Event #54: $10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Championship [No Late Reg, 128 Cap]
Jour 1 a débuté
Event #54: $10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Championship [No Late Reg, 128 Cap]
Jour 1 a débuté
Today it's time for one of the tournaments that many players look forward to during the summer. Event #54: $10,000 Heads Up NLHE Championship will kick off at 6 p.m. UTC with a full field of 128 players trying to get to the semi-finals which will be played out on the following Saturday. One of the most anticipated tournaments during the 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet Events had a cap of 128 players which was reached two days ago already.
Sean Swingruber won the championship in 2019 when he defeated Ben Yu heads-up. Players like Kristen Bicknell, Jake Schindler, and Matthias Eibinger reached the final eight last year and both Bicknell and Schindler are back in the race today.
GGPoker has changed things up for today and every player in this tournament will be playing under their real names instead of their nicknames. A tournament bracket will be set up about an hour before the start and will be posted once the dust of registrations has settled.
Felipe Ramos, Bertrand Grospellier, Daniel Negreanu, Fedor Holz, Pete Chen, Danny Tang, Michael Soyza, Thai Ha, and Guo Dong are some of the GG Network representatives who will be playing today together with players like Leon Tsoukernik, Dan Bilzerian, Fedor Kruse, Johan Gulbert and Michiel Van Elsacker.
When the players start their heads-up matches, they will get 60,000 chips in their starting stacks. The levels will go up every 12 minutes and start at 150/300 with no antes in play. The starting stacks will reset at the start of each round and five rounds will be played today until there are four players left. The regular 6-minute breaks will still take place at 55 minutes past each hour.
Sixteen players will get paid as long as the field remains full until the heads-up matches really start and the winner will walk away on Saturday, August 15 with$360,480 plus a WSOP Europe Package.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be here from the first raise until the final match is over for today, so make sure to follow along.
The bracket has been drawn for the event. Here's a look at the players squaring off in the first round.
Player 1 | Player 2 |
---|---|
Felipe Ramos | Darren Elias |
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier | Romain Dours |
Daniel Negreanu | Fedor Kruse |
Fedor Holz | Albert Daher |
Pete Chen | Ivan Leow |
Danny Tang | George Wolff |
Michael Soyza | Luke Sneath |
Thai Ha | Shaylen Anita |
Dong Guo | Vicent Bosca |
Leon Tsoukernik | Gabriel Campanha |
Dan Bilzerian | Mike Leah |
Johan Guilbert | David Peters |
Shawn Buchanan | Michiel Van Elsacker |
Bruno Botteon | Alyssa MacDonald |
Viktor Kudinov | Kilian Loeffler |
Jan Lakota | Timothy Nuter |
Chris Brewer | Marius Gierse |
Martin Zamani | Ioannis Angelou-Kostas |
Wiktor Malinowski | Aaron Van Blarcum |
Dario Sammartino | Scott Woods |
Erik Seidel | Laurynas Levinskas |
Mark Radoja | Brandon Adams |
Yuri Dzivielevski | Mike McDonald |
Viacheslav Buldygin | Manig Loeser |
Thomas Cazayous | Max Kruse |
Dzmitry Urbanovich | Mateusz Rypulak |
Rainer Kempe | Mathieu Clavet |
Stephen Chidwick | Jake Schindler |
Connor Drinan | Michael Addamo |
Timothy Adams | Jean Ferreira |
Jesus Cortes | Alex Foxen |
Michael Zhang | David Yan |
Alexandros Kolonias | Conor Beresford |
Simon Higgins | Manuel Saavedra |
Stefan Burakov | Dmitry Yurasov |
Rui Ferreira | Sami Kelopuro |
Daniel Dvoress | Sorel Mizzi |
Martijn Gerrits | Samuel Vousden |
Scott Margereson | Sergi Reixach |
Dominik Nitsche | Chris Ferguson |
[Removed:412] | Preben Stokkan |
Kahle Burns | Shota Hirao |
Nabil Cardoso | Thomas Muehloecker |
Jason McConnon | Alex Difelice |
Fyodor Shatokhin | Jon Van Fleet |
Craig Varnell | James Chen |
Joao Vieira | Luis Castillo |
Blake Bohn | Lev Gottlieb |
Ajay Chabra | Hagop Ketendjian |
Joao Simao | Belarmino De Souza |
Mikita Badziakouski | Henri Puustinen |
Ali Imsirovic | Kristen Bicknell |
Michel Dattani | Ami Barer |
Francisco Benitez | Juha Helppi |
Artur Martirosian | Peter Chien |
Koray Aldemir | Michelle Shah |
Pedro Waldburger | Alexey Ribin |
Wolfgang Strugger | Daniel Rodriguez |
Ivan Osipov | Jean-Noel Thorel |
Morten Klein | Josue Sauvageau |
Dan Smith | Lai Heng Foo |
Mike Watson | Sean Winter |
Vlad-Stefan Lache | Preston Lee |
Ren Le Lin | Jake Daniels |
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Felipe Ramos | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Thai Ha
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Jan Lakota | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Bertrand Grospellier
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Romain Dours | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Daniel Negreanu
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Fedor Kruse | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Fedor Holz
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Albert Daher | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Pete Chen | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Ivan Leow | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Danny Tang
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
George Wolff | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Michael Soyza | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Luke Sneath | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Timothy Nuter | 60,000 | 60,000 |
David Yan
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Shaylen Anita | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Vicent Bosca | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Leon Tsoukernik | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Gabriel Campanha
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Dan Bilzerian | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Mike Leah
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Johan Guilbert | 60,000 | 60,000 |
David Peters
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
The players have started their heads-up matches so follow along to see which 64 players will make it through to the next round.
