2024 WSOP Online: Sotiropoulos, Prociak, Watson, and Mizrachi Triumph LateA Look At The Results From The Back Half of the Online Bracelet Event Schedule |
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The 2024 World Series of Poker Online, the first to support player liquidity across Nevada, New Jersey, and Michigan on the new WSOP Online client, is officially in the books. There were 30 online bracelets awarded as part of the main WSOPO slate, with another eight handed out for players based in Pennsylvania. The main WSOPO schedule drew over 42,700 total entries, resulting in more than $29.9 million in overall prize money. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the back half of the schedule.
Results from the first 13 online events to finish this year can be found HERE.
WSOP Online #9 – $3,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller
This year’s WSOPO featured five events that started out online but played a live final table at Horseshoe Las Vegas. The first of these online/live hybrid events was a $3,200 buy-in no-limit hold’em high roller that began on June 18 and played down to a winner on July 14.
The tournament drew 401 total entries, resulting in a prize pool of $1,203,000. In the end it was Greece’s Georgios Sotiropoulos that emerged victorious, earning $224,418 and his fourth career bracelet. This was his second online bracelet, having also won the 2021 WSOP Online International $200 FLIP & Go event for $117,022. His two live bracelets came in the 2015 WSOP Europe €1,100 turbo for $128,252 and the 2021 WSOP $1,000 freezeout for $432,575.
Sotiropoulos now has more than $8.8 million in recorded tournament earnings. Nearly $2.1 million have come from his 114 cashes in WSOP bracelet events.
Big names that ran deep in this event included bracelet winner and 2023 World Poker Tour World Championship winner Dan Sepiol (16th), 2024 WSOP main event third-place finisher Niklas Astedt (12th), bracelet winner Ethan ‘Rampage’ Yau (10th), and WPT champion and bracelet winner Brek Schutten (9th).
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Georgios Sotiropoulos | $224,418 |
| 2 | Dario Marinelli | $162,700 |
| 3 | Michael Callandriello | $117,915 |
| 4 | Jonathan Shoreman | $86,135 |
| 5 | Vincent Kent | $63,436 |
| 6 | Thomas Metz | $46,626 |
| 7 | Marta Miquel | $34,479 |
| 9 | Brek Schutten | $19,141 |
WSOP Online #14 – $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em Eight Max
The second of the hybrid events upped the ante, with a $5,300 buy-in and an eight-max table size. Of the 267 entrants, only 48 earned a piece of the $1,335,000 prize pool. The largest share went to Roland Rokita. The Austrian earned $278,713 and his first gold bracelet as the last player standing.
Rokita had plenty of stiff competition to contend with down the stretch, including six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus (15th), Matt Berkey (13th), three-time bracelet winner Tony Dunst (12th), bracelet winner Joseph Cheong (11th), and Brad Owen (10th).
The live final table was graced by the likes of six-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb (5th), Ethan Yau (4th), and 2023 Mid-States Poker Tour Firekeepers main event winner Kou Vang (3rd). Bracelet winner Jed Hoffman earned $201,438 as the runner-up.
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Roland Rokita | $278,713 |
| 2 | Jed Hoffman | $201,438 |
| 3 | Kou Vang | $146,438 |
| 4 | Ethan Yau | $106,013 |
| 5 | Shaun Deeb | $76,863 |
| 6 | Matthew Mcewan | $56,100 |
| 7 | Marco Johnson | $40,975 |
| 8 | John Andress | $30,113 |
WSOP Online #16 – $777 No-Limit Hold’em
Millard Hale came into this year’s series with three WSOP Circuit rings but no bracelets to his name, That all changed when the Kalamazoo, Michigan native topped a field of 1,694 entries in the $777 buy-in ‘Lucky 7s’ no-limit hold’em event. He earned a career-best score of $207,515 as the champion in this return to fully online events.
The $1,185,800 prize pool was split up amongst the top 200 finishers. Joining Hale at the business-end of the tournament were two-time bracelet winner Shannon Shorr (35th), four-time WPT champion Darren Elias (33rd), bracelet winner James Anderson (20th), WPT champion and bracelet winner Pavel Plesuv (13th), and bracelet winner Jeffery Hoop (2nd).
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Millard Hale | $207,515 |
| 2 | Jeffery Hoop | $148,225 |
| 3 | Mordechai Goldner | $114,785 |
| 4 | Matthew Sabia | $83,006 |
| 5 | Nouran Hakimiam | $59,290 |
| 6 | Jonathan Stoeber | $35,574 |
| 7 | Corey Thompson | $23,716 |
| 8 | John Lyons | $11,858 |
| 9 | Jared Talarico | $8,419 |
WSOP Online #17 – $555 Pot-Limit Omaha Mystery Bounty Six Max
The WSOPO was able to support pot-limit Omaha on mobile and mystery bounty events in general for the first time this summer thanks to the updated software that rolled out ahead of the series. This $555 buy-in event took full advantage, utilizing both the previously mentioned game and format.
