The Festival Online: “GoodStoryDMG” takes down Main Event, and over $1.8M handed out this Series
The Festival Online has been a lot of fun, and after two weeks of pure grinding online events, 53 in total, we wrap it up at 888poker for this time. With over $ 888,888 in guaranteed prize pools and a Main Event with $ 200,000 guaranteed, there was so much to look forward to. The Festival Online, Powered by 888poker and PokerListings, turned out to be a Brazilian Samba event, as Brazil captured a whopping 13 victories during this Series. Other countries that collected quite some victories were Great Britain and Romania. Overall, the events had been visited by so many different nationalities, which is of course the magic of online poker. The Main Event final table eventually got streamed live on the official Twitch channel of 888poker, and with this recap of the final table, we will provide you with the key situations.
‘AUTISPOSTI’ in an early position raises about Allin and gets put to the test by ‘GoodStoryDMG’ in the big blind, and also the chip leader of the table. Cards go open and we have a battle. ‘AUTOPOSTI’ is in good shape with A J , against the 9 10 of ‘GoodStoryDMG’. The flop came K K 5 , and with the 7 on the turn it looked beautifully still, but the 10 on the river made it happen that we lost our first player of the Final Table. ‘AUTOPOSTI’ is a very decent regular on 888poker, having a 6-figure profit on his name. He definitely expected to get more out of this, but as the ultimate short stack, the chances of winning are thinner than a fishing line. He took home a nice $ 4,846.82 for his efforts.
After the early bust out, we saw another clash and this time it was even 3-way due to a miraculous move of ‘LegitNit’ who called an iso Allin while a short stack who chucked his remaining couple blinds in from early position:
With five poker players remaining, everyone locked up already a 5-figure score. But for players like ‘Perrymejsen’ from Sweden, it was just an ordinary day at the office, as he presumably belongs to the top 50 best online players in the world. Having reached the final table of this exact same event in the previous edition of The Festival Online (5th place), he was looking for vengeance, sadly for him, he got in a few narrow spots and eventually dripped off in 4th place, bagging $ 22,013.67.
Canadian ‘LegitNit’, who won event #26 during this series already, didn’t get rewarded for his courageous plays throughout the event, as he got a real bad beat and left the table with a Bronze Medal around his neck. His A Q could not avoid that the A 8 of ‘Luiz1958’ would spike the 8 on the flop, and without any improvement for ‘LegitNit’, he packed his bags, alongside $ 22,013.67. A great performance by the Canadian, and we are certain he will continue chasing one of such iconic victories during a Main Event.
After only 25 minutes of play during this Main Event Final Table of The Festival Online, we went from eight players to the final Heads-Up match between ‘Luiz1958’ and ‘GoodStoryDMG’. After playing for about an hour Heads-Up, chips going back and forth, it was eventually ‘GoodStoryDMG’ who could tell a great story back home, as he managed to secure the Gold Medal in this Main Event, together with the astonishing first prize of $ 41,305.83. Our friend from Brazil, ‘Luiz1958’, became a respectable runner-up in this event for $ 30,131.51.
Congratulations to All of You, and we hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did. The Festival Online will make its return again eventually, and we do hope to see all of you back on the online tables there as well!
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | GoodStoreDMG | $ 41,305.83 |
| #2 | Luiz1958 | $ 30,131.51 |
| #3 | LegitNit | $ 22,013.67 |
| #4 | Perrymejsen | $ 16,068.54 |
| #5 | _UpToNoG00D_ | $ 11,818.62 |
| #6 | Mukonga | $ 8,762.49 |
| #7 | MyNumber7 | $ 6,494.27 |
| #8 | AUTISPOSTI | $ 4,846.82 |
