2020 WSOP Online: Afanasenka & DePaulo deny Kornuth & Salter

Live tournament series’ progenitor, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) continued to bathe in its warm, milky online existence over the weekend. We have two events to catch up and, and high rollers appeared in them both.

Raman “Acrogum” Afanasenka denied Chance “BingShui” Kornuth the opportunity to win his third bracelet, and become the only player to win two online bracelet events after Kornuth took down the $3,200 No Limit Hold’em High Roller in 2018.

The Belarusian wounded Kornuth grievously during the heads-up encounter to decide the winner of Event #11: $500 No Limit Hold’em Turbo DeepStack 6-Handed. 1,691 entrants attempted to nick the bracelet, and all of them bar one failed throughout a searing seven-hour sauna of a session.

Kornuth wasn’t the only bracelet winner at the final table. Brett Apter beat 917-entrants to win a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Shootout event for $238,824 last year. David Prociak won a 521-entrant $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8-or-Better event for $156,546 in 2016. The final table also housed Erica Lindgren, who finished 3/2778 in a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em game in 2007.

Afanasenka is not known for his poker pomposity, but he did win a 493-entrant $550 No Limit Hold’em event during the 2018 Wynn Summer Classic beating Leo Margets, heads-up.

Here are the results.

Results

  1. Raman “Acrogum” Afanasenka – $128,601
  2. Chance “BingShui” Kornuth – $79,291
  3. Brett “Metanemesis” Apter – $57,071
  4. David “Twizzlers” Prociak – $41,472
  5. Nerraj “nee0903” Nayak – $30,514
  6. Erica “Huckcheevers’ Lindgren – $22,676

Event #12: $500 The BIG 500 No Limit Hold’em

What’s the antidote to finishing third from 13,109 entrants in the Colossus? Returning the following year to win a bracelet in the $500 The BIG 500 No Limit Hold’em.

Usually, when you pop over to Whole Foods for a ravishing, you end up with a wallet containing nothing but a few errant pubes. Not so, for Depaulo, who nipped out for an Acai bowl, and ended up spending the next half of the day winning the BIG 500 bracelet from the parking lot.

Depaulo defeated the British pro, Jack Salter, heads-up, for the title. Salter won a $1k at the Wynn Spring Classic before the pandemic hit.

The BIG 500 attracted 2,427 tentative and tyrannical entrants.

Here are the results.

Results

  1. Ryan “joeyisamush” Depaulo – $159,563
  2. Jack “EarlGrey” Salter – $98,621
  3. Sean “FilthyDiaper” Ruane – $72,410
  4. Hayden “Luckbox89” Fortini – $53,625
  5. “Jessyboo” – $40,082
  6. Terry “mrterry007” Fleischer – $30,143
  7. Shannon “Aulophobia” Shorr – $22,826
  8. Dominic “rgdoc” Ricciardi – $`17,474
  9. “Givemeaction” – $13,543