2020 WSOP Global Casino Championship
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2020 WSOP Global Casino Championship
2020 WSOP Global Casino Championship
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Welcome to the 2020 WSOP Global Casino Championship!
On Sunday, the World Series of Poker Global Casino Championship will take place on WSOP.com. Depending on whether the situation with COVID-19 clears up, it may be the final bracelet awarded in 2020. Not only will PokerNews be offering live updates throughout the tournament, but they will also live-stream the action on the PokerNews Twitch Channel.
The online edition of the GCC is the first in the relatively short history of the WSOP Circuit's season-ending event. It typically brings together all of the Circuit's finest competitors under one roof for a great shot at a $1 million prize pool in a short field of 120 to 140 runners. Now, all participants will be required to be in either Nevada or New Jersey to play. We will publish a list of all registered players at the start of the tournament at Noon PDT on Sunday.
Some players qualified via winning WSOPC Main Events or Casino Champion honors, some qualified by making the top 50 of the points leaderboard, and in 2020, others qualified by simply winning a ring in the WSOP.com Season Finale.
Here's a look at all those who won rings in that online season finale:
| Tournament | Buy-In | Entries | Prize Pool | Winner | Prize | ||||
| Event #1: $100,000 GTD NLH Online Finale Circuit Kick-Off 2x Re-entry | $215 | 886 | 177,200 | "YoungGunz21" | $42,528 | ||||
| Event #2: $100,000 GTD NLH Online Finale Circuit 2x Re-entry | $320 | 515 | $184,500 | Soheb "tommyconway6" Porbandarwala | $46,125 | ||||
| Event #3: $100,000 GTD Online Finale NLH Turbo Deepstack 2x Re-entry | $250 | 625 | $149,375 | "Aiden13" | $23,810 | ||||
| Event #4: $150,000 GTD Online Finale Big 500 3x Re-entry | $500 | 422 | $197,074 | Kyle "iwant2win" Marlborough | $52,224 | ||||
| Event #5: $200,000 GTD Online Finale Circuit Monster Stack 3x Re-entry | $525 | 663 | $331,500 | Alan "mossadshark" Sternberg | $81,217 | ||||
| Event #6: $100,000 GTD Online Finale Circuit Freezeout | $320 | 419 | $125,700 | David "TheClubber" Larson | $30,796 | ||||
| Event #7: $150,000 GTD Online Finale Circuit High Roller 6-Max 2x Re-entry | $1,000 | 291 | $277,905 | Shawn "Saygoodnight" Daniels | $75,035 | ||||
| Event #8: $100,000 GTD Online Finale Circuit NLH 2x Re-entry | $215 | 887 | $177,400 | Dan "fatdan44" Wach | $42,576 | ||||
| Event #9: $100,000 GTD Online Finale Circuit NLH 2x Re-entry | $320 | 681 | $204,300 | Kami "Loco4coco" Hudson | $50,053 | ||||
| Event #10: $100,000 GTD Online Finale Circuit NLH Monster Stack 3x Re-entry | $320 | 706 | $211,800 | Michael "ParxBigStax" Marder | $50,832 | ||||
| Event #11: $150,000 GTD Online Finale Circuit NLH Double Stack 2x Re-entry | $320 | 695 | $208,500 | "macallan25" | $51,082 | ||||
| Event #12: $300,000 GTD Online Finale Circuit NLH Main Event 3x Re-entry | $525 | 1,109 | $554,500 | Frank "spaghettiii" Marasco | $127,535 |
In addition, players who met certain criteria were eligible to buy into the Global Casino Championship directly. The entry fee was a rake-free $10,000, which is added to the $1,000,000 base prize pool. Those eligible to buy-in directly where any ring winner from the 2019-2020 WSOP Circuit season.
