The Race for the GGMaster POY Seriously Hots Up

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Apr 30, 2020 2 min read

The race to win the GGMasters Player of the Year is seriously hotting up with four months of 2020 done and dusted. Someone will walk away with a GGPoker ambassador package worth up to $500,000, who that someone is could be affected by you.

Everyone who cashes in any GGMasters is awarded Player of the Year (POY) points. Those finishing in second-through-tenth win $150 GGMasters tickets for every tournament in 2021. The champion, however, becomes a GG Ambassador with a package worth up to half a million dollars.

Brazil’s Ricardo “M@cacoCidadao” Nascimento is still the man to catch in the race for sponsorship. The Brazilian won a GGMasters and reached the final table of another. He now enjoys an 187.39 cushion between himself and “Vladiator13” who won last week’s tournament.

It currently takes a shade over 1,230 points to climb into the POY top 10. This seems a lot but a couple of final table appearances, several cashes, or one outright victory can award this sum.

With satellites into the $150 buy-in freezeout starting at only $1.50, everyone has the chance of becoming the GGMasters POY.

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Current GGMasters Player of the Year Standings

Vladiator Wins GGMaster on April 26, Goes Straight Into POY Second Place

The last GGMasters to run broke through its $500,000 guarantee for the first time with 3,662 players creating a $505,356 prize pool. It’s an incredible achievement considering the tournament’s guarantee was $300,000 less than two months ago.

The top 611 players received a slice of this monster-sized sum, although a trio of other player won their buy-in back in tournament dollars, too.

“somebodyelse” and “BKBroker” fell in 617th and 616th respectively and won T$150 thanks to registering for the GGMasters before the tournament began. It’s a great free feature of GGPoker’s major tournaments.

A min-cash weighed in at $268 but this increase to $4,252 by the time the nine-handed final table was reached. The first five-figure prize went to sixth-place finisher “nuller” of Cyprus who walked away with $12,304.

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Prizes continued rising with “aaaanasty” banking $24,985 in fourth and “HorseAlmighty” collecting $35,604 for their third-place exit.

Heads-up pitted “Luoat” of Hong Kong against Lithuania’s “Vladiator13”. The latter emerged victoriously and scooped a massive $72,299 for their $150 investment, with the runner-up netting $50,735.

Vladiator13 was awarded 1,421.77 POY points in addition to their cash prize. Thanks to another cash in a previous GGMasters, the Lithuanian goes into second-place in the yearly race.

GGMasters Final Table Results (April 26, 2020)

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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