Ship it to Sweden. Simon Eric Mattsson made a name for himself as one of the premier online grinders over 🍊 the last few years, playing under the moniker of "C. Darwin2", and the Swedish pro added a World Series of 🍊 Poker gold bracelet to his collection after being the last player standing in an epic nine-flight Main Event championship for 🍊 the global version of the 2024 WSOP Online.
GGPoker hosted the 2024 WSOP Online, which included 33 bracelet events. This year's 🍊 festival of online poker -- under the WSOP brand -- attracted over 131,000 entrants all over the world (minus the 🍊 US!). A total ofR$86.1 million were paid out over 33 events during the last month.
Of course, everyone was waiting for 🍊 the outcome of the prestigious WSOP Online Main Event. TheR$5,000 buy-in affair was spread out over nine starting flights. In 🍊 total, 4,984 entrants bought into the Main Event with their eye on the bling and a mountain of cash. The 🍊 total prize pool wasR$23,674,000 and only the top 500 places earned a cut of the lucrative prize pool.
The Main Event 🍊 final table of nine included Simon Mattsson, Kannapong Thanarattrakul, Feng Zhao, Samuel Vousden, Istvan Briski, Yanfei Chi, Jordan Spurlin, Oliver 🍊 Sprason, and Tim Rutherford. Italy's Gabriele Re bubbled the final table in tenth place. American pro Joe Cheong busted in 🍊 11th place.
Canada's Tim Rutherford was the first player to bust at the final table, and he earnedR$279,357 for a ninth-place 🍊 finish.
Oliver Sprason from the UK bowed out next in eighth place, which paid outR$372,529.
Canada's Jordan Spurlin was the next player 🍊 out in seventh place, which paid outR$496,774 and just short of a half million.
Two players from China went deep in 🍊 the Main Event. Yanfei Chi busted in sixth place, which paid outR$662,459.
Istvan Briski's epic run ended in fifth place. The 🍊 Hungarian bankedR$883,404.
The top four places took home at least seven figures. Finland's Samuel Vousden wonR$1.18 million when he was picked 🍊 off in fourth place.
China's Feng Zhao got knocked out in third place, which paid outR$1.57 million. Zhao's elimination set up 🍊 the heavyweight bout between Thailand and Sweden.
Kannapong Thanarattrakul could not stop the Swedish superstar and settled on a second-place finish. 🍊 Thanarattrakul won a little overR$2 million for a runner-up finish. Not too shabby, eh?
Simon Mattsson bankedR$2,793,574 and the bracelet. The 🍊 bling is cool, but the cash is the reason why you grind it out and work so hard enduring the 🍊 bad beats and long sessions. Expect a couple of big parties in Sweden in the upcoming days with Mattsson celebrating 🍊 his WSOP Online victory.
Notable players who went deep and cashed in the WSOP Online Main Event at GGPoker included... Joe 🍊 Cheong, Ofer Sterm, Antonio Gonzalez, Oliver Weis, Clement Bonant, Pavel Plesuv, Patrick Leonard, Niklas Astedt, Tommi Lankinen, Joni Jouhkimainen, Bin 🍊 Sun, Justin Bonomo, Arthur Conan, Norbert Szecsi, Michael Gathy, Yu Zhang, Ole Schemion, Damian Salas, Ami Barer, Mikita Badziakouski, Chris 🍊 Moorman, Jeff Hakim, Ryan Riess, Nacho Barbero, Ben Jackson, Thomas Ward, Teun Mulder, Andreas Klatt, Joao Simao, Tyler Cornell, Adrian 🍊 Mateos, Elio Fox, Sergi Reixach, Chris Hunichen, Vanessa Kade, Thomas Muehloecker, Sammy Lafleur, Mark Radoja, Ivan Deyra, Felipe Ramos, Dan 🍊 Cates, Ema Zajmovic, Marti Roca De Torres, Markku Koplimaa, and Daniel Dvoress.
