Tag: WPT Online Championships

There was a time each spring when Jason Mercier would lock himself in his man cave and terrorise the world of online poker. The former PokerStars Team Pro has five Spring Championships of Online Poker (SCOOP) titles to his name and won the 2015 SCOOP Player of the Year award.

These days, the 33-year-old, former Global Poker Index (GPI) World #1, spends most of his time being a husband and father. But even high stakes poker players have to pay the bills.

Over the weekend, Mercier flicked in his $10,300 in Event #46: Pot Limit Omaha High Roller, and conquered the field of 101-entrants to claim the $279,265 first prize.

It was an intense final table, combining crushers old and new with Mercier defeating Linus Loeliger, heads-up. Viktor Blom finished third, and the former PocketFives World #1, Yuri Dzivielevski, finished fourth.

Here are the results.

Results

  1. Jason Mercier – $279,265
  2. Linus Loeliger – $176,750
  3. Viktor Blom – $121,200
  4. Yuri Dzivielevski – $86,860
  5. Andras Torberg – $63,125
  6. John O’Shea – $41,915

Niklas Åstedt Wins His Second WPT Online Championship Title

He may not be the PocketFives World #1, right now, but how long that remains fact is under severe scrutiny.

As Conor ‘1_conor_b_1’ Beresford replaced Niklas ‘lena900’ Åstedt at the top of the online multi-table tournament (MTT) world rankings, the Swedish star rebounded by collecting his second triumph of the WPT Online Championship series.

Åstedt defeated a field of 320-entrants in Event #49: Mini: $215 PLO Knockout Six-Max, including the talented Javier Zarco, heads-up, for the top prize of $5,282.98 and $6,219.54 in bounties.

The Swede’s previous WPT Online Championships title came in Event #15: $1,050 Weekender beating 125-entrants to the $174,751.50 purse.

Here are the results of his most latest win.

Results

  1. Niklas Astedt – $5,282.98 + $6,219.54 in bounties
  2. Javier Zarco – $5,276.32 + $3,032.03 in bounties
  3. Tomas Geleziunas – $3,808.18 + $1,545.31 in bounties
  4. Danil Karavaev – $2,769.58 + $1,656.25 in bounties
  5. Andres Ojeda – $1,904.09 + $1,034.37 in bounties
  6. Li Zhang – $1,384.79 + $1,131.25 in bounties

Pablo Brita Silva on the Podium Again

How long will it be before we see Pablo Brito Silva taking a frequent seat in the highest stakes games in the world?

I don’t know if he’s been practising transcendental meditation, eating more Brussel sprouts or running a marathon a day, but whatever it is, it’s working.

Silva is having an incredible year.

In February he won the MILLIONS South America Main Event for $1m. He then won the inaugural Irish Open Online for $504,777 before coming second in the SCOOP Main Event [H] for $764,941.51.

Now he has a WPT Online Championships title to his name,

Silva vanquished 170-entrants in Event #50: $530 6-Max Turbo, and will hope that Ikea has a decent social distancing policy as he ventures in to find a bigger trophy cabinet.

Here are the results.

Results

  1. Pablo Brito Silva – $21,170.64
  2. Martin Gaudreault Remillard – $13,600
  3. Fabio Sperling – $9,562.50
  4. Ankush Mandavia – $6,927.50
  5. Arnaud Enselme – $5,100
  6. Linus Thor – $3,400

In 2016, after winning his second World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) title, Christian ‘Eisenhower1’ Jeppsson gave a phone interview to PokerStars’ Lina Olofsson, where she asked him, “what will you do, ten years from now?”

“Hopefully, I have a family and play poker on a more recreational level. I hope I can stay healthy and enjoy life. Maybe play some golf on a daily basis.”

After winning the $3,200 World Poker Tour (WPT) Online Championships for $923,785.80, that goal starts to look as realistic as it ever has.

The Gothenburg star went into the final table with the chip lead and booked the win after agreeing upon a heads-up deal with Victor Ustimov. With the money side of things pinned down, the pair played on for an additional $10,000 and the title, which Jeppsson won.

