
David Dong Ming Yan (New Zealand) $985,565
13
$1,500
NLHE Millionaire Maker ($5M GTD)
4,706
$6,706,050
Markus Prinz (Germany) $1,188,098
14
$2,500
NLHE Deepstack Championship
705
$1,674,375
Almaz Zhdanov (Russia) $246,495
15
$777
NLHE Bounty 7-Handed Lucky 7s
1,778
$1,312,431
Yenhan Chen (Taiwan) $53,999
16
$1,500
NLHE Ultra Deepstack
1,156
$1,098,200
Jonathan Gilliam (USA) $149,520
17
$500
NLHE Big 500
3,142
$1,491,975
Vicente Delgado (Spain) $174,497
18
$100
NLHE Flip & Go ($1M GTD)
13,719
$1,303,305
Ewald Mahr (Peru) $143,267
19
$5,000
PLO Championship
272
$1,292,000
Rui Ferreira (Portugal) $287,736
20
$888
NLHE Bounty 8-Handed Crazy 8s
1,922
$1,621,399
Sean Prendiville (Ireland) $66,770
21
$500
NLHE Ladies Championship
362
$171,950
Huanhua Long (Switzerland) $31,326
22
$1,050
NLHE GGMasters HR Freeze ($2M GTD)
2,372
$2,372,000
Mario Navarro (Spain) $288,507
23
$400
PLOSSUS ($1M GTD)
3,850
$1,463,000
Jose Castillo (Netherlands Antilles) $54,500
24
$2,100
NLHE Bounty Championship
985
$1,970,000
Hernan Dario Restrepo (Colombia) $79,643
25
$315
NLHE Superstack Turbo Bounty
3,015
$904,500
Jonathan Therme (France) $36,600
26
$1,000
NLHE Double Chance
1,777
$1,012,890
Jans Arends (Netherlands) $129,745
27
$1,500
NLHE Bounty Fifty Stack
1,597
$2,275,725
Mark Radoja (Canada) $95,460
28
$400
NLHE COLOSSUS ($3M GTD)
10,090
$3,793,840
Ourania Zarkantzia (Greece) $378,508
29
$5,000
Short Deck Championship
145
$688,750
Benjamin Miner (USA) $172,678
30
$400
NLHE Bounty 6-Handed
2,024
$1,619,200
Joni Jouhkimainen (Finland) $66,004
31
$1,050
NLHE Beat the Pros
1,318
$1,318,000
Claas Segebrecht (Austria) $54,315
32
$500
NLHE Closer
3,403
$1,279,528
Marc Radgen (Germany) $147,983
33
$5,000
NLHE Online Main Event ($20M GTD)
4,984
$23,674,000
Simon Mattsson (Sweden) $2,793,575
All in all, the 33 tournaments brought some big numbers:
As for this particular online series, there was a $5K buy-in Main Event to serve as its finale, also known as Event 33. It was, unsurprisingly, the biggest tournament of the series as well. And it had to be because GGPoker put a $20M guarantee on it.
When registration closed, it showed these numbers:
GGPoker streamed the final table with commentary by Jeff Gross and multiple-bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus.
Play began with Simon Mattsson – playing as “Eric Mattsson” but typically known as C. Darwin2 online – in the chip lead. Samuel Vousden was second in chips, followed by Kannapong Thanarattrakul. Everyone else sat off in the distance – Yanfei Chi, Feng Zhao, Istvan Briski, Oliver Sprason, Jordan Spurlin, and then Timothy Rutherford on the shortest stack.
Spurlin nearly doubled early through the chipleader, and Vousden took over the chip lead within the first half hour, but Mattsson took it back shortly thereafter. Zhao busted Rutherford, but Sprason doubled through Thanarattrakul to stay alive.
The second hour started with Vousden back in the lead, but Mattsson recovered quickly. Chi doubled through Vousden, and Thanarattrakul busted Sprason in eighth and then Spurlin in seventh place. Zhao doubled through Chi, and Vousden ousted Chi a few hands later. Thanarattrakul took a bit pot from Vousden. Zhao eliminated Briski in fifth place, and Thanarattrakul sent Vousden out in fourth place.
Thanarattrakul started three-handed play in the chip lead, starting just before the second break of the day, though Mattsson again regained the lead soon thereafter. Zhao didn’t take long to shove with K-8 on a J-9-Q-K-Q board, but Mattsson had Q-9, bet big on the river, and Zhao called. That left Zhao with just a few big blinds, and the move came with J-9 against the A-3 of Mattsson. Zhao did bust in third place.
Mattsson took more than 183M chips into heads-up against the 115M of Thanarattrakul, and the latter simply couldn’t gain enough ground to content. Thanarattrakul ultimately pushed with J-T suited on a T-7-4-3-7 board with top pair but a missed flush, and Mattsson had the missed flush as well but did turn a straight. That gave Mattsson the WSOP Online Main Event title and bracelet, not to mention nearly $2.8M in cash.
-1st place: Simon Mattsson (Sweden) $2,793,575-2nd place: Kannapong Thanarattrakul (Thailand) $2,094,885-3rd place: Feng Zhao (Singapore) $1,570,941-4th place: Samuel Vousden (Finland) $1,178,041-5th place: Istvan Briski (Hungary) $883,404-6th place: Chi Yanfei (China) $662,460-7th place: Jordan Spurlin (USA) $496,774-8th place: Oliver Sprason (England) $372,530-9th place: Timothy Rutherford (Canada) $279,358
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