The past few weeks the poker world focused mainly on England, where the luxurious Triton Super High Roller Series took place, followed by the largest tournament outside the USA called Goliath (which also set a new record this year), but everything was rounded off by the WSOP Circuit festival, which went to London brought battles for 15 precious rings.
The wide offer included various options for winning a ring, but traditionally there were High Rollers tournaments, the popular Mystery Bounty event, or the £1,100 Main Event. In it, 1,018 entries took care of a prize pool of £987,460, from which Kim Ji Woon took home the ring and £143,000, who defeated Jeremias Mendoza in heads-up.
The novelty of this festival was the "improved" Main Event, which was called the Super Circuit Main Event. With a buy-in of £3,300, this tournament guaranteed £3 million, which was almost exactly filled thanks to 910 entries. You could also enjoy yesterday's final of this tournament through a live stream, at the end of which the Austrian representative Tobias Schwecht was rejoicing in winning £480,000.
Despite the attention that this tournament attracted, the poker community mainly spoke about another tournament. This was a £200 Flip & Go ring event, which has also taken place in the past in the bracelet WSOP in Vegas. The principle of the tournament is that at the beginning all players are automatically all-in at each table, but then the winners continue the tournament in ITM in normal play.
While in Vegas this tournament was interesting and thanks to 1,022 entries it also brought a nice prize pool, in London the situation was different. Only 39 players took part in this tournament, which meant that only five players met at the final table for the ring and £2,960. Alexander Clark became the champion, who in the end needed a bit of luck to win all-in, but then only beat four players to get the ring and with it an invitation to the 2024 Tournaments of Champions.
What do you think about such tournaments?
Source: Poker.org, PokerStrategy.com, WSOP.com
