Natural8-WSOPC: Natural8 Team Hot Kosei Ichinose runs deep at the $500 Daily Main; first WSOPC win for Golden snitch

Day 16 at the WSOP Super Circuit Online Series may have had a lighter roster than the previous day where four players seized rings and a few players won over a million dollars, however, it still offered events that paid out generously. The day’s biggest winner was UK’s Golden snitch for $ 88.5K. Natural8 Team Hot Kosei Ichinose ran deep at the $500 Daily Main and finished runner up of the Asia Daily Leaderboard.

If you are just getting wind of this ongoing series, hands down it is the largest online event ever staged. It opened on May 3rd at GG Network Natural8 and will run until May 31st. Over the 29 days, 18 Ring Events and 577 side events are scheduled. An enormous $ 100,000,000 in prizes is guaranteed. To date, 10 gold rings have been captured, 282 games won, and $ 74.3 million paid out.

We kick off our daily recap with an update on the featured events. To secure the next gold ring, WSOPC Ring Event #11: Deepstack Bounty Hunters $500K GTD gets rolling in several hours. Registration and Day 1 heats for select events are also ongoing.

Up next: WSOPC Ring Event #11: Deepstack Bounty Hunters $500K GTD

Coming up soon is WSOPC Ring Event #11: Deepstack Bounty Hunters $500K GTD. Based on the first installment of this event won by Taiwanese pro Chi Jen Chu, players can expect a huge field in the thousands and the guarantee more than smashed. The previous event turned up 3,669 hunters for a $ 733,800 prize pool.

Buy in: $ 210

Guarantee: $ 500,000

Date: May 20 @ 0200 (HKT)

Starting stack: 20,000

Registration: open for 260 minutes

Update: WSOPC Ring Event #13: COLOSSUS $2M GTD

Destined to draw a massive crowd is the WSOPC Ring Event #13: COLOSSUS $ 2M GTD. While the event is still five days out, Day 1 heats are already running. To date, 1,780 have entered, 268 qualified to the final day. Among the qualifiers are Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Kristen Bicknell “Krissyb24”, Henri Buehler, and two ring winners BlaireauEnColere and ShopChop96.

Buy in: $ 400

Guarantee: $ 2,000,000

Date: May 25 @ 03:00 (HKT)

Day 1 heats: 24 remaining

Top 10 in chips

Update: WSOPC Ring Event #17: MAIN EVENT $5M GTD

The star event of the series is none other than the WSOPC Ring Event #17: MAIN EVENT $5M GTD. Daily Day 1 heats have been running. Currently 2,844 have entered with 406 advancing to the final day which takes place on June 1st. Last night, Henri Buehler joined the list of qualifiers that include other notable players: Bertrand “ElkY” Grospelier, Fedor Holz, Boris Becker, Kristen Bicknell “Krissyb24”, and ring winners ChilaxChuck, BlaireauEnColere, ShopChop96, and multi millionaire ring winner 800-522-4700. Filipino pro Leter Edoc “mon$terDad” also advanced with a stack that puts him in the top ten.

Buy in: $ 1,000

Guarantee: $ 5,000,000

Date: June 1 @ 03:00 (HKT)

Day 1 heats: 50 remaining

Top 10 in chips

Day 16 results

Biggest Winner: Golden snitch – $ 88,556.40

Only one $5K High Roller event ran on Day 16 with 60 entering. The $ 150K guarantee was easily crushed for a sweeter $ 285,000 prize pool. 8 players profited. Claiming the largest chunk was player Golden snitch after defeating Croatia’s Mikhail Tal at heads up. Golden snitch is no stranger to the victory stage having shipped other events however it was a first at the WSOPC. Golden snitch earned $ 88,556.40 to become the day’s biggest winner.

WSOPC Series: $5K High Roller

Buy in: $ 5,000

Guarantee: $ 150,000

Entries: 60

Prize pool: $ 285,000

ITM: 8 places

Payouts

1st Golden Snitch – UK – $ 88,556.40

2nd Mikhail Tal – Croatia – $ 55,730.12

3rd Jebron Lames – Canada – $ 42,162.64

4th AlwaysWithNuts – Russia – $ 31,898.14

5th Omoshiroi Sekai – Slovenia – $ 24,132.54

6th ChilaxChuck – Canada – $ 18,257.47

7th Adiemeerci – Austria – $ 13,812.69

8th Innovator – Hungary – $ 10,450

Top Bounty: I’ts_Uyevgeni_Chap – $ 30,877.58

Another impressive head slasher at the WSOPC was Israel’s I’ts_Uyevgeni_Chap who overcame the 1,048 field for a sizable $ 10,694.12 first prize. In addition to the winnings was an even fatter bounty check of $ 13,781.70 to collect a combined $ 30,877.58. To demonstrate the enormity of the bounty reward earned, the next highest in bounties picked up only $ 4.2K worth.

