Today's article takes us to the world of online poker, where Mike Watson took care of the double win. He took down the GGMillion$ High Roller final table yesterday with a buy-in of $10,300, 192 entries and a prize pool of $1,920,000.
He was accompanied by the German pair of Christopher Nguyen and Leon Sturm. Leon earned $90,684 for 7th place, Chris Nguyen earned $188,123 for 4th place and Mike Watson battled his way to the final heads-up.
Mike Watson entered the final heads-up with a stack of more than 18 million while his opponent had just one million. Heads-up play lasted only a few hands, after which Mike Watson was crowned champion. He won his third title of the tournament and $390,260 to go with it.
In addition, Mike was also the APL Series champion, specifically in the Sunday SHR event with a buy-in of $3,438. Here, the entries count reached 100 and the prizepool was worth $326,620. Mike took home $76,369 for first place here, making the two tournaments a combined $466,629.
Adrian "Amadi_017" Mateos also took home prize money from the two online tournaments. His first bounty came in the $5,200 Titans Event with 59 entries and a prizepool of $295,000, where he finished in third place for $47,602. Finishing slightly better, in second place, was German player Manuel "Phemo" Bueno Fernandez, who cashed for $66,056.
Adrian also added another $33,265 to his first prize for his 7th place finish in the APL series tournament - Zodiac Goat Super HR. The tournament brought in 362 entries and a prizepool of $957,715. The two tournaments thus brought Mateos a total of $80,867.
Our list of star names also includes Niklas Astedt, who cashed in three tournaments. The biggest win came from the Bounty Hunters SHR with a buy-in of $5,250, 27 entries and a prize pool of $135,000. Niklas took first place here and improved his total by $61,168.
Also in his case, the second tournament he took money from was from the APL series. The Holdem Deepstack HR, with a buy-in of $756, 80 entries and a prizepool of $57,485, earned him another $10,100.
The third tournament he cashed in was also from the APL series, but this time it was the Sunday HR Main Event with a buy-in of $1,513, 239 entries and a prize pool of $343,473. Niklas finished in 6th place with a prize of $18,372. Thanks to these three wins, he improved his fortune by $89,640. Niklas was joined at the final table by names such as Leonard Maue and Alexander Tkatschew. Maue improved his fortune by $30,898 and Tkatschew by $23,825. The winner was Austrian player "Skretcher9", who won $67,389.
Source - GG, PS, Pokernews