GGPoker WSOPC Series The $100 million guaranteed WSOP Spring Online Circuit festival kicked off at GGPoker this weekend and it is fair to say the big guns came out in force for its opening events. The opening tournaments were packed to the rafters with stellar names, but it was “Godofbaccarat” who shone the brightest in the first of 18 WSOPC ring-awarding tournaments. #1: Big 500 NLE Spring Kick-Off Final Table Results
1 Godofbaccarat Canada $325,684 2 Danilo Velasevic Montenegro $244,228 3 Memukul Austria $183,145 4 Johannes “Hazes” Straver Austria $137,339 5 Vinnie “JerryYang07” Mohan United Kingdom $102,990 6 Alon “Alon_Eldar” Eldar Israel $77,231 7 Stoyan Obreshkov Macedonia $57,915 8 Bertil “DonPepe” Samuelsson Andorra $43,430 9 Pen15 Canada $32,568 The opening event was a $500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em affair that GGPoker promised at least $2 million would be won. A field of 6,242 entries ensured the guarantee was not only hit but surpassed by $964,950, a fantastic result. Some 1,080 players navigated their way through to Day 2, with 700 of them walking away with something to show for their efforts.
A min-cash weighed in at $1,177 but the least any of the finalists could take home was $32,568. That sum went to “Pen15” of Canada, who was the final table’s first casualty. Stoyan Obreshkov finished in seventh place Bertil “DonPepe” Samuelsson and Stoyan Obreshkov were the next players left with empty spaces where their chips once stood. The former collected $43,430 while the latter scooped a $57,915 prize.
Then came the demise of Israel’s Alon “Alon_Edlar” Eldar in sixth-place. Eldar banked $77,231, which was the tournament’s final five-figure prize. Fifth-place and $102,990 went to the United Kingdom’s Vinnie “JerryYang07” Mohan . This is Mohan’s largest-ever online tournament score and his first tipping the scales at six-figures.
The pay jumps continued growing and the prize money starting becoming increasingly life-changing. Johannes “Hazes” Straver got his hands on the $137,339 while fellow Austrian “Memukul” saw their GGPoker account balance swell by $183,145 when they crashed out in third.
Heads-up pitted Danilo Velasevic against “Godofbaccarat” in a battle where there was a near $81,500 difference in […]
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