Molinelli Makes it Two in Two! Wins $2,500 Limit Hold'em Championship ($88,461)

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Nicolo Molinelli wins GGPoker WSOP Online Event #3

Less than 12 months ago, Nicolo Molinelli won his first bracelet after winning one of the last events of the 2020 WSOP Online.

This year, he's picked up his second bracelet in one of the first events. He defeated 180 players to win Event #3: $2,500 Limit Hold'em for $88,461.

A former GGPoker Super MILLION$ final tablist, Molinelli becomes the fourth player to win online bracelets in both 2020 and 2021 after Allen Chang, David Peters and Bradley Ruben, but is the first to have won both bracelets on GGPoker.

Event #3: $2,500 Limit Hold'em Championship Final Table Results

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1Nicolo MolinelliMalta$88,461
2Renan BruschiBrazil$66,336
3Milos "Picasso98" PetakovicMontenegro$49,745
4Alex "Pl3ase_MuCk" Fortin-DemersCanada$37,303
5Vince CavaillesIreland$27,974
6Romain "Flingue" DoursFrance$20,977
7Joao VieiraPortugal$15,731
8Stanislav "Stas Kuvaev" KuvaevRussia$11,796
9Mark RadojaCanada$8,846

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Day 2 Action

The final day took less than four hours to play down, after a quick exit to start things off from the shortest stack coming in, Mark Radoja. After that, it slowed down a bit, but ultimately the blinds caught up with them and it ended fairly quickly.

Despite coming to the final table with the most chips, it wasn't an easy ride for Molinelli. He was short stacked several times through the final table, and was even all-in at risk when play was five-handed. Runner-up Renan Bruschi got to heads-up play with a big lead, but Molinelli quickly got back into it and took the lead after turning top pair and holding.

It was the second last hand of the game that really did the damage. Bruschi had a good chance to stage a comeback with nearly 3 million chips still behind, and turned two-pair with ace-eight. Molinelli hit gin on the river with a straight however, leaving Bruschi with less than 1 million chips, and the game ended the next hand.


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Thursday's WSOP Online Action

Today sees the fourth event of the GGPoker WSOP Online get underway with the $800 buy-in Double-Chance. This two-day event will have full live coverage over the next two days. There is also yet another flight for the Millionaire Maker which guarantees $1m for first place.

PokerNews will be live reporting Day 2 of the Millionaire Maker on Sunday, August 8.

DateDayTime (GMT)Event NameBuy-InGTD
Aug 5Thu17:00#4: $800 DOUBLE CHANCE NLH [2-Stack, 2-Day Event]$800
Aug 5Thu18:30#7: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER NLH – $1M for 1st [Day 1D]$1,500$5,000,000
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