GGPoker.com Event #35: $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship

The cards were on their backs soon after the remaining 12 players returned from their scheduled break and it was "Elcabanero" at risk from the cutoff against Thai Ha in the big blind.

"Elcabanero":     
Thai Ha:     

The money had gone in after the     flop and the   turn was a blank, as was the   river.

Thai Ha	680,000	211,197
ElCabanero	0	-211,964

On a short-handed table and in a battle of the blinds, big stack Jesus Cortes applied maximum pressure and raised it up, then called the shove of "shinerrr".

"shinerrr":     
Jesus Cortes:     

Cortes paired up on the     flop, the   turn gave "shinerrr" an inferior pair and the   river changed nothing whatsoever.

Just prior to that, "J7sooteh" had been eliminated on a different table to reduce the field to the last 13.

Jesus Cortes	1,221,282	0
Gavin Cochrane	0	0
J7sooteh	0	0

The next short stack to get their chips in was "PKmaster911" out of the big blind as Belarmino "Iseey0urcard" De Souza had raised the small blind and quickly called.

"PKmaster911":     
Belarmino "Iseey0urcard" De Souza:     

The       runout gave De Souza a set of queens and "PKmaster911" was eliminated in 16th place.

Belarmino "Iseey0urcard" De Souza	620,000	370,884
PKmaster911	0	-38,998

Shyngis "somebodyelse" Satubayev raised the pot and "MPEW299" three-bet the pot, Satubayev got it in and the cards were turned over.

Shyngis "somebodyelse" Satubayev:     
"MPEW299":     

The       board left the Malaysian with very little hope and Satubayev made quads for good measure.

Juha Helppi then finished the job when he isolated on the     flop after "MPEW299" had been at risk preflop.

"MPEW299":  
Juha Helppi:     

The   turn and the   river were both blanks.

Juha Helppi	885,000	105,000
Shyngis "somebodyelse" Satubayev	719,418	563,990
MPEW299	0	-291,131

Mike Watson in the small blind and George Wolff in the big blind got their stacks in preflop as Wolff three-bet jammed and picked up a call by Watson.

George Wolff:     
Mike Watson:     

Watson struck gold on the     flop, the   turn and   river failed to improve Wolff and he departed in 22nd place.

Mike Watson	625,000	114,394
George Wolff	0	-93,032

A short-stacked "Birdie Power" was all-in from the button after a raise by Mike Watson from under the gun to set up the following showdown.

"Birdie Power":     
Mike Watson:     

The     flop provided no help yet but "Birdie Power" pulled into the lead on the   turn. The   river gave Watson a winning full house.

Mike Watson	501,968	0
Birdie Power	0	0

Jesus Cortes has claimed several victims after the bubble has burst to jump up all the way to nearly one million in chips.

One of them was "GMcrafter" who got it in with the      against the      of Cortes.

The board came       and Cortes flopped broadway, turned the nut flush and dodged the full house.

Jesus Cortes	952,141	621,452
GMcrafter	0	-135,495

Left with the purest of dust, "Pingpongshow" wasn't able to magically spin it back up, losing his final chips to Belarmino "Iseey0urcard" De Souza when forced all in from the big blind.

On another table, "breislet" three-bet all in preflop after "98snaeJ" had opened, with the Finn calling him off.

"breislet":     
"98snaeJ"     

The board ran out       for "98snaeJ" to win it with ace-king.

98snaeJ	748,620	272,096
Belarmino "Iseey0urcard" De Souza	249,116	-57,659
Pingpongshow	0	-932
breislet	0	-44,774

There were two all-in and call at the same time and the one from Maxi Lehmanski against Sergi Reixach took place first.

Maxi Lehmanski:     
Sergi Reixach:     

The board came       and Reixach rivered trips queens.

Brian Green had raised the pot by then and eventually called all-in after facing a three-bet by Gavin Cochrane.

Brian Green:     
Gavin Cochrane:     

The       runout kept the aces in the lead and as Green had fewer chips than Lehmanski, he became the bubble boy.

Sergi Reixach	562,082	247,702
Gavin Cochrane	200,351	-21,874
Brian Green	0	-31,000
Maxi Lehmanski	0	-120,462

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.

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