Peters Prevails Heads-Up in Past Week of WSOP 2020 Online

Written by Jennifer Newell

Last updated on August 24th, 2020

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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 GGPoker Using 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.

Buy-in: $10K Total entries: 128 Prize pool: $1,241,600 Paid players: 16 Minimum payout: $24,832

Winner:  David Peters (US) $360,480 2^nd place:  Michael Addamo (Australia) $223,488 3^rd place:  Alyssa MacDonald (Canada) $124,160 4^th place:  Chi Zhang (UK) $124,160 https://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.

Buy-in: HK$8K (approximately $1K) Total entries: 3,247 Prize pool: HK$24,677,200 (approximately $3,208,036) (well past HK$8M GTD) Paid players: 404 Minimum payout: HK$19,255.61 (approximately $2,503)

Winner:  Luis “Xapilskinha” Assuncao Garla (Brazil) HK$3,551,611 (about $461,709) 2^nd place:  Alexandros Theologis (Greece) HK$2,531,708 (about $329,122) 3^rd place:  Kunal Bhatia (India) HK$1,804,691 (about $234,610) 4^th place:  Alan Schein (US) HK$1,286,442 (about $167,237) 5^th place:  Wenhao Peng (China) HK$917,020 (about $119,213) 6^th place:  Divanshu Khurana (India) HK$653,684 (about $84,979) 7^th place:  Eduards Kudrjavcevs (Latvia) HK$465,967 (about $60,576) 8^th place:  Vladas Tamasauskas (Lithuania) HK$332,158 (about $43,180) 9^th place:  Ignacio Moron (Spain) HK$236,773 (about $30,780)

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.

Buy-in: $1,500 Total entries: 2,153 Prize pool: $3,068,025 (surpassing $2.5M GTD) Paid players: 314 Minimum payout: $3,145

Winner:  Seth “AbeFroman” Fischer (US) $444,869 2^nd place:  Arsenii Karmatckii (Russia) $328,491 3^rd place:  Sebastien Grax (France) $236,188 4^th place:  Michael Nugent (Canada) $169,821 5^th place:  Evaldas Aniulis (Lithuania) $122,102 6^th place:  Dominykas Mikolaitis (Lithuania) $87,793 7^th place:  Lukas Parednis (Lithuania) $63,124 8^th place:  Clement Tripodi (France) $45,386 9^th place:  Yonatan Basin (Israel) $32,633 https://twitter.com/GGPokerOfficial/status/1292855750835003393?s=20

GG Event 57: $150 NLHE GGMasters WSOP Edition

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.

Buy-in: $150 Total players:  9,835 Prize pool:  $1,357,230 Paid players: 1,232 Minimum payout: $343

Winner:  Anatoly “Pohitrusha” Suvarov (Russia) $183,526 2^nd place:  David Edelstein (Chile) $127,872 3^rd place:  Tom Hoseth (Norway) $89,098 4^th place:  Amine Hamza (Dominica) $62,081 5^th place:  Jean-Francois Alexandre (Canada) $43,256 6^th place:  Hector Caldero (Andorra) $30,140 7^th place:  Adam Cader (Canada) $21,000 8^th place:  Andre Grohnert (Germany) $14,632 9^th place:  William Overmire (Japan) $10,195

GG Event 58: $5K NLHE 6-Handed Championship

A solid field of players turned out for some short-handed poker, and an Israeli player captured his first bracelet in the end.

Buy-in: $5K Total entries:  672 Prize pool: $3,192,000 Paid players: 98 Minimum payout: $10,721

Winner:  Ravid “jerbi9999” Garbi (Israel) $531,513 2^nd place:  Chris Moorman (UK) $398,393 3^rd place:  Preben Stokkan (Norway) $292,021 4^th place:  Urmo Velvelt (Estonia) $214,051 5^th place:  Ludovic Geilich (UK) $156,898 6^th place:  Shyngis Satubayev (Kazakhstan) $115,006

GG Event 59: $2,500 NLHE Double Stack

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.

Buy-in: $2,500 Total entries:  1,061 Prize pool: $2,519,875 Paid players: 152 Minimum payout: $5,478

Winner:  Leonardo “Babaehduro” Mattos (Brazil) $399,047 2^nd place:  Christopher Putz (Austria) $298,296 3^rd place:  Pedro Madeira (Brazil) $216,473 4^th place:  Nethanel Klein (Israel) $157,095 5^th place:  Antonio Pedro (Croatia) $114,004 6^th place:  Kevin Gibson (Canada) $82,733 7^th place:  Fabiano Kovalski (Brazil) $60,039 8^th place:  Yiannis Liperis (UK) $43,570 9^th 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.

