Roman Hrabec wins first career bracelet in WSOP.com online event

Posted on: June 18, 2024 16:12 PDT

The World Series of Poker has released official results for five more online WSOP.com bracelet events on its MI/NV/NJ platform. Events #4 through #8, featured first-time bracelet winners in four of the five events, though one of the four was a breakthrough bracelet triumph by veteran Czech star Roman Hrabec (shown above), the winner of Event #5, $333 'Triple Treys' NL Hold'em.

Hrabec was joined as a recent online winner by another European star of note, Ilija Savevski. Macedonia's Savevski, who currently plays from Austria, picked up his second career WSOP bracelet by taking down Event #7, $500 NLH PKO. Savevski was the champion of the €1,350 'Mini Main' NLH event at the 2022 WSOP Europe festival.

The other three recently completed online events were won by bracelet first-timers. Michigan's Robert Strunk claimed gold in Event #4: $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack, Georgia's Russell Brooks won Event #6, $400 NL Hold'em Ultra Deepstack, and Florida's Sungbin Ma triumphed in Event #8, $1,000 NLH 6-Max.

Event #4: $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack

Strunk, playing as 'Staxie Rose', topped well-known pro and poker instructor Michael 'LatinoLoco' Avecedo to earn $116,708.31, by far his largest career tourney cash. Avecedo's almost-win was worth $85,106.08. Third place and $62,621.91 went to Jason 'Ssenses' Wheeler.

Strunk topped a 1,565-entry field to win the title, which included 955 initial buy-ins and 610 re-entries. That produced an $845,100 prize pool that was split among the top 240 finishers.

Event #4 final-table results:

Robert Strunk 'Staxie Rose' - $116,708.31
Michael Acevedo 'LatinoLoco' - $85,186.08
Jason Wheeler 'Ssenses' - $62,621.91
Raj Marimuthu 'rajmarimuthu' - $46,395.99
Kevin Rabichow 'KRob40' - $34,311.06
Kevin Eyster 'CleanX' - $25,606.53
Kartik Ved 'MangoTango7' - $19,183.77
Brandon Wittmeyer 'TheGoodPlaya' - $14,535.72
James Lillis 'CerealVapist' - $11,070.81

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Event #5: $333 NL Hold'em Triple Treys

Czech star Hrabec has more than $8 million in live-event winnings and a slew of major results, including a win in a Triton Poker Series super high roller in March, in Jeju, South Korea, that was worth a massive $4,330,000. Yet Hrabec had never won a WSOP event, despite cashing in 50 WSOP bracelet and ring events, both live and online, over the past five years.

Hrabec eliminated the US's Derek Scott during heads-up play to finish off the win and claim the long-sought first bracelet, along with a $100,228 payday. Scott earned second-place money of $71,568. The Triple Treys event drew $2,714 entries and paid out $814,200 in prize money.

Event #5 final-table results:

Roman Hrabec - $100,228
Derek Scott - $71,568
(player and amount redacted)
Tyler Hirschfeld - $36,558
Brandon Navarrete - $26,299
Stephen Fraser - $19,134
Ramaswamy Ravi Pyloore - $14,004
Andrew Rose - $10,259
Jonathan Stoeber - $7,572

Event #6: $400 NL Hold'em Ultra Deepstack

Georgia's Brooks, a regular at the WSOP Circuit's Cherokee, North Carolina stops, logged the most significant win of his career in the midweek Event #6, $400 NL Hold'em Ultra Deepstack. Playing as 'PartyGirl247', Brooks outlasted a final table that included several well-known pros on his way to a career-best $ 99,180.85 score. Brooks busted Erik 'heroshima44' Eshima to secure the bracelet, leaving Eshima with a $70,819 finish. Mark 'Dexter' Booth took third for $50,597.

Online Event #6 drew 2,238 total entries, including 1,279 unique players and 959 re-entries. 420 players divvied up the event's $805,680 prize pool.

Event #6 final-table results:

Russell Brooks 'Partygirl247' - $99,180.85
Erik Eshima 'heroshima44'- $70,819.27
Mark Booth 'Dexter' - $50,596.70
Wes Fisher 'SinCityCwboy' - $36,175.03
Upeshka De Silva 'ICuRaRook' - $26,023.46.
Eli Perlman 'IloveNuts' - $18,933.48
Cole Ferraro 'Basura' - $13,857.69
Soheb Porbandarwala 'Antefada'- $10,151.56
Daniel Coen 'goingtwice' - $7,492.82

Online Event #7: $500 NL Hold'em PKO

Macedonia's Savevski, playing as 'IlllllI', added an online bracelet win to his resume with his victory in Event #7, $500 NLH PKO. Savevkski's win was worth $40,577.24, and he dominated the field by collecting another $44,202.90 in bounties. Jonah Labranche finished second for a total of $53,133.36, including over $12,500 in bounties. Stanislav Barshak, who just won a ring in the delayed 'May' Online Circuit series Event #7, took third.

Event #7 attracted 1,603 total entries, as 967 unique players combined to contribute another 636 re-entries. The resulting $721,350 prize pool was distributed among the event's top 320 finishers.

Event #7 final-table results - overal winnings (prize + total bounties):

Ilija Savevski 'IllllI'- $84,780.14 ($40,577.24 + $44,202.90)
Jonah Labranche 'GrandpaRay' - $53,133.36 ($40,575.93 + $12,577.43)
Stanislav Barshak 'DeuceTheChed' - $30,521.75 ($24,706.23 + $5,815.50)
Saurav Desai 'winningstack' - $22,039.35 ($18,033.75 + $4,005.60)
Nicholas Gibson 'GibyJustWin1' - $25,092.32 ($13,272.84 + $11,819.48)
Pierce McKellar 'entaroadun' - $11,791.34 ($9,738.22 + $2,053.12)
John Botticello 'Thistime' - $14,972.47 ($7,213.50 + $7,758.97)
Brian Darmanin 'LuckyChewy' - $8,488.89 ($5,374.05 + $3,114.84)
Michael Moncek 'TexasMike' - $6,809.87 ($4,039.56 + $2,770.31)

Online Event #8: $1,000 NL Hold'em 6-Max

The shift in software platforms for WSOP.com's online players in Nevada and New Jersey that occurred when Michigan was added to create a three-state network carried an additional wrinkle, in that the NV/NJ players were required to re-register and create new accounts and screen names. That's resulted in an outbreak of players using the real-life names or familiar online names of other, perhaps better-known players, for any of several reasons.

That was on display in Event #8, $1,000 NLH 6-Max, where Florida's Sungbin Ma, playing as 'MikeMatusow', topped a loaded final table for his first career bracelet and $153,250, the largest payout of the online series to date. Ma knocked out Michael 'BOSCO8' for the win, leaving Bosco to collect $111,858 as the runner-up. Christopher 'pokerturo' Frank logged a solid third-place run worth $82,229

Event #8 drew 1,233 total entries, consisting of 700 unique players who also added a combined 533 re-entries. The event's $1,109,700 prize pool was split among the top 240 finishers.

Event #8 final-table results: