After spending the morning in the thrall of a praying mantis chewing the head of a cricket (who continued to walk around in a daze for several hours later), I am a little sick of bugs. However, this writer’s discomfort pales into the perpetual doldrums of monotony compared to the quelling of excitement over at GGPoker today.
With the 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online action coming to a close at WSOP.com, GGPoker cut the ribbon on their launch into the gold bracelet business, and it has gone as smoothly as a picnic surrounded by seagulls on Skomer Island.
The organisers had to suspend play in both Event #32: $100 The Opener and Event #33: $1,111 Every 1 For COVID Relief, due to a ‘critical bug’ caused by the sheer number of entrants in the Opener (29,306) coupled with a high volume of observers. This deadly mix caused the servers to crash, and to make things worse, GGPoker also suffered a Distributed denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
There are 3,690 players left in ‘The Opener’ and GGPoker will return the buy-in to each of them in the form of tournament tickets. There are 1,418 entrants from a field of 1,598 in the COVID Relief event, and the organisers have doubled the $177,378 currently collected for charity.
Event #32 resumes July 26 18:30 UTC and Event #33 on the same day at 18:00.
All players begin with current stack sizes.
GGPoker has doubled its server capacity to avoid a repeat occurrence, and added a second layer of DDoS protection.
Hackers in my garden.
Hackers online.
Kenny “Chopuh” Huynh Wins Event #19: $400 No Limit Hold’em
There was no such depressing news for the titans attempting to win a bracelet on American soil.
Event #19: $400 No Limit Hold’em attracted 2,545-entrants (1,757 unique, 788 re-entries), and Kenny “Chopuh” Huynh showed great artistry to weave his way to the summit and $133,857 first prize.
Huynh has earned $212,130 playing live tournaments and not once has he made money in a WSOP event played in the world of brick and mortar. In February he booked a personal-best $80,298 for finishing runner-up to Joel Deutsch in a $550 No Limit Hold’em tournament at the Parx Casino in Bensalem.
Hunter Frey was Huyn’s primary hazard coming into the final table. Frey has a solid resume with a third in a $2,000 No Limit Hold’em event, seventh in a $1,000 No Limit Hold’em in 2011, and third in a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em in 2013. Frey had to make do with sixth in this one.
Here are the results.
Event #19: $400 No Limit Hold’em
2,545-entrants (1,757 unique, 788 re-entries)
Results
- Kenny “Chopuh” Huynh – $133,857
- Matthew “610610” Berger – $82,733
- Vincent “meatball44” Ablahani – $60,744
- Sang “youngkoi” Lee – $$44,985
- Kenneth “KBconcepts” Phillips – $33,625
- Hunter “Hunt_Dizzle” Frey – $25,287
- Michael “namhtiw1” Whitman – $19,149
- Michael “vapor098” Federico – $14,659
- Paul “Debt2Me” Gunness – $11,361
Two high rollers than dived deeper than the precipitous Mariana Trench were Ryan Riess (70th), Matt Berkey (75th),