Buy-in: $525 Total entries:  3,170 Prize pool: $1,585,000 Paid players: 368 Minimum payout: $680

Winner:  Orhan “yirtil” Ates (Turkey) $180,177 ($114,584 + $65,593 bounties) 2^nd place:  Tobias Schwecht (Austria) $98,015 ($72,386 + $15,629 bounties) 3^rd place:  Tomas Jozonis (Lithuania) $61,410 ($59,236 + $2,174 bounties) 4^th place:  Alexandre Reard (France) $56,475 ($42,591 + $13,884 bounties) 5^th place:  Caique Sanches (Brazil) $51,300 ($30,624 + $20,676 bounties) 6^th place:  Gaurav Sood (India) $28,540 ($22,019 + $6,521 bounties) 7^th place:  Augusto Hagen (Argentina) $27,686 ($15,832 + $11,854 bounties) 8^th place:  Jeff Hakim (Lebanon) $17,715 ($11,383 + $6,332 bounties) 9^th place:  Arsens Sakanjans (Latvia) $14,855 ($8,185 + $6,670 bounties) https://twitter.com/GGPokerOfficial/status/1294149766117556225?s=20

GG Event 61: $300 NLHE Monster Stack  

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.

Buy-in: $300 Total entries:  3,491 Prize pool:  $973,989 Paid players: 440 Minimum payout: $697

Winner:  Alexander “MightyWarior” Stacey (UK) $127,660 2^nd place:  Craig Lecompte (US) $99,552 3^rd place:  Sami Koivuneva (Finland) $70,964 4^th place:  Arnaud Enselme (France) $50,586 5^th place:  Michael Schwartz (France) $36,059 6^th place:  Hui Wang (China) $25,704 7^th place:  Steve O’Dwyer (Ireland) $18,323 8^th place:  Wai Ching Cheang (China) $13,061 9^th place:  Tal Herzog (Israel) $9,311

GG Event 62: $1,500 PLO

Omaha fans gathered ‘round for this PLO event with reentries on a Sunday.

Buy-in: $1,500 Total entries:  990 Prize pool: $1,410,750 Paid players: 134 Minimum payout: $3,476

Winner:  Bradley “DrStrange7” Ruben (US) $220,160 2^nd place:  Dorel Eldabach (Israel) $168,478 3^rd place:  Jens Lakemeier (Austria) $122,264 4^th place:  Naman Madan (India) $88,727 5^th place:  Blaz Zerjav (Slovenia) $64,389 6^th place:  Sami Kelopuro (Finland) $46,727 7^th place:  Patrick Serda (Canada) $33,910 8^th place:  Tal Peretz (Israel) $24,608 9^th 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.

Buy-in: $500 Total entries:  15,205 Prize pool: $7,222,375 (well beyond $5M GTD) Paid players: 1,600 Minimum payout: $1,356

Winner:  Ivan “zufo16” Zufic (Croatia) $843,460 2^nd place:  Suraj Mishra (India) $586,157 3^rd place:  Daniel Neilson (Australia) $401,635 4^th place:  Daniel Saugspier (Germany) $275,200 5^th place:  Oleksii Kravchuk (Ukraine) $188,567 6^th place:  Derek Miller (UK) $129,206 7^th place:  Troy Mclean (Australia) $88,532 8^th place:  Royal Pek (Singapore) $60,662 9^th place:  Fedor Kruse (Austria) $41,566 https://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.

Buy-in: $840 Total entries:  2,207 Prize pool: $1,740,800 Paid players: 314 Minimum payout: $905

Winner:  Kartik “Mandovi” Ved (India) $234,433 ($131,461 + $102,972 bounties) 2^nd place:  Konstantin Maslak (Russia) $118,791 ($94,521 + $24,270 bounties) 3^rd place:  Javier Fernandez (Spain) $79,495 ($67,961 + $11,534 bounties) 4^th place:  Tim West (US) $56,958 ($48,865 + $8,094 bounties) 5^th place:  Dan Borlan (Moldova) $57,982 ($35,134 + $22,848 bounties) 6^th place:  Jon Clark (UK) $36,793 ($25,262 + $11,531 bounties) 7^th place:  Felipe Ramos (Brazil) $24,176 ($18,163 + $6,013 bounties) 8^th place:  Ricardo Da Silva (Brazil) $29,944 ($13,060 + $16,884 bounties) 9^th 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 Championship Event 66 on August 19 / 14:00 ET: $800 PLO Event 67 on August 20 / 14:00 ET: $500 LHE Event 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 Championship Event 73 on August 26 / 14:00 ET: $1K NLHE 6-Handed Event 74 on August 27 / 14:00 ET: $1,500 PLO Event 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 Stack Event 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-Handed Event 79 on September 1 / 14:00 ET: People’s Choice – Most popular Event 80 on September 2 / 14:00 ET: People’s Choice – Pros vote Event 81 on September 3 / 14:00 ET: People’s Choice – Spin the wheel 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)

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