Jared Hyman triumphed in the end, besting a field of 1,970 total entries to earn is first bracelet and the top prize of $95,844.
Three-time bracelet winner and WPT Champion David ‘ODB’ Baker (18th), three-time bracelet winner Ryan Leng (10th), and five-time bracelet winner Yuri Dzivielevski (5th) were among the many notables who ran deep in this tournament.
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Jared Hyman | $95,844 |
| 2 | Stephen Sola | $69,531 |
| 3 | Matthew Schulte | $50,348 |
| 4 | Matthew Smith | $36,750 |
| 5 | Yuri Dzivielevski | $27,048 |
| 6 | Christopher Battenfield | $19,845 |
WSOP Online #18 – $400 No-Limit Hold’em Colossus
Johan Schultz-Pedersen is the latest wonder of the online world… series, that is. The Danish player defeated a field of 1,544 entries in this year’s internet version of the $400 buy-in ‘Colossus’ no-limit hold’em event to earn his debut bracelet and $149,745.
Not only was this Schultz-Pedersen’s first WSOP victory, it was also his first overall recorded win. He now has more than $707,000 in cashes to his name. His top score remains the $154,401 that he earned as the eighth-place finisher in the 2023 European Poker Tour Paris main event.
2016 WSOP main event fourth-place finisher Michael Ruane (19th), three-time WPT champion Chino Rheem (13th) , and bracelet winner Connor Stuewe (11th) are some of the notables who made it down to the final few tables in this event.
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Johan Schultz-Pedersen | $149,745 |
| 2 | Jonathan Dokler | $106,925 |
| 3 | Benjamin Underwood | $76,392 |
| 4 | Joseph Walters | $54,618 |
| 5 | Marko Grujic | $39,291 |
| 6 | Demetrius Campbell | $28,586 |
| 7 | Frank Brannan | $20,923 |
| 8 | Jonathan Tare | $15,327 |
| 9 | Thomas Nyman | $11,313 |
WSOP Online #19 – $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
David Prociak is now a three-time bracelet winner after taking down the WSOPO $600 no-limit hold’em Deepstack event. He beat out a field of 1,448 entries to earn the hardware and $107,984.
This victory came just over a month after winning the $1,500 badugi event for his second bracelet and $129,676. He is one of three players to win multiple bracelets this summer, joining Scott Seiver and Xixiang Luo.
Prociak’s first came back in 2016 when he bested a field of 521 entries in the $1,500 stud eight-or-better event for $156,546.
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | David Prociak | $107,984 |
| 2 | Thai Yong Wong | $78,818 |
| 3 | Gennady Krolik | $57,940 |
| 4 | Robert Samuels | $42,927 |
| 5 | Scott Blackman | $31,746 |
| 6 | David Woodley | $23,692 |
| 7 | James Romero | $17,750 |
| 8 | Davide Suriano | $13,449 |
| 9 | Rick Mechammil | $10,243 |
WSOP Online #20 – $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Bounty
The $1 million guarantee for the $1,000 no-limit hold’em mystery bounty event was easily surpassed thanks to a turnout of 1,963 entries. There was ultimately $1,766,700 to pay out, with the largest share of the main prize pool being captured by Daniel Chan, who earned $165,178.
This was the third bracelet win for the New York resident, with the trio of titles all coming online. He won two bracelets last year, taking down a WSOPO $500 buy-in event and the $400 Colossus.
Chan now has nearly $1.4 million in recorded earnings after this latest victory, which was his largest payday ever.
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Daniel Chan | $165,178 |
| 2 | Jesse Yaginuma | $119,830 |
| 3 | Jesse McVicker | $86,769 |
| 4 | Maksym Avad | $63,335 |
| 5 | Wojciech Barzantny | $46,615 |
| 6 | Sammy Lafleur | $34,201 |
| 7 | Peter Males | $25,334 |
| 8 | Matt Widdoes | $18,874 |
| 9 | Nicholas Febbraio | $14,187 |
WSOP Online #21 – $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Six Max
Mike Watson has been a top poker tournament player for nearly two decades, with live results dating back to 2006. The 40-year-old Canadian poker pro has cashed for over $29 million on the circuit, with major victories on several top tours. The one trophy that has always eluded Watson, though, was a WSOP bracelet. Finally, 17 years after recording his first WSOP cash, Watson has finally captured his first piece of WSOP hardware.
