Andrii Novak Helps Himself toR$91K Score on GGPoker
February 22, 2024 Matthew Pitt
Senior Editor
Ukrainian superstar Andrii Novak helped himself to ❤️ aR$91,016 prize at
GGPoker this weekend, his reward for coming out on top of a 1,981-strong field in
theR$525 Bounty ❤️ Hunters HR Main Event.
Half theR$1 million prize pool went onto the
heads of all the entrants in the form of ❤️ a progressive bounty. The remaining 50% was
shared among the top 278 finishers.
All nine finalists locked up five-figure prizes
when ❤️ bounties were included. “JustaMortal” was the first of those nine finalists to
fall by the wayside. “Fangio”, Aleks Trofimov, and ❤️ “JoaoSymon” followed that early
casualty to the rail.
Polish sensation Dominik Panka ran out of steam in fifth-place, a
finish worthR$23,800 ❤️ in total. Possible Breaking Bad fan “HEIZENBERG_G” was the
fourth-place finisher and bankedR$35,975.
Heads-up was set when “BocaRosa” fell in
third ❤️ forR$32,726. This left Novak heads-up against “Bcb20” of Turkey. Novak brushed
aside his opponent and saw a massiveR$91,016 head to ❤️ his GGPoker account, thanks to the
nearR$50,000 bounty payment. The runner-up walked away withR$59,415 reasons to be proud
of their ❤️ performance.
Bounty Hunters HR Main Event Final Table Results
Place Player
Country Total Prize 1 Andrii Novak UkraineR$91,016 2 Bcb20 TurkeyR$59,415 3 ❤️ BocaRosa
BrazilR$32,726 4 HEIZENBERG_G South AfricaR$35,975 5 Dominik Panka PolandR$23,800 6
JoaoSymon BrazilR$15,233 7 Aleks Trofimov RussiaR$12,524 8 Fangio GermanyR$12,834 ❤️ 9
JustaMortal Costa RicaR$10,221
Second Batch of Champions Crowned in the APL Online
Series
David Coleman Comes Out On Top in the ❤️ Sunday 500 High Rollers
David
Coleman
David Coleman spends most of his time crushing US-facing online poker site but
he headed to ❤️ Canada so he could play at GGPoker. It proved to be a fantastic decision
because he won the Sunday 500 ❤️ High Rollers and helped himself to aR$125,383 reward.
It
was a compact field of 108 entrants but a field that contained ❤️ some of the biggest
names from the poker world. Plenty of those names navigated their way to the final
table, ❤️ including Anatoly Filatov (9th -R$14,176), Fedor Holz (8th -R$18,616), Joaquim
Andersson (7th -R$24,447), and David Yan (6th -R$32,105).
Mexico’s “TheRayGuy” (5th
❤️ -R$42,160) and Estonia’s “bungakat” (4th -R$55,365) were the next to fall, which left
Coleman to contest with Jason Koon and ❤️ Nick Petrangelo three-handed, which isn’t the
nicest spot to be in.
Coleman not only held his own but shone brightly, and ❤️ emerged a
worthy champion. Petrangelo crashed out in third fortR$72,706, while Koon
collectedR$95,478 for his exit in second. Coleman was ❤️ the man of the event and we’re
sure he’ll put theR$125,383 prize to good use.
