Simon Mattsson Simon Mattsson is the 2022 WSOP Online Main Event champion, after the super-talented poker tournament specialist put on a masterclass of a performance at the final table. Mattsson navigated his way to the final table as the chip leader before emerging victoriously, having left 4,983 opponents in his wake, and securing $2,793,574 of the $23,674,000 prize pool.
The man whose “C. Darwin2” alias strikes fear into opponents’ hearts now has more than $27.6 million in online poker tournament winnings plus a rightful place in online poker’s history books. #33: $5,000 WSOP Online Main Event Final Table Results
Place Player Country Prize 1 Simon Mattsson Norway $2,793,574 2 Kannapong Thanarattrakul Thailand $2,094,884 3 Feng Zhao China $1,570,941 4 Samuel Vousden Finland $1,178,040 5 Istvan Briski Austria $883,404 6 Yanfei Chi China $662,459 7 Jordan Spurlin Canada $496,774 8 Oliver Sprason United Kingdom $372,529 9 Tim Rutherford Canada $279,357 WSOP 2022 Main Event Poker FINAL TABLE Tim Rutherford went into the final table as the shortest stack with only 11 big blinds at his disposal, and he was the first casualty of the night. With blinds of 500,000/1,000,000/125,000a, Feng Zhao opened to 9,000,000 from early position, leaving himself only 2.25 big blinds behind. Rutherford called off his 3.8 big blinds from the next seat along, and the remaining players ducked out of the way. It was pocket kings for Zhao and ace-queen of hearts for Rutherford. The flop gave Rutherford a flush draw, but neither another heart of an ace appeared on the turn or river, and Rutherford busted with $279,357 to show for his efforts.
British grinder Oliver Sprason was the next finalist to bow out; his eighth-place finish came with $372,529 in prize money. Kannapong Thanarattrakul min-raised to 2,800,000 under the gun with pocket tens, and instantly called when Sprason three-bet all-in for 10,542,000 from the big blind, a move made with suited ace-king. Sprason flopped a king, but Thanarattrakul improved to a set. Sprason picked up a royal flush draw on the turn, but ultimately missed his outs on the river. Jordan Spurlin collected almost $500,000 for his […]
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