Event #31: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 1 Completed
2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #31: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1
Level 43
: 250,000/500,000, 50,000 ante
On Friday night, the 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online Series Event #31: $1,000 NLH Championship attracted 1,455 players who rebought 671 times. The 2,126-entry field resulted in a $2,019,700 prize pool (the largest out of all 31 events) and after nearly 12 hours of play, Nahrain “2Rivers” Tamero emerged victorious to capture the bracelet and $310,831.83 first-place prize.
Tamero has amassed over $158,000 in lifetime live tournament earnings, of which just a small $3,428 cash came from the WSOP for a 315th-place finish in the 2018 WSOP $888 Crazy Eights event.
2020 WSOP Online Event #31 Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nahrain “2Rivers” Tamero | $310,832 |
| 2 | Norman "abnormality" Michalek | $192,073 |
| 3 | Andrew "WATCHGUY42" Lichtenberger | $140,167 |
| 4 | Brian "foxxx" Kirchhoff | $103,207 |
| 5 | Edan “goatplaya” Sucov | $76,749 |
| 6 | Greg “Bubblealot” Wish | $57,561 |
| 7 | Arian "4632647” Stolt | $43,424 |
| 8 | Michael “merlot” Bailey | $33,123 |
| 9 | Kevin “SpecialK333” Calenzo | $25,650 |
After Max “Mawkswell” Young bubbled the tournament in 331st place, the elimination came at a steady pace. Among those to make the money but fall short of the final table was Allen “chainsaw” Kessler (262nd - $1,817.73), Joe “fanofdapoker” McKeehen (215th - $1,817.73), Phil “Lumestackin” Hellmuth (133rd - $2,423.64), Tony “Panoramic” Dunst (106th - $2,625.61), Kathy “Luckygal” Liebert (100th - $2,625.61), Matt “berkey11_s4y” Berkey (56th - $4,645.31), Chelsea "wubalubadubb" Bowden (55th - $4,645.31), Jamie “DanBilzerian” Kerstetter (37th - $6,463.04), Ryan “protential” Laplante (30th - $7,876.83), and final table bubble boy David “bewater” Goodman (10th - $19,995.03).
The final table kicked off with a flurry of eliminations all in a 15-minute span. First, it was Kevin “SpecialK333” Calenzo exiting in ninth after getting it in on the flop with an open-ended straight draw and missing against the ace-high of Tamero, and then Michael “merlot” Bailey followed him out the door losing with ace-nine all in preflop against the ace-ten of Andrew “WATCHGUY42” Lichtenberger.
Soon after, Lichtenberger notched another knockout when Arian “4632647” Stolt jammed with ten-nine suited and “Lucky Chewy” held with ace-nine. From there, Greg “Bubblealot” Wish lost a race with pocket fives against Norman “abnormality” Michalek’s king-eight after the latter flopped two pair.
Edan “goatplaya” Sucov then lost jack-ten to the ace-eight of Tamero to exit in fifth place, while Brian "foxxx" Kirchhoff failed to get lucky with ace-six against Michalek’s ace-queen all in preflop. Lichtenberger the three-bet jammed with ace-five only to get called by Michalek, who held with pocket eights.
That allowed Michalek to take 30.5 million into heads-up play against Tamero, who began with 12 million. However, Tamero was able to pick off two bluffs to take the chip lead and then closed things out shortly thereafter when Michalek attempted a failed river bluff.
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Level 43
: 250,000/500,000, 50,000 ante
Nahrain “2Rivers” Tamero raised to 1,000,000 and Norman "abnormality" Michalek called to see a 
flop appear.
Michalek check-raised to 2,500,000 after Tamero continued for 1,000,000 and was called.
Once the 
appeared on the turn, Michalek led out for 2,750,000 and Tamero called to see the 
complete the board on the river.
Michalek moved all in for 5,677,408, Tamero snap-called, and both players tabled their hands.
Michalek rolled over 
for air while Tamero turned over 
to win the hand and just like that, after three failed bluffs, Michalek was eliminated in second place.
Below is a look at one of the bluff hands Tamero was able to pick off.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
42,520,000
30,523,704
|
30,523,704 |
|
Busted |
Level 43
: 250,000/500,000, 50,000 ante
Norman "abnormality" Michalek raised the button to 1,000,000 and then called when Andrew "WATCHGUY42" Lichtenberger three-bet all in for 8,214,914 from the big blind.