Sunday 500 High Rollers Final Table
❤️ Results
Place Player Country Prize 1 David Coleman CanadaR$125,383 2 Jason Koon
CanadaR$95,478 3 Nick Petrangelo CanadaR$72,706 4 bungakat EstoniaR$55,365 5 ❤️ TheRayGuy
MexicoR$42,160 6 David Yan New ZealandR$32,105 7 Joaquim Andersson AustriaR$24,447 8
Fedor Holz AustriaR$18,616 9 Anatoly Filatov EstoniaR$14,176
Other notable ❤️ victories
from GGPoker on February 21
Yellowbuddah – first-place in theR$1,050 GGMasters High
Rollers forR$123,331
bungakat – first-place in the Global MILLION$
❤️ forR$112,712
Moominaba – first-place in theR$150 GGMasters forR$61,576
Sam Greenwood –
first-place in theR$5,250 High Rollers Sunday Blade Opener forR$50,412
Marius Gierse –
❤️ first-place in theR$3,150 Sunday High Rollers Bounty King forR$49,375*
Pavlo
Kolinkovskiy – first-place in theR$2,625 High Rollers Blade Closer forR$39,546
Arsenii
Malinov ❤️ – first-place in theR$2,625 High Rollers Blade Opener forR$37,264
szagos –
first-place in theR$315 Sunday Bounty King forR$37,114*
MyLastHand! - first-place in
❤️ theR$210 Bounty Hunters Sunday Special forR$34,731*
Walla1234 – first-place in theR$200
Sunday Main Event forR$33,225
Connor Drinan – first-place in theR$3,150 High ❤️ Rollers
Blade Bounty King PLO forR$33,159*
spera91 – first-place in theR$840 Sunday Marathon
forR$32,467
Bert Stevens – first-place in theR$500 Sunday High ❤️ Rollers Fifty Stack
forR$30,849
playforfan – first-place in theR$300 Sunday Marathon forR$30,522
Spyridon
Valakos – first-place in theR$1,050 Sunday High Rollers Deep ❤️ Bounty Turbo
forR$29,842*
Marcelo Asensio – first-place in theR$400 Sunday Forty Stack
forR$29,256
Vlad Martynenko – first-place in theR$840 Sunday High Rollers ❤️ Bounty
Special forR$27,468*
Jonathan Proudfoot – first-place in theR$1,050 High Rollers Sunday
Cooldown forR$14,601
Rui Ferreira – first-place in theR$525 Sunday High ❤️ Rollers FAST
forR$12,190
*includes bounty payments
Battle Against ElkY and Fedor Holz in GGPoker's
New Flip & Gos
Aleksejs Ponakovs is the High ❤️ Roller Big Game Champion
Aleksejs
Ponakovs
Aleksejs Ponakovs is the latest superstar to take down the High Roller Big
Game at partypoker. ❤️ ThisR$2,600 buy-in event always attracts stellar names, and this
week was no different. Just look at the nine finalists from ❤️ the 128 starters.
Roberto
Romanello finished in ninth forR$8,827, which left the remaining players to book in a
prize worth five-figures.
Bujtas ❤️ Laszlo, Matthias Eibinger, and David Yan joined
Romanello on the sidelines with Yan securing aR$14,814 payout.
Ami Barer crashed and
burned ❤️ in fifth before Team partypoker pro Patrick Leonard busted in fourth for
aR$24,950 addition to his bankroll. Leonard’s fellow Brit ❤️ Ashley Windsor exited in
third forR$35,286 to set up a mouth-watering one-on-one battle between Ponakovs and
Elio Fox.
The heads-up match ❤️ could have gone either way but it was Ponakovs who emerged
victoriously once the dust settled. This resulted in Ponakovs ❤️ collectingR$79,925 and
Fox theR$51,428 runner-up prize.
High Roller Big Game Final Table Results
Place Player
Country Prize 1 Aleksejs Ponakovs EstoniaR$79,925 2 ❤️ Elio Fox MexicoR$51,428 3 Ashley
Windsor United KingdomR$35,286 4 Patrick Leonard United KingdomR$24,950 5 Ami Barer
CanadaR$18,514 6 David Yan ❤️ New ZealandR$14,814 7 Matthias Eibinger AustriaR$12,523 8
Bujtas Laszlo HungaryR$10,645 9 Roberto Romanello United KingdomR$8,827
Other notable
results from partypoker on ❤️ February 21
bite_me – first-place in theR$1,111 High Roller
One Shot forR$48,657*
Majid Salimi Moghaddam – first-place in theR$530 Big Game
forR$43,380
p4tm0ng0 ❤️ – first-place in theR$320 The 300 forR$36,092*
Andre Alberto –
first-place in theR$55 Mini Big Game forR$17,384
Facebook – first-place in theR$111 ❤️ One
Shot forR$16,524*
pokerplay506 – first-place in theR$109 Weekender
forR$14,235*
BugenHagen_ - first-place in theR$215 Warrior forR$14,058*
PUNCH3R –
first-place in theR$55 Gladiator ❤️ forR$13,656*
*includes bounty payments
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888poker Sunday Sale Proves a Major
Hit
888poker
888poker ran its Sunday ❤️ Sale promotion on February 21 resulting in a
handful of the site’s most popular Sunday tournaments having their buy-ins
slashed.
