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Thursday, August 13, 2020 6:29 PM Local Time
Grax Grabs a Bounty
Javier "tormento" Garcirreynaldos raised to 600 from under the gun and was called by Sebastien Grax in the hijack. Federico "MadSwitch" Fulciniti three-bet to 2,470 from the button for the blinds to fold and Garcirreynaldos to make the call. Grax four-bet shoved with the bigger stack for Fulciniti to be the only one to make the call for the 23,515 he had left.
Federico "MadSwitch" Fulciniti:
Sebastien Grax:
The board ran out for Fulciniti to flop a pair and improve to two pair but still not being able to beat the higher two pair of Grax to see his bounty go to Grax.
| Sebastien Grax | 59,300 | |
| Federico "MadSwitch" Fulciniti | 0 | |
Thursday, August 13, 2020 6:21 PM Local Time
Messer Can't Win Against Hartmann
Peter "pet3r67" Messer raised to 640 from under the gun and Pascal Hartmann three-bet 1,920 from the button for the blinds to fold and Messer to call.
The flop came Messer check-called the 3,100 bet of Hartmann.
The turn was the and Messer checked again. This time, Hartmann bet 7,000 for Messer to shove for 19,930 and Hartmann to call.
Peter "pet3r67" Messer:
Pascal Hartmann:
They had both flopped a flush draw with Messer holding a double gutshot to the straight while Hartmann was ahead with the higher kicker and open-ended straight draw.
The river completed the board with the for Hartmann to collect his second bounty.
| Pascal Hartmann | 74,005 | |
| Peter "pet3r67" Messer | 0 | 0  |
Thursday, August 13, 2020 6:14 PM Local Time
A Bounty for Romanello
"MelbMike45" raised to 500 from the hijack and Roberto Romanello three-bet to 2,000 from the cutoff. The action folded back to "MelbMike45" who made the call.
The flop came , "MelbMike45" check-raised the 1,825 continuation-bet of Romanello to 8,350 for Romanello to respond with a shove for 22,975 which "MelbMike45" called with the same stack.
"MelbMike45":
Roberto Romanello:
Romanello had flopped a pair of nines while "MelbMike45" was sitting on the flush draw.
The rest of the board was completed with the on the turn and the on the river for Romanello to score a bounty.
| Roberto Romanello | 50,400 | |
| MelbMike45 | 0 | |
Thursday, August 13, 2020 6:07 PM Local Time
O'Kearney Gets His First Bounty
Dara "OriginalDoke" O'Kearney raised to 400 from the button and Justin "RockyRagoo" Park three-bet to 1,725 from the big blind for O'Kearney to make the call.
The flop came , Park checked but then shoved for 23,250 when O'Kearney continued with a bet of 1,850. O'Kearney called for the same amount to put his own tournament life at risk too.
Justin "RockyRagoo" Park:
Dara "OriginalDoke" O'Kearney:
Park had the overpair but O'Kearney had flopped a straight and was sitting on a flush and straight flush draw.
The rest of the board was completed with the on the turn and the on the river for O'kearney to hold and claim one of the first bounties of the day.
| Dara "OriginalDoke" O'Kearney | 50,200 | 50,200  |
| Justin "RockyRagoo" Park | 0 | 0 |
Thursday, August 13, 2020 6:01 PM Local Time
Shuffle Up and Deal
The over 1,000 players have just started playing as the cards are in the virtual air.
Thursday, August 13, 2020 4:59 PM Local Time
6 PM UTC Start for Event #60: $525 Bounty
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It's time for another bounty tournament on GGPoker as Event #60: $525 Bounty starts at 6 p.m. UTC to give players another shot at earning the progressive bounties while trying to win the coveted gold WSOP bracelet.
Twentyseven bracelets have already been awarded with players like Daniel Dvoress, Kristen Bicknell, Roberto Romanello, Simon Lofberg, Yuri Dzivielevski, and Juha Helppi have won one while Alek Stasiak has won two.
When players take their seats during the first three hours of late registration, they will get 25,000 chips in their starting stack. Players can reenter twice if they can't keep hold of their chips during that period and this tournament has the Bubble Protection feature activated. This means that players who register before the start of the tournament will get their buy-in back if they bust during the bubble period.
A progressive bounty of at least $125 will be awarded for each player that has been eliminated. The winning player in the hand will get 50% of the bounty added to their bankroll while the other 50% will be added to the bounty on their own head.
Levels will last 15 minutes each until the final table and then increase after every 30 hands. The tournament is also played in a 6-max format but the final table will be 9-handed and full real names of the players will be revealed at that time.
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