The WPT announced in their press release that the 2,122 entrant field is the most substantial in WPT Main Event history, and you assume from that statement that online events will remain a fixture on the WPT calendar. Jeppsson wins a $15,000 seat in the Tournament of Champions, and who knows, if mother nature keeps swinging, he may play that from the sanctity of his home.

I would love to compare this prize with Jeppsson’s other garlands, but he’s a ghost on PocketFives where he once conquered the world for 15-weeks straight in 2015/16. At that time, Jeppsson had accumulated close to $9m in online earnings, making him one of the most successful proponents of this art form in history.

“You feel like you won something more, like a sporting event,” Jeppson told WPT officials after the win. “You have so much adrenaline pumping, and then you won.” That feeling, I can feel. {The money} it’s so hard to take in.”

Get those clubs out, Jeppsson.

Results

  1. Christian Jeppsson – $923,785.80*
  2. Viktor Ustimov – $865.542*
  3. Jukka Koskela – $477,333
  4. Nikolay Ponomarev – $317,583
  5. Alexander Stuart Clark – $221,733
  6. Pascal Hartmann – $151,443
  7. Sam Greenwood – $103,837.50
  8. Pascal Teekens – $66,775.50

*Agreed upon a heads-up deal

In Other WPT News

David Peters defeated David Gent, heads-up, to win Event #43: $10,300 High Roller. The event attracted 101-entrants, and Peters claimed $247,450 for the win. Andras Nemeth finished third.

The former PocketFives World #1, Chris Oliver, topped a 297-entrant field in Event #45: $530 Six-Max Turbo Bounty for $12,505.38 + $15,369.20 in bounties.

The series now moves into WPTDeepStack territory, before ending on May 31.

Dan Smith
Double Up Dan Smith

The first World Poker Tour (WPT) Online Championships won’t be the only WPT Online Championships.

As the hive of activity starts to abate, and the tumbleweed begins to roll in from the empty rails, it’s time to rate and review. Looking through Twitter, there are more thumbs up than thumbs down. In short, it’s been a sublime series for everyone, lest those who did their bollocks.

Before the main entree takes a bow to make way for the WPTDeepStacks portion of the festival, we have three events to cover, including the Main Event.

We begin with the final $25,000 No Limit Hold’em High Roller of the series. 91-entrants shifted tectonic plates in this one, and Dan Smith defeated Daniel Dvoress, heads-up, to claim the $555,503.38 first prize after the pair cut a deal. Dvoress banked $456,871.63.

Results

  1. Dan Smith – $555,503.38*
  2. Daniel Dvoress – $456,871.63*
  3. Lucas Reeves – $295,750
  4. Rob Lipkin – $204,750
  5. John O’ Shea – $159,250
  6. Elias Talvitie – $113,750

*Subject to a heads-up deal

The Best of the Rest

High rollers, Andras Nemeth and Luc Greenwood, made the final table of Event #41: $3,200 Second Chance Turbo. The event saw 110-entrants tackle a $330,000 prizepool, and the UK’s Philip Mighall collected the $80,850 first prize. The former PocketFives World #1, Nemeth, finished runner-up, and Greenwood finished in the third place.

Results

  1. Phillip Mighall – $80,850
  2. Andras Nemeth – $57,750
  3. Luc Greenwood – $41,250
  4. David Gradic – $28,875
  5. Igor Yaroshevskyy – $21,450
  6. Stewart Kirby – $16,500

While we shouldn’t sniff at Luc Greenwood’s $41,250 prize, it pales into comparison to the amount of moolah that his brother Sam is hoping to collect by the time the lifeguard leaves her Wednesday 20 May shift by the pool.

Sam Greenwood is once again proving that he is one of the most incredibly talented No Limit Hold’em players in the game, sitting in second place from a field of 2,130 entrants as the $3,500 WPT Online Championships enters its final day.

Eight remain in contention for the $1,048,088 first prize, and leading the way is the Swedish online poker icon Christian ‘eisenhower1” Jeppsson. The former PocketFives World #1 starts with a slender lead, and it will be a titanic tussle if those two end up at the end zone.

