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Each time you feel like online poker has reached its apotheosis, the operators burn the old textbooks in a conflagration of colour, and a new ‘record’ emerges like a Phoenix.

GGPoker is the latest to hunch around the firepit after it released further details on the 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) online schedule, a move prompted by a leaked version ending up on Pokerfuse.

54-bracelets are up for grabs between Jul 19 to Sep 6, allowing poker fans the opportunity to win a bracelet from the comfort of home from outside of the USA for the first time.

The schedule is virtually indistinguishable from what you would expect from the typical muddle of live events, and that’s because of GGPoker’s inability to construct a plan with more alternatives than Limit Hold’em, No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha. That said, there are a few old favourites on the roster (see below).

The ‘prestige of a WSOP bracelet has gone down the toilet’ brigade will be eating up and vomiting on the news that the BIG 50 will create a new record allowing punters to win a bracelet for as low as $50. The maximum that someone is going to be in for is $25,000.

Players who finish in the money (ITM) will have their real names broadcast to the world, including 100% of people who make a final table. That action will come to you live via GGPoker.tv and Poker Central.

The Main Event

The biggest story is the $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Main Event and its record $25m guarantee, beating the $21,780,000 amassed by the 2018 partypoker MILLIONS field. There will be multiple Day 1’s with Day 2 beginning Aug 30. Each flight is a freezeout.

There are also leaderboard prizes, but the details are sparse for now. There will be a leaderboard specifically for events that tie in with GGPoker’s Asian facing audience (Pure Gold Dragon), and there are leaderboards called ‘Pure Gold Mouse’ and ‘Pure Gold Cards.’

There are also three ‘People’s Choice’ bracelet events.

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Here are the highlights.

Highlights

Event #1: $100, $2m GTD ‘The Opener’
Event #2: $1,111 ‘Every 1 for Covid Relief’ – $111 charitable entry
Event #10: $400, $3m GTD ‘COLOSSUS’
Event #17: $1,500 ‘MILLIONAIRE MAKER’
Event #25: $10,000 ‘HU NLHE Championship’
Event #31: $500, $5m GTD ‘Mini Main Event’
Event #38: $25,000, $10m GTD ‘NLH Poker Players Championship’
Event #39: $50, $1m GTD ‘BIG 50’
Event #52: $10,000, $5m GTD ‘WSOP Super MILLION$’

High Roller Highlights ($10k+)

Event #12: $10,000 Short Deck No Limit Hold’em Championship
Event #25: $10,000 ‘HU NLHE Championship’
Event #38: $25,000, $10m GTD ‘NLH Poker Players Championship’
Event #52: $10,000, $5m GTD ‘WSOP Super MILLION$’

Follow the blue line for more details on the playing and streaming schedules.

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It seems as if Finland has coronavirus by the scruff of its neck with the latest reports showing a rate of eight new infections per 100,000 people over the past fortnight.

The reduction of cases has led to the country’s officials relaxing restraints, including allowing citizens of 12 different countries (who have gotten their shit together) to enter the country, and allowing their natives to go yonder.

Two people will not be shifting from their seats.

The inaugural Poker Masters Online Pot-Limit Omaha Series continued to paint beautiful storylines over partypoker’s canvass, and Jens Kyllonen and Eelis Parssinen have been the primary artists.

Kyllonen won two $10,000 events for a combined haul of $412,000, but he still trails Parssinen on the overall leaderboard by 68-points. Parssinen made the final table of four of the six events featured below, most notably winning the 44-entrant $25k event for $440,000, and finishing second to Kyllonen in one of those $10k events.

Aku Joentausta is another Finnish star who had a fabulous week in the Poker Masters making three final tables. Jonathan Depa also made three final tables.

Here the results in full.