Blinds: 150/300
Jake Daniels raised to 660 from the button and Ren Le Lin three-bet to 21,00 which Daniels called.
The flop came , Lin continued with a bet of 1,960 which Daniels called again.
The turn was the and Lin now barreled a bet of 6,150 over the line. Daniels raised it up to 14,600 for Lin to respond with a shove for 55,590. Daniels quickly made the call.
Jake Daniels:
Ren Le Lin:
Lin had put his tournament life at risk with the overpair but Daniels had flopped a straight to leave Lin drawing dead.
The river completed the board with the as a formality as Daniels would be the first player to confirm his seat in the second round,
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Jake Daniels | 120,000 | 60,000 |
Ren Le Lin | Eliminé |
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Blinds: 150/300
Chris Ferguson raised to 1,000 from the button and Dominik Nitsche three-bet to 4,000 which Ferguson called.
The flop came , Nitsche continued with a bet of 4,400 for Ferguson to go along with.
The turn was the and Nitsche barreled a bet of 14,280 into the pot and Ferguson called again.
The river completed the board with the for Nitsche to shove with the bigger stack. Ferguson made the call for the 34,546 he had behind while holding for the full house, sevens over queens. But unfortunately for him, Nitsche held for quad sevens to go through to the next round.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Dominik Nitsche
|
120,000 | 60,000 |
Chris Ferguson
|
Eliminé |
Blinds: 200/400
Mike Leah raised to 1,000 from the button and Dan Bilzerian defended. The flop came , Bilzerian check-raised the 1,000 continuation-bet of Leah to 4,000 and was called. The turn was the , Bilzerian bet 19,600 and Leah took some time before making the call in the end. The river completed the board with the and Bilzerian shoved with the slightly bigger stack with while Leah called the bluff for the 34,2777 he had behind with for the flopped set of aces to leave Bilzerian behind with a mere 2,246.
The hand after, Bilzerian pushed everything in from the button and was called by Leah.
Dan Bilzerian:
Mike Leah:
The board ran out for Leah to flop a pair of treys while Bilzerian turned a pair of deuces but got no further help of the board as he was eliminated.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Mike Leah
|
120,000 | 60,000 |
Dan Bilzerian | Eliminé |
Blinds: 200/400
Jesus Cortes raised to 1,000 and Alex Foxen called. Both players checked for a board of . Foxen checked, Cortes bet 1,000 and Foxen made it 3,600. Cortes called, bringing a . Foxen fired big with 7,300 only to see Cortes jam it in for 38K.
Foxen tank-called and Cortes could only muster for a busted draw, while Foxen's was good for two pair.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Alex Foxen
|
120,000 | 60,000 |
Jesus Cortes | Eliminé |
Conor Beresford defeated Alexandros Kolonias
Craig Varnell defeated James Chen
Artur Martirosian defeated Peter Chien
Mateusz Rypulak defeated Dzmitry Urbanovich
Pedro Waldburger defeated Alexey Ribin
Thomas Muehloecker defeated Nabil Cardoso
Belarmino De Souza defeated Joao Simao
Joao Vieira defeated Luis Castillo
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Conor Beresford | 120,000 | 60,000 |
Joao Vieira
|
120,000 | 60,000 |
Belarmino De Souza | 120,000 | 60,000 |
Thomas Muehloecker | 120,000 | 60,000 |
Pedro Waldburger | 120,000 | 60,000 |
Mateusz Rypulak | 120,000 | 60,000 |
Artur Martirosian
|
120,000 | 60,000 |
Craig Varnell
|
120,000 | 60,000 |
Luis Castillo
|
Eliminé | |
Alexandros Kolonias
|
Eliminé | |
Joao Simao
|
Eliminé | |
Nabil Cardoso | Eliminé | |
Alexey Ribin
|
Eliminé | |
Dzmitry Urbanovich | Eliminé | |
Peter Chien | Eliminé | |
James Chen
|
Eliminé |