Watson took down the WSOPO $1,000 no-limit hold’em six-max championship to earn $138,327 and the coveted hardware. This win officially made the Toronto, Ontario resident the 10th player in history to achieve poker’s ‘triple crown’, with victories at the WSOP alongside main event wins on the World Poker Tour and the European Poker Tour.
His WPT win came back in 2008. He topped a field of 446 entries in the 2008 WPT Bellagio Cup IV $15,400 buy-in to earn $1,673,770. As for the EPT, he won the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for $728,325 in 2016 and then took down the 2022 EPT Monte Carlo main event in 2022. Those tournaments were $5,300 and $5,651 to enter, respectively, with 928 and 1,098 entries. Watson is also a four-time Triton Poker event winner.
Watson had plenty of tough competition down the stretch in his run to the bracelet, with the likes of bracelet winner Mitch Halverson (16th), bracelet winner and two-time WPT champion Kevin Eyster (10th), and WPT champion Matthew Salsberg (6th) all running deep.
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Michael Watson | $138,327 |
| 2 | Michael McNeil | $101,118 |
| 3 | Michael Balan | $74,324 |
| 4 | John Gallaher | $54,630 |
| 5 | Derek Kwan | $40,428 |
| 6 | Matthew Salsberg | $30,108 |
| 7 | Scott Castelluccio | $22,629 |
| 8 | Frank Bonacci | $17,137 |
| 9 | Aidan Long | $13,066 |
WSOP Online #22 – $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship
The $1,000 no-limit hold’em championship drew 1,059 entries, resulting in a $953,100 prize pool.
Michigan native Christopher Moon defeated Joe Kuether heads-up to secure the bracelet and the top prize of $139,248. This was the third-largest score yet for Moon, trailing the $258,407 he earned for winning the 2019 MSPT Firekeepers main event and the $183,899 he secured at the 2019 Heartland Poker Tour Ameristar East Chicago main event champion.
Moon now has more than $1.4 million in career scores to his name. Seasoned tournament vet Joe Elpayaa (7th) and bracelet winner Joey Couden (5th) joined Moon at the final table.
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Christopher Moon | $139,248 |
| 2 | Joe Kuether | $101,791 |
| 3 | Dandre Brown | $74,818 |
| 4 | Mordechai Goldner | $54,994 |
| 5 | Joseph Couden | $40,697 |
| 6 | David Mzareulov | $30,309 |
| 7 | Joseph Elpayaa | $22,779 |
| 8 | Bill Schonsheck | $17,251 |
| 9 | Brett Apter | $13,153 |
WSOP Online #23 – $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em Championship
The hybrid format returned for event no. 23. A total of 26 entries were made in the $5,300 buy-in no-limit hold’em championship, resulting in a $1,317,319 prize pool. The final table was set late on July 10, with the action resuming a handful of days later in Las Vegas.
Chicago’s Brandon Wittmeyer prevailed, earning $258,375 and his second career gold bracelet for the win.
This was the third-largest score of Wittmeyer’s career. He now has more than $2.4 million in total cashes.
Plenty of notables cashed in this event, including WPT champion Seth Davies (14th), three-time bracelet winner Phil Galfond (13th), 10-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (10th), two-time bracelet winner Artur Martirosian (4th), and four-time bracelet winner Georgios Sotiropoulos (3rd), who came close to a second win in a hybrid event after taking down event 9.
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Brandon Wittmeyer | $258,375 |
| 2 | Jacob Snider | $192,125 |
| 3 | Georgios Sotiropoulos | $145,750 |
| 4 | Artur Martirosian | $106,000 |
| 5 | lgnas Jasinevicius | $72,875 |
| 6 | George Wolff | $53,000 |
| 7 | Loic Debregeas | $39,750 |
| 8 | Aliaksei Boika | $33,125 |
| 9 | Christian Roberts | $26,500 |
WSOP Online #24 – $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship
The highest buy-in event on this series’ schedule clocked in at $10,000. A total of 134 entries were made at that price point, resulting in a $1,279,700 prize pool.
As one might expect, plenty of big names were among the 24 players that made the money, including four-time bracelet winner and three-time WPT champion Anthony Zinno (23rd), bracelet winner Chris Hunichen (21st), four-time bracelet winner CHance Kornuth (18th), bracelet winner and ten-time Triton champion Jason Koon (17th), two-time bracelet winner John Racener (16th), five-time bracelet winner Yuri Dzivielevski (13th), Kevin Rabichow (9th), two-time bracelet winner Ben Lamb (7th), bracelet winner Joseph Cheong (5th), bracelet winner Alexandros Theologis (4th), and seven-time bracelet winner Scott Seiver (3rd), who came so very close to his fourth bracelet of the summer.