Event #3: $10,000 PLO

53-entrants

Results

  1. Jens Kyllõnen – $212,000
  2. Jonathan Depa – $135,651
  3. Andriy Lyubovetskiy – $68.900
  4. Sami Kelopuro – $47,700
  5. Eelis Pässinen – $37,100
  6. Veselin Karakitukov – $28,649

Event #4: $5,000 PLO

63-entrants

Results

  1. Bengt Sonnert – $108,961
  2. Andrew Pantling – $70,875
  3. Jonathan Depa – $37,800
  4. Andreas Torbergsen – $28,350
  5. Marcello Marigliano – $20,475
  6. Noah Boeken – $14,175
  7. Aku Joentausta – $11,455
  8. Ferenc Deak – $11,455
  9. Pedro Zagalo – $11,455

Event #5: $25,000 PLO

44-entrants

Results

  1. Eelis Parssinen – $440,000
  2. Gavin Cochrane – $281,540
  3. Andrew Pantling – $143,000
  4. Aku Joentausta – $99,000
  5. Jake Schindler – $77,000
  6. James Greenwood – $59,460

Event #6: $10,000 PLO

49-entrants

Results

  1. Jesper Hougaard – $183,621
  2. Pedro Zagalo – $144,352
  3. Jonathan Depa – $65,000
  4. Joni Jouhkimainen – $45,000
  5. Andriy Lyubovetskiy – $35,000
  6. Maxime Lemay – $27,028

Event #7: $10,000 PLO

Results

  1. Jens Kyllonen – $200,000
  2. Eelis Parssinen – $127,973
  3. Aku Joentausta – $65,000
  4. Roberto Romanello – $45,000
  5. Laszlo Bujtas – $35,000
  6. Andreas Torbergsen – $27,028

Event #8: $5,000 PLO

63-entrants

Results

  1. Bengt Sonnert – $104,000
  2. Sampo Ryynanen – $66,546
  3. Eelis Parssinen – $33,800
  4. Joni Jouhkimainen – $23,400
  5. Gavin Cochrane – $18,200
  6. Ferenc Deak – $14,054

Poker Masters Leaderboard

  1. Eelis Parssinen – 480 pts, $638,873 in earnings, and 4 cashes
  2. Jens Kyllonen – 412 pts, $412,000 in earnings, and 2 cashes
  3. Gavin Cochrane – 384 pts, $478,953 in earnings, and 4 cashes
  4. Bengt Sonnert – 366 pts, $259,761 in earnings, and 3 cashes
  5. Marcello Marigliano – 280 pts, $269,529 in earnings, and 2 cashes

Hedonism is whatever turns you on, and for some, that’s the hardscrabble grind of online poker multi-table tournaments (MTTs) – the very form of indulgence that Alex Foxen enjoys.

The man many would vote as the hardest working high stakes online MTT grinder in the biz spent Thursday night creating a heatwave in the High Roller Club on partypoker.

Foxen licked the 42-entrant field in the $10,300, $400k High Roller Main Event for $159,600. The triumph is Foxen’s third High Roller Club title of the week, after winning two on Tuesday night. Foxen also made the final table of the $5k (3rd) and the $530 (5th) concluding a fantastic evening.

Viktor Blom was the last man seated in Foxen’s $10k win. The Swede also made the final table of the $5k (6th) to continue his resurgence in high stakes online MTTs, and his compatriot and former PocketFives World #1 Nikas Astedt also featured in two final tables, finishing 6th in the $10k and 3rd in the $1k.

Winners on the night include Sam Greenwood taking down the 40-entrant $5k for $80,000, Ivan Gabrieli winning the 47-entrant $1k for $16,614.21, and Andrey Kotelnikov for outlasting the 51-entrant field in the $530 for – $8,345.06.

Here are the results in full.