High rollers who ran deep include Martin Jacobson, Max Silver, and Orpen Kisacikoglu.

Here are the chip counts and payouts.

Chip Counts

  1. Christian Jeppsson – 17,573,926
  2. Sam Greenwood – 16,087,766
  3. Pascal Hartmann – 14,884,499
  4. Alexander Stuart Clark – 14,407,969
  5. Viktor Ustimov – 9,138,972
  6. Jukka Koskela – 5,700,975
  7. Nikolay Ponomarev – 5,132,492
  8. Pascal Teekens – 2,215,627

Done.Got this.Got this, thanks!

Elio Fox

The barometric pressure inside the bedrooms of the world’s most incredible poker players continues to increase thanks to PokerStars, GGPoker and partypoker.

All three are running online tournament series with millions up for grabs. For this short round-up, the thermometer goes up the bum of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Online Championships courtesy of partypoker.

Elio Fox repelled 87-entrants on his way to a $565,500 purse in Event #32: $25,500 Super High Roller. The win was the second most substantial of the series behind Charlie Carrel’s $600,250 windfall in a similar event last week.

The former World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event winner, spends most of his time grinding on GGPoker’s skin Natural8, winning ten six-figure scores in the past 12-months, including $449,407.83 after taking down a 48-entrant $25,000 in October on the GGNetwork.

Juan Pardo Dominguez went into the final day with the chip lead, only for Fox to defeat the Spaniard during heads-up, for the title, and $150,000 difference in prize money.

Results

  1. Elio Fox – $565,500
  2. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $402,375
  3. Pauli Ayras – $282,750
  4. Samuel Vousden – $195,750
  5. Mark Davis – $152,250
  6. Timothy Adams – $108,750
  7. Christopher Hunichen – $87,000
  8. Andrii Novak – $76,125

Giuseppe Iadisernia Wins Event #26: $2,650 No Limit Hold’em Bounty Builder

The Venezuelan high stakes star, Giuseppe Iadisernia, bagged himself a title by winning Event #26: $2,650 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty Builder. The man who won the 54-entrant $50,000 No Limit Hold’em Super High Roller at the 2018 partypoker Caribbean Poker Party in the Bahamas for $845,000 topped a field of 280-entrants in this one.

Results

  1. Giuseppe Iadisernia – $69,650 + $66,230.51 in bounties
  2. Kasparas Klezys – $50,400 + $28,378.90 in bounties
  3. William Arruda – $35,350 + $5,351.56 in bounties
  4. Phillip Mighall – $25,725 + $12,140.62 in bounties
  5. Shyngis Satubayev – $18,200 + $8,867.19 in bounties
  6. Chad Eveslage – $13,650 + $6,796.87 in bounties
  7. Enrico Camosci – $9,625 + $10,000 in bounties
  8. Pedro Garagnani – $7,000 + $10,195.31 in bounties

Nortbert Szecsi Wins Event #27: $5,200 No Limit Hold’em High Roller

Norbert Szecsi made monkeys out of the 202-entrant field in Event #27: $5,200 No Limit Hold’em High Roller.

The two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner showed that he could be a prickly cactus in the online world as well as the live realm.

Alongside Szecsi’s double bracelet wins include a personal best score of $731,716 for finishing runner-up to Max Silver in a €10,300 No Limit Hold’em High Roller at the 2018 European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona.

In November, Szecsi won the $10,300 No Limit Hold’em MILLIONS High Roller Finale at the Bahamas for $400,000, before finishing runner-up to Mikalai Pobal in December’s €5,300 EPT Prague Main Event, earning $664,617.

Results

  1. Norbert Szecsi – $194,656.20
  2. Laszlo Bujtas – $160,762.81
  3. Artur Martirosian – $106,555
  4. Vicent Bosca Ramon – $78,780
  5. Nick Petrangelo – $55,550
  6. Alexander Ivarsson – $42,420
  7. Rob Lipkin – $31,310
  8. Jans Arends – $23,230

Wiktor Malinowski Wins Event #29: $10,300 High Roller

Wiktor ‘limitless’ Malinowski continued his rise from online freerolls to the biggest stakes games in the world with a win in Event #29: $10,300 High Roller.

