WSOP 2020 Update – Kahle Burns takes monster chip lead in the $25,000,000 GTD WSOP Main Event!

The 2020 WSOP Main Event has the biggest guarantee in online poker history!

The WSOP Main Event is the poker tournament of tournaments with the biggest guarantee in online poker history worth $25,000,000 GTD. Now Australian wizard Kahle Burns is in a fantastic position by bagging a huge chiplead on Day 1L with almost 40% more chips than 2nd place “Serinity” from Mexico.

The WSOP Main Event is well underway with more than half of the starting days already finished. Its $25,000,000 Guarantee is the biggest ever in online poker history!

In flight 1L only 8 out of a field of 88 players made it through to Day 2 putting the total number of players left up to 359.

Kahle Burns takes huge chiplead on Day 1L of the WSOP Main Event

Australian crusher Kahle Burns dominated seemingly at will bagging by far the biggest stack of the WSOP 2020 Main Event thus far with almost 40% more chips than 2nd place!

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Other big names that survived Day 1 were Arsenii Karmatckii (678,259) and Pavel Plesuv (623,230), Igor Kurganov, Mike Leah, and online legend Simon Mattsson better known as “C.Darwin2”.

Further top pros that had a really good first starting day are Mikael Vaskaboinikau (769,176), Samuel “€urop€an” Vousden and Dinesh “NastyMinder” Alt.

On the contrary, Daniel Negreanu, Jens “Fresh_oO_D” Lakemeier, Nick Schulman, Andras “probirs” Nemeth, and Timothy Adams all busted before the end of the day and have to try another flight.

The next two starting flights, Day 1M and 1N, will already take place tonight at GG Network.

Here are the Top 20 Chip Counts after Day 1K of the WSOP Main Event:

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 Chinese double victory in the BIG 50 – Huahuan Feng wins Bracelet for $211,282

Another big highlight of the WSOP Online  was the Big 50 as it offered the best value of the entire WSOP 2020 Online! Players had the unique chance to For a tiny buy-in of only $50.

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Guarantee more than doubled in the WSOP BIG 50!

Not surprisingly the tournament atrracted a massive crowd of 44,576 entries and the guaranteed prize pool was more than doubled to $2,050,496.

The Big 50 ended with a Chinese double victory through Huahuan Feng and Xue Qiao Zhao. Feng turned his $50 investment into a life changing cash of $211,282!

Notables, who had a deep run in the Big 50 were Daniel Negreanu, Adam Owen and Guillaume Diaz, who busted just shy of the final table in 12th place for $9,232.

Payouts WSOP 2002 Big 50, $1M GTD:

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1Huahuan “F7588” FengChina$211,282
2Xue qiao “whattfboys” ZhaoChina$159,705
3Ronald “CorVanHout” HaverkampNetherlands$114,237
4Daniel “Vanessa23” MontagnolliAustria$81,714
5Max “TheChosen1” VeygaArgentina$58,450
6Di “LuXDi” LuChina$41,809
7Xiong “wwwyoujizz” HuangChina$29,906
8Dean “JoogieJJ” LipscombeUnited Kingdom$21,392
9Wade “JWNomad” GillettThailand$15,302
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