Mirza "zazano" Muhovic raised to 65,700 from the hijack and Giorgios "Geokarak" Karakousis called on the button.
The flop came , both players checked to the on the turn. Muhovic bet 150,000 for Karakousis to shove for 536,293 which Muhovic called with the for the overpair. Karakousis held the for the turned pair of tens and when the completed the board, he was eliminated.
Helping kick off the 2020 World Championship of Online Poker was one of many marquee events that will play out this series, the two-day $10,300 buy-in Sunday Slam.
As a progressive knockout tournament, finding ways to stack as many opponents as possible was crucial. In the end 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure champion Dimitar “KuuL” Danchev punched out the most of them to earn the title and just over $400,000 including bounties.
When speaking on the PokerStars WCOOP 2020 live stream about his win, Danchev acknowledged how important collecting those knockouts really was.
“My tournament went pretty good with winning a lot of bounties,” he says. “But it’s very important actually if you win a lot of bounties in such format to win the heads-up, so you keep all the bounties for yourself!”
Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts raised to 55,000 from the cutoff and Artur "mararthur1" Martirosian three-bet to 162,500 from the button. The action folded back to Aerts who shoved for 1,070,234 for Martirosian to call with the slightly bigger stack.
Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts:
Artur "mararthur1" Martirosian:
The board ran out for Martirosian to flop a full house immediately to score the huge pot and bust Aerts.
Artur "mararthur1" Martirosian raised to 55,000 from under the gun and Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts three-bet shoved from the small blind. Andras "probirs" Nemeth called in the big blind for the 357,859 he had behind while Martirosian folded.
Sergei "Futti18" Koliakov limped in from the button and Ivan "Negriin" Luca shoved for 302,170 from the small blind which only Giorgios "Geokarak" Karakousis called in the big blind.
Ivan "Negriin" Luca:
Giorgios "Geokarak" Karakousis:
The board ran out for Karakousis to river the straight to bust Luca.
Chris "Big Huni" Hunichen shoved from the button for 330,146 for Anatoly "NL_Profit" Filatov to make the call in the big blind for the 321,385 he had behind.
Anatoly "NL_Profit" Filatov:
Chris "Big Huni" Hunichen:
The board ran out for Hunichen to flop the pair of jacks to eliminate Filatov.