Ravid Garbi Wins 2020 World Series of Poker Online $5,000 Six-Max No-Limit Hold'em Championship

Ravid Garbi has won the 2020 World Series of Poker Online $5,000 no-limit hold’em six-max championship event. He outlasted a field of 672 total entries and overcame a tough final table to win his first WSOP gold bracelet and the top prize of $531,513. This was by far the largest recorded tournament score of Garbi’s career, having roughly $30,000 in prior live scores to his name.

The tournament was six handed throughout, but combined onto a nine-handed final table after the elimination of Francisco Benitez in 10th place ($33,195). Belarusian high roller superstar Mikita Badziakouski entered the final table as the chip leader, with Norway’s Preben Stokkan sitting in second chip position. Garbi was actually the shortest stack when nine-handed play got underway, but he managed to chip up and move into the middle of the pack before the first elimination of the day took place. Alan Schein, who had finished fourth in the $8,000 HKD buy-in bracelet event just a day earlier, got all-in with pocket nines and lost out to the J8 of Urmo Velvelt. Schein took home $45,293 for his ninth-place finish.

Recent $1,050 pot-limit Omaha bounty bracelet winner Hun Wei Lee was the next to fall. he got the last of his short stack in with K10 and was called by the AJ of Ludovic Geilich. The Scottish pro made a pair of aces on the river to send Lee to the rail in eighth place ($61,791).

Despite entering the final nine with the lead, Mikita Badziakouski found himself as the shortest stack early in seven-handed action. He got his last few chips in with AQ, but big blind Urmo Velvelt’s 94 was able to outrun his superior hand by making a pair of fours on the river. Badziakouski was awarded $84,299 for his latest deep run in a huge event.

Shyngis Satubayev shoved from under the gun with the J10 and was called by Garbi, who had been dealt the QQ in the big blind. The queens held and Satubayev was knocked out in sixth place ($115,006). Ludovic Geilich followed shortly after when his A8 failed to beat out the Q10 of Velvelt, who paired his ten on the turn and held from there. Geilich took home $156,898 as the fifth-place finisher.

Velvelt was the next to be eliminated. He got all-in on a 742 flop with 1010 for an overpaid. He was up against the 42 of garbi for a flopped two pair. The 9 turn and Q river were of no help to Velvelt and he was knocked out in fourth place ($214,051).

Preben Stokkan’s run in this event came to an end when he ran A into the pocket aces of Garbi. The pocket pair held up and Stokkan settled for $292,021 as the third-place finisher. With that, garbi took more than a 2:1 chip lead into heads-uo play with WSOP bracelet winner and World Poker Tour main event champion Chris Moorman.

By the time the final hand was dealt, Garbi had extended his advantage to more than a 3.5:1 lead. All of the chips got into the middle in the end with Moorman holding Q10 up against the K8 of Garbi. The A526A runout kept garbi’s king-high in the lead to earn him the pot and the title.

Moorman fell just short of earning his second bracelet, but did take home $393,393 as the runner-up.

Here is a look at the payouts awarded to the top nine:

Related Articles

PokerStars Reveals All-New PokerStars Open

Venetian Launches Live Streams With CPPT In 2025

Venetian Rings In New Year With $1.1M DeepStack

Most Viewed Articles