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Started Tournament Buy-In+Fee Rank Prize Carnaval Series-154: €20 Midnight Express 8-Max, Hyper, €50,000 Guaranteed. Buy-in: € 710 + € 90: Entries: 251: Re-Entries: 126: Total entries: 377: Total prizepool: € 248 631: Pos.

The inaugural WPT World Online Championships (WOC) was all the rage at partypoker the past two months with over 34,000 unique players getting into the action from July 17 to Sept. 24.

To say the WPTWOC was a success would be an understatement as the festival attracted 285,846 total entries and 34,811 unique entries to generate a festival total prize pool of a whopping $100,746,145. Five players were awarded prizes exceeding $1 million.

Dreams came true for many players at all bankroll levels. This was in no small thanks to the plethora of satellite running for each event throughout the series allowing players the opportunity at a life-changing payday for a fraction of the buy-in.

To put everything into perspective, a total of 45,605 touraments seats were won in satellites. This means nearly one out of every six players in WPTWOC events won their seats.

94 Different Nationalities Participate in WPT WOC

It wasn't just the satellite grinders that got into the action since there were 19,655 unique satellite qualifiers out of the 45,605 satellite winners.

Players around the world didn't shy away from the action with 94 different nationalities cashing in the online poker festival.

However, this doesn't tell the complete story as players from the United Kingdom dominating the leaderboards throughout the festival nearly one out of five (19 percent) of the event winners waving the Union Jack flag.

'We are delighted that the WPT World Online Championships has created so many success stories,' partypoker Managing Director, Tom Waters said. 'The focus for the series was delivering quality, well-structured events that would give satellite players great opportunities to compete with the best players in the world and the results speak for themselves. We look forward to working with the WPT again and sticking to the values that we believe bring the best live poker events online.'

Satellite Winners Win Big

The WPTWOC featured many big buy-in events but was also catered to lower stakes players with each event featuring plenty of satellites.

As we already mentioned, players responded in a big way and were a big part of the field in every event.

This couldn't be more evident as it was in the WPTWOC $10,300 Main Event with seven of the nine players that reached the final table through satellites including Victor Simionato who qualified for just $22 and parlayed that into a life-changing $391,257 for an impressive fifth-place performance.

Meanwhile, Phil Mighall added to his impressive resume by shipping this prestigious event for $1,550,298. Mighall defeated Teun Mulder (second - $1,396,969) after the duo agreed to a heads-up deal to flatten the payouts.

More Uplifting Stories from the Mini Main Event

More amazing stories took place during the WPTWOC Mini Main Event with five of the nine players at the final table qualifying via value-added seats.

Renan Carlos Bruschi shipped the event for $504,582 after agreeing to a four-way deal at the final table.

However, Bruschi didn't take down the biggest prize in this event. This honor belonged to Arturs Balodis, who took third place for $535,269. Balodis won his seat in a $55 Gladiator event and made it count in big way.

Meanwhile, Nichita Verbitchii qualified to the Mini Main Event from an $11 buy-in Terminator tournament. Like Balodis, he also made his value-added seat count as he parlayed this into a runner-up performance in the Mini Main Event worth $339,607.

Luiz Constantino also impressed by shipping the WPT Micro Main Event for $148,985 from just a $109 buy-in.

Charlotte Godwin Scores Big

Many poker players dream of playing an event with a $102,000 top prize. What about a $102,000 buy-in that was featured in the WPTWOC Super High Roller Championship?

This is out of the range of just about every player's bankroll but partypoker gave players the opportunity of a lifetime to get in on the action for just $109.

This is exactly what Charlotte Godwin did and she made the most of it. Not only did Godwin claim a seat into the Super High Roller but went on to take third place for a huge haul of $620,000. According to partypoker, Godwin almost hit the rail empty-handed in seventh place but she rivered an ace to stay alive.

While Godwin did make the podium, there were two other players that won seven-figure scores in this event.

Michael Addamo shipped the event for $1,284,114 after defeating partypoker Ambassador Isaac Haxton in heads-up play. Haxton also walked away with a massive prize of $1,216,286 thanks to a heads-up deal with Addamo.

WPTWOC Championships Leaderboards Award $100K

The WPT World Online Championships leaderboards awarded $100,000 to the biggest winners during the festival. Players earned points in all events, including the side events, featuring a buy-in of at least $320.

Players earned points when finishing in the money based on a formula using the finishing position, the buy-in, and total field size of a qualifying event.

It was a two dog race between Artur Martirosian and Scott Margereson heading into the final event, the WPTWOC Mini Super High Roller. In an exciting finish, both players made it to the final table with Margereson just 18.25 points behind Martirosian.

Martirson sealed the deal for the $50,000 top prize on the leaderboard after Scott Margereson bailed out in sixth place for $47,500. Margereson also collected a $10,000 haul for finishing runner-up on the leaderboard.

This wasn't the end for Martirson as he put an explanation point on his leaderboard win by shipping the Mini Super High Roller for a cool $230,000.

Final WPTWOC Player of the Championship Standings

WPT Rising Star Leaderboard

partypoker also hosted the WPT Rising Star Leaderboard to reward lower stakes players with only events and side events with buy-ins of $300 or less qualifying for the standings.

