WSOP 2020 Online Wraps US Portion of Summer Series

Written by Jennifer Newell

Last updated on June 22nd, 2022

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On Friday night, the first portion of this year’s World Series of Poker ended. The completion of Event 31 wrapped up the part of the WSOP 2020 Online that had been available to players located in Nevada and New Jersey. Meanwhile, the international portion of the 2020 WSOP continues on GGPoker and its sister sites. It began on July 19 and runs through the first week of September. As for the US’ set of tournaments, we can report the results of the final events. World Series of Poker executives will reveal the overall WSOP.com series numbers and leaderboard winners this week, most likely, but we can at least list the final results now. The first four summaries of this series on WSOP.com were as follows: --Events 1-5 --Events 6-12 --Events 13-19 --Events 20-26 The final tournaments, each of which produced a first-time bracelet winner, are listed here.

US Event 27: $400 NLHE Freezeout

Players spotted this rare freezeout event and took advantage. Quite a lot of players jumped in to the cheapest WSOP option of the series’ final week in America.

Buy-in: $400 Total entries: 1,940 Prize pool: $698,400 Paid players: 289 Minimum payout: $559 Winner:  Ian “ApokerJoker2” Steinman ($110,557) 2^nd place:  Satoshi Tanaka ($68,373) 3^rd place:  Mahyar Ebrahimi ($49,796) 4^th place:  Nick Brancato ($36,526) 5^th place:  Cameron Rezaie ($27,028) 6^th place:  Lokesh Garg ($20,254) 7^th place:  Alida Veliu ($15,295) 8^th place:  Huiwen Liu ($11,663) 9^th place:  Cody Scherer ($9,009)

https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1288126437975711751?s=20

US Event 28: $1K Omaha-8 Six-Max

The last Omaha bracelet up for grabs in this series offered a little hi-lo action and limited tables to six players. Dedicated Omahalics logged on to participate.

Buy-in: $1K Unique players: 425 Reentries: 100 Total entries: 525 Prize pool: $498,750 Paid players: 80 Minimum payout: $1,546 Winner:  William “SlaweelRyam” Romaine ($110,673) 2^nd place:  Mark Ioli ($68,478) 3^rd place:  Vasu Amarapu ($45,287) 4^th place:  Stephen Tyson ($30,474) 5^th place:  Kyle Sparks ($21,047) 6^th place:  Gabriel Ramos ($14,813)

https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1288461475137425417?s=20

US Event 29: $2K NLHE Deepstack

This was the second-highest buy-in of the US portion of the 2020 WSOP, with its $2K requirement higher only than the $3,200 High Roller that was Event 14. High-stakes players were ready for this.

Buy-in: $2K Unique players: 580 Reentries: 167 Total entries: 747 Prize pool: $1,419,300 Paid players: 90 Minimum payout: $3,974 Winner:  Nick “shadowjacker” Guagenti ($305,433) 2^nd place:  Matthew Parry ($189,193) 3^rd place:  Ari Engel ($130,292) 4^th place:  Brian Deutschmeister ($91,261) 5^th place:  Ryan Tosoc ($65,004) 6^th place:  Vinny Pahuja ($47,121) 7^th place:  Rory Brown ($34,773) 8^th place:  James Gilbert ($26,115) 9^th place:  Tom Cannuli ($20,012)

https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1288854576431423488?s=20

US Event 30: $500 NLHE Seniors

The only segregated event of this portion of the 2020 WSOP brought seniors to the tables. Players had to be at least 50 years old., and quite a few of them came out for this low buy-in action.

Buy-in: $500 Unique players: 541 Reentries: 179 Total entries: 720 Prize pool: $324,000 Paid players: 126 Minimum payout: $648 Winner:  Jonathan “SugarJ” Lessin ($64,411) 2^nd place:  James Moore ($39,820) 3^rd place:  Allen Pock ($27,864) 4^th place:  Brian McGill ($19,796) 5^th place:  Gregory Witsch ($14,256) 6^th place:  Stuart Kemble ($10,433) 7^th place:  Michael Whidden ($7,744) 8^th place:  Carmen Dimaria ($5,832) 9^th place:  Al Riccobono ($4,471)

US Event 31: $1K NLHE Championship

This was the finale, the championship of the US WSOP 2020 Online. It offered two reentries per player and the last chance to win a World Series of Poker gold bracelet on American soil this summer. Players were ready for it.

Buy-in: $1K Unique players: 1,455 Reentries: 671 Total entries:  2,216 Prize pool: $2,019,700 Paid players: 330 Minimum payout: $1,616 Winner:  Nahrain “2Rivers” Tamero ($310,832) 2^nd place:  Norman Michalek ($192,073) 3^rd place:  Andrew Lichtenberger ($140,167) 4^th place:  Brian Kirchhoff ($103,207) 5^th place:  Edan Sucov ($76,749) 6^th place:  Greg Wish ($57,561) 7^th place:  Arian Stolt ($43,424) 8^th place:  Michael Bailey ($33,123) 9^th place:  Kevin Calenzo ($25,650)

https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1289655787631984641?s=20

Leaderboard Standings?

The 2020 WSOP.com Online charts seems to be updated, but this is not the points-driven leaderboard. This merely shows the rankings of players by the number of bracelets, amount of earnings, and number of cashes. There was no player who won more than one bracelet in the WSOP.com series. Regarding earnings, these were the top five players:

-1. Joe McKeehen ($369,632) -2. Ryan Torgersen ($337,060) -3. Nahrain Tamero ($310,832) -4. Nick Guagenti ($305,433) -5. Tony Dunst ($239,448

And as for the players with the most cashes, these seem to be the final standings:

-1. Ryan Laplante (17) -2. Ben Yu (16) -3. Ian Steinman and Daniel Negreanu (15 each) -4. Roland Israelashvili, Bryan Piccioli, and Anthony Zinno (14 each) -5. Philip Yeh, Dave Alfa, Max Pescatori, and Omar Mehmood (13 each)

The official leaderboard with $100K up for grabs to the winners may not be updated. At this point, the player named “APokerJoker2,” who appears to be the winner of Event 27, Ian Steinman. However, we will wait to hear from the WSOP for confirmation of the final standings. For complete recaps and live updates of each event, the PokerNews website offer details via its  PokerNews WSOP 2020 Online landing page.  

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