Malinowski only became a professional poker player in 2016. Still, he’s more than made up for it, competing, and winning, regularly in the high stakes online cash games, before adding live and online multi-table tournaments (MTTs) to his repertoire.

The Pole topped a field of 115-entrants to win the $281,750 first prize.

Results

  1. Wiktor Malinowski – $281,750
  2. Nick Petrangelo – $201,250
  3. Pascal Lefrancois – $143,750
  4. Samuel Vousden – $100,625
  5. Elias Talvitie – $74,750
  6. Giuseppe Iadisernia – $57,500
  7. Artur Martirosian – $46,000
  8. Benjamin Rolle – $37,375

Tuesday night, and for once, No-Limit Hold’em jumped into the sidecar, leaving Pot-Limit Omaha to drive that Cadillac that Doyle Brunson bangs on about.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) Online Championships continued on partypoker, and Andrew Pantling ended the night as the biggest winner, defeating the 120-entrant field to bank $302,287.20 in Event #22: $10,300 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller.

The last time the poker world caught a sniff of Pantling was at the Triton Million in London during the Summer of 2019, a long time before bats and pangolins conspired to lock us in our homes.

There was no howling to the moon on that night despite eliminating Rick Salomon to take the early chip lead. Pantling eventually drowned, but there was no need for the life raft in this one.

High stakes stars Andras Nemeth, and Jens Kyllonen joined Pantling at the top table, but neither were able to stick their spoon in the jam and figgy pudding.

Results

  1. Andrew Pantling – $302,287.20
  2. Marcello Marigliano – $204,000
  3. Andras Nemeth – $144,000
  4. Marcello Marigliano – $102,000
  5. Jens Kyllonen – $75,000
  6. Gavin Cochrane – $49,800

Farid Jattin Chops Event #23: $2,100 Pot-Limit Omaha

Colombia’s finest poker export, Farid Jattin, narrowly missed out on the title in the $2,100 Pot-Limit Omaha event. The tournament attracted 168-entrants like nerds to a science lab, and Jattin chopped the $140k left up top with Kristoffer Edberg, before losing the heads-up scuffle for the title.

Results

  1. Kristoffer Edberg – $69,086.18*
  2. Farid De Jesus Jattin Jaraba – $68,360.03*
  3. Joao Vieira – $37,800
  4. Maksim Shuts – $27,384
  5. Arvi Vainionkulma – $20,160
  6. Saku Nasman – $13,440

*Agreed upon a deal

Fabio Sperling Wins WPT500

A $50 competition is hardly a high roller, but as its one of the WPT’s flagship tournaments, you can make it an orphan.

The 4,828-entrant field reduced to four hysterically happy hunters before brokering a deal. The heaviest bag went to Fabio Sperling, who banked $281,125.93, and the title.

Results

  1. Fabio Sperling – $281,125.93*
  2. Walter Treccarich – $235,666.74*
  3. Markus Prinz – $202,012.42*
  4. Christopher Putz – $187,289.83*
  5. Philipp Dietrich – $74,785.72
  6. Harutyun Sahakyan – $50,887.12
  7. Daan Mulders – $35,799.62
  8. Giuseppe Vassallo – $23,174.40

The inaugural World Poker Tour (WPT) Online Championships in partnership with partypoker was such a hit; the organisers decided to extend the series until the end of May.

Initially pencilled in to run May 10-26, partypoker associate, Rob Yong, took to Twitter declaring the series would end on May 31. The decision allows them to move the WPTDeepStacks to after the WPT Online Championships Main Event. The shift creates space for additional satellites, and Yong has bumped the guarantee from $2m to $3m as a result.

The highlight of the WPT Online Championships is the $3,200 buy-in, $5m GTD Main Event. There is also a WPT500, and a WPTDeepStacks schedule in addition to a splatter of high rollers, and a whole range of side action from the hosts.

