The WSOP 2020 Online turned to the GGPoker network of poker sites to host its international slate of tournaments. The fractured state of online poker today means that offering games in the United States must be on an entirely different platform from those available to other countries. The World Series of Poker executives chose GGPoker for the non-US portion of the games.
The first 31 events of the 85-event 2020 WSOP is nearly over in the US market, with the latest week of tournament results posted here. Starting with Event 32 and running through the end of the series, GGPoker offers 54 gold-bracelet-awarding tournaments, which kicked off in mid-July.
Despite a fairly solid following of players on GGPoker, the network had a bit of a breakdown during its first weekend of WSOP 2020 Online tournaments. The site had to cancel the first two tournaments on its schedule and put them into the mix the following weekend (this past Sunday).
There have been some other glitches, but most of the GGPoker events are now running smoothly.
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Let’s get to the bare bones of the GGPoker events and their results.
(Note that live updates for GGPoker events do not list the number of original players and number of reentries. This was available for WSOP.com tournaments but not GGPoker, which means we only know the number of total entries.)
GG Event 32: $100 NLHE Opener (final day)
This event finally played out on July 26 instead of the original date of July 19. Nearly 3,700 players took to the tables for the restart, though the tournament had yet to hit the money bubble. Play went off smoothly and ran through until there was one player standing.
GG Event 33: $1,111 NLHE Every 1 for Covid Relief (Charity)
This tournament barely got underway on its original starting day of July 19, but the restart ran successfully on July 26. Registration was still open when it restarted and drew a solid field. The total amount of money donated to the coronavirus charity through Caesars Cares was not listed, but it appears to have been $257,853.
GG Event 34: $525 NLHE Super Turbo Bounty Six-Handed
This tournament played out on its original day without the technical issues that plagued the others.
Buy-in: $525Total entries: 2,214Prize pool: $1,107,000Paid players: 314Minimum payout: $567Winner: Shoma “pp_syon” Ishikawa (Japan) $117,6502nd place: Diego Ostrovich (Argentina) $86,9723rd place: Gary Johnson (Canada) $51,8014th place: Daniel Strelitz (Canada) $50,4315th place: Yulian Bogdanov (Bulgaria) $34,6776th place: Tom Delaine (Malta) $20,225
GG Event 35: $5K PLO Championship
The first PLO event of the GGPoker part of the WSOP series was its championship event. And a longtime pro took it down for his second career gold bracelet.
Buy-in: $5KTotal entries: 328Prize pool: $1,558,000Paid players: 47Minimum payout: $10,745Winner: Juha Helppi (Finland) $290,2862nd place: Jesus Cortes (Spain) $213,2703rd place: Belarmino De Souza (Brazil) $156,6884th place: Mike Watson (Canada) $115,1175th place: Jens Kyllonen (Finland) $84,5766th place: Yuri Dzivielevski (Brazil) $62,1377th place: Sergi Reixach (Spain) $45,6518th place: Marija Andrijasevic (Serbia) $33,5409th place: Alex Difelice (Canada) $24,641
The Fifty Stack event is a relatively new one to the annual WSOP lineup, as it was introduced during the 50th Annual WSOP. But its popularity prompted the WSOP to continue it as a deepstacked event.
Buy-in: $1,500Total entries: 1,342Prize pool: $297,496Paid players: 188Minimum payout: $3,328Winner: Michael “YesPlease” Clacher (South Africa) $297,4962nd place: Rodrigo Caprioli (Brazil) $215,8923rd place: Olivier Rebello (Canada) $156,6734th place: Martin Zamani (US) $113,6985th place: Joao Viera (Portugal) $82,5106th place: Neel Joshi (India) $59,8787th place: Rich Dixon (US) $43,4538th place: Viktor Zsemlye (Hungary) $31,5349th place: Jose Davilla (Mexico) $22,884
GG Event 37: $1,050 PLO Bounty
A non-championship-level Omaha event offered more players the opportunity to participate.
Buy-in: $1,050Total entries: 971Prize pool: $971,000Paid players: 134Minimum payout: $1,196Winner: Hun Wei Lee (Australia) $161,8862nd place: Janne Peltoniemi (Finland) $64,2463rd place: Craig Timmis (UK) $66,8364th place: Bradley Ruben (Canada) $39,4725th place: Paul Teoh (Malaysia) $37,0836th place: Attila Kuna (Hungary) $25,2877th place: Nikolaus Eigners (Austria) $13,5378th place: Shaul Meir (Israel) $12,0319th place: Alex Defelice (Canada) $10,442
GG Event 38: $600 NLHE 6-Max Monster Stack
Another deepstack event, one that has become a staple at the WSOP each year, served as a tournament conveniently timed for players in the Asia-Pacific time zone.
Players in the Asia-Pacific time zone had another tournament aimed at them, this time a standard No Limit Hold’em event. And the winner of the tournament claimed a Triple Crown, as it’s known in poker, by adding a WSOP bracelet to his WPT and EPT victories.
Another Pot Limit Omaha event, this time with a bit of a higher buy-in than the previous one.
Buy-in: $2,500Total entries: 532Prize pool: $1,263,500Paid players: 71Minimum payout: $5,877Winner: Simon Lofberg (Sweden) $224,4932nd place: Andreas Torbergsen (Norway) $164,5533rd place: Shyngis Satubayev (Kazakhstan) $120,6174th place: Leon Tsoukernik (Czech Republic) $88,4125th place: Sai Wah Shek (Hong Kong) $64,8066th place: Arvi Vainionkulma (Finland) $47,5027th place: Paul Teoh (Malaysia) $34,8198th place: Benjamin Juhasz (Hungary) $25,5229th place: “Brahman33” (Ukraine) $18,708
Another Busy Week Underway
Two big tournaments – Colossus and PLOssus – must conclude, and a number of other WSOP 2020 events are on tap.
Event 41 on July 26: $400 NLHE Colossus ($3M GTD)Event 42 on July 26: $400 PLOSSUS ($1M GTD)Event 43 on July 28: $10K NLHE Short Deck ChampionshipEvent 44 on July 29: $2,500 NLHE 6-HandedEvent 45 on July 30: $840 NLHE BountyEvent 46 on August 1: $500 NLHE Deepstack (Asia)Event 47 on August 2: $1K NLHE Short Deck (Asia)Event 48 on August 2: $1,500 NLHE Millionaire Maker (2nd of 3 days, $5M GTD, $1M GTD to winner)Event 49 on August 2 / 16:00 ET: $500 NLHE Turbo Deepstack
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