In the end, recent BetMGM Poker Championship winner Daniel Maor came away with his first bracelet and the top prize of $330,263. He now has nearly $1.6 million in recorded earnings, with $944,000 of that coming from his two big wins this summer.
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Daniel Maor | $330,263 |
| 2 | Wayne Harmon | $235,360 |
| 3 | Scott Seiver | $182,214 |
| 4 | Alexandros Theologis | $129,068 |
| 5 | Joseph Cheong | $83,515 |
| 6 | Chris Moore | $68,330 |
| 7 | Ben Lamb | $53,146 |
| 8 | Marta Miquel | $41,757 |
| 9 | Kevin Rabichow | $34,165 |
WSOP Online #25 – $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Six Max
Mo Nuwwarah busted out of the WSOP Main event on day 5, finishing 359th for $40,000. The very next day the 2024 MSPT Bally’s Black Hawk main event champion hopped in the WSOPO $1,000 pot-limit Omaha six-max event and came away the winner.
Nuwwarah earned $135,172 and his first bracelet as the champion. The former poker media member and two-time WSOPC ring winner from Omaha, Nebraska now has more than $772,000 in career tournament earnings.
Joe Kuether (17th), bracelet winner and WPT champion Alan Sternberg (12th), bracelet winner and WPT champion Soheb Porbandarwala (9th), two-time bracelet winner Dylan Weisman (6th), and bracelet winner Jason Somerville (5th) are among the top finishers from the 179 that cashed in this event.
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Mohammed Nuwwarah | $135,172 |
| 2 | Maximilian Schindler | $98,811 |
| 3 | Krzysztof Magott | $72,628 |
| 4 | Roussos Koliakoudakis | $53,384 |
| 5 | Jason Somerville | $39,506 |
| 6 | Dylan Weisman | $29,421 |
| 7 | Guy Dunlap | $22,112 |
| 8 | Elliot Hebden | $16,746 |
| 9 | Soheb Porbandarwala | $12,768 |
WSOP Online #26 – $3,200 No-Limit Hold’em
The final hybrid event of this series was another $3,200 buy-in. With 345 entries, the prize pool swelled to $1,035,000. While 47 players earned a share, only the final table was required to head down to the brick-and-mortar casino.
Two-time bracelet winner Michael Moncek (8th), bracelet winner Scott Bohlman (7th), and final live WSOP bracelet winner Aneris Adomkevicius (4th) all came close to grasping the gold in this contest, but in the end the winner was decided by a heads-up match between reigning WPT World Championship winner and WSOP $1,500 no-limit hold’em shootout champion Dan Sepiol and Zachary Vankeuren
Vankeuren came out on top, earning $219,450 and his first bracelet. The Saratoga Springs, NY resident now has $740,844 in lifetime scores.
Sepiol settled for $162,450 as the runner-up, bringing his career haul to $8.5 million.
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Zachary Vankeuren | $219,450 |
| 2 | Daniel Sepiol | $162,450 |
| 3 | Simone Andrian | $122,550 |
| 4 | Aneris Adomkevicius | $88,350 |
| 5 | John Pannucci | $59,850 |
| 6 | Ali Shahni | $42,750 |
| 7 | Scott Bohlman | $31,350 |
| 8 | Michael Moncek | $25,650 |
| 9 | Lukas Hafner | $19,950 |
WSOP Online #27 – $400 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Bounty Six Max
The final four events of the series all took place entirely online. The $400 buy-in no-limit hold’em mystery bounty six-max tournament drew the largest field of any WSOPO event this year, with 2,778 entries creating a $1,000,080 prize pool to more than double the $500,000 guarantee.
Spain’s Daniel Ruiz came away with the bracelet and the $92,336 top prize from the main prize pool. This was just the second live poker title for Ruiz, coming just 10 days after his first. That win saw him take down a $400 buy-in live event at the MGM Grand Summer Poker Festival for $15,965. Ruiz now has more than $133,000 in lifetime earnings.
Notables that ran deep included bracelet winner Jason Wheeler (18th), Haley Hanna (15th), bracelet winner Anthony Spinella (13th), Ryan Hohner (12th), Sridhar Sangannagari (3rd), and bracelet winner Brian Wood (2nd).
