Rayan "InhalemyQuQ" Chamas raised the cutoff to 252,000, "Skinny Pete" rerasied the button to 720,000, Enrico Camosci shoved more than 6 million from the small blind, and Jeff "DollarVig" Berwick called with less than 3 million from the big blind. The initial two players folded, and it was aces for Camosci against kings for Berwick. There was no change from the board, though it ran out four diamonds, and Chamas showed fives with a diamond which would have taken it against both bigger pairs.
"tiltjam" also lost a race against "davidchien88" on the other table, and it's hand-for-hand to the final table.
Jeff "DollarVig" Berwick raised the button to 160,000 and Aleksandr "Sharb" Balashov called from the big blind, then check-called for 150,480 on the flop. They check-raised from 249,797 to 640,000 on the turn, but check-folded to a shove of just under a million on the river.
In hands on two tables, short stacks doubled. "swedishdream" held with king-queen against the ten-nine of big stack "Pacailo", while on another table, Joao "Wim Hof" Ferreira doubled against "Prosperish" with the best ace.
Ivan "Negriin" Vilchez min-raised from the cutoff. Chris Moorman three-bet to 4,400 from the button and was called by Sasha "Poker Sasha" Liu from the small blind.
Vilchez four-bet jammed for 16,893 before Moorman five-bet shoved over the top for 19,268. Liu called them both for a three-way showdown.
Ivan "Negriin" Vilchez:
Chris Moorman:
Sasha "Poker Sasha" Liu:
This might be a don't do this at home moment but Liu's jack-nine got there on the board to collect two bounties.
Moorman re-entered after the hand while Vilchez didn't hop back into the action at least right away.
Damir "Shershnyaga" Gabdullin opened for 575 from under the gun. Diego Bittar jacked it up to 1,650 from the cutoff. Gabdullin four-bet to 4,725 and Bittar called.
Gabdullin bet 4,245 on the flop and Bittar called. Gabdullin jammed for 16,545 the turn and Bittar called that as well.
Damir "Shershnyaga" Gabdullin:
Diego Bittar:
A bit of a bad cooler for Bittar who flopped top set on the flop to be only drawing to one out after his opponent hit a better set on the turn.
The river didn't help Bittar and Gabdullin doubled his stack.
In addition to the ring, players are also competing for a large chunk of change with at least $1 million guaranteed to be in the prize pool.
The event kicks off at 7:05 p.m. BST (2:05 p.m. EDT) with players starting off with 25,000 in chips worth 125 big blinds during the opening blind level. Players will have plenty of opportunities to build a monster stack with unlimited re-entries permitted during the 195-minute late registration window.
Blinds will increase every 15 minutes for the first dozen blind levels. After that, the pace will speed up with 10-minute blind levels until the final table is reached, at which point GGPoker's final table rules will take over. Blinds will be pushed back at the final table so that the average stack is at least 40 big blinds and blinds will increase a certain number of hands instead of by time.
Expect tons of action in this event as it is a progressive bounty affair. Every player will have a $400 bounty on their head to start. After every elimination, the player that won the hand will have half the bounty go straight into their GGPoker account and the other half will be added to their personal bounty for others to potentially collect.
Stake Your Favorite Players in This Event at GGPoker
Even if you aren't playing you can still have a fun (and potentially lucrative) sweat with many big names selling action directly within the GGPoker client including GGPoker OmahaSquad Online member Sasha "Poker Sasha" Liu and friend of GGPoker Jessica Teusl.
Stay tuned at PokerNews as we report this event from start to finish to see who will win the eighth ring of the 2021 WSOP Super Circuit Online Series at GGPoker.