Norman "abnormality" Michalek: 
Andrew "WATCHGUY42" Lichtenberger: 
Lichtenberger was looking for some help, but he was left wanting as the board ran out 
to give Michalek nines full of eights.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
30,523,704
9,589,914
|
9,589,914 |
|
|
11,996,296
-3,394,957
|
-3,394,957 |
|
Busted | |
|
||
Level 43
: 250,000/500,000, 50,000 ante
Brian "foxxx" Kirchhoff moved all in for 5,227,392 and Norman "abnormality" Michalek isolated by jamming from the small blind.
Brian "foxxx" Kirchhoff: 
Norman "abnormality" Michalek: 
Kirchoff was dominated and it got worse when the 
flop paired Michalek. The turn left Kirchoff drawing dead and he exited in fourth place after the was run out on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
20,933,790
2,447,392
|
2,447,392 |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 43
Blinds: 250,000/500,000
Ante: 50,000
Level 42
: 200,000/400,000, 40,000 ante
Edan "goatplaya" Sucov raised all in for 3,214,094 from the button and Nahrain “2Rivers” Tamero called from the big blind.
Nahrain “2Rivers” Tamero: 
Edan "goatplaya" Sucov: 
The 
flop paired Tamero ace but "goatplaya" also picked up flush and straight draws.
Unfortunately for Sucov, neither the turn nor the river were cards they wanted to see and they were eliminated in fifth place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
15,391,253
7,599,398
|
7,599,398 |
|
|
Busted |
Level 42
: 200,000/400,000, 40,000 ante
Norman "abnormality" Michalek raised to 800,000 from under the gun and then called Greg "Bubblealot" Wish's 1,459,960 three-bet jam from the next seat over.
Greg "Bubblealot" Wish: 
Norman "abnormality" Michalek: 
Wish was ahead with their made hand until the 
flop appeared pairing Michalek's king.
The 
turn was no help to Wish nor was the 
that followed on the river ending his tournament in sixth place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
18,486,398
10,511,960
|
10,511,960 |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 42
Blinds: 200,000/400,000
Ante: 40,000
Level 41
: 170,000/340,000, 34,000 ante
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.
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2020 Online WSOP Bracelet Winners on GGPoker
| Date | Tournament | Entries | Prize Pool | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/26/20 | Event #32: $100 The Opener | 29,306 | $2,571,216 | Marcelo Jakovljevic Pudla | $265,880 |
| 7/26/20 | Event #33: $1,111 Every 1 for Covid Relief | 2,323 | $2,580,853 | Alek Stasiak | $343,204 |
| 7/19/20 | Event #34: $525 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed | 2,214 | $1,107,000 | Shoma "pp_syon" Ishikawa | $117,650 |
| 7/21/20 | Event #35: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship | 328 | $1,558,000 | Juha Helppi | $290,286 |
| 7/22/20 | Event #36: $1,500 FIFTY STACK NLHE | 1,342 | $1,912,350 | Michael Clacher | $297,496 |
| 7/23/20 | Event #37: $1,050 Bounty Pot Limit Omaha | 971 | $971,000 | Hun Wei Lee | $161,886 |
| 7/25/20 | Event #38: $600 Monster Stack 6-Max | 2,007 | $1,143,990 | Aaron "fishnchip" Wijaya | $171,389 |
| 7/26/20 | Event #39: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em | 922 | $1,313,850 | Roberto Romanello | $212,613 |
| 7/26/20 | Event #40: $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha | 532 | $1,253,500 | Simon Lofberg | $224,493 |
| 7/28/20 | Event #43: $10,000 Short Deck No Limit Hold'em Championship | 130 | $1,261,000 | Lev "LevMeAlone" Gottlieb | $276,393 |
| 7/29/20 | Event #44: $2,500 NLHE 6-Handed | 892 | $2,118,500 | Kristen Bicknell | $356,412 |
| 7/30/20 | Event #45: $840 Bounty NLHE | 2,382 | $1,095,600 | Patrick "Muddington" Kennedy | $245,448 |