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!”
Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen raised to 7,500 from under the gun and Espen "locomi" Myrmo three-bet to 27,000 from the button.
The blinds folded and action was back on Kyllönen who called to see a flop appear. Kyllönen checked to Myrmo who continued for 14,625 and Kyllönen raised to 102,375.
The price was too steep for Myrmo as he mucked his hand giving the pot to Kyllönen.