The International-facing segment of the 2022 World Series of Poker Online is now officially in the books, with nearly 131,200 entries made and more than $86.1 million paid out through 33 bracelet events held on GGPoker. The largest prize pool of the entire series was created in the festival-ending WSOPO $5,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. A total of 4,984 entries were made across nine starting flights, creating a prize pool of $23,674,000.
In the end, it was 29-year-old Swedish online tournament superstar Simon Mattsson who emerged victorious with his first bracelet and the top prize of $2,793,574. He now has more than $4.4 million in recorded tournament earnings in live and online events with full real-name results. He also has more than $27 million in total online cashes under the screen name ‘C. Darwin2’ according to PocketFives, the most of any player in the world.
The top 500 finishers made the money in this event, with plenty of big names running deep including Linus Loeliger (287th), two-time bracelet winner Joao Simao (230th), 2013 WSOP main event champion Ryan Riess (147th), two-time bracelet winner Chris Moorman (105th), 2020 WSOP main event champion Damian Salas (96th), three-time bracelet winner Justin Bonomo (64th), Niklas Astedt (29th), Paulina ‘poker bunny’ Loeliger (27th), bracelet winner Patrick Leonard (22nd), and bracelet winner Joseph Cheong (11th).
A full replay of the final table can be found below, via GGPoker’s YouTube channel: Mattsson came into the final table with the chip lead, with fellow online tournament star Samuel ‘€urop€an’ Vousden sitting on the second-largest stack. Canada’s Tim Rutherford was the first to fall. The short stack to start the day lasted roughly 45 minutes before he ran A-Q suited into the pocket kings of Feng Zhao. Rutherford flopped the nut flush draw, but failed to improve any further and was knocked out in ninth place ($279,357).
The UK’s Oliver Sprason (8th – $372,529) was the next to hit the rail, with his A-K losing a flip to Kannapong Thanarattrakul’s pocket tens. The very next hand, Thanarattrakul shoved from the small blind with A-9 and got locked up by Jordan Spurlin, […]
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