$10,300, $400k Main Event

42-entrants

Results

  1. Alex Foxen – $159,600
  2. Viktor Blom – $105,000
  3. Alexandros Kolonias – $67,200
  4. Wiktor Malinowski – $37,800
  5. Mike Watson – $29,400
  6. Niklas Astedt – $21,000

$5,200, $150k 6-Max Second Chance

40-entrants

Results

  1. Sam Greenwood – $80,000
  2. Sami Kelopuro – $51,189
  3. Alex Foxen – $26,000
  4. Isaac Haxton – $18,000
  5. Eelis Parssinen – $14,000
  6. Viktor Blom – $10,811

$1,050, $50k Mix-Max

47-entrants

Results

  1. Ivan Gabrieli – $8,687.50+$7,926.71
  2. Andrejs Litvinenko – $1,312.50+$7,921.39
  3. Niklas Astedt – $656.25+$4,024.79
  4. Kristen Bicknell – $1,718.75+$2,786.39
  5. Preben Stokken – $2,437.50+$2,167.19
  6. Roberto Romanello – $250+$1,673.53

$530, $25k Mix-Max Turbo

51-entrants

Results

  1. Andrey Kotelnikov – $4,531.25+$3,813.81
  2. Boris Kolev – $2,656.25+$3,811.23
  3. Oleg Vasylchenko – $250+$1,936.45
  4. Valentino Sibilla – $750+$1,340.62
  5. Alex Foxen – $875+$1,042.70
  6. Alex Reard – $125+$805.19
Timothy Adams

It’s time for another 586-words of carefully choreographed syntax designed to provide you with the results of high stakes online multi-table tournament (MTT) action from the land of GGPoker.

What follows is the primary results of the weekend and the first few days of a week that has seen the world wince and whine.

The most significant prize that flew down the electronic wires of the Internet went to Robert Lipkin. The American collected $118,495.05 after getting the better of 100-entrants in the High Rollers Blade Prime $5k.

There were three other members of the six-figure club.

Chris Brewer collected $101,365.01 after beating Jake Schindler, heads-up, in the 20-entrant Bryns High Rollers $10k, ‘AAAKid’ banked $116,403.84 after subjugating the 107-entrant field in the High Rollers Blade Mulligan $5k, and ‘BrynkenneyAA’ earned $116,904.27 and a watch for capturing the flag in the 108-entrant Asian Poker Tour (APT) Super High Roller $5k.

The PocketFives World #1, Conor’ 1_conor_b_1’ Beresford took second to ‘AAAKid’ for $87,648.57, Ali Imsirovic won the 4-entrant Bryns High Rollers $25k for double his money, and Timothy Adams clobbered the 54-entrant High Rollers Blade Opener $5k for $79,845.95. The Canadian, Ami Barer, won the 50-entrant High Rollers Blade Closer $5k for $95,537.39, Artur Martirosian bested the 37-entrant field in the High Roller Blade $5k for $74,972.12, and the South American star, Farid Jattin, drubbed the 49-entrant field in the High Rollers Blade PLO $5k for $88,945.32.

Here are those results in full.

Bryns High Rollers $25k

4-entrants

Results

  1. Ali Imsirovic – $98,000

Bryns High Rollers $10k

20-entrants

Results

  1. Chris Brewer – $101,365.01
  2. Jake Schindler – $61,317.65
  3. Ali Imsirovic – $31,317.34

High Rollers Blade Prime $5k

100-entrants

Results

  1. Robert Lipkin – $118,495.05
  2. Cliffboth – $89,739.45
  3. Darren Elias – $67,962.05
  4. IAmZeCaptainNow – $51,469.45
  5. Pascal Lefrancois – $38,979.15
  6. Laurynas Levinskas – $29,519.95
  7. Preben Stokkan – $22,356.20
  8. Conor Beresford – $16,930.95

High Rollers Blade Opener $5k

54-entrants

Results

  1. Timothy Adams – $79,845.95*
  2. Sam Greenwood – $63,322.03*
  3. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $39,204.04
  4. Jake Schindler – $28,301.31
  5. Preben Stokkan – $20,430.66
  6. Isaac Haxton – $14,748.85
  7. Alex Foxen – $10,647.16

*Indicates a deal

APT Super High Roller $5k

108-entrants

Results

  1. BrynkenneyAA – $116,904.27
  2. Beishadezhu2 – $88,025.38
  3. Sam Greenwood – $66,280.49
  4. Daniel Dvoress – $49,907.22
  5. HansNeverLose – $37,578.63
  6. CowBaby – $28,295.55
  7. Ali Imsirovic – $21,305.71
  8. Mike Watson – $16,042.56

