The 2020 WSOP Main Event Heads-Up Final was not the only big tournament highlight last night as also highlight events at the WSOPC on GGNetwork and the Blowout Series at PokerStars took place, where online crushers Michael “imluckbox” Addamo and Yuri “theNerdGuy” Martins Dzivielevski both won major titles.
MTT Report Featured Poker Tournaments
- WSOPC Event #15: $400 NEW YEAR COLOSSUS, $2.021M GTD at GGNetwork
- WSOPC Event #14: $800 FIFTY STACK No-Limit Hold’em at GGNetwork
- Blowout Series Event #25: $1,050 NLHE Sunday Warm-Up SE at PokerStars
- $2,100 High Rollers Sunday PLO Main Event at GGNetwork
Michael Addamo ships $400 NEW YEAR COLOSSUS for $374,604
Michael Addamo seems unstoppable in both cash games and tournaments. Last night he added another major title to his incredible results by shipping the $400 NEW YEAR COLOSSUS, $2.021M GTD at the WSOP Winter Online Circuit Series (WSOPC) at GGNetwork.
Addamo outlasted a massive field consisting of 8,725 players to turn a small buy-in of only $400 into the staggering $374,604 first place prize.
Further notables on the final table were Tudor Lazar, Rui Sousa and Park Yu Cheung.
Michael Addamo has amassed an impressive $8,303,257 in life winnings including two WSOP Bracelets. He has also won millions in online tournaments and is among the biggest winners in the high stakes cash games at GGNetwork.
| Place | Name | Country | Payouts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Addamo | Australia | $374,604 |
| 2 | Tudor “hotsince93” Lazar | Hungary | $280,910 |
| 3 | Pikerdon | Canada | $210,653 |
| 4 | benchplayer8 | China | $157,967 |
| 5 | Tenn “ViiolAwo” Tonts | Estonia | $118,459 |
| 6 | Hazes | Austria | $88,832 |
| 7 | minterofbtc | Austria | $66,614 |
| 8 | Rui “OlliOctavius” Sousa | Portugal | $49,954 |
| 9 | Sparrow “FacelessMan” Cheung | Hong Kong | $37,460 |
Online Wizard Yuri “theNERDguy” Martins Dzivielevski Wins WSOPC Event #14
Another player, who keeps on crushing the live and online streets, is Brazilian wizard Yuri “theNERDguy” Martins Dzivielevski.
After winning a title at last year’s WSOP and the 2020 WSOP Online, he now added a third World Series of Poker title in WSOPC Event #14: $800 FIFTY STACK No-Limit Hold’em.
Martins left a large field of 1,849 entries behind him to secure the whopping $178,236 score. It was a well-deserved victory as Dzivielevski dominated on a strong final table including Justin Park, Harry Carden Lodge, Rui Ferreira and Bela Toth.
| Place | Name | Country | Prize (in USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuri Dzivielevski | Brazil | $178,236 |
| 2 | Justin Park | United States | $133,657 |
| 3 | Alex Greenblatt | Brazil | $100,229 |
| 4 | Harry “Vulvasore” Lodge | United Kingdom | $75,161 |
| 5 | Rui Ferreira | Portugal | $56,363 |
| 6 | Andreas “Duckzzz” Nasman | Finland | $42,266 |
| 7 | Lavrentiy “888WTB02” Ni | Kazakhstan | $31,695 |
| 8 | Bela “Teemo2018” Toth | Hungary | $23,768 |
| 9 | Internecik | Lithuania | $17,823 |
Mike “SirWatts” Watson takes down Blowout Series Event # 15 for $75,465.91
The Blowout Series at PokerStars offers huge guarantees on a daily basis between December 27-January 17. We had already reached Event #25, which was a Special Edition of the legendary $1,050 Sunday Warm-Up with $350,000 GTD.
The field was full of the usual suspects and while online stars Brunno “botteonpoker” Botteon, Pedro “gusmaa” Gusma, Lex Veldhuis and Artem “veeea” Vezhenkov all busted just shy of the final table, Daan “DaanOss” Mulder, Ole “wizowizo” Schemion, Legenden and Mike “SirWatts” Watson made it into the Grand Finale.
The latter two even battled it out heads-up for the title with Watson coming out on top to take down the first Blowout Series title of his career.
Mike Watson now has very impressive online tournament winnings of more than $6,500,000, which earns him the top spot in the Canadian online tournament ranking and makes him Number 4 in the world.
Swiss PLO GOAT Ronny Kaiser adds another Major Title
Many experts consider Ronny Kaiser to be the or at least among the best Pot-Limit Omaha players in the world. Kaiser aka “1-ronnyr3” on Stars has been crushing both PLO tournaments and cash games for more than 10 years.
Now he once again proved his extra class in the $2,100 High Rollers Sunday PLO Main Event, which is the toughest weekly PLO tournament.
51 of the best Pot-Limit Omaha players in the world signed up and created a $101,745 prize pool. 6 places were paid and PLO legends Gavin “gavz101” Cochrane, JNandez87 and Eelis “EEE27” Pärssinen became the final table bubble boys.
With Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro and Ronny Kaiser two big names were still in the hunt and the Swiss Pot-Limit Omaha legend came through to add another PLO major title to his resume plus a staggering $38,881.82 to his bankroll.
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