Van Fleet and Nemeth Among The Weekend’s Winners – PokerNews.com

August 09, 2021Matthew Pitt

Jon apestyles Van Fleet and Andras probirs Nemeth have several thousand online poker tournament cashes between them. The pair are legends of the game. Both took down Sunday majors on August 8, Van Fleet at PokerStars and Nemeth at partypoker. Let us take a look at what they won.

A compact yet star-studded field of 82 bought into the PokerStars $1,050 Sunday Cooldown this week, and van Fleet outlasted them all. The PKO event saw some juicy bounties awarded, not least the massive $13,125 that found its way into Van Fleets account when he finished in first-place.

A significant chunk of that $13,125 bounty prize was on the head of Brazilian pro Eder edercampana Campana who ultimately fell at the final hurdle and crashed out in second-place. Campana padded his bankroll with $9,181 with bounties included.

Others who reached the final table included Renan Internett93o Bruschi, Jargo bungakat Alavali, and British sensation Conor 1_conot_b_1 Beresford.

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3DTemujiN denied Joao Naza114 Vieira the title of $1,050 Sunday High Roller champion after the man from Kazakhstan rolled him over during the heads-up section. Victory in this event came with a $44,494 prize, while Vieira added $33,806 to his lifetime winnings. Vieira now has more than $25 million in cashes, the most of any online poker player ever.

Four other players saw five-figure pries wing their way to their PokerStars accounts. Viktor papan9_p$ Ustimov netted $11,265 for his sixth-place finish, with Francisco Tomatee Benitez reeling in a $14,827 fifth-place cash.

Buckblack and Pimmss, of Canada and Netherlands respectively, walked away with scores of $19,515 and $25,685.

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*includes bounty payments

Nemeths victory came in The Grand tournament, a relatively new addition to partypokers Daily Legends. A field of 228 players reached the final phase of this multi-day event, but none of them could match Nemeth when push came to shove.

The final table was stacked with talent, including Arsenii Karmatckii, Samuel Vousden, Alexander Van Der Swaluv, and Rodrigo Selouan. The latters elimination locked in a five-figure prise for the remaining five grinders.

Michael Sklenicka, and Alik Zazian busted. They won $10,520 and $14,304 respectively. Heads-up was set when Hungarian star Marton Czuczor crashed out in third, a finish worth $21,287.

Czuczors exit left Nemeth heads-up against Paraskevas Tsokaridis. Nemeth got the job done and his hands on $44,152, leaving Tsokairidis to scoop a $30,818 consolation prize.

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Chris Moorman recently won his second WSOP bracelet, and now he can lay claim to being the GGPoker High Rollers Sunday Wrap-Up champion. Moorman outlasted 150 opponents on his way to victory, a victory that came with a chunky $17,260 score.

Runner-up T-CHAK was the only other player to net a five-figure prize. The Chinese national got their hands on $12,943.

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Plenty of other big scores were enjoyed at GGPoker thanks, in part, to the WSOP Online festival running. The extra traffic generated by the WSOP meant W3LL was a big winner after taking down the $1,050 GGMasters High Roller for a massive $121,518.

Stay tuned to PokerNews for a round-up of the 2021 GGPoker WSOP Online bracelet and side events action.

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