High Rollers Blade Mulligan $5k

21-entrants

Results

  1. David Misikowski – $52,250
  2. Jake Schindler – $31,607.04
  3. Chris Brewer – $16,142.96

High Roller Blade $5k

37-entrants

Results

  1. Artur Martirosian – $74,972.12
  2. Steve O’Dwyer – $44,297.40
  3. Rubbherducky – $27,882.73
  4. Preben Stokkan – $17,550.62
  5. TheProfessional – $11,047.13

High Rollers Blade Closer $5k

50-entrants

Results

  1. Ami Barer – $95,537.39
  2. Gr4vyB04t – $58,745
  3. David Misickowski – $39,457.47
  4. Rebuyguy – $26,502.55
  5. Michael Addamo – $17,801.07
  6. Jake Schindler – $11,956.52

High Rollers Blade PLO $5k

49-entrants

Results

  1. Farid Jattin – $88,945.32
  2. Andrew Pantling – $54,691.59
  3. Ami Barer – $36,734.90
  4. Andjelko Andrejevic – $24,673.87
  5. Sean Winter – $16,572.80
  6. George Wolff – $11,131.52

High Rollers Blade Mulligan $5k

107-entrants

Results

  1. AAAKid – $116,403.84
  2. Conor Beresford – $87,648.57
  3. Dario Sammartino – $65,996.77
  4. Ami Barer – $49,693.58
  5. Nick Schulman – $37,417.77
  6. Alex Foxen – $28,174.43
  7. Jellopy77 – $21,214.50
  8. Oiltrader – $15,973.89

As if the high stakes world didn’t have enough options on their smorgasbord of multi-table tournament (MTT) action Poker Central and partypoker cut the ribbon on the Poker Masters Pot-Limit Omaha Series on Sunday.

God’s day of rest saw 426-entrants hold amiable and crude conversations in the chat boxes of four shuttered virtual rooms, and there were a few names worthy of mention.

The biggest single purse went to Marcello Marigliano, who won the 72-entrant Event #1: $10,300 for $249,053.76. Gavin Cochrane finished runner-up in that one, and Cochrane also finished sixth in the $5k event. Norbert Szecsi also featured in two final tables, finishing third in both. Not to be outdone, Bengt Sonnert finished runner-up in two, losing out to Erik Dahlberg in the $1k, and Boris Angelov in the $530.

There was also a win for the former PocketFives World #1 Andras Nemeth. The Hungarian conquered a field of 81-entrants to win the $126,686.43 first prize in the $5k, beating the in-form, Viktor Blom, heads-up, for the title.

Here are the results in full.

Event #1: $10,300, $500k GTD

72-entrants

Results

  1. Marcello Marigliano – $249,053.76
  2. Gavin Cochrane – $162,000
  3. Norbert Szecsi – $86,400
  4. Mark Demirjian – $64,800
  5. Jesper Hougaard – $46,800
  6. Lasse Neilsen – $32,400
  7. Niklas Astedt – $26,182.08
  8. Niko Soininen – $26,182.08

Event #1: $1,050 $50k GTD Mini

124-entrants

Results

  1. Erik Dahlberg – $31,236.38
  2. Bengt Sonnert – $21,080
  3. Norbert Szecsi – $14,880
  4. Benjamin Voreland – $10,540
  5. Robert Woodcock – $7,750
  6. Federico Quevedo – $5,146
  7. Noah Boeken – $3,906
  8. Andrew Pantling – $3,906

Event #2: $5,200, $250k GTD

81-entrants

Results

  1. Andras Nemeth – $126,686.43
  2. Viktor Blom – $78,975
  3. Alexander Norden – $48,600
  4. Aku Joentausta – $35,437.50
  5. Jake Schindler – $25,312.50
  6. Gavin Cochrane – $17,212.50
  7. Isaac Haxton – $13,162.50
  8. Niko Soininen – $13,162.50

