GGPoker.com Event #34: $525 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed

It was a night to remember on GGPoker as their first-ever WSOP bracelet events — part of a 54-event schedule spread out across the next months — kicked off. Unfortunately, on a night where three bracelet winners were supposed to be crowned, two of the events ran into a critical bug and had to be suspended to next week.

The lightning-fast Event #34: $525 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed — clocking in at a mere 3 hours and 15 minutes start to finish to make it the fastest-ever bracelet event — was unaffected by the technical issues and played out as normal. In total, 2,214 entries of $525 each were made to create a total prize pool of $1,107,000.

In the end, it was Shoma "pp_syon" Ishikawa of Japan writing history as GGPoker's first-ever online bracelet winner, as well as the third person from Japan after Naoya Kihara and Takahiro Nakai to claim the coveted prize. Ishikawa is an emerging talent from the land of the rising sun with $34,238 in lifetime cashes according to The Hendon Mob, all made in South Korea and Vietnam.

Perhaps the perfect embodiment of what the WSOP and GGPoker are trying to do with this series, making online bracelets accessible for those outside the normal confinements of Nevada and New Jersey, Ishikawa has no prior cashes at the WSOP. Now, in just a little over three hours, he has spun two bullets of $525 up into a payday of $117,650 and a WSOP gold bracelet, and will have his name be a part of poker trivia for years to come.

Final Result Event #34: $525 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed

Plenty of notables showed up to play and among those to run deep and cash were GGPoker ambassador Fedor Holz, Mike McDonald, and streamers Michiel "Easterdamnz" Van Elsacker and Scott "TTV_Pokerbrahs" Kenyon, with the latter two reaching the final four tables.

At the final table, which was reached not even three hours in, the nicknames of the players were removed and their real names were revealed on the spot. This showed WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Strelitz, playing as "Gyrocopter", as well as Dimitar "Mort" Yosifov among the final tablists.

It would be Yosifov to depart first, running ace-ten into Mulgyeol "waterwave" Kim's pocket threes and failing to improve. Kim couldn't enjoy the spoils of that for long as he was next to go, getting decimated by Diego "El Motron" Ostrovich before losing his final scraps to Gary "STARDOG13" Johnson.

Unsurprisingly, the pace remained furious and in a few hands, the field was down to four into the final break, with Ilya Anatsky, Tom "Pik00rs" Delaine, and Yulian "Ector" Bogdanov all falling in short order.

Strelitz would be the first to go next after the event had a rare breather with no eliminations for about ten hands. The last remaining bracelet winner in the field lost the race with nines against Ostrovich' jack-ten when the latter flopped a ten. Johnson followed him to the rail, being outkicked with ace-six against the Argentinian's ace-king and unable to improve.

Ostrovich took a substantial lead, as well as a far bigger progressive bounty, into the heads-up but it would be there where Ishikawa would shine. Winning a whopping seven hands in a row, the Japanese player turned it around and took all but three of Ostrovich' blinds in a big all in with ace-nine against king-ten.

The final hand was a formality: holding nine-six, Ishikawa shoved and Ostrovich called it off with five-three. The nine on the turn and a rivered flush for good measure gave Ishikawa the bracelet, as well as $117,650.

Diego "El Motron" Ostrovich may have been on the verge of victory but without showdown, Shoma "pp_syon" Ishikawa managed to spin up his stack and they eventually got their chips in separated by just a few big blinds.

Shoma "pp_syon" Ishikawa:   
Diego "El Motron" Ostrovich:   

Ishikawa flopped top two on     and the   turn gave Ostrovich just two outs. A blank   on the river reduced the stack of the Argentinian to fewer than three and a half big blinds.

Shoma "pp_syon" Ishikawa	48,689,472	41,308,288
Diego "El Motron" Ostrovich	6,660,528	-36,594,736

Diego "El Motron" Ostrovich open-shoved on the button and Daniel "Gyrocopter" Strelitz called all in for 8,284,311 in the small blind.

