The online bracelet schedule for the Summer Online WSOP is comprised of 31 events running daily throughout July. THEY ARE ALL ONE-DAY EVENTS. The scheduled WSOP.com events are available in hold'em and Omaha formats. Popular live staples like the BIG 50, MonsterStack and Senior's Event have been moved online.
The marquee tournament is $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship, which takes place on Friday, July 31. All events will kick off at 3 p.m. PDT.
On Sunday, July 19, GGPoker held its first-ever WSOP bracelet events — part of a 54-event schedule spread out across July, August, and into September. 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
Ishikawa may have been GGPoker's first-ever bracelet winner, but he's not the last. As the series rolls on, several others have been crowned.
"LordMTM" raised to 100,000 from the hijack and "Invaders27" three-bet all in for 151,864 from the cutoff. Action folded back to "LordMTM" and they called.
"Invaders27":
"LordMTM":
The board ran out and "LordMTM" rivered two pair to dispatch "Invaders27" in 24th place for $3,492.
Jesse "Patient0" Yaginum raised to 100,000 from the hijack and Huiwen "HLM99" Liu three-bet to 278,000 from the button. Chen "8konvict" Zong proceeded to jam all in for 841,043 from the big blind, Yaginum folded, and Liu made the call.
Chen "8konvict" Zong:
Huiwen "HLM99" Liu:
Zong was ahead and primed to double. The flop and turn kept him firmly in the lead, but the spiked on the river to pair Liu and send Zong packing in 21st place for $3,492.