GGPoker World Festival Went Straight To Epic! – First 72 Hours Paid $20M In Prizes!
The record-breaking GGPoker World Festival 2023 is setting the bar for the next level of online poker series as over $20 million in prizes were paid out in the first 72 hours in a total of 22 poker tournaments! The first week of the event was absolutely EPIC, and there were plenty of action-packed moments at the poker tables. The tournament series has still plenty to offer, especially from its total GTD prize pool of $200 million! So get ready as various Texas Hold'em and Omaha poker tournaments give thousands of online poker hustlers a chance to win life-changing prizes.
Below are some highlights from the first week of the GGPoker's World Festival tournament series.
05 Bounty Hunters Poker Tournaments
05-H: $525 Bounty Hunters HR Main Event
The first million-dollar poker tournament, 05-H $525 Bounty Hunters HR Main Event, put 2,686 players to a grinding test, lasting nearly 11 hours before the final table was decided. An ode to one of the greatest head hunters of all time came from the player called "G3ngh1sKhAn", whose killer play style can be compared to the great warlord from the Mongolian steppes. In the end, along with the bounties, he won a total of $116,871.
05-M: $54 Bounty Hunters Sunday Main Event
The medium-level tournament, 05-M: $54 Bounty Hunters Sunday Main Event, was super popular. The tournament had nearly 13,000 players, which raised the prize pool to $642,000, meaning that heads were hunted vigorously, and bounties grew really BIG. The winner and the best bounty hunter was "Hunter_Aze" (he knows it), whose skills earned him a total of $37,105, including a bounty pool of $12,389.66, which was more than twice the second-best bounty hunter's pot.
05-L: $54 Bounty Hunters Sunday Mini
The low-level poker tournament, 05-L: $54 Bounty Hunters Sunday Mini, offered a total prize pool of over $70,000, which was hunted by over 14,000 players with their own heads on the line. The tournament saw blood, tears, and a lot of butt sweat as the best players fought for the prize pool for nearly 9.5 hours, until the winner was decided. The best Bounty Hunter in this Sunday Mini tournament was "JohnBonGait" who netted over $4,500.
05-S: $5,250 Bounty Hunters Super High Roller
The $5,250 buy-in Super High Roller, reserved for the deep pockets, distributed over $250,000 in prize money. The lion's share of the GTD prize pool went to Nicholas Maimone, who earned over $100,000 for the win, including over $60,000 in bounties. The victory hurled the Canadian into a high position on the Super High Roller leaderboard, currently holding the 4th place.
06 Poker Tournaments - Super MILLION$ & GGMasters High Rollers, GGMasters Festival Edition, and Sunday Hundred Grand
The next million-dollar race – Super MILLION$ High Rollers, started just an hour after the MILLION$ poker tournament. A total of 212 players answered the call and paid the $10,300 buy-in to enter the tournament, which set the total prize pool to $2,120,000. The winner David Yan earned himself $428,624 in prize money.
As expected, the Low, Medium, and High versions of the 06 tournaments enjoyed greater popularity in terms of the number of players. The Low tournament had a whopping 10,624 participants, the Medium tournament 3,930, and the High tournament 792 participants. The guaranteed prize pools ranged from $150,000 for the smallest to $500,000 and $750,000 for the High one. In the Low tournament with over 10,000 players, a Canadian player named "shuffleupagus" won $13,891. The 06-Medium tournament lasted quite a while until the final table was settled in a deal between players "PredicTT" and "RanThisTable", earning a total of $51,241 and $55,853, respectively.
The 06-High Edition, with a buy-in of $1,050, was won by Jonas Lauck, earning him a whopping $110,826.86.
Battle for Ranks Is on at the GGPoker World Festival 2023 Leaderboards
One of the exciting features of the GGPoker World Festival 2023 tournament series is its four leaderboards and their $100,000 prize pool.
In the Super High Roller Series, money is distributed to the top 8 players, with the best player receiving a total of $30,000 in addition to all tournament winnings. Currently in the lead is Canada's Matthew Stumpf, followed by Swedish player Niklas Astedt less than 60 points behind, third is the Estonian heavy hitter Ottomar Ladva, and fourth place is being held by the 05-High Roller tournament winner Nicholas Maimone.
Stay Tuned and Watch the Poker World Festival 2023 Tournament Streams
GGPoker World Festival 2023 offers over 3 weeks of the world's best online poker, and you can watch it live via GGPoker's streams on YouTube or by searching for players' own online poker streams on Twitch. GGPoker's own broadcasts start every Tuesday at 06:45 pm UTC and they are commented by poker pros such as Daniel Negreanu and Jeff Gross.
Week 2 is currently rolling hot and more action-packed poker moments are to be expected.
Here are some big money tournaments in play this Sunday:
- 89-M: $54 Bounty Hunters Sunday Main Event - $600,000 GTD
- 89-H: $525 Bounty Hunters HR Main Event - $1,250,000 GTD
- 90-M: $150 GGMasters Festival Edition - $500,000 GTD
- 90-H: $1,050 GGMasters High Rollers World Festival - $1000,000 GTD
- 90-S: $10,300 Super MILLION$ High Rollers [2-Day] - $2,000,000 GTD
- 91-H: $320 GGMasters Bounty King - $500,000 GTD
- 92-S: $25,500 Sunday Super High Roller - $500,000 GTD
