In the past week, the WSOP 2020 Online crossed the halfway mark of the international portion of its summer series on GGPoker and its sister sites.
The 2020 World Series of Poker put its first 31 of 85 tournaments on its American site, and the next 54 events have been playing out on the international stage. As players competed in Events 58 and 59 last week, they crossed the halfway point of GGPoker’s part of the series, and only about two dozen events remain.
One of those events is the 2020 WSOP Main Event. It will require a $5K buy-in and a $25 million guarantee. Players can reenter two times, giving them a total of three chances to take a stack of chips into Day 2. There are 22 flights, the first of which got underway on Sunday, August 16. All surviving players from these flights will return for Day 2 of the action on Sunday, August 30.
First, however, let’s cover what happened until now. This is how the entirety of the WSOP 2020 Online has played out thus far:--End of 31-event series on WSOP.com in US market--WSOP Events 32-40 on GGPoker--WSOP Events 41-46 on GGPoker--WSOP Events 47-53 on GGPokerUsing the live updates and detailed tournament information from PokerNews, here are the basics of the past week’s WSOP action.
GG Event 54: $10K NLHE Heads-Up Championship
One of the most watched events (online) of the 2020 WSOP thus far was this heads-up championship-level event, one that capped at 128 players, highlighted some key match-ups, and postponed the final four playoffs until this past weekend. People did turn up online to watch, and the winner claimed his second career bracelet.
Winner: David Peters (US) $360,4802nd place: Michael Addamo (Australia) $223,4883rd place: Alyssa MacDonald (Canada) $124,1604th place: Chi Zhang (UK) $124,160https://twitter.com/GGPokerOfficial/status/1294762041870352386?s=20
GG Event 55: HK$8K NLHE Asia Championship
Though this tournament’s starting time was aimed to attract more players from the Asia-Pacific region, it was someone from South America who won it. It also attracted a much larger crowd than expected to more than triple the guarantee.
GG Event 56: $1,500 NLHE GGMasters High Roller WSOP Edition
This was the high buy-in version of one of GGPoker’s signature tournaments, revamped a bit to be a part of the World Series of Poker. It is considered a high roller for some players, a regular buy-in for others.
The most affordable tournament in the international WSOP allowed a chance at a bracelet for just $150. And nearly 10,000 players joined in the freezeout tournament.
Deep stacks and a $2,500 buy-in was a good mix for a mid-week poker tournament, and the fourth Brazilian in this international series took down a bracelet for it.
Winner: Leonardo “Babaehduro” Mattos (Brazil) $399,0472nd place: Christopher Putz (Austria) $298,2963rd place: Pedro Madeira (Brazil) $216,4734th place: Nethanel Klein (Israel) $157,0955th place: Antonio Pedro (Croatia) $114,0046th place: Kevin Gibson (Canada) $82,7337th place: Fabiano Kovalski (Brazil) $60,0398th place: Yiannis Liperis (UK) $43,5709th place: Manuel Saavedra (unknown) $31,619
GG Event 60: $525 NLHE Bounty
Everyone seems to love bounty tournaments. The eventual winner sure did, taking down a tremendous amount in bounties and claiming the first-ever WSOP gold bracelet for his country of Turkey.
A smaller of the buy-ins and a time preferential to Asia-Pacific payers drew a few thousand people. It wasn’t a person from that region who won it, though, as the UK took it down.
Winner: Bradley “DrStrange7” Ruben (US) $220,1602nd place: Dorel Eldabach (Israel) $168,4783rd place: Jens Lakemeier (Austria) $122,2644th place: Naman Madan (India) $88,7275th place: Blaz Zerjav (Slovenia) $64,3896th place: Sami Kelopuro (Finland) $46,7277th place: Patrick Serda (Canada) $33,9108th place: Tal Peretz (Israel) $24,6089th place: Adam Hendrix (US) $17,858
GG Event 63: $500 NLHE Mini Main Event
This event is a mini version of the WSOP Main Event, one with a buy-in of $500, one-tenth of the actual Main Event. And this one boasted of a $5M guarantee, which was easily surpassed with a massive turnout and numerous reentries.
Winner: Ivan “zufo16” Zufic (Croatia) $843,4602nd place: Suraj Mishra (India) $586,1573rd place: Daniel Neilson (Australia) $401,6354th place: Daniel Saugspier (Germany) $275,2005th place: Oleksii Kravchuk (Ukraine) $188,5676th place: Derek Miller (UK) $129,2067th place: Troy Mclean (Australia) $88,5328th place: Royal Pek (Singapore) $60,6629th place: Fedor Kruse (Austria) $41,566https://twitter.com/GGPokerOfficial/status/1295310402151038977?s=20
GG Event 64: $840 NLHE Bounty
Another bounty event rounded out the weekend, but this one offered a turbo structure. The entire tournament finished in approximately six hours, and a player from India was the last one standing.
Winner: Kartik “Mandovi” Ved (India) $234,433 ($131,461 + $102,972 bounties)2nd place: Konstantin Maslak (Russia) $118,791 ($94,521 + $24,270 bounties)3rd place: Javier Fernandez (Spain) $79,495 ($67,961 + $11,534 bounties)4th place: Tim West (US) $56,958 ($48,865 + $8,094 bounties)5th place: Dan Borlan (Moldova) $57,982 ($35,134 + $22,848 bounties)6th place: Jon Clark (UK) $36,793 ($25,262 + $11,531 bounties)7th place: Felipe Ramos (Brazil) $24,176 ($18,163 + $6,013 bounties)8th place: Ricardo Da Silva (Brazil) $29,944 ($13,060 + $16,884 bounties)9th place: Gueorgui Gantchev (US) $20,659 ($9,390 + $11,269 bounties)
Just 21 Events Left
That sounds somewhat ominous, but there are still plenty of opportunities to get in on the WSOP action and play for a bracelet…and potentially life-changing money. The rest of the schedule is as follows:
Event 65 on August 18 / 14:00 ET: $600 NLHE Deepstack ChampionshipEvent 66 on August 19 / 14:00 ET: $800 PLOEvent 67 on August 20 / 14:00 ET: $500 LHEEvent 68 on August 22 / 8:00 ET: $500 NLHE Deepstack (Asia time zone)Event 69 on August 23 / 8:00 ET: $1,500 NLHE Marathon (Asia time zone)Event 70 on August 23 / 14:00 ET: $25K NLHE Poker Players Championship ($10M GTD)Event 71 on August 23 / 14:30 ET: $50 NLHE Big 50 (final day, 1 reentry/flight, $1M GTD)Event 72 on August 25 / 14:00 ET: $1,500 LHE ChampionshipEvent 73 on August 26 / 14:00 ET: $1K NLHE 6-HandedEvent 74 on August 27 / 14:00 ET: $1,500 PLOEvent 75 on August 29 / 8:00 ET: $300 NLHE Double Stack (Asia time zone)Event 76 on August 30 / 14:00 ET: $400 NLHE Forty StackEvent 77 on August 30 / 14:30 ET: $5K NLHE Main Event (2nd of 3 days, freezeout flights, $25M GTD)Event 78 on August 30 / 16:00 ET: $1K NLHE Turbo 6-HandedEvent 79 on September 1 / 14:00 ET: People’s Choice – Most popularEvent 80 on September 2 / 14:00 ET: People’s Choice – Pros voteEvent 81 on September 3 / 14:00 ET: People’s Choice – Spin the wheelEvent 82 on September 5 / 14:00 ET: $1,050 NLHE Beat the Pros BountyEvent 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)
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