WSOP National/Global Casino Championship Winners
| Season | Tournament | Entries | Winner | Prize | Runner-Up |
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| 2010–11 | WSOP Circuit National Championship | 100 | Sam Barnhart | $300,000 | James Anderson |
| 2011–12 | WSOP Circuit National Championship | 157 | Ryan Eriquezzo | $416,051 | Nik Stone |
| 2012–13 | WSOP Circuit National Championship | 127 | Jonathan Hilton | $355,599 | Max Steinberg |
| 2013–14 | WSOP Circuit National Championship | 126 | Dominik Nitsche | $352,800 | Athanasios Polychronopoulos |
| 2014–15 | WSOP Circuit National Championship | 122 | Loni Harwood | $341,599 | Alexandru Masek |
| 2015–16 | WSOP Global Casino Championship | 126 | Said El-Yousfi | $343,256 | Yasin Ahmady |
| 2016–17 | WSOP Global Casino Championship | 124 | Sean Yu | $296,941 | Alexander Lakhov |
| 2017–18 | WSOP Global Casino Championship | 127 | Warren Sheaves | $282,113 | Jeremy Meacham |
| 2018–19 | WSOP Global Casino Championship | 129 | Ryan Eriquezzo | $279,431 | Eric Salazar |
The first step in getting set up to play on WSOP.com is to download the client. You can do so for both mobile (Android and iOS) and desktop (Windows 7 or higher and Mac OS X 10.6.8).
To get the correct version of the client, use the links below:
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Cards are in the air here in the 2020 WSOP Global Casino Championship!
The field started with 97 players, but with late registration open for 90 minutes, that number is likely to increase.
New Jersey Qualifiers
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Player Profile: Brian "JackBogle" Altman
Brian Altman
Method of Qualification: At-Large Points (16th)
Few players have had the success to match Altman on the US-regulated sites. Playing under the moniker "JackBogle," Altman seems to rack up five-figure score after five-figure score as a regular in the higher-stakes tournament events every weekend.
He showed off his prowess in the spring as he stormed out of the gates during the WSOP.com Online Super Circuit in March with a ring win worth $32,781 in Event #3: $215 No-Limit Hold'em Deep Turbo. It was his second piece of WSOP gold after he took down a Circuit Main Event back in 2016.
While that sort of tournament may require more than the usual positive variance to win, Altman followed up shortly after with a fourth-place finish in Event #16: $525 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT for $34,020. He then cashed five more times in the WSOP.com Season Finale series, highlighted by a fourth-place finish for $13K.
Given Altman's overall record of excellence both on the Circuit — he has $284K in cashes there — and on WSOP.com, he has to be considered one of the strongest players in the field come Sunday. Never afraid to play huge pots early, his highly volatile playing style means he'll likely mark himself as one of the final table favorites early by collecting a big stack, or he'll be on his way to whatever second-chance events are available on the client.
National/Global Casino Championship History: Sam Barnhart Wins Inaugural Event
In 2011, the WSOPC hosted its first National Championship, which was held at Caesars Palace just prior to that year’s WSOP. The tournament was only open to 100 WSOPC qualifiers and offered up a $1,000,000 prize pool.
The inaugural winner was Arkansas’ Sam Barnhart, who qualified after winning the WSOPC Horseshoe Tunica for $148,612 three months earlier. Barnhart’s heater continued later in the summer when he finished 17th in the WSOP Main Event for a career-high $378,796.
Barnhart relocated to Las Vegas after his remarkable run where he still resides today.
“Mostly cash games and online. Not playing as much,” Barnhart recently told PokerNews when asked what he’s been up to. “I’m also doing real estate. I will eventually get in commercial ‘selling businesses.’”
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
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| 1 | Sam Barnhart | USA | $300,000 |
| 2 | James Anderson | USA | $200,000 |
| 3 | Josh Evans | USA | $135,000 |
| 4 | La Sengphet | USA | $100,000 |
| 5 | Jonathan Poche | USA | $75,000 |
| 6 | Charles “Woody” Moore | USA | $55,000 |
| 7 | Drazen Ilich | USA | $42,500 |
| 8 | Adam Hui | Canada | $35,000 |
| 9 | Matt Lawrence | USA | $30,000 |
| 10 | Huy Nguyen | USA | $27,500 |
Massoud "cbkme" Eskandari Chipping Up Early
With the blinds at 125/250/25, there was 2,500 already in the middle of the pot and all three players checked to the turn on a board of 
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Nathanael "Proofs" Kogel bet 1,200, Massoud "cbkme" Eskandari three-bet to 2,400, and Bradley "Fishinson" Hinson folded.
Kogel then four-bet to 7,200 and Massoud made the call.
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river, Kogel bet 7,200 but then folded after Massoud raised to 17,400.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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