Brazil's Rosana Thorlay Aguiar has claimed the title in Event #5 of the WSOP Online International $500 NLH Ladies Championship, as early-event action continues in the GGPoker-hosted festival. Thorlay, a relatively unheralded player with just three small recorded cashes before this event, satellited in to this online championship and parlayed the seat into WSOP gold, along with a $16,512.63 payday.
Thorlay's win came at the expense of Vietnamese pro Dinh Khanh, who settled for the runner-up's payday of $12,730.90. 'UnoCoon' claimed $9,818.41 for placing third. The event drew 186 entries and paid out an $88,380 prize pool.
Event #5: $500 NLH Ladies Championship final-table results:
- Rosana 'RoThorlay_' Thorlay Aguiar (Brazil) - $16,512.63
- Dinh 'XiMuiPN' Khanh (Vietnam) - $12,730.90
- 'UnoCoon' - $9,818.41
- Vanessa Alvarez 'MamacitaPoker' Meijas (Canada) - $7,571.03
- Jing 'Fish is me@' Zhu (China) - $5,838.06
- 'Itsjul' (Russia) - $4,501.76
- Jennifer 'dejens' Cassell (Australia) - $3,471.33
- 'NastYHarleY' (Austria) - $2,676.75
- 'C Habitzreiter' (Brazil) - $2,064.07
Goyal snares Bounty PLO gold
In Event #4, $840 Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha, India's Tarun 'Uncapped' Goyal claimed the bracelet and a huge combined (prize and bounties) payout of $109,561.73. Goyal, a rising online star in India, outdueled GGTeam member Tony Lin for the win. Lin earned a combined $55,653.58 for second, while Norway's Andreas Torbergson scored a combined $43,338.95 for third.
The bounty PLO tourney attracted 881 entries and paid out a combined prize pool of $704,800.
Event #4: $840 Bounty Pot-limit Omaha final-table results:
Amount shown = combined payout (prize + cumulative bounties)
- Tarun 'Uncapped' Goyal (India) - $109,561.73 ($44,979.01 + $64,582.82)
- Tony Lin (Hong Kong) - $55,653.58 ($44,978.58 + $10,675)
- Andreas ‘A Torbergsen’ Torbergson (Norway) - $43,338.95 ($34,087.39 + $9,251.56)
- Joshua 'John Milly' Hopkins (Canada) - $37,745.91 ($25,833.41 + $11,912.50)
- 'TULI' (Finland) - $24,437.43 ($19,578.06 + $4,859.37)
- 'levivgx' (Belgium) - $18,187.38 ($14,837.38 + $3,350.00)
- Ori 'BrokenNative' Kossonogi (Taiwan) - $16,463.38 ($11,244.63 + $5,218.75)
- Mads Amot (Norway) - $14,012.10 ($6,674.56 + $7,337.50)
- 'Setupoig' (Estonia) - $6,647.33 ($4,972.33 + $1,725.00)
'TiananmenSquare' takes down the online Monster Stack
In Event #6, $1,500 Monster Stack NLH, the US's Eric Kindred earned his own first WSOP bracelet. Playing from Ecuador under his 'TiananmenSquare' screen name, Kindred topped a big 1,437-entry field to win $263,719.93. Kindred bested Mexico's Alejandro 'ibillion' Quezada for the win, leaving Quezada to collect $203,355.06 for his own deep run. Third place and $156,808.13 went to Kazakhstan's Sergei Varnaev. India's Tarun Goyal, winner of Event #4, made his second final table of the series here.
Event #6: $1,500 Monster Stack NLH final-table results:
- Eric 'TiananmenSquare' Kindred (Ecuador) - $263,719.93
- Alejandro 'ibillion' Quezada (Mexico) - $203,355.06
- Sergei Varnaev (Kazakhstan) - $156,808.13
- 'bartodigente' (Argentina) - $120,915.66
- Christopher Frank (Austria) - $93,238.66
- 'ISeeUrCards' (Ukraine) - $71,896.89
- Viktor Ustinov (Russia) - $55,440.11
- Diego 'Ushuaia1' Zeiter (Austria) - $42,676.75
- Tarun 'Uncapped' Goyal (India) - $32,964,78
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