Niklas “Lena900” Astedt is on fire landing another massive score by winning the WSOPC Main Event for $758,443. Further big winners of the weekend include Russian Denis Kuznetsov, who won the 2021 888poker XL Spring Series Main Event and Rising Brazilian star Belarmino Souza.
MTT Report Featured Poker Tournaments
- $5,000,000 GTD WSOP Super Circuit Online Series Main Event at GG Network
- $500,000 GTD 2021 XL Spring Series Main Event at 888poker
- $1,000,000 GTD High Rollers Week Event #1: $525 Bounty Hunters at GG Network
- $3,000,000 GTD High Rollers Week Event #4: $2,100 Omahaolic at GG Network
Niklas Astedt is the 2021 WSOP Super Circuit Online Main Event Champion
Online poker tournament legend Niklas “Lena900” Astedt is once again running hot lately. This weekend he added another major victory and WSOP Circuit Ring together with a staggering $758,443 to his incredible results. The Swedish poker sensation began the final table as chip leader and never looked back.
The second biggest name on the final table was GGSquad member and Twitch Poker streamer Patrick “Egption” Tardif, who unfortunately was the first Seat Open, after losing a big pot against Astedt and then busting with A7o vs. A2o from Lena900, when the Swede made a full house.
Further notables among the finalists were U$179,853S pro David Miscikowski (8./$101,139), Fabian Spielmann from Germany (6./ $179,853), Brazilian Allan Mello (4./$319,829) and Chinese player Chi Yanfei.
The latter, not only made it to heads-up, but even had a big 4:1 chip lead at the start, but he was not able to bring it home.
Niklas Astedt found a quick double up with Pocket Kings to even the match and then took full control, when he made his flush on the river against Chi’s top pair.
Astedt continued to increase his lead to almost 4 to 1 and then put Yanfei All-In with A4o and Chi called with Ks7s.
Ace on the flop and Niklas Astedt won his first WSOP Circuit Ring alongside the huge $758,443 first place prize.
Watch the 2021 WSOP Super Circuit Online Main Event Final Table here:
Denis “_DENGER_” Kuznetsov from Russia takes down XL Spring Series Main Event for $69,050
The $500,000 GTD Main Event was the absolute highlight of the 2021 XL Spring Series at 888poker. A whopping 1,654 players registered and there were a whopping $69,050 up top.
Biggest name on the final table was Brazilian tournament crusher Pedro Padilha, who finished in 5th place for $20,300 and 888poker regular Denis “_DENGER_” Kuznetsov.
The Russian was also among the last two men standing and played “KiddPT” from the Netherlands heads-up for the title.
Kuznetsov had to overcome a 2 to 1 chip deficit, but quickly evened the stacks before the two played a huge coin flip.
KiddPT” shoved over a button raise holding A♦10♥ from Kuznetsov, who quickly called with 8♦8♥.
No help from the board and Denis Kuznetsov ships another major tournament on 888poker.
The Russian has amassed more than 9,000 cashes on 888poker! However, this is by far his largest score on the site as his biggest previous score was $15,297 for 2nd place in the 2020 Mini EPT Online 07.
“CupidL4st” wins Opening Event of the GG High Rollers Week for $133.977
As soon as the WSOPC was over, GGNetwork already launched the next big online tournament series with the $15,300,000 GTD High Rollers Week from June 6 – 13.
The Opening Event, a $525 Bounty Hunters Main Event, turned out to be a big success by generating 2,226 entries to boost the $1,000,000 guarantee by more than 11%.
Biggest name on the FT was Brazilian local hero Felipe “Mojave” Ramos. He however busted in 8th place for $25,828,90. His fellow countryman Marcelo Asensio did better and came in a strong 3rd place for $37.530,78.
The two finalists were “Stiopata” from Slovakia and Russian regular “CupidL4st”. The favourite won and added a massive $44,066.24 in bounties on top of the $89,907.79 first prize to secure a huge $133.977.03 score.
Belarmino Souza ships High Rollers Week Event #4 for $77,132.20
The Brazilians are absolutely crushing the online tournaments at GGNetwork lately. This time it was one of their rising poker stars Belarmino Souza, who shipped a major tournament by winning High Rollers Week Event #4, a $2,100 Omaholic Bounty, for $77,132.20.
Due to the $2,100 buy-in, which is really large for an online PLO tournament, we saw a tough field consisting of 137 top Omaha players.
The guaranteed prize pool of $250K got absolutely smashed by 38% and in the end there were $344,000 up for grabs.
The final three players were all top pros with Ami Barer, Belarmino Souza and Sebastian Trisch.
The German busted in 3rd place for $19,615.53 and we saw the clash of the online titans between Barer and Souza.
This time the Brazilian had the better end for himself adding another major title and large $77,132.20 to his remarkable resume.
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