MTT Report – Aleks Ponakovs Wins The Bounty Hunters HR Main Event for $113,988.21

Latvian high stakes regular Aleks Ponakovs has landed another huge score by taking down the Bounty Hunters HR Main Event for $113,988.21 at GGNetwork and “sirius-” from Brazil won the GGMasters.

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• $1,000,000 GTD Bounty Hunters HR Main Event at GGNetwork
• $1,050 GGMasters High Rollers at GGNetwork
• $50,000 KO Games #16 – Mystery Bounty High Roller at 888poker

Last night he beat a huge 2,273 player field to take down the $525 Bounty Hunters HR Main Event for a staggering 114K.

Further notables who made the final table were Nick Maimone and Pedro Padilha.

The heads-up was a Baltic Duel between Aleks Ponakovs from Latvia and “sum sar” from Estonia, who still took home $56k for his Runner-Up finish.

Haringbuis from Malta wins the PokerStars Titans Event 

The second big highlight of the Sunday Grind at GGNetwork is of course the GGMasters.

708 players registered, which was easily enough to exceed the $600K guarantee.

There was $708,000 in the prize pool with $104,753 up top, which went to sirius- from Brazil. He defeated “The Last Hero” from Kazakhstan Heads-up.

The biggest name on the final table was high roller regular Tom Vogelsang from the Netherlands, who finished in 6th place for $26,516.15.

The big highlight over at 888poker is currently the Knockout Games tournament series.

Biggest prized event of last night was Event #16, a $50,000 GTD Mysters Bounty High Roller.

Jerry “Perrymejsen” Ödeen continues to crush at 888, by making it once again to heads-up play of a big tournament.

This time the Swedish online legend had to settle for second place though as the prestigious title, together with the whopping $15,360.92 first place prize went to Austria in form of “zavar4ik”.

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Andrew Burnett

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