Event #2: $530, $25k GTD Mini Knockout

149-entrants

Results

  1. Boris Angelov – $10,324.24+$7,135.47
  2. Bengt Sonnert – $3,011.71+$7,127.95
  3. Daniel Westerholm – $1,929.68+$5,034.12
  4. Jeanfrancois Talbot – $1,421.87+$3,565.84
  5. Riku Santeri Piroinen – $2,312.50+$2,621.94
  6. Olli Ikonen – $125+$1,740.96
  7. Pedro Zagalo – $656.25+$1,173.37
  8. Shyngis Satubayev – $593.75+$1,173.37

As the world widens their aperture in post lockdown world, online poker players stay firmly seated with butts in chairs courtesy of some of the best high stakes action the industry has ever seen. Given the recent rise in coronavirus cases in Las Vegas casinos since the decision to reopen the pits, I guess that’s a good thing.

While weekend warriors dodged COVID bullets in nightclubs, churches and casinos alike, Michael Addamo took the High Roller Club apart like a seasoned plumber with a wrench and a leaky faucet.

The awesome Australian, hailing from Old Blighty, binked victories in Sunday’s two highest buy-ins in the High Roller Club collecting more than $600,000 in loot, and moving up to #11 in the leaderboard proper.

The man standing ten rungs of the ladder higher than Addamo is Rok Gostisa. The Slovenian finished in the money (ITM) in two of Sunday’s events to surpass Luke Reeves at the top. The British star managed to eke into one final table, finishing fifth in the Warm-Up, slipping into second place.

Timothy Adams, Juan Pardo Dominguez, and Pascal Lefrancois all replicating Gostisa with two final appearances on Sunday. Adams sits fourth in the overall leaderboard with Lefrancois, seventh.

Here are Sunday’s results.

$25,500 Main Event

39-entrants

Results

  1. Michael Addamo – $407,500
  2. Rok Gostisa – $265,000
  3. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $100,000
  4. Timothy Adams – $62,500

$10,300 Mix-Max 2nd Chance

51-entrants

Results

  1. Michael Addamo – $204,000
  2. Sergi Reixach – $130,531.95
  3. Vyacheslav Buldygin – $66,300
  4. Timothy Adams – $45,900
  5. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $35,700
  6. Pascal Lefrancois – $27,568.05

$5,200 The Big Game

221-entrants

Results

  1. Jon Van Fleet – $211,552.46
  2. Bujtas Laszlo – $153,554.44
  3. Kristen Bicknell – $109,459.41
  4. Jans Arends – $80,927.34
  5. Sami Kelopuro – $57,064.15
  6. Pascal Lefrancois – $43,576.26
  7. Mark Radoja – $32,163.43
  8. Eelis Parssinen – $23,863.19

$1,050 Knockout

101-entrants

  1. Istvan Habencius – $17,289.07+$12,372.50
  2. Alexandros Theologis – $5,867.19 + $8,837.50
  3. Iurii Pasiuk – $3,234.37+$6,312.50
  4. Claas Segebrecht – $1,375+$4,418.75
  5. Sergi Denisov – $500+$3,282.50
  6. Andras Nemeth – $2,171.87+$2,525
  7. Chris Hunt – $750+$2,020
  8. Niklas Astedt – $1,781.25+$1,641.25

$1,050 Warm-Up

99-entrants

Results

  1. Sergey Konovalov – $24,500
  2. Mikitak Badziakouski – $17,500
  3. Ioannis Angelou-Konstas – $12,500
  4. Aleksejs Ponakovs – $8,750
  5. Luke Reeves – $6,500
  6. Barry Hutter – $5,000
  7. Christian Rudolph – $4,000
  8. Rok Gostisa – $3,250

High Roller Leaderboard

  1. Rok Gostisa – 940
  2. Luke Reeves – 899
  3. Thomas Muehloecker – 725
  4. Timothy Adams – 715
  5. Teun Mulder – 684
  6. Matthias Eibinger – 660
  7. Pascal Lefrancois – 617
  8. Artur Martirosian – 613
  9. Wiktor Malinowski – 601
  10. Preben Stokkan – 555

The enrollment in GGPoker’s high stakes multi-table tournaments (MTTs) has been more fish paste sandwich than full-on New York Deli, but for the sake of uniformity here are the results.

