The Race to the Money and Beyond on Day 2 of the 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online $5,000 Main Event
The highlight of the 2020 GGPoker World Series of Poker Online Bracelet Events has wrapped up all 23 starting flights. Once the late registration for the last starting day had closed, the flagship Event #77: $5,000 NLHE Main Event gathered a stunning field of 5,802 entries. A total prize pool of $27,559,500 set a new record for the world of online poker and surpassed the ambitious guarantee of $25 million.
Especially throughout the final heats the participation increased a ton with Flight W attracting the biggest field of 858 entries for the turbo heat with a reduced level duration of 20 minutes instead of half an hour. All those that make it to the end of level 15 have a short break and then join the 930 survivors of all previous heats to battle for their share of the record-breaking prize pool.
Only the top 728 spots will get paid at least $11,834 whereas the eventual champion will walk away with a top prize of $3,904,688 and the coveted gold bracelet. Until then it's a long way to go and Day 2 will play down to the final five tables before then wrapping up the following Saturday, September 5th, 2020, as of 6.30 p.m. UTC (2.30 p.m. EST).
Throughout the first 22 starting days, only two participants had managed to turn their starting day of 50,000 into seven figures. Two-time WSOP Bracelet winner Kahle Burns topped the leaderboard with a stack of 1,387,292, followed by Jonathan "Serenity" Dokler with 1,021,967. A shade behind that was "stamina22" with 994,190, Warley "Shikamaru-" Galvao (931,221) and Israel's "TILTTTT1999" (908,569) completed the overnight top five.
Other notables returning to big stacks include Mikalai Vaskaboinikau (796,176), Samuel Vousden (717,497), Arsenii "kastaban" Karmatckii (678,259), Michael "MiguelFiesta" Lech (671,675), Shyngis "somebodyelse" Satubayev (623,401), Pavel "EzzzGame" Plesuv (623,230) and Adam "MikePrice82" Hendrix (621,949) to name all but a few well above the average.
The final turbo heat was topped by "mrdemidov" with 672,533, followed by Phachara "Phachara W" Wongwichit (649,813), Anson "Tara@0z" Tsang (471,061) and Craig Timmis (457,188) also advanced with healthy stacks among the 242 survivors.
Out of the GGPoker ambassadors, Fedor Holz fared the best and accumulated a stack of 464,791, whereas Daniel Negreanu fired the allowed maximum of three bullets without advancing. In the final turbo heat, fellow Felipe Ramos advanced with a stack of 54,523. Former WSOP Main Event champions Ryan Riess (152,782) and record 15-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth (108,644) will be among the shorter stacks when the action resumes at 6.30 p.m. UTC (2.30 p.m. EST).
As of Day 2 and for the remainder of the tournament until the final table has been reached, the levels will last 40 minutes each and the action recommences at blinds of 2,500/5,000 with a running ante of 25. The penultimate tournament day will not only burst the money bubble but continue to play down to the final 40 hopefuls. All those that make it one step further then have a break of six days before a champion is crowned the following Saturday.
Stay tuned to find out who makes the cut right here on PokerNews as the live reporting team will provide updates from start to finish for the record-breaking $5,000 Main Event and all remaining WSOP Online Bracelet events!
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