"2Rivers" raised to 560,000 from middle position and Kevin "SpecialK333" Calenzo defended his big blind to see a flop. Calenzo was first to act and jammed for 942,735, which "2Rivers" called.
"2Rivers":
Kevin "SpecialK333" Calenzo:
Calenzo had an open-ended straight draw, though "2Rivers" held two blockers. Neither the turn nor river changed a thing and Calenzo was the first to fall from the final table.
Arian "4632647" Stolt raised all in for 967,524 from under the gun and action folded around to Andrew "WATCHGUY42" Lichtenberger who called from the button.
Arian "4632647" Stolt:
Andrew "WATCHGUY42" Lichtenberger:
Stolt was way behind and the flop paired Litchenberger but also gave Stolt a gutshot.
The turn didn't change a thing nor did the that followed on the river ending Stolts tournament in seventh place.
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.