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Final Table for 2020 WSOP Main Event International Leg Set

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2020 WSOP Main Event

The international leg of the 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event has played down to the final table. On Monday, Day 2 of the international leg played out on GGPoker. By the end of the day, the final table of nine players was reached.

Brunno Botteon is the chip leader heading into the final table. The final is stacked with top-shelf talent. Players are competing for a $1.5 million top prize and the chance to compete for the bracelet.

Opening Flights Produces Field of 674 Players

The international leg of the 2020 WSOP Main Event kicked off on November 29th and concluded with flights on December 5th and 6th. In the end, the event only managed to produce a field of 674 players. This was monumentally smaller than the 5,802 entries for the summer’s WSOP Online Main Event.

The summer event was a $5,000 buy-in event that generated a prize pool of $27.55 million. Stoyan Mandanzhiev won the event for $3.9 million.

While it was expected that the international field would be smaller, it is surprising to see that the event didn’t crack 1,000 players. One has to wonder if the controversy stirred up by Mandanzhiev and others contributed to the reduced field.

Bruno Botteon Leads Stacked Final Table

On Monday, the final 179 players that survived the first three starting flights returned to play to the final table. The first matter of business was getting to the money. Only the final 80 players would receive a payday with a min-cash scoring a player $15,277.

The only remaining WSOP bracelet winner in the field, Toby Joyce, fell in 32nd place. The chip leaders for Days 1a and 1b fell right behind each other. Day 1b chip leader Blaz Zerjav finished in 25th while Day 1a chip leader Julian Menhardt finished 24th. Senthuran Vjayaratnam was the Day 1c chip leader and just fell short of the final table. He finished in 11th.

The final table of this event is a stacked one with players from nine different countries represented. Brazil’s Brunno Botteon is the overall chip leader with 10.31 million. Manuel Ruivo of Portugal is right behind with 6.21 million.

The short stacks are Stoyan Obreshkov and Peiyuan Sun, both with about 2.1 million each. With just 11 big blinds left each, they will have to move fast to get back into contention.

Here’s who made the final table:

  • Brunno Botteon  – 10,317,743
  • Manuel “robocup” Ruivo – 6,213,759
  • Damian Salas – 5,653,528
  • fullbabyfull – 4,232,560
  • Hannes “BlackFortuna” Speiser – 3,515,744
  • Dominykas “MickeyMouse” Mikolaitis – 3,165,440
  • Ramon “Ritza” Miquel Munoz – 3,035,940
  • Peiyuan “fish3098” Sun – 2,185,676
  • Stoyan “UncleToni” Obreshkov – 2,119,610

American Leg Kicks Off Sunday

Now that the international leg of this event is over, attention turns to the American leg over at WSOP.com in New Jersey and Nevada. The American version of the event will only have a single starting flight on Sunday December 13th. The people that survive Sunday’s flight will return on Monday, December 14th to play to the final table.

The final table of the international leg will play out at King’s Casino on December 15th. For the WSOP.com version, the final table will play out on December 28th at th Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

The winner of both final tables will then meet at the Rio on Wednesday December 30th for a Winner-Take All heads-up finale. The winner will receive a $1 million top prize along with a WSOP World Championship bracelet.

Unless the American leg of this event is the largest in WSOP.com history, this event will be the smallest WSOP Main Event in the last decade or more. It will be interesting to see whether the finale draws much interest from the poker community as the Main Event has been largely a non-event thus far.

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