The form seems to be this: when an MTT becomes a short-handed Sit n Go, Jake Schindler wins it. The American-pro featured in the money (ITM) in three of the five $5k+ events spread over the last three days, winning the two smallest.

Schindler took down two 5-entrant Bryn’s High Rollers $5k events, beating Alex Foxen in one and Chris Brewer in the other as well as finishing 4/52 in the High Rollers Blade Prime $5k.

Juan Pardo Dominguez finished ITM in two events, including winning the highest buy-in of the lot in another short-handed scramble. The Spaniard took down the 6-entrant Bryn’s High Rollers $10k, defeating that man Jake Schindler, heads-up. Dominguez also finished 3/23 in the High Roller Blade Mulligan $5k, an event that ‘dnegking’ won for $57,083.13.

Preben Stokkan is the man who walked away from GGPoker with the biggest prize of the past three days. The Norwegian star conquered a 52-entrant field to win the High Rollers Blade Prime $5k. Stokkan beat Timother Nuter, heads-up, to claim the $94,390.95 first prize.

Here are the results in full.

Bryn’s High Rollers $5k

5-entrants

Results

  1. Jake Schindler – $23,750

High Roller Blade Mulligan $5k

23-entrants

Results

  1. Dnegking – $57,083.13
  2. Sergi Reixach – $34,530.69
  3. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $17,636.18

Bryn’s High Rollers $10k

6-entrants

Results

  1. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $58,200

High Rollers Blade Prime $5k

52-entrants

Results

  1. Preben Stokkan – $94,390.95
  2. Timother Nuter – $58,040.06
  3. Chris Brewer – $38,983.98
  4. Jake Schindler – $26,184.51
  5. George Wolff – $17,587.46
  6. Ali Imsirovic – $11,813.04

Bryn’s High Rollers $5k

5-entrants

Results

  1. Jake Schindler – $23,750

The kaleidoscope of high stakes poker continues unabated on partypoker with the High Roller Club. The flunky free home of those seeking fame, fortunate and flow saw Luke Reeves replace Thomas Muehloecker at the top of the leaderboard after six events on Tuesday night.

Reeves finished in the money (ITM) in 50% of the night’s events, winning two of them. The UK star was a revelation in the 60-entrant $1,050 High Roller Mix-Max, beating Atanas Malinov to secure the $20,754.48 first prize. Reeves then went on to win the 39-entrant $2,600 High Roller Club Mix-Max, defeating George Wolff, heads-up for $39,000.01.

Chad Eveslage also bagged a brace. The man from Indiana crushed the 99-entrant field in the $530 High Roller 6-Max Bounty Hunter for $11,923.93, before besting a field of 44-entrants in the $2,100 High Roller Club 6-Max Knockout for $40,157.02.

Other winners on the night include Teun Muelder who won the $5,200 High Roller Club Main Event, overthrowing 51-entrants including Sam Greenwood, heads-up, to claim the $90,525 first prize. Jans Arends won the $1,050 High Roller Club 6-Max Turbo Knockout, circumventing 44 landmines to collect $16,391.03.

Matthias Eibinger led the close but no cigar brigade with three ITM finishes. Andras Nemeth, Kristen Bicknell, Mark Davis and the Arends as mentioned above, earned two.

Here is the leaderboard.

The action continues until 16 July.