This wasn't a volume based leaderboard as only the 10 best scores from each player would contribute points towards the standings.

Constantino’s previously mentioned victory in the WPT Micro Main Event was the main catalyst to him claiming the top spot at the WPT Rising Star leaderboard to bank the $10,000 top prize.

Falling just shy of the top spot was partypoker Ambassador Patrick Leonard, who had to settle for the runner-up leaderboard prize of $6,000.

Final WPTWOC Rising Star Standings

Six Players Earn More $1 Million!

Six players impressively added more than $1 million to their bankrolls during the WPTWOC.

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But, Team partypoker’s Isaac Haxton was the only player to impressively add more than $2 million with a $2,078,490 boost to his bankroll. Closest on Haxton's tail were Mighall with $1,695,010 and Martirosian with $1,556,746.

The WPT was proud to host the inaugural WPT World Online Championships at partypoker.

'The WPT World Online Championships have marked a new milestone for the WPT and partypoker, and the response from the players throughout the series has been overwhelming,' said WPT VP Europe Hermance Blum. 'We take a lot of pride bringing the unique feel of the WPT to the online felts.'

Blum's reaction should come as no surprise as the series was designed to replicate a live poker experience with real names used in all events and a maximum of two Day 1s for the championship events in the series, with a maximum of one re-entry allowed per day.

This is on top of the fact that all bankrolls were catered for with a many events and side events along with the huge presense of satellite winners.

'partypoker promised to cater for all bankrolls, offering micro, mini and main events for all championship events, as well as an extensive satellite program,' Blum said. 'It was incredible to witness so many amazing life-changing stories, where people turned low buy-ins into six and sometimes seven-figure prizes; that is poker truly at its best!'

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This year’s World Series of Poker Europe is well underway in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. In fact, the WSOP Europe begins this weekend.

Action started on October 13 and runs through November 4 at King’s Casino, the same location as the past several years. This year, though, the schedule was beefed up to 15 bracelet events, as well as some high buy-in special events that did not offer bracelets.

Some of the tournaments were also scheduled for livestreaming on PokerGO, a subscription-based streaming service.

With that, let’s look at the first 10 bracelet events on the official WSOP Europe schedule and how they played out. (Keep in mind that all tournaments allowed at least one reentry.)

Event 1: €350 NLHE Opener

Entries: 1,011

Prize pool: €302,541 (surpassed €220,700 guarantee)

Paid players: 152

Minimum payout: €465

1^st place: Renat Bohdanov (Ukraine) – €53,654

2^nd place: Norbert Mosonyi (Hungary) – €33,112

3^rd place: Eyal Bensimhon (Israel) – €23,386

4^th place: Mykhailo Hryhoriev (Ukraine) – €16,736

5^th place: Samuel Mika (Slovakia) – €12,138

6^th place: Michal Kral (Czech Republic) – €8,923

7^th place: Rafi Elharar (Israel) – €6,651

8^th place: Jeff Lisandro (Australia) – €5,026

9^th place: Ricardas Vymeris (Lithuania) – €3,853

This was Bohdanov’s first piece of WSOP jewelry. Lisandro missed out on his seventh WSOP bracelet but couldn’t come back from a short stack.

Event 2: €550 PLO

Entries: 476

Prize pool: €226,100 (surpassed €100K guarantee)

Paid players: 38

Minimum payout: €1,075

1^st place: Dash Dudley (USA) – €51,600

2^nd place: Chris Back (Canada) – €31,825

3^rd place: Denis Drobina (Ukraine) – €21,825

4^th place: Ming Juen Teoh (Malaysia) – €15,225

5^th place: Ivo Donev (Austria) – €10,900

6^th place: Oshri Lahmani (Israel) – €7,850

7^th place: Anson Tsang (Hong Kong) – €5,800

8^th place: Naor Slobodskoy (Israel) – €4,365

Dudley captured a second WSOP victory in the same year that he won the $10K PLO Championship in Las Vegas for more than $1 million. This WSOPE was his first time even playing outside of the US.

Event 3: €1,350 NLHE Mini Main

Entries: 766

Prize pool: €873,240 (surpassed €551,750 guarantee)

Paid players: 115

Minimum payout: €1,793

1^st place: Vangelis Kaimakamis (Greece) – €167,056

2^nd place: Shahar Levi (Israel) – €103,216

3^rd place: Jose Rivas (Venezuela) – €72,474

4^th place: Markus Jordan (Germany) – €51,628

5^th place: Didier Rabl (Czech Republic) – €37,321

6^th place: Andrew Bak (UK) – €27,382

7^th place: Luigi Macaluso (France) – €20,396

8^th place: Leonid Yanovski (Israel) – €15,426

His first WSOP bracelet was only the fifth one ever claimed by a Greek player. The win was also Kaimakamis’ largest tournament cash to date.

