Sung Joo Hyun Wins 2020 World Series of Poker Online $500 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack Event

Sung Joo Hyun emerged victorious from a field of 2,307 entries to win the 2020 World Series of Poker Online $500 buy-in no-limit hold’em deepstack event. For the win the South Korean earned his first WSOP gold bracelet and the top prize of $161,898. This was the second-largest recorded score of his career, behind his fourth-place showing in the 2018 WSOP $1,111 ’Little One For One Drop_ event which earned him $189,098.

Hyun came into the final table of nine in second chip position behind Nikita Kuznetsov. The action kicked off with a three-way all-in, with Yesha Punjabi’s pocket sevens facing the A-Q of Wei Zhao and the pocket queens of Jeffrey Mallach. The queens held up to win the massive pot and eliminate Punjabi in ninth place ($11,564). Zhao was left with less than three big blinds and hit the rail just moments later with $16,084 as the eighth-place finisher.

Jens Kerper was the next to fall, with his Q10 oyt of the small blind running into the AJ of Mallach. Kerper flopped a pair of tens to take the lead, but Mallach rivered an ace-high straight to take down the pot and eliminate Kerper in seventh place ($22,369).

The next big confrontation was a classic race situation, with Che Li Lin holding A-K against the pocket jacks of Kuznetsov. While it was more or less a coinflip preflop, the J52 flop shifted things drastically in Kuznetsov’s favor. The 6 turn left Lin drawing dead, and the 8 sealed the deal. Lin earned $31,111 as the sixth-place finisher.

Kuznetsov kept his streak alive by busting Yu Du in fifth place ($43,269). Du got his last chips in ahead, with A-K dominating the A-9 suited of Kuznetsov. That advantage held until a nine on the river gave Kuznetsov the winning hand to send Du the the rail and take the chip lead.

Kuznetsov lost a monster pot with top two pair versus the middle set of Mallach to relinquish the lead, and then came out on the wrong side of a preflop coinflip to fall to the very bottom of the leaderboard. In the end, he got his last chips in with A2 against the Q8 of Yiduo Yu. The board came down Q5562 and Yu made queens up to lock up the pot. Kuznetsov finished in fourth place, earning $60,178 for his deep run.

Hyun was the shortest stack heading into three-handed play, but he secure two double ups with A-10 and A-J winning out against smaller pocket pairs to surge to the top of the chip counts. Mallach’s stack dwindled until he was left with less than ten big blind. He got the last of those chips in preflop with A6 and was called by Yu’s A7. Both players paired their aces on the flop, and Yu’s seven kicker ended up playing by the river. Mallach took home $83,696 as the third-place finisher.

With that Hyun took a slight lead into heads-up play gainst Yu. Hyun picked off a huge bluff to take a dominant lead in the match. The hand began with Hyun raising to 2.2 million from the button holding QJ. Yu three-bet to 6,840,000 with A8. Hyun called and the flop came down Q96. Yu bet 6,200,000 and Hyun called. The 10 saw Yu fire 12.1 million, which Hyun also called with his top pair. The 6 river paired the board and Yu moved all-in. Hyun called for his tournament life and took down the largest pot of the tournament to leave Yu with just over three big blinds. Thise went in with 75 and Hyun called holding 106. The board came down A84103 and Yu was eliminated as the runner-up ($116,605).

Here is a look at the payouts awarded at the final table:

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