MTT Report – Thorsten Legit Leads 2022 WCOOP Main Event, probirs, Graftekkel and veeea in the Top 10

All eyes are on the 2022 WCOOP Main Event. Thorsten Legit from Austria leads after Day 1 of the WCOOP Main Event, which has an incredible $7,000,000 guarantee. probirs, Graftekkel and veeea are all in the Top 10.

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Thorsten “juicetus” Legit leads 2022 WCOOP Main Event

All eyes of the online poker tournament world are currently on the WCOOP Main Event as it has a massive, increased guarantee of $7,000,000, which means that more than a million dollars are waiting for the winner!

So far 703 players paid the $10,300 buy-in with three re-entries being allowed during late registration.

MTT Report - Thorsten Legit Leads 2022 WCOOP Main Event, probirs, Graftekkel and veeea in the Top 10

Registration is still open until the start of today’s Day 2, so the $7,000,000 guarantee will most likely be smashed.

228 players made it through Day 1 and Thorsten Legit from Austria is on top of the leaderboard with online superstars Andras “probirs” Nemeth, Jans “Graftekkel” Arends and Artem “veeea” Vezhenkov all being in the Top 10.

Day 2 will kick off at 5:35 GMT and there are 87 places paid. Since the tournament is a 4-Day-Event they will either play down to the money today or until the bubble.

Top Ten Chip Counts after Day 1:

RANKPLAYERCHIP COUNTBIG BLINDSCOUNTRY
1Thorsten “juicetus” Legit2,791,391232Austria
2“nik_meat”2,782,732231Ukraine
3“sergebezb”2,683,869223Estonia
4“Faboulus888”2,439,643203Austria
5“saiiizika”2,407,636200Brazil
6“SerVlaMin”2,140,721178United Kingdom
7Andras “probirs” Nemeth1,992,858166Hungary
8Jans “Graftekkel” Arends1,852,248154Netherlands
9Artem “veeea” Vezhenkov1,811,612151Russian Federation
10Gilles “TaxationIsTheft” Simon1,786,389149Netherlands

Bernhard Haider chops GGMasters for $120K

The GGMasters is one of the absolute highlights of the weekly GGNetwork tournament schedule.

Yesterday’s episode was a huge success as it smashed the $750,000 guarantee by more than 27%!

Many notables had deep runs and two of them with Justin Bonomo and Bernhard Haider even made it into the Top 3.

MTT Report - Thorsten Legit Leads 2022 WCOOP Main Event, probirs, Graftekkel and veeea in the Top 10
After Bonomo busted in 3rd place for $76K, Haider and “2CoSalamanca” from Canada made an ICM deal securing both of them more than $115,000.

The Canadian, who was chip leader when the deal was made, took home the prestigious trophy.

MTT Report - Thorsten Legit Leads 2022 WCOOP Main Event, probirs, Graftekkel and veeea in the Top 10

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