WSOPC Series: $210 Bounty

Buy in: $ 210

Guarantee: $ 150,000

Entries: 1,048

Prize pool: $ 209,600

ITM: 152 places

Winner: I’ts_Uyevgeni_Chap – Israel – $ 30,877.58 (includes $ 13,781.70 in bounties)

Natural8 Team Hot Kosei Ichinose goes deep

The $ 500 Daily Main attracted 398 to the virtual felt with 55 seeing a piece of the $ 189,050 pot. Among them was Natural8 Team Hot Japanese pro Kosei Ichinose who finished 3rd for $ 18.5K. Brazil’s UgotKanchanned won it for $ 34.2K. Ichinose also min-cashed at the $ 500 Omaha for finishing 9th out of 88 runners. His deep runs were good for second place at the Natural8 Asia Daily Leaderboard.

WSOPC Series: $500 Daily Main

Buy in: $ 500

Guarantee: $ 150,000

Entries: 398

Prize pool: $ 189,050

ITM: 55 places

Winner: UgotKantchanned – Brazil – $ 34,261.65

2nd J.Marston – Russia – $ 25,183.29

3rd Kosei Ichinose – Japan – $ 18,510.60

HannibalBarca and OMGItsMe win Natural8 Daily Leaderboard

One of the day’s winners was Canada’s HannibalBarca at the $ 125 Daily Special. In addition to the winnings, HannibalBarca was awarded $ 1,068 for topping the Natural8 Rest of World (ROW) Daily Leaderboard.

WSOPC Series: $125 Daily Special

Buy in: $ 125

Guarantee: $ 70,000

Entries: 828

Prize pool: $ 95,200

ITM: 143 places

Winner: HannibalBarca – Canada – $ 15,901.24

In the Natural8 Asia Daily Leaderboard, it was Indonesia’s OMGItsMe with the win for finishing 2nd at the $ 250 Daily Special. OMGItsMe was awarded $ 988.

WSOPC Series: $250 Daily Special

Buy in: $ 250

Guarantee: $ 60,000

Entries: 343

Prize pool: $ 78,890

ITM: 55 places

Winner: Horologist – New Zealand – $ 11,105.48 (deal)

2nd OMGItsMe – Indonesia – $ 9,708.86 (deal)

3rd deafandblind – Russia – $ 12,421 (deal)

Turning double digits to five figures

Four players turned their below $ 100 buy in into a five figure return at the $ 50 Daily Main and $ 88 Daily Special. The biggest winner was ggpokerwsopring for $ 19.6K.

WSOPC Series: $88 Daily Special

Buy in: $ 88

Guarantee: $ 100,000

Entries: 1,599

Prize pool: $ 129,455.04

ITM: 269 places

Winner: ggpokerwsopring – UK – $ 19,672.68

2nd bigkukujiao – Malaysia – $ 14,143.58

3rd mohayon2407 – Israel – $ 10,169.35

WSOPC Series: $50 Daily Main

Buy in: $ 50

Guarantee: $ 65,000

Entries: 1,584

Prize pool: $ 72,864

ITM: 269 places

Winner: Rianic – Germany – $ 11,073.05

Other Big Winners

WSOPC Series: $2.5K

Buy in: $ 2,500

Guarantee: $ 100,000

Entries: 44

Prize pool: $ 104,500

ITM: 5 places

Payouts

1st Le Flaneur – Canada – $ 44,578.03

2nd Ademeerci – Austria – $ 26,338.99

3rd Krissyb24 – Canada – $ 16,578.91

4th FuTimReilly – Luxembourg – $ 10,435.50

5th pDNA – UK – $ 6,568.56

WSOPC Series: $1K

Buy in: $ 1,000

Guarantee: $ 100,000

Entries: 99

Prize pool: $ 100,000

ITM: 12 places

Winner: PPX55 – Finland – $ 23,699.01

WSOPC Series: $1K

Buy in: $ 1,000

Guarantee: $ 85,000

Entries: 107

Prize pool: $ 101,650

ITM: 15 plac es

Winner: H@K1M – Norway – $ 23,280.84

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WSOP $ 300K Daily Leaderboards

Natural8 is running exclusive leaderboards with up to $300,000 in prizes. There are 3 leaderboards, paying out a daily total $ 10,000, and categorized by location: Asia / LATAM / Rest of the World (ROW).

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