Kristen Bicknell raised to 352,000 from the button and was called by Ilya Anatsky in the small blind. Belarmino "Iseey0urcard" De Souza shoved from the big blind for 6,071,870. Bicknell shoved for more for Anatsky to quickly get out of their way.
Belarmino "Iseey0urcard" De Souza:
Kristen Bicknell:
The board ran out for De Souza to hit the runner-runner flush to double up.
Ilya Anatsky completed his small blind and Belarmino "Iseey0urcard" De Souza raised to 540,000 from the big blind. Anatsky three-bet shoved for 3,964,953 and was called by De Souza with the bigger stack.
Ilya Anatsky:
Belarmino "Iseey0urcard" De Souza:
The board ran out for Anatsky to turn a pair of deuces and improved to two pair to double up with.
Kristen Bicknell raised to 264,000 from the button and Dong "nuoyani" Jiang three-bet shoved from the bg blind for 2,193,233 and was called by Bicknell with the bigger stack.
Dong "nuoyani" Jiang:
Kristen Bicknell:
The flop came for Bicknell to hit top pair.
The turn was the which didn't change things and neither did the on the river as Jiang was eliminated in fourth place for $140,365.
Belarmino "Iseey0urcard" De Souza raised to 200,000 from the button and was called by Kristen Bicknell in the small blind.
The flop came , Bicknell check-called the 184,800 continuation-bet of De Souza.
They both checked through the on the turn to the on the river. Bicknell bet 500,000 for De Souza to call withthe for the full house. Bicknell held for quad kings to claim the pot.
This past Sunday, it was a night to remember on GGPoker as their first-ever WSOP bracelet events — part of a 54-event schedule spread out across the next months — kicked off. Unfortunately, on a night where three bracelet winners were supposed to be crowned, two of the events ran into a critical bug and had to be suspended to next week.
The lightning-fast Event #34: $525 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed — clocking in at a mere 3 hours and 15 minutes start to finish to make it the fastest-ever bracelet event — was unaffected by the technical issues and played out as normal. In total, 2,214 entries of $525 each were made to create a total prize pool of $1,107,000.
In the end, it was Shoma "pp_syon" Ishikawa of Japan writing history as GGPoker's first-ever online bracelet winner, as well as the third person from Japan after Naoya Kihara and Takahiro Nakai to claim the coveted prize. Ishikawa is an emerging talent from the land of the rising
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