Event 4: €250K Super High Roller NLHE

Entries: 30

Prize pool: €7,125,000 (surpassed $5M guarantee)

Paid players: 5

Minimum payout: €537,722

1^st place: James Chen (Taiwan) – €2,844,215

2^nd place: Chin Wei Lim (Malaysia) – €1,757,857

3^rd place: Christoph Vogelsang (Germany) – €1,185,161

4^th place: Tony Guoga (Lithuania) – €799,045

5^th place: Cary Katz (USA) – €538,722

The Taiwan native captured his first bracelet and the first ever for Taiwan, a better finish than at the summer WSOP when he finished second in a PLO event.

Event 5: €2,500 8-Game Mix

Entries: 71

Prize pool: €237,500 (overlay on €250K guarantee)

Paid players: 11

Minimum payout: €5,654

1^st place: Espen Sandvik (Norway) – €75,426

2^nd place: Ville Haavisto (Finland) – €46,613

3^rd place: Phil Hellmuth (USA) – €31,058

4^th place: Jeff Madsen (USA) – €21,386

5^th place: Thomer Pidun (Germany) – €15,235

6^th place: Jochen Kaiser (Germany) – €11,242

Sandvik became only the fourth Norwegian bracelet winner in WSOP history and did it by eliminating all opponents at the final table. That included Hellmuth, who was aiming to capture his 16^th bracelet.

Event 6: €25,500 Short Deck NLHE

Entries: 111

Prize pool: €2,636,250 (surpassed €2.5M guarantee)

Paid players: 17

Minimum payout: €39,943

1^st place: Siamak Tooran (Germany) – €740,996

2^nd place: Thai Ha (USA) – €457,964

3^rd place: Orpen Kisacikoglu (Turkey) – €323,553

4^th place: Netanel Amedi (Israel) – €230,807

5^th place: Besim Hot (Switzerland) – €166,258

6^th place: Rob Yong (UK) – €118,653

Tooran won his first WSOP gold, pushing Ha out in second for the second time in the second Short Deck tournament in WSOP history.

Event 7: €1,100 Turbo Bounty NLHE

Entries: 377

Prize pool: €348,631 (surpassed €200K guarantee)

Paid players: 57

Minimum payout: €1,099

1^st place: Tomas Fara (Czech Republic) – €59,904

2^nd place: Nisad Muratovic (Bosnia) – €37,004

3^rd place: Manig Loeser (Germany) – €24,949

4^th place: David Elyashar (Israel) – €17,172

5^th place: Anson Tsang (Hong Kong) – €12,071

6^th place: Arturs Scerbaks (Latvia) – €8,670

7^th place: Phillip Hui (USA) – €6,366

8^th place: Julian Selinger (Germany) – €4,781

9^th place: Giorgiy Skhulukhiya (Russia) – €3,674

Fara won his first piece of WSOP gold after having been relegated to a single tournament chip but doubling up numerous times to get back into the game.

Event 8: €25,500 Platinum High Roller NLHE

Entries: 83

Prize pool: €1,971,250 (surpassed $1M guarantee)

Paid players: 13

Minimum payout: €37,275

1^st place: Kahle Burns (Australia) – €596,883

2^nd place: Sam Trickett (UK) – €368,899

3^rd place: Hossein Ensan (Germany) – €251,837

4^th place: Abdelhakim Zoufri (Netherlands) – €177,062

5^th place: Timothy Adams (Canada) – €128,326

6^th place: Alex Foxen (USA) – €95,962

7^th place: Anton Morgenstern (Germany) – €74,117

8^th place: Robert Campbell (Australia) – €59,189

Burns took home his first WSOP gold bracelet, while reigning WSOP Main Event champion Ensan just missed adding another piece of gold to his collection.

Event 9: €1,650 PLO/NLHE Mix

Entries: 279

Prize pool: €397,575 (surpassed €200K guarantee

Paid players: 42

Minimum payout: €2,392

1^st place: Asi Moshe (Israel) – €97,465

2^nd place: Kristoffer Rasmussen (Denmark) – €60,230

3^rd place: Harout Gharazian (Canada) – €41,754

4^th place: William Chattaway (UK) – €29,480

5^th place: Jakob Madsen (Denmark) – €21,206

6^th place: Erik Cajelais (Canada) – €15,548

7^th place: Dragos Trofimov (UK) – €11,622

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8^th place: Quan Zhou (China) – €6,893

Moshe grabbed his fourth career WSOP bracelet and his second in 2019. He did it without a lot of Omaha experience but played ICM.

Event 10: €25,500 Mixed Games Championship

Entries: 45

Prize pool: €1,068,750 (surpassed €1M guarantee)

Paid players: 7

Minimum payout: €38,389

1^st place: Besim Hot (Switzerland) – €385,911

2^nd place: Phil Hellmuth (USA) – €238,509

3^rd place: Dzmitry Urbanovich (Poland) – €162,463

4^th place: Benny Glaser (UK) – €111,689

5^th place: Julien Martini (France) – €77,502

6^th place: Daniel Negreanu (Canada) – €54,287

7^th place: Alex Livingston (Canada) – €38,389

With his first WSOP win, Hot bcame the second champion ever from Switzerland. And he was the second player at the WSOP Europe to keep Hellmuth from taking home his 16^th bracelet.

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