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Daniel Ruiz | $92,336 |
| 2 | Brian Wood | $65,932 |
| 3 | Sridhar Sangannagari | $47,105 |
| 4 | George Abi-Zeid | $33,679 |
| 5 | Vladimir Kendenkov | $24,228 |
| 6 | Eric Taylor | $17,627 |
| 7 | Tyler Hancock | $12,901 |
| 8 | Afik Krief | $9,451 |
WSOP Online #28 – $500 No-Limit Hold’em ‘Summer Saver’
A total of 1,699 entries were made in event no. 28, the $500 buy-in no-limit hold’em Summer Saver. While 320 players cashed, only one walked away with a bracelet this time around: Michael Mosley.
The Flat Rock, Michigan resident was awarded his first bracelet and $99,698 for the win. This was just his 16th recorded cash, with most coming online. He now has $144,411 in total earnings across those in-the-money finishes.
Among the big names who made it to the final few tables were two-time bracelet winner and WPT champion Chris Moorman (12th), 2023 WSOP Circuit Tunica main event champion Preston McEwen (10th), three-time WPT champion Chino Rheem (3rd), and Brandon Zuidema (2nd).
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Michael Mosley | $99,698 |
| 2 | Brandon Zuidema | $72,326 |
| 3 | Chino Rheem | $52,372 |
| 4 | Kevin Theodore | $38,228 |
| 5 | Stephen Press | $28,135 |
| 6 | Jeffrey Hutchison | $20,643 |
| 7 | Ryan Hiller | $15,291 |
| 8 | Adam Lamphere | $11,392 |
| 9 | Matthew Schulte | $8,563 |
WSOP Online #29 – $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Progressive Knockout ‘Fight Night’
Brazil’s Julio Fantin landed the last blow in the $1,000 no-limit hold’em progressive knockout ‘fight night’ event, eliminating bracelet winner Andy Bloch heads-up to secure the bracelet and $45,558 from the main prize pool.
Fantin also took down the big final bounty payout for the win, but the exact amount of that haul is not publicly available at this time. Even without the PKO payout included, this was the largest recorded score yet for Fantin.
Bracelet winner Ankush Mandavia (14th), bracelet winner Dominick Sarle (13th), bracelet winner Arkadiy Tsinis (9th), bracelet winner Kyle Julius (7th), two-time bracelet winner Qinghai Pan (4th), and bracelet winner Yueqi Zhu (3rd) joined Bloch in running deep.
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Julio Fantin | $45,558 |
| 2 | Andy Bloch | $45,526 |
| 3 | Yueqi Zhu | $28,167 |
| 4 | Qinghai Pan | $20,714 |
| 5 | Eric Ethans | $15,326 |
| 7 | Kyle Julius | $8,453 |
| 8 | Henry Liang | $6,292 |
| 9 | Arkadiy Tsinis | $4,775 |
WSOP Online #30 – $888 No-Limit Hold’em
This series saved one of its biggest stories for last. Michael Mizrachi beat out a field of 931 entries in the $888 buy-in no-limit hold’em event that wrapped up this series, earning $108,815 and his sixth gold bracelet for the victory.
Mizrachi is just the 24th player in WSOP history to have earned six or more bracelets. The three-time Poker Players Championship winner (2010, 2012, 2018) now has $17,570,184 in lifetime earnings, with over $9.3 million of that coming from his 84 career cashes in bracelet events. Mizrachi also has two WPT titles to his name.
Mizrachi’s two previous non PPC wins at the series were in the 2011 WSOP Europe €10,400 split no-limit format, which saw the table size decrease as the tournament progressed, and in the 2019 WSOP $1,400 stud eight-or-better event. He earned $448,861 and $142,801, respectively, for those two wins.
In this latest event, Mizrachi had to contend with bracelet winner Giuseppe Pantaleo (16th), bracelet winner Michael Holtz (10th), 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas winner Christian Harder (9th), Cherish Andrews (7th), bracelet winner Sungbin Ma (5th), bracelet winner and WPT champion Alan Sternberg (4th), and Mitch Garshofsky (2nd).
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Michael Mizrachi | $108,815 |
| 2 | Mitch Garshofsky | $79,545 |
| 3 | Kevin Ruscitti | $58,467 |
| 4 | Alan Sternberg | $42,975 |
| 5 | Sungbin Ma | $31,803 |
| 6 | Blaze Gaspari | $23,685 |
| 7 | Cherish Andrews | $17,801 |
| 8 | Tyler Hirschfeld | $13,481 |
| 9 | Christian Harder | $10,278 |
Hybrid event winner photo credits: PokerGO / Enrique Malfavon, Miguel Cortez. Hale image from WSOP. Schultz-Pedersen image via PokerStars / Danny Maxwell. Chan image via Foxwoods poker blog. Moon image from MSPT.
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