WSOPC #6: $170 Mini Main Event, $2M Gtd.
Day 2 Completed
WSOPC #6: $170 Mini Main Event, $2M Gtd.
Day 2 Completed
After coming into Day 3 with the chip lead in the 2020 GGPoker WSOP Winter Online Circuit Event #6: $170 Mini Main Event, Russia's "CallMeBatya" has also taken the tournament down for $277,277 by defeating "asky86" heads-up. The tournament attracted 13,912 players who reentered 3,566 times to get to 17,478 entries in total which created a prize purse of $2,733,559.
It cost "CallMeBatya" 13 bullets to get through to Day 2 and what a great return on investment for the Russian player whose previous best result on GGPoker was when they finished in 17th place on the Big 50 for $5,941. In total, they had collected almost $20,000 in cashes in tournaments with an average buy-in of $69. With this result here today, they have easily broken any previous records.
On the other hand, "asky86" qualified for the Mini Main Event by getting through a $20 satellite and their previous best result came when they won the $25,20 GGMaster Daily in the Bounty Hunter Series for $4,533. With just over $9,000 in total cashes on GG, the cash in this event eclipsed any previous results.
Alessandro Siena, Ioannis Angelou-Konstas, and Robert "robdag83" Glasspool were some of the more familiar names on the final table with "Vaatefingre", "eisbdh12", "L-love", and "zopino" completing the line-up.
Place | Player | Country | Prize |
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1 | "CallMeBatya" | Russia | $277,277 |
2 | "asky86" | China | $207,920 |
3 | Alessandro Siena | Italy | $155,918 |
4 | Ioannis Angelou-Konstas | Greece | $116,922 |
5 | "Vaatefingre" | Norway | $87,679 |
6 | "eisbdh12" | Hong Kong | $65,750 |
7 | "L-love" | Brazil | $49,306 |
8 | Robert "robdag83" Glasspool | Hong Kong | $36,974 |
9 | "zopino" | Israel | $27,727 |
At the start of the day, the blinds were rolled back to give players an average of 40 big blinds to play with as this was a new feature introduced by GGPoker. Once the players had selected their seats at the final table, it would only take a few minutes before "CallMeBatya" lost their chip lead by doubling up "L-love". It would take almost 40 minutes before "zopino" ran their eights into the kings of Siena who would take over the chip lead.
Twenty minutes later, Glasspool would be next to go who couldn't make his short stack work for him in any way. He got his last 19 big blinds in with ace-eight but Angelou-Konstas held pocket tens and held. Even though "L-love" has found a double-up at the start of the day, they couldn't keep hold of those chips as they lost them all to "asky86" when the latter had pocket tens too.
"asky86" claimed the chip lead and only increased it, even more, when they took out "eisbdh12" with ace-king. "CallMeBatya" sported the shortest stack but doubled through "Vaatefingre" who then lost the remainder of their stack to Siena. Siena held the rockets which didn't get cracked by the ace-king of "Vaatefingre".
"CallMeBatya" still had the shortest stack but some unfortunate hands for Angelou-Konstas got the latter to the bottom of the counts before he put his tournament life at risk with pocket fives. "asky86" held king-queen and found another queen on the flop to connect with. At this point, "asky86" held almost 55% of all the chips in play and only increased that lead before Siena was sent to the rail in third place when he got his last twelve big blinds in with queen-seven and was looked up by "CallMeBatya" who held the aces.
"asky86" still had more than a 2:1 chip lead but "CallMeBatya" quickly evened out the stacks before taking the chip lead back after having had lost it for quite a while. "asky86" doubled up twice to get the stacks back to even again but "CallMeBatya" kept the pressure on to quickly build the lead up again. In the final hand of the night, "CallMeBatya" three-bet shoved with ace-nine and "asky86" called with ace-jack. "CallMeBatya" flopped top pair and "asky86" bricked the gutshots to a straight to double or split the pot to see them leave the final table stage as the runner-up.
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"asky86" raised to 14,700,000 from the button and "CallMeBatya" three-bet shoved with the bigger stack. "asky86" made the call for the 117,836,899 they had left.
"asky86":
"CallMeBatya":
"asky86" was ahead until the came on the flop to give "CallMeBatya" top pair but it also gave "asky86" the gutshot to a straight.
The turn was the which didn't change much except for a possible split pot if the six came on the river.
Instead, the river completed the board with the for "CallMeBatya" to improve their pair of nines to two pair to win the tournament for $277,2777 and the WSOP Circuit Ring while "asky86" walks away as the runner-up and the $207,920 prize.
A full recap is to follow.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
CallMeBatya |
432,960,213
136,886,899
|
136,886,899 |
|
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asky86 | Busted |
The chips have been going back and forth at a furious pace with "CallMeBatya" claiming more of them than "asky86" has been doing. These are their current chip counts.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
CallMeBatya |
296,073,314
78,614,805
|
78,614,805 |
|
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asky86 |
136,886,899
-78,614,805
|
-78,614,805 |
Level: 44
Blinds: 3,500,000/7,000,000
Ante: 850,000
"CallMeBatya" raised to 12,000,000 from the button and "asky86" opted to call.
They both checked through the flop to the on the turn. "asky86" bet 12,750,000 and "CallMeBatya" raised to 37,500,000. ask jammed for 95,000,852 and "CallMeBatya" called with the bigger stack.
"asky86":
"CallMeBatya":
"asky86" held the straight while "CallMeBatya" had flopped a set.
The river completed the board with the which didn't pair up for "asky86" to secure the double-up to get the stacks back to even.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
CallMeBatya |
217,458,509
-104,750,852
|
-104,750,852 |
|
||
asky86 |
215,501,704
104,750,852
|
104,750,852 |
"asky86" limped in from the button and "CallMeBatya" opted to check.
They both checked through the flop to the on the turn. "CallMeBatya" bet 10,530,000 and was called.
The river completed the board with the and "CallMeBatya" bet 26,956,800 and was called for the last time. "asky86" showed the for top pair but "CallMeBatya" held the for two pair and the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
CallMeBatya |
322,209,361
47,233,800
|
47,233,800 |
|
||
asky86 |
110,750,852
-47,236,800
|
-47,236,800 |
Level: 43
Blinds: 3,000,000/6,000,000
Ante: 750,000
"CallMeBatya" raised to 10,000,000 from the button and "asky86" shoved for the remaining 78,393,826 which "CallMeBatya" called.
"asky86":
"CallMeBatya":
The board ran out for "asky86" to hold with the pocket pair to double up with two pair.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
CallMeBatya |
274,975,561
-72,154,826
|
-72,154,826 |
|
||
asky86 |
157,987,652
72,157,826
|
72,157,826 |
"CallMeBatya" limped in on the button and "asky86" opted to check.
The flop came , "asky86" check0raised the 5,000,000 bet of "CallMeBatya" to 10,000,000 and was called.
They both checked through the on the turn to the on the river. "asky86" bet 15,600,000 and was called. "asky86" tabled the for the missed straight draw for "CallMeBatya" to gain more chips as they held the for the higher kicker.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
CallMeBatya |
347,130,387
81,144,001
|
81,144,001 |
|
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asky86 |
85,829,826
-81,144,001
|
-81,144,001 |