Here are the high roller highlights.

Charlie Carrel Wins Event #14: $25,500 Super High Roller

The most substantial buy-in of the series went the way of Charlie Carrel. The former PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Main Event Champion conquered a field of 98-entrants to capture the $600,250 first prize, his second personal-best after his $1.2m SCOOP win.

Results

  1. Charles Carrel – $600,250
  2. Ali Imsirovic – $428,750
  3. Elias Talvitie – $306,250
  4. Ivan Galinec – $214,375
  5. Arsenii Karmatckii – $159,250
  6. Wiktor Malinowski – $122,500
  7. Christopher Hunichen – $98,000
  8. Pauli Ayras – $79,625

Sam Greenwood Wins Event #11: $10,300 High Roller

Sam Greenwood bubbled the $25,500 final table, but winning Event #11: $10,300 High Roller somewhat masked that misery. Greenwood picked apart 105-entrants to claim the $257,250 first prize, and it would have felt good after finishing runner-up in two Poker Masters Online events a few weeks ago.

Results

  1. Sam Greenwood – $257,250
  2. Matthias Eibinger – $183,750
  3. Rui Ferreira – $131,250
  4. Jorma Nuutien – $91,875
  5. Alexandru Papazian – $68,250
  6. Timothy Adams – $52,500
  7. Joni Jouhkimainen – $42,000
  8. Pauli Ayras – $34,125

Ola Amundsgaard Wins Event #6: $5,200 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) High Roller

High stakes PLO fiend, Ola ‘Odds_Oddsen’ Amundsgaard conquered the 101-entrant field in the $5,200 PLO High Roller. Amundsgaard once challenged members of the Norwegian parliament to 10k hands of PLO in a $170k freeroll to prove poker is a game of skill. The Progress Party’s Eriend Wiborg took him on and quit after losing 2,666 bb through 1,056 hands.

Results

  1. Ola Amundsgaard – $117,115.59
  2. Veselin Karakitukov – $110,891.92
  3. Rui Ferreira – $60,600
  4. Matthew Wantmann – $43,430
  5. Lauri Varonen – $31,562.50
  6. Mark Demirjian – $20,957.50

Anthony Zinno Wins Event #10: $1,050 Heads-Up

Stick a WPT event on the poker calendar, and you can guarantee that Anthony Zinno is going to turn up. The man with three WPT titles to his name now has a WPT Online title after beating Ameer Jamil Wakil in the final match of a 121-entrant $1,050 Heads-Up contest.

Results

  1. Anthony Zinno – $29,040
  2. Ameer Jamil Wakil – $29,040
  3. Ivan Sakharov – $12,100
  4. Niklas Åstedt – $12,100

Rui Ferreira Wins Event #18: Mini $320 PLO

Rui Ferreira is one of Europe’s hottest talents when it comes to surfacing with the cream in these endless online poker series. The Portuguese star added another title to his impressive resume, vanquishing 376-entrants to win the $22,560.10 first prize in the Mini $320 PLO.

Results

  1. Rui Ferreira – $22,560.10
  2. Jamil Kanji – $16,694.40
  3. Pedro Zagalo – $12,126
  4. Akseli Paalanen – $8,547.98
  5. Brett Davies – $6,204
  6. Andreas Torbergsen – $4,286.40

Niklas Åstedt Wins Event #15: $1,050 Weekender

Lastly, it wouldn’t be an online poker round-up without the PocketFives World #1 climbing onto the podium.

Niklas Åstedt conquered a field of 125-entrants to claim the $174,751.50 first prize in the $1,050 Weekender event.

Results

  1. Niklas Astedt – $174,751.50
  2. Tyler Goatcher – $124,333
  3. Sonny Franco – $83,508.70
  4. Fredrik Andersson – $56,586.20
  5. Manig Loeser – $39,943.20
  6. Stefan Schillhabel – $28,782.60
  7. Jens Lakemeier – $20,559
  8. Javier Zarco – $14,293.40