Brazil’s Matheus Cardoso Machado Wins WSOP Paradise Event #4: GGMasters Online Championship ($432,623)

Chad Holloway PR & Media Manager

Dec 09, 2024 2 min read

The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise is comprised of 15 bracelet events, and two of those are online events at GGPoker. On Sunday, Dec. 8, the $2,750 buy-in Event #4: GGMasters Online Championship featured a $2,500,000 guarantee, but with only 813 entrants the field enjoyed a juicy $467,500 overlay.

The two-day tournament ended with Brazil’s Matheus Cardoso Machado as the last player standing to claim a $432,623 first-place prize and his first WSOP online gold bracelet.

Day 1 of the tournament ended with 24 players remaining and the Netherlands’ Werner “HansDenSvans” Lootsma and his stack of 994,433 (82.9BB) leading the pack. That was a good bit ahead of Finland’s Eero “Whims of Fortun” Abbey, who was second in chips with 631,711 (52.6BB).

The final table of the online event was reached right around the same time as that of the Triton Millions in The Bahamas. The first elimination at the GGMasters Online Championship came when the short-stacked Darnell Simpson got his chips all in preflop holding the 8♦8♣ and was up against the K♠K♣ of Machado.

Simpson actually took the lead by spiking an eight on the 6♣9♦8♥ flop, but it was short-lived as the K♦ peeled off on the turn to give Machado the bigger set. The 9♣ river changed nothing and Simpson became the first final table casualty.

WSOP Hand — The first elimination from the final table.

The start-of-the-day chip leader Lootsma was the next to go a few hands later in seventh place, and then Ireland’s Scott Margerson followed in sixth after failing to get lucky with pocket deuces all in preflop against the aces of Andrey Pateychuk.

Abbey, who began the day second in chips, saw their run come to an end in fifth place and then Cambodia’s Hyeinsik Yun was bounced in fourth place. In three-handed play, Andorra’s Joao Pedro Do Couto Tomas was extremely short and eventually got in his last few blinds with the 6♦5♦ only to run into the 10♦10♥ of Pateychuk, with the pocket pair holding.

That set up a heads-up match between Machado and Pateychuk with the former holding approximately 5.5 million to the latter’s 3.2 million. The duo battled back and forth, but ultimately Machado prevailed to deny Pateychuk his first bracelet.

2024 WSOP Paradise Event #4 Final Table Results

Place	Player	County	Prize
1	Matheus Cardoso Machado	Brazil	$432,623.84
2	Andrey Pateychuk	Russia	$324,421.89
3	Joao Pedro Do Couto Tomas	Andorra	$243,282
4	Hyeinsik Yun	Cambodia	$182,435.82
5	Eero Abbey	Finland	$136,807.51
6	Scott Margerson	Ireland	$102,591.30
7	Werner Lootsma	The Netherlands	$76,932.45
8	Darnell Simpson	Canada	$57,691.37

The next online event – the $2,500 buy-in, $5 million GTD Event #11: Mystery Millions Online – will take place on Sunday, Dec. 15.

Here’s a look at the remaining 2024 WSOP Paradise schedule:

DATE	EVENT	TOURNAMENT
10-Dec	6	$5,000 Deepstack No-Limit Hold'em
10-Dec	7	$100,000 Triton Main Event
11-Dec	8	$50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship
12-Dec	9	$25,000 WSOP Super Main Event ($50m GTD)
14-Dec	10	$10,000 Paradise Pot-Limit Omaha
15-Dec	11	$2,500 Mystery Millions Online ($2.5m GTD)
16-Dec	12	$10,000 GGMillion$ NLH Championship ($5m GTD)
17-Dec	13	$50,000 No-Limit Hold'em Super High Roller
18-Dec	14	Super Saver 1M Invitational ($1m GTD)
18-Dec	15	$5,000 The Closer - NLH Bounty Turbo