TheR$100,000 ❤️ Sunday Sale Mega Deep was one such tournament. Some 2,092 players
bought in for the bargain price ofR$55 to ensure ❤️ those who finished in the money
sharedR$104,600.
“MrSweden” finished at the top of the pile and turned theirR$55
intoR$17,666 after defeating ❤️ Argentina’s “TheFreston” heads-up. The Argentinian
collectedR$12,572, the tournament’s only other five-figure prize.
TheR$30,000 Sunday
Sale Whale ended in a heads-up chop ❤️ between “mylly8” of Finland and “cherrywine” of
Pakistan. That deal saw the former scoopR$8,016 and the latterR$7,597 for theirR$215
investment.
Brazil’s ❤️ “IneedDrinho” was the last player standing in theR$30,000 Sunday
Challenge PKO. They bankedR$7,595 for their impressive victory, which was made ❤️ up of
aR$4,696 top prize andR$2,898 worth of bounty payments.
888poker Giving AwayR$100,000
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Michel “FreeLancerZZ” ❤️ Dattani Wins Turbo
Series High Roller
Michel Dattani
Michel “FreeLancerZZ” Dattani won the Turbo Series
03:R$5,200 NLHE 8-Max High Roller event and ❤️ walked away with a massiveR$152,743 prize.
Dattani’s haul would have beenR$15,000 more had he not struck a deal with Russia’s
❤️ “CrazyLissy” when heads-up; CrazyLissy bankedR$144,863.
The rest of the final table
read like a who’s who of the poker world, as ❤️ you’d expect for aR$5,200 buy-in.
Rui
“RuiNF” Ferreira and Juan “Malaka$tyle” Pardo were the final table’s first casualties
before Yuri “theNERDguy” ❤️ Dzivielevski and David “MissOracle” Yan ran out of steam, the
latter locking upR$61,471.
Joni “bustoville” Jouhkimainen dusted his stack off in
❤️ fourth, which netted him the tournament’s last five-figure prize, namelyR$78,959.
Jon
“apestyles” Van Fleet busted in third-place forR$101,421, before Dattani and ❤️ CrazyLissy
struck the aforementioned deal to conclude the event.
Turbo Series 03:R$5,200 NLHE
8-Max High Roller Final Table Results
Place Player Country ❤️ Prize 1 Michel
“FreeLancerZZ” Dattani MaltaR$152,743* 2 CrazyLissy RussiaR$144,863* 3 Jon “apestyles”
Van Fleet CanadaR$101,421 4 Joni “bustoville” Jouhkimainen FinlandR$78,959 ❤️ 5 David
“MissOracle” Yan New ZealandR$61,471 6 Yuri “theNERDguy” Dzivielevski BrazilR$47,857 7
Juan “Malaka$tyle” Pardo United KingdomR$37,258 8 Rui “RuiNF” ❤️ Ferreira
BrazilR$29,006
Other notable PokerStars results from February 21
Christian “WATnlos”
Rudolph – first-place n the Turbo Series 04:R$215 NLHE forR$79,274
AxelwOw~ -
❤️ first-place in the Turbo Series 08:R$530 NLHE 6-Max Hyper forR$68,932
Anatoly
“NL_Profit” Filatov – first-place in the Sunday High Roller forR$59,071
BalticMoose ❤️ –
first-place in theR$215 Bounty Builder forR$33,305*
PalomoBuchon – first-place in
theR$109 Bounty Builder forR$32,786*
Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot – first-place in
theR$1,050 ❤️ Sunday Cooldown forR$30,692*
vladulaNko – first-place in theR$109 Sunday
Cooldown forR$28,793*
Marton “noirduck” Czuczor – first-place in theR$215 Bounty
Builder forR$27,171*
Christian “WATnlos” ❤️ Rudolph – first-place in theR$1,050 Sunday
Warm-Up forR$19,356
Askim32 – first-place in theR$215 Sunday Warm-Up forR$17,000
CipiV
– first-place in theR$109 Sunday ❤️ Kickoff forR$15,833
Patrick “pads1161” Leonard –
first-place in theR$530 Sunday Marathon forR$8,680
*includes bounty payments
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