Diego "El Motron" Ostrovich:   
Daniel "Gyrocopter" Strelitz:   

The     flop brought Ostrovich the pair he needed, and neither the   turn nor   river turned it around for the only bracelet winner left in the field to end his run in fourth place.

Strelitz locked up $19,793.26 in bounties and earned a cash prize of $30,637.27.

Diego "El Motron" Ostrovich	28,447,178	6,784,311
Daniel "Gyrocopter" Strelitz	0	-15,100,000

The next player to end up getting the chips in the middle was Yulian "Ector" Bogdanov out of the big blind and he faced Daniel "Gyrocopter" Strelitz from under the gun.

Yulian "Ector" Bogdanov:   
Daniel "Gyrocopter" Strelitz:   

The     flop paired up Bogdanov but Strelitz regained the lead on the   turn, the   river was a blank and Bogdanov had to settle for 5th place. That came with $12,648.94 in bounty prizes and and a cash prize worth $22,028.41.

Daniel "Gyrocopter" Strelitz	15,100,000	7,572,350
Yulian "Ector" Bogdanov	0	-5,680,213

Diego "El Motron" Ostrovich continued his early domination on the final table as he sent Ilya Anatsky to the rail but it was not without a sweat.

Ilya Anatsky:   
Diego "El Motron" Ostrovich:   

Anatsky was dominated but picked up a diamond draw on the     flop. The   turn opened further chop outs but the   river blanked.

During his rampage on the last few tables, Anatsky racked up $8,955.06 in bounty prizes to go with his cash prize of $11,388.09.

Diego "El Motron" Ostrovich	19,700,000	12,125,206
Ilya Anatsky	0	-2,551,737

In the fourth hand of the final table, a short stacked Dimitar "Mort" Yosifov was all-in out of the big blind against Mulgyeol "waterwave" Kim in the small blind.

Dimitar "Mort" Yosifov:   
Mulgyeol "waterwave" Kim:   

Both overcards and the diamond draw bricked off for Yosifov on a board of       and he departed in 9th place.

Yosifov earned bounties worth $6,214.84, which in fact topped the cash prize of $5,887.30

Mulgyeol "waterwave" Kim	10,296,534	6,483,206
Dimitar "Mort" Yosifov	0	-2,753,206

In a battle of the blinds, "Gyrocopter" pushed with the    and "hu4trollzz" called with the    in the big blind.

On a board of      , the mighty ducks failed to hold up and that spelled the end for "hu4trollzz" in 10th place.

Gyrocopter	8,220,000	5,639,043
hu4trollzz	0	-4,733,928

Japan's "pp_syon" was at risk with ace-eight against the aces of Ilya Anatsky and binked a four-card straight. Shortly after they were at risk with the    against "El Motron" with the    and the board came       to provide the ace on the turn.

pp_syon	8,251,184	5,550,472
El Motron	5,694,794	-655,206
Ilya Anatsky	4,373,401	-4,145,712
Mort	4,033,206	-1,005,000
waterwave	2,151,664	935,832

In a battle of the blinds, "D@rk_M@tter1" was at risk with    against the    of Ector who had pushed out of the small blind.

The       board gave the "Ector" a pair of deuces and ended the run of "D@rk_M@tter1" just shy of the last two tables.

Ector	8,850,000	3,315,101
D@rk_M@tter1	0	0

Just 13 players left in Event #34: $525 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em.

STARDOG13	12,216,679	8,327,463
Ilya Anatsky	7,183,157	-920,416
Ector	5,534,899	1,544,479
Mort	5,068,206	997,230
hu4trollzz	4,733,928	-266,072
El Motron	2,999,050
pp_syon	2,700,712	-90,000
Pik00rs	2,305,955
IseeyOurcard	1,645,208	-128,116
waterwave	1,215,832
Gyrocopter	1,186,780	-3,072,106
Miguadalupe	999,162
SonnyFranco	807,070	-483,899