Tuesday Night Results

$5,200 High Roller Club Main Event

51-entrants

Results

  1. Teun Mulder – $90,525
  2. Sam Greenwood – $60,562.50
  3. Rok Gostica – $38,887.50
  4. Matthias Eibinger – $24,862.50
  5. Mark Davis – $16,575
  6. Jon Van Fleet – $12,750
  7. Ludovic Geilich – $10,837.50

$1,050 High Roller Mix-Max

60-entrants

Results

  1. Luke Reeves – $20,754.48
  2. Atanas Malinov – $13,500
  3. Preben Stokkan – $7,200
  4. Matthias Eibinger – $5,400
  5. Aleksejs Ponakovs – $3,900
  6. Andras Nemeth – $2,700
  7. Pim Gieles – $2,181.84
  8. Stefan Huber – $2,181.84

$530 High Roller 6-Max Bounty Hunter

99-entrants

Results

  1. Chad Eveslage – $6,171.89+$5,752.04
  2. Tomas Paiva – $2,132.981+$5,746.91
  3. Alex Reard – $2,289.06+$3,538.11
  4. Matthias Eibinger – $1,640.62+$2,579.87
  5. Nikita Kupchin – $1,703.12+$1,842.76
  6. Ricardo Arraino – $500+$1,253.08
  7. Thomas Muehloecker – $2,281.25+$820,62
  8. Alexandr Razinkov – $125+$820.62

$2,100 High Roller Club 6-Max Knockout

44-entrants

Results

  1. Chad Evelsage – $23,406.25+$16,750.77
  2. Giuseppe Iadisernia – $500+$16,739.54
  3. Pascal Hartmann – $5,625+$8,805.21
  4. Kristen Bicknell – $500+$5,888.22
  5. Artur Martirosian – $3,250+$4,579.73
  6. Max Diender – $2,031.25+$3,536.53

$2,600 High Roller Club Mix-Max

39-entrants

Results

  1. Luke Reeves – $39,000.01
  2. George Wolff – $24,954.63
  3. Mark Davis – $12,675
  4. Andras Nemeth – $8,775
  5. Kristen Bicknell – $6,825
  6. Jans Arends – $5,270.36

$1,050 High Roller Club 6-Max Turbo Knockout

44-entrants

Results

  1. Jans Arends – $8,015.63+$8,375.40
  2. Aleksejs Ponakovs – $1,250+$8,369.77
  3. Roberto Romanello – $3,015.62+$4,252.60
  4. Alex Foxen – $2,906.25+$2,944.11
  5. Luke Reeves – $625+$2,289.86
  6. Emrah Yildiz – $1,768.25

High Roller Leaderboard

  1. Luke Reeves – 811 points
  2. Thomas Muehloecker – 725
  3. Matthias Eibinger – 660
  4. Rok Gostica – 601
  5. Wiktor Malinowski – 541
  6. Giuseppe Iadisernia – 494
  7. Artur Martirosian – 483
  8. George Wolff – 473
  9. Teun Mulder – 459
  10. Preben Stokkan – 449
Isaac Haxton

Isaac Haxton ravaged the High Roller Club games on partypoker on Sunday. The partypoker ambassador made two final tables, winning the biggest one of the lot and bubbling the Mix-Max.

Haxton took down the 46-entrant, $25,500 High Roller Club Main Event beating Sergi Reixach, heads-up, to win the first prize of $437,000, before finishing 7/229 in the $5,200 Big Game.

Wiktor Malinowski, Viktor Blom and Sergi Reixach also made two final tables in the three events. Malinowski finished fourth in the $25k, and eighth in the Big Game; Blom finished sixth in the $25k and seventh in the $10k Mix-Max; Reixach added an eighth-place finish in the Mix-Max to the runner-up finish in the $25k.

Haxton wasn’t the only partypoker pro heralded in the poker news columns this week. Patrick’ pleno1′ Leonard excelled in May leading PocketFives to award him with the monthly PLB title.

Amongst Leonard’s highlights were two Spring Championships of Online Poker (SCOOP) titles, and a runner-up in GGPoker’s massive $25k event during the World Series of Poker Super Circuit. The WSOPC win earned him a whopping $1.6m to sail past the $11m mark in all-time online multi-table tournament (MTT) earnings.

It’s Leonard’s first PLB title since October 2014, and he currently sits third in the PocketFives World Rankings.

Here are the High Roller Club Results for Sunday.

