The registration period has closed and the tournament has attracted 3,491 entries which means a total prize pool of $973,989 has been created. Out of the over 1,000 players who are left, 440 of them will be in the money for at least $697 while the winner will walk away with $127,660 and the WSOP Europe package.
Paulo "Pokerggbras" Goncalves raised to 1,600 from the button and "DaiteDeneg" three-bet to 6,264 from the big blind. Goncalves four-bet to 19,200 for "DaiteDeneg" to five-bet with the bigger stack. Goncalves called for the 95,838 he had left.
Paulo "Pokerggbras" Goncalves:
"DaiteDeneg":
The board ran out for "DaiteDeneg" to flop trips immediately for the chip lead as they busted Goncalves.
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Min "newclearfish" Zhu raised to 1,200 from under the gun and "jindai" three-bet shoved from the cutoff for 12,825. Michael "DODGEYLADY" O'Grady made the call from the small blind. Zhu responded with a shove of his own for 62,730 and that was called by O'Grady too with the bigger stack.
"jindai":
Min "newclearfish" Zhu:
Michael "DODGEYLADY" O'Grady:
The board ran out for O'Grady to turn the higher pair of aces to bust both opponents.
"mevorah" raised to 500 from under the gun and was called by Paulo "Pokerggbras" Goncalves on the button. Zhou "bigfishone" Shao three-bet to 3,680 from the small blind for the big blind to fold and the other two players to make the call.
The flop came , Shao shoved for 48,324 for "mevorah" to make the call for the 46,665 they had behind while Goncalves called too with the slightly bigger stack.
"mevorah":
Zhou "bigfishone" Shao:
Paulo "Pokerggbras" Goncalves:
"mevorah" had flopped top pair while Shao held an overpairbut Goncalves had hit a pair of treys and was sitting on the open-ended straight draw.
The turn was the to give Goncalves the straight indeed and the river completed the board with the for Goncalves to eliminate both opponents.
At noon UTC, it will be time for another event on the GGPoker WSOP Online Events schedule as Event #61: $300 Monster Stack NLHE 6-Handed gives players a shot at winning a brand new shiny WSOP bracelet at a time which is more focused on the Asian market as this is one of the special Asia Time Zone Events.
Aaron "fishnchip" Wijaya, Roberto Romanello, Sung Joo "ArtePokerTV" Hyun, Paul Teoh, Frank "Sbma2016" Crivello, and Luis "Xapilskinha" Assuncao Garla have already claimed their bracelets in these events which have an earlier start time than the others and will probably be back online today to try and follow in the footsteps of Alek "astazz" Stasiak who has won two already.
Players will get 50,000 chips in their starting stacks and play 15-minute levels until the final table. The late registration will remain open for the first 3.5 hours with players having the possibility to reenter twice during that time. The Bubble Protection feature has been activated for this event which means that players who registered before the start will get their buy-in refunded if they happen to get eliminated during the bubble.
The 6-handed format of the tournament means that the players will have a maximum of six players at their tables until the final table which will be 9-handed. At this time, the duration of the levels will vary as they will go up after every 30 hands.
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