Another successful tournament for Fedor Holz
The WSOP on GGPoker will reach its crescendo this weekend, the final events of the hugely-successful online series featuring Fedor Holz in the semi-finals of the $25k buy-in Heads-Up championship.
What a surreal Tuesday. Shipped 10k and I’m Final 4 in the 25k HU; sweat for bracelet and 1M$ on Sunday. Let’s go! pic.twitter.com/IwgQ8EeFmJ
— Fedor Holz 🐧 (@CrownUpGuy) September 2, 2020
The So my client crashed 2x while playing 1st rd match of 25k HU @WSOP @GGPokerOfficial and my opponent blinded me out as quick as possible both times showing amazing sportsmanship. Hard to believe he’s actually from 🇨🇦 — Mike Leah (@GoLeafsGoEh) September 1, 2020 Curiously, the $10k heads-up version a few weeks ago saw Erik Seidel in the hot seat when his opponent disconnected. The rights and wrongs of blinding out an opponent were well-discussed at the time, but Wallensteen appears to be rather ‘anonymous’ so may not be well-versed in poker protocol and ethics. Was a mistake. Didn’t know who it was but shouldn’t make a diff. Plan was if he blinded out would give nim back entry & %. It happened to me twice live. 1st time, 1st round guy waited, 2nd time was semi WSOP Europe, got blinded out for most of stack — Erik Seidel (@Erik_Seidel) August 9, 2020 Leah’s disgust with his opponent aside, both he and poker weren’t the only victims of internet problems this past week, the final of the Chess Olympics, known as the Olympiad, ending in controversy. The semi-finals had seen Armenia lose an appeal against a disconnect against India, and the final saw India appealing, and winning, after two of their players had disconnected against Russia. The solution? A shared title and Olympic gold for both countries. 🇷🇺 Russia and India 🇮🇳 are co-champions of the first-ever FIDE Online #ChessOlympiad. Tournament's website: https://t.co/bIcj0hRMek#chess #IndianChess #шахматы pic.twitter.com/gP4sULP2kr — International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) August 30, 2020 Interestingly for fans of both games, Russia’s Alexander Grischuk (pictured bottom left in the tweet above and spelled Grishchuk on the Hendon Mob database) has played twice in the WSOP Main Event and cashed for $24,678 at the 2008 EPT Barcelona Main Event. Back at the WSOP Heads-Up Championship, and the 127 entries at $25k a pop had built a massive $3,111,500prizepool, but only the final 8 would share in that. Likely much to Mike Leah’s dissatisfaction, Wallensteen would make that final octet, cashing for $194,469 when he fell in 7th at the hands of Turkey’s OktayKahyaoglu. Fedor Holz had one of the toughest quarter-final matches, facing off with Justin Bonomo, who in 2018 won 15 heads-up matches in a row during his sun-run to the top of the money-winners list. Just won the WSoP $10k HU! I’ve been informed that with the 7 rounds I won in this tournament, on top of winning my last 8 MTT HU battles, I’ve now won 15 consecutive live poker HU matches 😮😮😮 1 / 32,768 odds for a coin flip to be heads 15x in a row! — Bonologic (@JustinBonomo) June 9, 2018 Bonomo has since returned to just ‘average legend’ status, and Holz eventually took down the win this week, and will now face the Spanish crusher Sergei ‘srxakgirona’Reixach. In the other semi-final, Kahyaoglu will battle Brazil’s Bruno Botteon (pictured below), and the quartet has already secured $311,150, with $1,070,250 up top and $622,300 for the runner-up. The big weekend finale to the 2020 series will also see the remaining 38 Main Event players return to battle for the lion’s share of the astonishing $27,559,500 prizepool. When signing up through VIP-Grinders.com on partypoker, you can now earn up to 60% cashback on partypoker plus take part in the following exclusive VIP-Grinders Promotions with massive extra value: Terms and conditions apply. New customer offer and 18+ only. Should you require help regarding your betting pattern, please visit www.begambleaware.org
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