High Roller Club: $25,500 Main Event

46-entrants

Results

  1. Isaac Haxton – $437,000
  2. Sergi Reixach – $287,500
  3. Pascal Lefrancois – $184,000
  4. Wiktor Malinowski – $103,500
  5. George Wolff – $80,500
  6. Viktor Blom – $57,500

High Roller Club: $5,200 The Big Game

229-entrants

Results

  1. Pablo Brito Silva – $216,635.69
  2. Andrew Pantling – $157,244.08
  3. Nick Schulman – $112,089.53
  4. Chad Eveslage – $82,871.88
  5. Dzmitry Urbanovich – $58,435.30
  6. Mark Davis – $44,623.32
  7. Isaac Haxton – $32,936.26
  8. Wiktor Malinowski – $24,436.58

High Roller Club: $10,300 Mix-Max Second Chance

65-entrants

Results

  1. Thomas Muehloecker – $224,840.20
  2. Mikita Badziakouski – $146.250
  3. Dan Shak – $78,000
  4. Christoph Vogelsang – $58,500
  5. Daniel Dvoress – $42,250
  6. Dario Sammartino – $29,250
  7. Viktor Blom – $23,636.60
  8. Sergi Reixach – $23,636.60

When it comes to the World Series of Poker (WSOP), Daniel Negreanu is the Lord of the Manor, forcing everyone else into servitude. 

Since his first in the money finish (ITM) in 1998 (winning a $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em title) Negreanu has gone on to win five more bracelets (including events in Australia, France and Las Vegas). He has also finished ITM on 133 occasions and is the only player to win the WSOP Player of the Year accolade twice.

So when ‘Kid Poker’ offers bracelet bets, you had better have a profound moment of serenity before getting involved. 

A couple of days ago, Negreanu shook up the poker world like a 12-bore shotgun sticking its barrel into a bouquet of pheasants, offering two big money bracelet bets. 

The first is a 2.5 to 1 bet that Negreanu will win a 2020 bracelet. On June 8, the WSOP revealed plans to schedule 31 bracelet events on WSOP.com, and a further 54 with their online partner GGPoker (of whom Negreanu represents). 

Here is the tweet.

Negreanu plans to compete in every WSOP.com event from his pad in Las Vegas, before jetting off to Mexico to compete in the GGPoker events. 

There is a $1m ceiling on that bet, and during a phone call with Negreanu, this morning, he told me that there are very few takers on that bet, as it stands. 

Should the WSOP reschedule the WSOP live event in the Fall or Winter, and surprise us all with an impromptu World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) or World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific (WSOP-APAC), those both count towards the bet. 

The Wizard Bet

In the other bet, Negreanu is willing to take on anyone in a “versus Negreanu” style bracelet race. 

Here is the tweet.

There is a $100k ceiling per player, and at the time of writing Negreanu confirms that both Ali Imsirovic and Connor Drinan have taken up that offer. 

Both Imsirovic and Drinan are online beasts, so Negreanu has his hands full. Imsirovic is a reg in the high stakes tournaments on GGPoker, and Drinan became a record-breaker after winning five titles during the 2020 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). Negreanu also confirmed to me that ‘many others’ are interested in backing both Imsirovic and Drinan in the bet against Negreanu. 

Another player who has expressed an interest in taking on Negreanu is Laurynas Levinskas. Negreanu confirmed that he’s received a lot of interest in GGPoker or WSOP.com only action, and will consider changing the rules of the agreement to meet demand, but hasn’t made a decision, yet. The other logjam in this one is the unavailability of a GGPoker schedule, so people know what games are on the menu. 

One plus for his opposition – Negreanu won’t arrive in Mexico to play in the GGPoker bracelet events until August 1, and the series starts on July 19. 

Why do this?

“It’s just fun really,” said Negreanu. “I’m a gambler at heart, and this is just an extension of that really. Figured since I’m going to do the full grind I might as well have some action on it!”

And is there anyone out there that has Negreanu quaking in his boots?

“Absolutely not. I really don’t care who comes at me for a bet!”